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Speaker 1: oh boy, what a Wednesday. It has been the amount

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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show, but we will do it. So that's

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Speaker 1: what we have on tap for tonight. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: address these things. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna address

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Speaker 1: these things in order. I'm gonna give it to you

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Speaker 1: and foremost about Pete hag Seth being potentially Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 1: Remember all these are potential until they're confirmed by the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Then we're gonna talk about Matt Gates. Donald Trump appoints

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Speaker 1: Congressman Well, annoyance, I don't know what you want to say.

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Speaker 1: Puts up Congressman Matt Gates up to be the next

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Speaker 1: Tausea Gabbart for Director of National Intelligence. We will get

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Speaker 1: to a little bit of the Senate leadership race. That

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Speaker 1: ship has kind of already sailed. We'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: We will. We'll talk about the evils of the Biden

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Speaker 1: administration and what they did DEI wise, what the future is. First,

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Speaker 1: praising me when I call things ahead of time, as

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Speaker 1: it's fine. Don't quit. You see back in February of

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Speaker 1: This guy, Jesse Kelly, who might be an oracle, he

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Speaker 1: year ago. Feels good to be Chris. Is there anything

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Speaker 1: Is not what I was looking for, Chris? Do you

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Speaker 1: Have you ever have you ever seen anything about these

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Speaker 1: This has taken a long time. Yes, the Biden administration

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Speaker 1: and they'll do that, and they kind of walk through it.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's an exercise to see where you're at.

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Speaker 1: Did you know we get our lunch eaten by the Chinese?

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Speaker 1: If at the war's fought over there? To know that

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Speaker 1: the United States military is in a state of crisis,

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Speaker 1: I can't even describe. The officer corps is so full

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Speaker 1: of losers, in politicians and idiots, the pentagons, full of traders,

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Speaker 1: the defense industry, the military industrial complex, the defense contractors.

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Speaker 1: That relationship is a disaster. How they've bought off politicians

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Speaker 1: to continue things like Ukraine without end and exchange for

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Speaker 1: large campaign donations. Our United States military is in a

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Speaker 1: state of crisis, and I not only fear for my

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Speaker 1: country as a whole, for them men on the ground,

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Speaker 1: the ground pounders, the guys who actually see combat. I

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Speaker 1: am terrified for them at the disastrous, poisonous, filthy leadership

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Speaker 1: we have in the United States Military. As of now,

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Speaker 1: I have email after email after email. Jesse, I'm getting out, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting out, Jesse. I can't take it anymore. Jesse,

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Speaker 1: I'm not letting my son join. I fought in the

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Speaker 1: Global War on Terror, and I still speak to so

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Speaker 1: many guys who fought in it. With me. Not a

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Speaker 1: single friend of mine, not one is encouraging his children

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Speaker 1: to join. Almost every single one of them, to a

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Speaker 1: man is telling his kids they're not even allowed. That's

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Speaker 1: a military in crisis, and that brings me to Pete

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Speaker 1: hag Seth. Let's talk about the potential new sect deef again.

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Speaker 1: All these guys have to get through Senate confirmation. Some

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Speaker 1: may have more trouble than others. Before we get to

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Speaker 1: any of that, let's talk really quickly about people living

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Speaker 1: in a war zone constantly. Can you imagine living in

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Speaker 1: Israel and you're constantly in a war zone, That trip

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Speaker 1: to the coffee shop on the corner might easily be

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Speaker 1: a stabbing or a bomb you at any moment, at

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Speaker 1: any moment you're picking up the kids from school, the

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Speaker 1: alarms might go off and you guys might have to

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Speaker 1: scramble and get to a bomb shelter somewhere because rockets

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Speaker 1: are raining down. This is what it's like for these

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Speaker 1: people every single day. You know how many of these

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Speaker 1: people don't have food, They need emergency food places to live.

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Speaker 1: People don't know about this because it's ignored. The Ifcj's

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Speaker 1: on the ground helping these people, help them, help these people.

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Speaker 1: If you have a heart to do so, go to

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Speaker 1: support IFCJ dot org or call eight eight eight four

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Speaker 1: eight eight IFCJ. We'll be back truth attitude. Jesse Kelly,

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Speaker 1: it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday, a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday where I can't get the smile off my face.

