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Speaker 1: generation warfare.

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Speaker 2: A commentator, international social media sensation and former Navy intelligence.

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Speaker 3: Veteran, This is Human Events with your host Jack Persovic christ.

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Speaker 4: Is king the Army, Air Force, Marines one hundred and

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Speaker 4: of its goal, same thing in February. I think the

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Speaker 6: Those numbers are reflection of why we're here, when war

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Speaker 6: they want to sign up. These recruiting numbers don't surprise me.

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Speaker 5: Are enlisting to serve.

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Speaker 6: A year ago, we couldn't get folks to serve. Today,

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Speaker 5: That you're playing, don't getting annihilated.

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Speaker 8: We have been honed into a machine of legal moving

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Speaker 8: parts that you would be wise to avoid if you.

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Speaker 5: Know what's good for you, and that three sites have

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Speaker 9: We've seen war.

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Speaker 10: We don't want war.

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Speaker 5: What if you want in the United States of America.

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Speaker 8: There's one thing I can promise you, a so healthy guy,

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Speaker 6: What you're watching in real time is peace through strength

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Speaker 1: First, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board. Today's edition of

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Speaker 1: Human Events Daily. Today is December twelfth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Anno Domini. Folks.

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Speaker 1: Today, We've got a special treat for all of you

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Speaker 1: today is the Human Events Department of War special because

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Speaker 1: what we're doing today is if you remember, we went

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Speaker 5: That is the point of the US military.

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Speaker 1: It's not social programs, is not DEI, it is not transgenderism.

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Speaker 1: It is none of this stuff. It is basic defense

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Speaker 1: We're really excited here at Human Events Daily to be

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, Well, the cartels have had a hard time making

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Speaker 1: Specifically, on those illegal aliens, are you tracking or do

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Speaker 11: But we're excited about this opportunity to find news illegals

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Speaker 1: Well, that's great because I remember, of course, I served

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Speaker 9: Absolutely.

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Speaker 11: Well, I think the NCTC has a new mission and

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Speaker 11: And if the protesters and rioters are attacking agents, the

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Speaker 3: How can you not trust a guy from micxactly? Thank you,

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Speaker 12: You know that you talk about influences, These are influences.

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Speaker 9: And they're friends and mine. Jack, Jack, he's got a

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited to be on here and not the

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for joining us schooning events neally.

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Speaker 1: Great to be with you, Jack, And so you know

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Speaker 12: That and many other things but you know, we've got

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Speaker 12: We ripped DEI and CRT out of all the child

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Speaker 12: my mission.

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Speaker 1: You know, I had a CEO once in the Navy

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Speaker 1: who that's exactly what he said. He said, you have

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Speaker 1: to take care of home before you can take care

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Speaker 1: of the mission. Because if you were worried about home,

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Speaker 1: you're not. He said, You're going to be no good

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Speaker 1: to me on mission, no good to me.

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Speaker 12: Right, You're gonna be looking for that call, looking for

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Speaker 12: that email, looking for that letter, making.

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Speaker 13: Sure everything's okay, if you got a sick.

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Speaker 3: Child, or if there's a pay issue, which you.

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Speaker 12: Know all of that, and then you know, I take

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Speaker 12: a look. I got such a professional team working for me,

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Speaker 12: and you know I was at the other all professionals here,

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Speaker 12: but I think about.

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Speaker 13: Why is my team so good. You can't fail on recruiting.

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Speaker 13: You got to make your numbers. You can't fail on pay.

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Speaker 13: You got to pay the troops. You can't fail on benefits.

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Speaker 13: You've got to provide the benefit that they're due, that

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Speaker 13: they're you.

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Speaker 3: Told me the troops weren't getting paid.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, the troops are getting paid.

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Speaker 12: And during the hut during the lapse and government you know,

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Speaker 12: the shutdown, civilians weren't being paid because you know, including me,

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Speaker 12: senior levels, you know, but we made sure the troops

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Speaker 12: got paid. We found the money legally to pay the

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Speaker 12: troops during the government shutdown, and that was part of

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Speaker 12: my job the comptroller. We go to the secretary say

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Speaker 12: here's how we can do it. We checked with the

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Speaker 12: Earl Matthews, general counsel. You made sure that troops got

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Speaker 12: all their pay and as they should have. They should

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Speaker 12: not be caught in the political cross winds that are

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Speaker 12: happening when whenever there's a continuing resolution or a shutdown

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Speaker 12: or you know whatever, Congress needs to do its job.

