Speaker 1: This is the warning across the world. At this exact moment,
Speaker 1: there are hundreds of thousands of American forces standing vigil
Speaker 1: in defense of liberty and freedom. They are ready to
Speaker 1: fight tonight in Korea if necessary. They are on ballistic
Speaker 1: missile submarines and on aircraft carriers. American forces later today
Speaker 1: will be fired on by Huti rebels. They will shoot
Speaker 1: down ballistic missiles headed to Israel. From the Arctic to
Speaker 1: the Horn of Africa. The American military is the guaranteur
Speaker 1: of stability and peace. It is the singularly deadliest and
Speaker 1: most complex organization in world history. There is nothing more
Speaker 1: complex than it. The individual service branches, like the Army,
Speaker 1: are older than the United States. The Marine Corps motto
Speaker 1: semper fidelis always faithful. The young men and women who
Speaker 1: raise their hand and swear an oath deserve competent able
Speaker 1: moral leadership. Pete Heggsath is unfit, spectacularly so at every
Speaker 1: conceivable level. The answer to his nomination by the United
Speaker 1: States Senate must be a hard no. It must be
Speaker 1: Pete Heggsath is a drunk and an abuser of women.
Speaker 1: There are millions of Americans who struggle with addiction. All
Speaker 1: of those people's lives have worth and purpose, but the
Speaker 1: choices we make in life limit some of them. If
Speaker 1: you are a person who is slosh at five in
Speaker 1: the afternoon or at two in the morning, you can't
Speaker 1: be the person who gets the phone call when an
Speaker 1: American destroyer is attacked by a terrorist. You can't get
Speaker 1: the phone call when a missile is fired at Israel,
Speaker 1: and you most certainly cannot be the person who wakes
Speaker 1: up the President of the United States with news of
Speaker 1: an invasion. These jobs are deadly jobs. They require stature
Speaker 1: and decency, judgment, rectitude. This was a position that was
Speaker 1: held by George Marshall. Here's what Jane Mayer, arguably the
Speaker 1: nation's best investigative journalists, wrote about Donald Trump's defense nominee.
Speaker 1: A trail of documents corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues,
Speaker 1: indicates that Hegsath was forced to step down by two
Speaker 1: of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran, Veterans for
Speaker 1: Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America, in the face of
Speaker 1: serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
Speaker 1: It should be noted that these organizations were ten people's
Speaker 1: staff and five million dollar bar. The Pentagon is the
Speaker 1: largest and most complex organization on the Earth, with a
Speaker 1: trillion dollar budget and thousands of nuclear weapons warheads under
Speaker 1: its command and control. Let me continue reading. A previously
Speaker 1: undisclosed whistleblower report on Hegseth's tenure as the president of
Speaker 1: Concerned Veterans for America from twenty and thirteen and twenty
Speaker 1: and sixteen describes him as repeatedly intoxicated while acting in
Speaker 1: his official capacity, to the point of needing to be
Speaker 1: carried out of the organization's events. The detailed seven page report,
Speaker 1: which was compiled by multiple former CVA employees and said
Speaker 1: to the organization's senior management in February twenty fifteen, states
Speaker 1: that at one point, Hegseths had to be restrained, while drunk,
Speaker 1: from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana
Speaker 1: strip club where he had brought his team. The report
Speaker 1: also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time,
Speaker 1: and other members of his management team sexually pursued the
Speaker 1: organization's female staffers, whom they divided into two groups, the
Speaker 1: party Girls and the not Party Girls. In addition, The
Speaker 1: report asserts that under Hegseth's leadership, the organization became a
Speaker 1: hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an
Speaker 1: allegation made by a female employee that another employee on
Speaker 1: Hegseeth's staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the
Speaker 1: Louisiana Strip Club. In a separate letter of complaint, which
Speaker 1: was sent to the organization in late twenty fifteen, a
Speaker 1: different former employee described Hegseeth being at a bar in
Speaker 1: the early morning hours of May twenty nine, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: while on an official tour through cyah Hoga Falls, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Un can lee chanting quote, kill all Muslims, Kill all Muslims.
Speaker 1: This is what Pete Hegsath's mother wrote to him in
Speaker 1: a letter obtained by The New York Times. Again, I
Speaker 1: want you to comprehend these words duty, honor, country, words
Speaker 1: like semper fidelus, the Marine Corps motto always faithful, the
Speaker 1: Army motto founded in seventeen seventy five. This we will defend.
Speaker 1: According to missus heg Seth talking about the son she
Speaker 1: gave birth to on behalf of all the women. And
Speaker 1: I know it's many you have abused in some way.
