WEBVTT - Pete Hegseth CANNOT Become Our Secretary of Defense

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<v Speaker 1>This is the warning across the world. At this exact moment,

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<v Speaker 1>there are hundreds of thousands of American forces standing vigil

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<v Speaker 1>in defense of liberty and freedom. They are ready to

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<v Speaker 1>fight tonight in Korea if necessary. They are on ballistic

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<v Speaker 1>missile submarines and on aircraft carriers. American forces later today

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<v Speaker 1>will be fired on by Huti rebels. They will shoot

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<v Speaker 1>down ballistic missiles headed to Israel. From the Arctic to

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<v Speaker 1>the Horn of Africa. The American military is the guaranteur

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<v Speaker 1>of stability and peace. It is the singularly deadliest and

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<v Speaker 1>most complex organization in world history. There is nothing more

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<v Speaker 1>complex than it. The individual service branches, like the Army,

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<v Speaker 1>are older than the United States. The Marine Corps motto

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<v Speaker 1>semper fidelis always faithful. The young men and women who

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<v Speaker 1>raise their hand and swear an oath deserve competent able

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<v Speaker 1>moral leadership. Pete Heggsath is unfit, spectacularly so at every

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<v Speaker 1>conceivable level. The answer to his nomination by the United

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<v Speaker 1>States Senate must be a hard no. It must be

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<v Speaker 1>Pete Heggsath is a drunk and an abuser of women.

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<v Speaker 1>There are millions of Americans who struggle with addiction. All

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<v Speaker 1>of those people's lives have worth and purpose, but the

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<v Speaker 1>choices we make in life limit some of them. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are a person who is slosh at five in

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<v Speaker 1>the afternoon or at two in the morning, you can't

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<v Speaker 1>be the person who gets the phone call when an

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<v Speaker 1>American destroyer is attacked by a terrorist. You can't get

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<v Speaker 1>the phone call when a missile is fired at Israel,

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<v Speaker 1>and you most certainly cannot be the person who wakes

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<v Speaker 1>up the President of the United States with news of

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<v Speaker 1>an invasion. These jobs are deadly jobs. They require stature

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<v Speaker 1>and decency, judgment, rectitude. This was a position that was

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<v Speaker 1>held by George Marshall. Here's what Jane Mayer, arguably the

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<v Speaker 1>nation's best investigative journalists, wrote about Donald Trump's defense nominee.

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<v Speaker 1>A trail of documents corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues,

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<v Speaker 1>indicates that Hegsath was forced to step down by two

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<v Speaker 1>of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran, Veterans for

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<v Speaker 1>Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America, in the face of

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<v Speaker 1>serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.

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<v Speaker 1>It should be noted that these organizations were ten people's

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<v Speaker 1>staff and five million dollar bar. The Pentagon is the

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<v Speaker 1>largest and most complex organization on the Earth, with a

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<v Speaker 1>trillion dollar budget and thousands of nuclear weapons warheads under

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<v Speaker 1>its command and control. Let me continue reading. A previously

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<v Speaker 1>undisclosed whistleblower report on Hegseth's tenure as the president of

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<v Speaker 1>Concerned Veterans for America from twenty and thirteen and twenty

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<v Speaker 1>and sixteen describes him as repeatedly intoxicated while acting in

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<v Speaker 1>his official capacity, to the point of needing to be

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<v Speaker 1>carried out of the organization's events. The detailed seven page report,

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<v Speaker 1>which was compiled by multiple former CVA employees and said

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<v Speaker 1>to the organization's senior management in February twenty fifteen, states

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<v Speaker 1>that at one point, Hegseths had to be restrained, while drunk,

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<v Speaker 1>from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana

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<v Speaker 1>strip club where he had brought his team. The report

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<v Speaker 1>also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>and other members of his management team sexually pursued the

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<v Speaker 1>organization's female staffers, whom they divided into two groups, the

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<v Speaker 1>party Girls and the not Party Girls. In addition, The

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<v Speaker 1>report asserts that under Hegseth's leadership, the organization became a

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<v Speaker 1>hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an

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<v Speaker 1>allegation made by a female employee that another employee on

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<v Speaker 1>Hegseeth's staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the

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<v Speaker 1>Louisiana Strip Club. In a separate letter of complaint, which

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<v Speaker 1>was sent to the organization in late twenty fifteen, a

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<v Speaker 1>different former employee described Hegseeth being at a bar in

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<v Speaker 1>the early morning hours of May twenty nine, twenty fifteen,

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<v Speaker 1>while on an official tour through cyah Hoga Falls, Ohio.

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<v Speaker 1>Un can lee chanting quote, kill all Muslims, Kill all Muslims.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what Pete Hegsath's mother wrote to him in

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<v Speaker 1>a letter obtained by The New York Times. Again, I

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<v Speaker 1>want you to comprehend these words duty, honor, country, words

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<v Speaker 1>like semper fidelus, the Marine Corps motto always faithful, the

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<v Speaker 1>Army motto founded in seventeen seventy five. This we will defend.

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<v Speaker 1>According to missus heg Seth talking about the son she

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<v Speaker 1>gave birth to on behalf of all the women. And

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's many you have abused in some way.