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Speaker 12: And I appreciate the fact that that they were able

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Speaker 12: to resolve that and allow us to move forward with

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Speaker 12: you know, full you know, full department pay and benefits.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's absolutely clear.

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Speaker 1: What would what would you say just on that point

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Speaker 1: and final question, because I know where we're pulling you out.

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Speaker 5: And we've got a lot to go on.

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Speaker 1: What would you say Your general message is as when you.

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Speaker 3: You know, focus on these issues for the troops.

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Speaker 12: So my messages for the troops is that you have

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Speaker 12: a secretary and you have a president that are focused

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Speaker 12: on your health and welfare so that you can be

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Speaker 12: the most lethal fighting individual in.

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Speaker 13: Force in the world. And that we are going to create.

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Speaker 12: This cohesive, focused force to deter our enemy so we

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Speaker 12: never have to go to war.

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Speaker 13: That's my message.

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Speaker 12: You've got to focus, Commander in chief of focused secretary,

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Speaker 12: single minded, purpose of peace and re strength.

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Speaker 3: Crazy again.

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Speaker 1: We're sitting down with Eric Gercy. He is the Senior

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Speaker 1: Advisor for Strategy for the Secretary of War. Eric, welcome

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Speaker 1: to show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much to be here.

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Speaker 1: I want to say thank you again for actually having

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Speaker 1: us and hosting us here in the Pentagon.

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Speaker 5: This is obviously new for us.

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Speaker 1: We've done done a couple of shows over at the

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Speaker 1: White House and been with you know, their press corps.

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Speaker 3: But I got to say, you know, the studio digs

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Speaker 3: here a little bit nicer.

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Speaker 2: We we have a lot of room in the Pentagon.

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Speaker 5: There is a lot of room in the Pentagon.

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Speaker 3: So you've known Pete for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Served together, you deployed together, you're now working at this

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Speaker 1: level of strategy. How would you say your experiences and

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Speaker 1: his experiences having gone to war together have shaped what

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Speaker 1: you do now in terms of the office.

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Speaker 2: Now, those are those experiences that we've shared in combat,

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Speaker 2: they shape you for the rest of your life. You

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Speaker 2: learn a different things in combat that allow you we're

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Speaker 2: a little different than the some of the folks that

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Speaker 2: haven't been yet. Some of the things are your priorities

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Speaker 2: are forever changed on focusing on what do you need

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Speaker 2: to do to train your soldiers, prepare for leading for combat,

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Speaker 2: and bring them back home. In combat, you see the

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Speaker 2: thing you make it, it's you narrow your focus. Like

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Speaker 2: we're totally focused battle drills, medical training, physical fitness, marksmanship.

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Speaker 2: Your units can do that to the highest of standards,

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Speaker 2: able to do everything our country asked them to do,

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Speaker 2: which is to go fight and win our nation's wars.

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Speaker 2: And so having that experience, especially serving together, really that's

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Speaker 2: what we're focused on. And as you can see, a

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Speaker 2: lot of the things the Secretary is completely driven the

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Speaker 2: whole department. We want higher standards. We want the soldiers

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Speaker 2: to raise the level of their physical fans. We want

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Speaker 2: the soldiers, just all the service members to be experts

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Speaker 2: in whatever their field is, their assigned weapon, because we

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Speaker 2: want them and when we assign them a mission, when

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Speaker 2: the President gives us so priorities.

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Speaker 9: This is what we need to do.

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Speaker 2: We've created those options for the President. They're trained and

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Speaker 2: ready as we can make them, and the whole goal

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Speaker 2: is get them to get out there, complete the mission

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Speaker 2: and bring them all home.

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Speaker 1: Well, it really seems that you certainly the Priorate administration

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Speaker 1: even before then to an extent, that the focus was elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: shall we.

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Speaker 2: Say, over the pass and it goes back Quato. I

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Speaker 2: served for twenty six years in uniform, and I was

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Speaker 2: a Department of Defense contractor. Then I was a Department

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Speaker 2: of Defense civilian. We've gotten to where the military was

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Speaker 2: focused on a lot of non war fighting tasks. And

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Speaker 2: as a unit, especially for a small unit leader, you

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Speaker 2: don't have a whole lot of time because you don't know,

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Speaker 2: especially in some units like the one hundred first Airbor and

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Speaker 2: eighty second Airborne, cheventy fifth range very You don't know

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Speaker 2: when it is you're going to be called out to

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Speaker 2: conduct an operation for real, So you only have so

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Speaker 2: much time to prepare your troops.