Speaker 1: I say, get some help and take an honest look
Speaker 1: at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats,
Speaker 1: sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
Speaker 1: You are that man, and have been four years and
Speaker 1: as you were mother. It pains me and embarrasses me
Speaker 1: to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Americas,
Speaker 1: all volunteer military force and their families do not deserve this.
Speaker 1: The eighteen year old seamen does not deserve this. The
Speaker 1: nineteen year old marine does not deserve this. The twenty
Speaker 1: year old soldier does not deserve this. None of them do.
Speaker 1: They deserve decency and honor and integrity in their chain
Speaker 1: of command. They deserve good judgment. They deserve a Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense that will be stone cold sober at two
Speaker 1: in the morning when he's wakened in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night and told that a terror attack has killed
Speaker 1: hundreds of Americans somewhere in the world, or that an
Speaker 1: invasion has begun, or that a coup has occurred, or
Speaker 1: that missiles have hit an American destroyer in the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: Who knows Pete Hegscheth is a Fox News Morning show clown,
Speaker 1: and that's where he should go back to. But even
Speaker 1: Nay won't have him. Now he's going to end up
Speaker 1: on the island of Misfit Toys, where all the toys
Speaker 1: can make a forever living on.
Speaker 2: CAMEO, Hey, Jerry, this is Matt Gates. I wanted to
Speaker 2: extend my thanks for you supporting me President Trump. And look,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Penn State is getting ready for
Speaker 2: the big college football playoff and I wanted to wish
Speaker 2: them luck and I hope you get the chance to
Speaker 2: watch a bunch of their games. Look, there are times
Speaker 2: in life where all of us have to go through
Speaker 2: some stuff. Sometimes life is not just a straight line.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's two steps forward, one step back. But one
Speaker 2: thing I can tell you is when you have great
Speaker 2: folks around you, like your former colleagues, who are rooting
Speaker 2: for you, then you can really approach life's challenges with
Speaker 2: the greatest determination, the greatest grit, and the best chance
Speaker 2: of success. You know, we only achieve success in the
Speaker 2: things that we have to face when we visualize that
Speaker 2: success and then do everything we can to see it through.
Speaker 2: I hope the Nindi Lions do great I'll be rooting
Speaker 2: for him a little extra now because I know you're
Speaker 2: rooting for them. So get well soon, and know your
Speaker 2: former colleagues care about you a great deal and are
Speaker 2: wishing you all the best in the coming new year.
Speaker 1: Instead of running the Defense Department and having to worry
Speaker 1: about nuclear weapons, Pete Hegsheth will soon be doing this
Speaker 1: along with his friend mac As. The decision before the
Speaker 1: US Senate is fundamentally about whether to desecrate the integrity
Speaker 1: of these institutions, to assault the concepts of honor and
Speaker 1: sacrifice that are at their root, making a mockery of them,
Speaker 1: a punchline out of them, and of course, the endangering
Speaker 1: of lives with a clown life and death job. There
Speaker 1: are no words. We have arrived in a moment in
Speaker 1: time where forty nine percent of the country has sent
Speaker 1: a signal to the commander in chief to be that
Speaker 1: they want him to burn it down. They don't have
Speaker 1: the mandate to do it. What they have is the
Speaker 1: power to do it, the matches to do it, and
Speaker 1: all the gasoline that is required to do it. The
Speaker 1: good news is the opposition still controls a lot of
Speaker 1: water and a lot of hoses. So the worst of
Speaker 1: these people can be stopped, and they must be stopped
Speaker 1: from the power cabinet jobs, the ones that have police
Speaker 1: state possibility, the ones that control nuclear weapons, the ones
Speaker 1: that have within their arsenal ballistic missile submarines. There is
Speaker 1: no greater and no more serious responsibility than the charge
Speaker 1: the President has for the lives of the young American
Speaker 1: men and women under his command. Full stuff. No serious
Speaker 1: person with any sense of responsibility for that vital moral
Speaker 1: role could conceivably stand by this nomination. Maybe it's the
Speaker 1: case that Donald Trump is terribly advised, which of course
Speaker 1: he is. Maybe it's the case that somebody ran wild
Speaker 1: and didn't do any vetting on Pete Hegsath. Whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, it's time for Pete Hegsath to find
Speaker 1: his way to cameo. You ought to give mac Gates
Speaker 1: a call. They seem like a great batman and Robin Duo.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who'd be the better wingman. Just so
Speaker 1: long as it's not in any position of public trust
Speaker 1: and responsibility, an alleged rapist cannot be must not be. Ever,
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense, this is the morning. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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