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Speaker 1: Remember you can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can leave us a voicemail eight seven

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Speaker 1: seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now onto

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Speaker 1: the Pete Hegseth pick and I need to make sure

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Speaker 1: everyone understands. I'm gonna repeat this several times during the show.

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Speaker 1: He has to get confirmed in the Senate. There are

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Speaker 1: some positions that do not require a Senate confirmation, like

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Speaker 1: that wonderful Florida Rep. Mike Walls, former Green Beret. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump named him as National Security Advisor. That is not

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Speaker 1: a position that requires a Senate confirmation. Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 1: does require a Senate confirmation. What is a Senate confirmation? Well,

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Speaker 1: you need fifty one. You need fifty one votes. And remember,

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Speaker 1: if there's ever a problem with that, jd Vance can

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Speaker 1: add a fifty first. So Pete Hagg Seth, I just

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Speaker 1: laid out all the problems in the military. They are vast.

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Speaker 1: We need a disruptor now, Jesse. He doesn't have the experience.

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Speaker 1: He's not a general. He thought of it. He served

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Speaker 1: this country for twenty years and led men in combat.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean sitting back in the rear with the gear.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean staplan papers for a general. Pete haig

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Speaker 1: Seth had on a flak jacket and went out two

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Speaker 1: bronze stars and led men like a lion in combat.

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Speaker 1: He knows exactly what the men on the ground go

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Speaker 1: through for this country and still cares. He didn't get

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Speaker 1: so separated from those men that it became a filthy

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Speaker 1: loser politician like Mark Milly did, who sold out every

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Speaker 1: ounce of honor he ever had. Pete Haig Seth, he

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Speaker 1: ended up getting out. Do you know why he got out?

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Speaker 1: Because they considered his rhetoric too extremes, so they ran

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Speaker 1: him out of the National Guard. He told me that himself,

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Speaker 1: what kind of rhetoric was extreme? Oh, I don't know

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Speaker 1: wonderful things like this.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you gotta fire, you know, you

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Speaker 2: gotta fire the chairman and joint chiefs, and you gotta

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Speaker 2: fire this. I mean, obviously gonna bring in a new

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Speaker 2: Secretary Defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever,

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Speaker 2: that was involved in any of the DEI woke, it's

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Speaker 2: gotta go. Either you're in for war fighting that and

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Speaker 2: that's it. That's the only litmus tests we care about.

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Speaker 2: You got to get DEI and CRT out of military

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Speaker 2: academy so you're not training young officers and to be

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Speaker 2: baptized in this type of thinking. And then, you know,

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Speaker 2: whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were saying, I

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Speaker 2: don't know nineteen ninety five, let's just make those the standards.

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Speaker 2: And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that

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Speaker 2: you know, did top Gun Maverick and create some real

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Speaker 2: ads that motivate people that want to serve, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Does that sound good to you? Sounds wonderful to me.

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Speaker 1: And I should note that was from the Sean Ryan Show,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing. I love Sean. Pete sat down with

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Speaker 1: Sean Ryan, and Pete has been out there saying things, well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these things you've heard on this show

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Speaker 1: for a long time, and things that may make you uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: might even make you squirm, might even offend you yet

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Speaker 1: things that are one hundred percent accurately.

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Speaker 2: Straight up just saying we should not have women in

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Speaker 2: combat roles. It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made

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Speaker 2: us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. We've all

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Speaker 2: served with women and they're great. It just our institutions

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Speaker 2: don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not

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Speaker 2: traditionally over human history, men in those positions are more capable.

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Speaker 1: Does that sound like somebody who wants to disrupt how

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Speaker 1: the military's conducting itself. You bet it does. He's somebody

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Speaker 1: passionate about fixing this military, and I have previously lacked

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Speaker 1: faith that we can get this done without someone like this.