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Speaker 9: And when the units.

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Speaker 2: Are bogged down with all these non war fighting tasks,

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Speaker 2: some of these things that should absolutely have nothing to

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Speaker 2: do with the military, some of the what you know,

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Speaker 2: looked like social experiments, we don't have time for it.

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Speaker 2: We have a duty as leaders to make sure these soldiers,

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Speaker 2: these service members are trained and ready. And when we

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Speaker 2: pile on things that have nothing to do with that,

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Speaker 2: we shouldn't be focused on that at all. What the

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Speaker 2: Secretary's done and because of President Trump and his leadership,

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Speaker 2: is allowed to get the military to be focused on

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Speaker 2: what the country needs a military to be, and that's

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Speaker 2: trained and ready once again to fight our nations and

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Speaker 2: win our nation's wars.

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Speaker 1: Well, not only that, but it's it's the relaxing of

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Speaker 1: standards that you can you can just see it. You

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Speaker 1: can see it when you're in the area and you're

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Speaker 1: around some of the various military installations that are all

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Speaker 1: throughout DC, and you can just see the standards have

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Speaker 1: become relaxed. When you see, you know, I'm always looking

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Speaker 1: at sailors as prior Navy. But you know, I said,

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Speaker 1: how is this person just walking around like that in uniform?

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Speaker 1: If I was, as you know, in this guy's unit, say,

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Speaker 1: I would have pulled him aside of what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: And you just see it all over and over and

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Speaker 1: people think that's something small, but it's not.

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Speaker 3: Actually it's something very important, isn't it.

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Speaker 9: Oh, it's the most important.

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Speaker 2: Like if these service members are not physically fit, they're

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Speaker 2: not going to be able to do what we're asking

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Speaker 2: them to do. And they shouldn't find this out when

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Speaker 2: it's too late, when we put them somewhere in Homer's way,

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Speaker 2: you can go like when we started going back and

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Speaker 2: look at the there's like a whole bunch of people,

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Speaker 2: and some senior folks retired in uniform. We're really gouging

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Speaker 2: into the secretary about some of the decisions and some

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Speaker 2: of the focus. I don't know how anybody can go

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Speaker 2: back and say, hey, we don't want higher standards, we

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Speaker 2: don't want our service members to be in better shape,

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Speaker 2: we don't want them to be experts in their occupational field.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how anybody could go back and say

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Speaker 2: that there's nothing political with that.

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Speaker 13: There's nothing because the enemy doesn't look.

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Speaker 2: At us of you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're

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Speaker 2: this ethnicity. All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.

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Speaker 2: And it's our duty as leaders, especially for combat organisms,

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Speaker 2: hence the Department of War, to make sure they have

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Speaker 2: the best equipment, they're trained to the highest standards, that

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Speaker 2: they're able to go, accomplish the mission, get the job done,

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Speaker 2: and come home safely. And that's what the Secretary is

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Speaker 2: whole focus in. And thank god we have President Trump

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Speaker 2: that has paved the way to allow us to focus

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Speaker 2: on this one.

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Speaker 1: It's been something where, you know, I remember during you know,

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Speaker 1: even Pete's confirmation Secretary, and then when he became secretary,

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Speaker 1: some of the speeches he's given and they try to

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Speaker 1: twist his words to make it out as if he's

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Speaker 1: saying something political, but he's not. Having standards in the

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Speaker 1: military goes all the way back. We were just this

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Speaker 1: this past weekend. I'm from the Philadelphia area and I

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Speaker 1: took my kids out the Valley Forge and I said

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Speaker 1: I was teaching them. I said, kids, this is the

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Speaker 1: this is where the first veterans came from. This was

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Speaker 1: the first military of the United States. This was the

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Speaker 1: first United States Army. It's the continental Army. You have

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Speaker 1: the United States yet, and that's what it was all about.

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Speaker 1: It was it was the harshest possible conditions. You've lost

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Speaker 1: every major US city at that point, You're you're out there,

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Speaker 1: You're in cabins. Many times they didn't even have shoes.