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<v Speaker 1>I say, get some help and take an honest look

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<v Speaker 1>at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats,

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<v Speaker 1>sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.

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<v Speaker 1>You are that man, and have been four years and

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<v Speaker 1>as you were mother. It pains me and embarrasses me

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<v Speaker 1>to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Americas,

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<v Speaker 1>all volunteer military force and their families do not deserve this.

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<v Speaker 1>The eighteen year old seamen does not deserve this. The

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen year old marine does not deserve this. The twenty

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<v Speaker 1>year old soldier does not deserve this. None of them do.

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<v Speaker 1>They deserve decency and honor and integrity in their chain

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<v Speaker 1>of command. They deserve good judgment. They deserve a Secretary

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<v Speaker 1>of Defense that will be stone cold sober at two

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<v Speaker 1>in the morning when he's wakened in the middle of

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<v Speaker 1>the night and told that a terror attack has killed

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<v Speaker 1>hundreds of Americans somewhere in the world, or that an

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<v Speaker 1>invasion has begun, or that a coup has occurred, or

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<v Speaker 1>that missiles have hit an American destroyer in the Red Sea.

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<v Speaker 1>Who knows Pete Hegscheth is a Fox News Morning show clown,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's where he should go back to. But even

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<v Speaker 1>Nay won't have him. Now he's going to end up

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<v Speaker 1>on the island of Misfit Toys, where all the toys

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<v Speaker 1>can make a forever living on.

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<v Speaker 2>CAMEO, Hey, Jerry, this is Matt Gates. I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>extend my thanks for you supporting me President Trump. And look,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I know Penn State is getting ready for

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<v Speaker 2>the big college football playoff and I wanted to wish

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<v Speaker 2>them luck and I hope you get the chance to

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<v Speaker 2>watch a bunch of their games. Look, there are times

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<v Speaker 2>in life where all of us have to go through

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<v Speaker 2>some stuff. Sometimes life is not just a straight line.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes it's two steps forward, one step back. But one

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<v Speaker 2>thing I can tell you is when you have great

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<v Speaker 2>folks around you, like your former colleagues, who are rooting

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<v Speaker 2>for you, then you can really approach life's challenges with

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<v Speaker 2>the greatest determination, the greatest grit, and the best chance

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<v Speaker 2>of success. You know, we only achieve success in the

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<v Speaker 2>things that we have to face when we visualize that

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<v Speaker 2>success and then do everything we can to see it through.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope the Nindi Lions do great I'll be rooting

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<v Speaker 2>for him a little extra now because I know you're

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<v Speaker 2>rooting for them. So get well soon, and know your

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<v Speaker 2>former colleagues care about you a great deal and are

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<v Speaker 2>wishing you all the best in the coming new year.

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<v Speaker 1>Instead of running the Defense Department and having to worry

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<v Speaker 1>about nuclear weapons, Pete Hegsheth will soon be doing this

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<v Speaker 1>along with his friend mac As. The decision before the

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<v Speaker 1>US Senate is fundamentally about whether to desecrate the integrity

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<v Speaker 1>of these institutions, to assault the concepts of honor and

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<v Speaker 1>sacrifice that are at their root, making a mockery of them,

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<v Speaker 1>a punchline out of them, and of course, the endangering

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<v Speaker 1>of lives with a clown life and death job. There

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<v Speaker 1>are no words. We have arrived in a moment in

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<v Speaker 1>time where forty nine percent of the country has sent

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<v Speaker 1>a signal to the commander in chief to be that

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<v Speaker 1>they want him to burn it down. They don't have

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<v Speaker 1>the mandate to do it. What they have is the

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<v Speaker 1>power to do it, the matches to do it, and

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<v Speaker 1>all the gasoline that is required to do it. The

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<v Speaker 1>good news is the opposition still controls a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>water and a lot of hoses. So the worst of

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<v Speaker 1>these people can be stopped, and they must be stopped

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<v Speaker 1>from the power cabinet jobs, the ones that have police

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<v Speaker 1>state possibility, the ones that control nuclear weapons, the ones

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<v Speaker 1>that have within their arsenal ballistic missile submarines. There is

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<v Speaker 1>no greater and no more serious responsibility than the charge

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<v Speaker 1>the President has for the lives of the young American

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<v Speaker 1>men and women under his command. Full stuff. No serious

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<v Speaker 1>person with any sense of responsibility for that vital moral

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<v Speaker 1>role could conceivably stand by this nomination. Maybe it's the

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<v Speaker 1>case that Donald Trump is terribly advised, which of course

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<v Speaker 1>he is. Maybe it's the case that somebody ran wild

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<v Speaker 1>and didn't do any vetting on Pete Hegsath. Whatever the

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<v Speaker 1>case may be, it's time for Pete Hegsath to find

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<v Speaker 1>his way to cameo. You ought to give mac Gates

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<v Speaker 1>a call. They seem like a great batman and Robin Duo.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure who'd be the better wingman. Just so

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<v Speaker 1>long as it's not in any position of public trust

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<v Speaker 1>and responsibility, an alleged rapist cannot be must not be. Ever,

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<v Speaker 1>the Secretary of Defense, this is the morning. I'm Steve Schmidt.

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