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Speaker 1: I have dreamt of, yes, an experienced but outsider type

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Speaker 1: of person who will step in and break up this

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Speaker 1: horrible flag officer network, defense contractor network, this network of

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Speaker 1: filth in the Pentagon, full of all kinds of garbage

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Speaker 1: people screwing things up. I have dreamt of a potential

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Speaker 1: outsider stepping in and saying no more, there's a new

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Speaker 1: sheriff in town. And maybe, just maybe I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: this just because I'm friends with Pete. Maybe Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 1: is that guy, and he's not somebody that I knew

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Speaker 1: about ahead of time. I will tell you I had.

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Speaker 1: I had a dream of a concept, if you will

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Speaker 1: had I had a nameless, faceless person, and Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 1: is basically exactly what I wanted, somebody who knows exactly

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Speaker 1: how to build a military, build a lethal fighting force.

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Speaker 1: And my phone has been melting from the grunts I'm

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Speaker 1: friends with who are still in and fighter pilots, I

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Speaker 1: should note, and they are all kinds fired up for

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Speaker 1: the potential to change things. That and the fact that

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Speaker 1: these crazy libs hate.

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Speaker 4: Him for former and future president is moving quickly to

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Speaker 4: fill the clown car and round out his cabinet before

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Speaker 4: he changes his mind and fires them all.

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Speaker 5: Moments ago, Trump announce to.

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Speaker 3: It he has selected Fox Weekend Morning show host and

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Speaker 3: can't make this up.

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Speaker 4: Pete egsack to Service Secretary of Defence because why not.

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Speaker 1: Fox Weekend Morning show host, A tour in Iraq, a

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Speaker 1: tour in Afghanistan, two bronze stars, and they have him

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Speaker 1: reduced down to a Fox Weekend morning show host. Here

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Speaker 1: was Don Lemon, an.

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Speaker 5: Official statement from Donald Trump saying, I am honored to

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Speaker 5: announce that I have nominated Pete Hexseth to serve in

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Speaker 1: What at first, some.

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Speaker 5: Of these folks, these nominations, I said, okay, or appointments,

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Speaker 5: all right, they're a little extreme.

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Speaker 1: But there were some.

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Speaker 5: Normal people in there, kind of normally you know, like

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Speaker 5: Marco Rubio or Mike Waltz are a couple of you know,

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Speaker 5: just regular old Republicans in there. But the morning we

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Speaker 5: can host on Fox News, come on.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly why I love it. And remember this, whenever

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Speaker 1: these people reference stuff, well, we had some normal options.

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Speaker 1: You notice how they always end up referencing the Republicans

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Speaker 1: who won't really oppose them in any significant way to them.

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Speaker 1: Those are the normal Republicans you could have had a

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Speaker 1: reasonable Republican. Of course, reasonable Republican always and forever means

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Speaker 1: a Republican. He may oppose me on some things, but

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Speaker 1: I know when the rubber meets the road and I

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Speaker 1: really start with my rabbit animal communist ways, the reasonable

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Speaker 1: Republican will probably try to meet me halfway and moderate

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Speaker 1: and do things in a bipartisan fashion. That's what he

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Speaker 1: means by reasonable Republican. I love this pick. I am

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Speaker 1: so excited about it. Now we'll set that aside. There's

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Speaker 1: the petegg seth because we have a lot of news.

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Speaker 1: Let's deal with the Senate leadership thing, and then the

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Speaker 1: Matt Gates pick, which has half the people doing backflips,

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Speaker 1: half the people throwing up in the trash can before

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Speaker 1: we get to that. My Patriots Supply is here to

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Speaker 1: ensure we are all ready for whatever may come. Do

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Speaker 1: you have any idea what's going to come next? I don't.

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Speaker 1: The world is changing and shifting, and we all need

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Speaker 1: an emergency food supply of some kind everybody. How long

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Speaker 1: can the people in your home eat on just the

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Speaker 1: food you have there? My Patriot Supply has been doing

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Speaker 1: this for so long. They have millions of people who

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Speaker 1: four week emergency food kits that are fifty dollars off.

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Speaker 1: Right now, you have to go to Prepare with Jesse

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Speaker 1: dot com to get yours. Don't hope you're ready, take

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Speaker 1: an accounting of what you have, and go get four

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Speaker 1: weeks of emergency food for everyone who lives in your home.

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Speaker 1: That's basic preparations prepare with Jesse dot com. That's deal

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Speaker 1: with the Senate leadership thing and Matt Gates next