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Speaker 1: They're walking around makeshift tents and huts and different things,

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Speaker 1: and and it was just the elements, right, So you

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Speaker 1: have to be willing and able and capable of dealing

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Speaker 1: with all of that to be able to come forward.

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Speaker 1: And I and I, you know, I see some of

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Speaker 1: the things that we have now and I just think,

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Speaker 1: you know, are we are we treating that legacy properly.

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Speaker 2: We're definitely, you know, changing the culture back to where

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Speaker 2: it needs to be. It's a huge thing. But I

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Speaker 2: can tell you I have the opportunity to go out

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Speaker 2: visit units from all the different services, and what we're

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Speaker 2: doing here, the decisions and policies that are being put

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Speaker 2: in place by Secretary Access are reaching and affecting these units,

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Speaker 2: and the troops are all on board. They want they

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Speaker 2: want to be part of a winning team. There's no

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Speaker 2: there's no mistake on why.

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Speaker 9: The recruiting numbers are through that my next question.

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Speaker 2: There's no mistake on why we looked at them. This

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Speaker 2: year the highest number of folks going to Special Forces

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Speaker 2: selection in years, largest class. This is all for a reason.

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Speaker 2: You know, nobody wants to be part of a losing team.

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Speaker 2: People want to They want the people that joined the

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Speaker 2: military in enlist and then get commissioned and come in

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Speaker 2: they want to be part of a winning team, and

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Speaker 2: they want to be the best. They don't want us

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Speaker 2: to lower standards. They want to challenge. These are the

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Speaker 2: folks we need to be focused on. These are the

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Speaker 2: folks that we want, and those are the ones that

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Speaker 2: are raising their right hand to serve the country and

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Speaker 2: do the things that they're doing.

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Speaker 1: For us well and particularly and only be a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes left, but one of the biggest issues, and

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Speaker 1: I know, with your breath of experience, you'll know what

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Speaker 1: I mean when I say this, one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: red flags that I saw over the past couple of

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Speaker 1: years prior to your administration coming in was the fact

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Speaker 1: that military families were starting to say that they didn't

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Speaker 1: want their sons and daughters to point talk to me

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Speaker 1: about the importance of making sure the military families still

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Speaker 1: continue that traditional service.

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Speaker 9: We say all the time, this is a family business.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I remember the first time I went to

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Speaker 2: West Point and I got to go out there and

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Speaker 2: spoke and spent a few days with the first eies,

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Speaker 2: which is the graduating class, and the first time i'd

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Speaker 2: been there. Never didn't care about the officer training. I

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Speaker 2: was at NCO, So it was the first time I

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Speaker 2: got to.

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Speaker 5: You worked for a living yep.

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Speaker 2: But I was surprised on and it really hit home

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Speaker 2: on how many of these kids, these officers getting ready

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Speaker 2: to be commissioned, were all sons of people that I

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Speaker 2: had served with. And you don't just see that on

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Speaker 2: the office side.

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Speaker 9: It's also on the NCO side.

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Speaker 2: So when you when we got to the point where

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Speaker 2: these parents are saying, I don't want my sons and

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Speaker 2: daughters to do this, we were at a breaking point.

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Speaker 2: We were at a and I'm telling you, I don't

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Speaker 2: I think if we would have went a few more years,

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Speaker 2: we would have been past the point in our return.

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Speaker 2: H I think in some of the units, some of the.

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Speaker 1: Things you cor recruitment right there. And they're the ones

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Speaker 1: who grew up around the military. They're the most familiar

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Speaker 1: with it. They know the base, the routines grew up

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Speaker 1: on the bases. Can always go to mom or dad

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Speaker 1: for information. I mean you lose that, You're you're broken,

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Speaker 1: totally broken.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were on the way, but once again, President

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Speaker 2: Trump and Secretary of Hexseth, you know their priorities, Uh,

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Speaker 2: the agenda, We're able to turn that around pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: And you could see it every unit and every service

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Speaker 2: mem we meet with, you can see it's what we're

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Speaker 2: going in the right.

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Speaker 3: Direction, the right direction. Ericson, thank you so much for

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Speaker 3: joining us.

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Speaker 7: You meet.

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Speaker 1: especially this Christmas time. So there was a new poll

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Speaker 1: by the way that I did have a really good

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Speaker 1: chance to talk about on the situation regarding listen to

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Speaker 1: this the drone strikes. Yes, the drone strikes in a

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Speaker 1: poll that was done from the Harvard Harris team of

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Speaker 1: again Harvard University, regarding the drone strikes in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: And this is really interesting because I want people to

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Speaker 1: dig into this. I certainly am going to dig into

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Speaker 1: this and have dug into this. But people don't realize

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Speaker 1: that there is massive support for these drone strikes. Harvard

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Speaker 1: Harris found. You gotta love this. Harvard Harris found that

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Speaker 1: most support the drone strikes. And of course, this is

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Speaker 1: the way.

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Speaker 5: You have to be careful. You have to be very

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Speaker 5: careful with.

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Speaker 1: The way that you, you know, you word this because

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Speaker 1: they'll think, oh, well, the second one is worse, the

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Speaker 1: second one is like this, the second one.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, I'm talking about the current.

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Speaker 1: Drone strikes on the drug boats in the Caribbean, the

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Speaker 1: drug boats strikes. And guess what think about this? And

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling it up right now. There's almost sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of Americans who support this out of the Harvard Harris poll,

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Speaker 1: sixty percent. It is a literally a sixty to forty

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Speaker 1: issue should be an eighty twenty issue. Honestly, guess what

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Speaker 1: Americans don't care about out about drug boats getting marked.

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Speaker 1: It's really as simple as that. Americans want their military

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Speaker 1: actually defending America. And look, you know, we're going to

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Speaker 1: be doing this this series on regime change coming up

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Speaker 1: around Christmas time, and I want people to dig into that.

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Speaker 5: But because.

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Speaker 1: For so long we've been using the US military overseas

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Speaker 1: and they painted with these romantic images and use this romantic,

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Speaker 1: flowery language of Oh, we're fighting them over there, so

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Speaker 1: we have to fight them over here. Oh we're fighting

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Speaker 1: the Aatola, We're fighting the Czar, We're fighting the Mullahs

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Speaker 1: who you know, whoever, we're fighting, et cetera, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: to the terrorists. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: we don't actually use the US military, or we hadn't

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Speaker 1: up until this point, for direct threats against the homeland,

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Speaker 1: just actual direct threats. And people say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: most Ventanyla isn't coming in from Venezuela. There's more coming

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Speaker 1: in from Mexico. There's more coming in. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: more cocaine from Venezuela. Guess what, Guess what, Guess what.

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Speaker 1: I totally support killing the Mexican cartel members too.

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Speaker 5: What a concept. I remember saying this.

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Speaker 1: I was debating the libertarian when I debated the Libertarian

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Speaker 1: candidate for president last year, Chase Oliver and.

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Speaker 5: Ryan Grimm was the host.

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Speaker 1: I said specifically, I said, well, I do actually disagree

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Speaker 1: with the idea of legalizing drugs in the United States.

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Speaker 1: And they said, well, the war on drugs has been

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Speaker 1: a failure, and I said, I disagree.

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Speaker 5: It has not been a failure. I said, what do

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Speaker 5: you mean, of course, been a fair.

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Speaker 1: I said, no, I disagree, because you haven't allowed us

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Speaker 1: to actually fight drugs like a war. And in a war,

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Speaker 1: you don't sit around and fight at like a policing operation.

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Speaker 5: You kill people. That's the difference. In a war.

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Speaker 1: You kill the enemy, you fight them with violence, and

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Speaker 1: you kill them. So now I said this to the libertarians.

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Speaker 1: Libertarians lost their minds because libertarians don't actually believe in

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Speaker 1: such things. But it does get to a point, it

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Speaker 1: does absolutely get to a point where someone is a

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Speaker 1: terrorist or someone as a cartel member and you want

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Speaker 1: to kill them, and that's what's actually best for your country,

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Speaker 1: that's actually what's best for the defense of your homelands,

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Speaker 1: to defense your people. Think about how many American kids

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Speaker 1: get killed by fentanyl. How many American families get destroyed

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Speaker 1: because of a fentyl murder. You're saving lives because these

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Speaker 1: people are animals. They're disgusting. What they do to our

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Speaker 1: country is disgusting and divisive. And that is why it

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Speaker 1: is okay to use the military in these types of operations,

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Speaker 1: and that is why sixty percent of Americans support it.

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Speaker 5: It's really simple.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, let me explain to you how

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Speaker 1: these double taps work. Okay, because you may have been

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Speaker 1: involved in a couple three drone strikes in my previous profession.

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Speaker 1: The mission is not concluded until the objective has been neutralized.

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Speaker 5: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: If your job is to take out the drug boat,

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Speaker 1: you take out the drug boat till it's at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the ocean. And if people are in the

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Speaker 1: drug boat, that's what we call in the military collateral damage.

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Speaker 5: Now you may not like that, but that's the truth

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Speaker 5: of the fact.

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Speaker 1: And their military exists in the real world and you

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Speaker 1: have to deal with big boy issues, and big boy

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Speaker 1: issues come with big boy answers, and big boy answers

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Speaker 1: means having to suck it up. Buttercup, So he said, well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, why did you leave the guys? This

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Speaker 1: is like the same type of rhetoric you hear when

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Speaker 1: when they say, why couldn't the cops shot him in

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Speaker 1: the arm. Why couldn't the cops just shot him in

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Speaker 1: the arm. Why'd they have to kill him? Why they

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Speaker 1: have to do that? And so sad, it's awful. You know,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Rittenhouse actually did shoot an arm off of somebody,

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Speaker 1: and look at how the liberals all treated him. He

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Speaker 1: actually did the thing that you guys have said for

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Speaker 1: years that you wanted him to do, that you wanted

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Speaker 1: someone to do.

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Speaker 5: Kyle Rittenhouse does it. And look how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse.

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Speaker 1: Gauge grows and Krutz right, Communist Antifa Gabe right.

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Speaker 5: Never forget that guy even had to change his name.

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Speaker 5: It got that bad. So when you look at the situations,

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Speaker 5: very simple.

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Speaker 1: If these guys were left in the water, they would

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Speaker 1: be picked up by their gun running buddies or their

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Speaker 1: cartel buddies, and they would then be shot by the

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Speaker 1: cartel buddies for abandoning their cargo. Do you understand how

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Speaker 1: cartels operate? Do you have any inkling of how that

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Speaker 1: world operates? You have any clue. Have you even given

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Speaker 1: a second of thought to it. They are not like us,

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Speaker 1: They do not operate like us. This is not like

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Speaker 1: your kid's little league team or something. My gosh, these

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Speaker 1: are hardened narco terrorists running Narco states in many cases,

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Speaker 1: like Venezuela, like Mexico, And so, yes, you do have

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Speaker 1: to use violence.

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Speaker 5: Is it unfortunate? Of course, of course it's unfortunate. But

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Speaker 5: let me tell you something right now.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something right now, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to defending my family, And this is the way you

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Speaker 1: have to think about this. When it is there an

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Speaker 1: amount of violence? Is there an amount of violence that

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Speaker 1: you would not cross? Is there a line that you

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Speaker 1: would not cross when it comes to defending your family? Now,

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Speaker 1: because for me, there is an unlimited amount of violence

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Speaker 1: that I would be willing to employ in the defense

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Speaker 1: of my wife and in the defense of my children.

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Speaker 5: And it's as simple as that. It's really as simple

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Speaker 5: as that.

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Speaker 1: So call it what you want, but it's the truth,

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Speaker 1: and it's got to be the truth.

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Speaker 5: And that's the way the world works. And I said

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Speaker 5: it to Megan Kelly.

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Speaker 1: Now I wasn't talking about Cartel's I was talking about

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Speaker 1: leftist violence at the time, and these leftist killer networks,

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Speaker 1: the Marxist killers, like the ones who killed Charlie, And

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Speaker 1: I said, Megan, no offense, but it's time to let

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Speaker 1: the man handle things. It's time to let the men

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Speaker 1: handle things. To come to the military, that's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: People are gonna say, oh no, you're gonna what about

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Speaker 1: women and militant guys.

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Speaker 5: Guys, you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: When I say men in this sense, I mean real

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Speaker 1: men making real decisions to provide real defense for our families,

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Speaker 1: our cities, and our homeland. And thank you to Secretary

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Speaker 1: Hegseeth to President Trump for working to do that, because

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Speaker 1: I've been down there and I've seen the type of operations,

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Speaker 1: the type of work they're putting in, and that is

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Speaker 1: their only concern at all. They are mission focused and

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Speaker 1: they're focused on protecting the United States of America and

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Speaker 1: the people dwell within it. Ladies and gentlemen. As always,

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Speaker 1: they have my permission to lay ashore