Speaker 1: Let's get to Washington, DC, please, and the troubling headlines
Speaker 1: tied to Defense Secretary mister Pete Hegseth. In the wake
Speaker 1: of the signal chat controversy, heg Seth made moves to
Speaker 1: essentially close ranks around his senior staff. Top advisors Dan
Speaker 1: Caldwell was escorted from the Pentagon, and soon after Darren
Speaker 1: Selnick followed. That same day, nearly every single member of
Speaker 1: the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service announced they were resigning. As
Speaker 1: the week progressed. Again, we're talking about just one week.
Speaker 1: Last week, heg Seth quote unquote reassigned his chief of
Speaker 1: staff and then asked the Pentagon's former top spokesperson, John
Speaker 1: Elliott to resign. And just this weekend, two sources tell
Speaker 1: in NBC News that heg Sith used his personal phone
Speaker 1: to send information about US military operations in Yemen to
Speaker 1: a thirteen person signal group chat, including his wife and
Speaker 1: his brother. And according to the report, Hegseth did so
Speaker 1: after an aid warned him to be careful not to
Speaker 1: share sensitive information on an unsecured communication system before the
Speaker 1: Yemen operation. So here, just to help y'all out, here
Speaker 1: are just three moves from the past month that had
Speaker 1: many inside of Pentagon and around Washington questioning his leadership.
Speaker 1: It started with Signal Gate, where Hegseth tried to debunk
Speaker 1: the reporting through a vague denial that quote nobody was texting.
Speaker 2: War plans end quote.
Speaker 1: Then a Wall Street journal reported that Hegseth brought his wife,
Speaker 1: a former Fox News producer by the way, into two
Speaker 1: meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed.
Speaker 1: And finally, the Pentagon set up a top secret briefing
Speaker 1: by the Joint chiefs of Staff on China for Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: who still has extensive business interest in China. According to
Speaker 1: the former top spokesperson John Elliott, the White House canceled
Speaker 1: that meeting after learning about it. Does this sound like
Speaker 1: competence to you? Thirteen person chat threat national security information?
Speaker 1: Having your wife and brother on that text chain, showing
Speaker 1: up to certain meetings with your wife?
Speaker 2: How that sound?
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, now see, I don't want to sit
Speaker 1: up there and get in the Pete hag set He
Speaker 1: served our country honorably.
Speaker 2: He was a weekend host on Fox News.
Speaker 1: All I ever said was, how do you go from
Speaker 1: a weekend host on Fox News to overseeing our national
Speaker 1: defense as Defense secretary, overseeing three and a half million people.
Speaker 1: How are you qualified to do that? How are you
Speaker 1: qualified to do that? That's all I ever said. I'm
Speaker 1: not wishing anything bad on him. I'm not wishing him
Speaker 1: to fail. Him failing is us failing as a nation,
Speaker 1: which endangers all of us when you're the secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling you on that. I got that part. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is more importantly than anything else. It puts
Speaker 1: us in a position where we've got to question Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: the President of the United States. I'm gonna hire the
Speaker 1: best I'm gonna have the best staff, the most elite
Speaker 1: people working for me, the most qualified people working for me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be better than anybody you've ever seen in
Speaker 1: the American history. All of this other stuff, what about that?
Speaker 1: See your fealty and your loyalty to the President of
Speaker 1: the United States, how you want to deify him, as
Speaker 1: questionable as that may be, if not flat out pathetic
Speaker 1: in the eyes of others.
Speaker 2: Really is not the point. The point is why.
Speaker 1: Does your loyalty or feeling towards him extend to such
Speaker 1: a degree that we want to put on blinders when
Speaker 1: it comes to people.
Speaker 2: When he ain't hav in his cabinet, it's a fair question.
Speaker 1: When the plane collided with the helicopter and lives were lost,
Speaker 1: God rest their wonderful souls in that crash months ago,
Speaker 1: the first words out of trump mouth was to blame
Speaker 1: DEI diversity equity and inclusion. Well, sir, mister president, do
Speaker 1: you have any evidence of that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, I had to go on national TV and say,
Speaker 1: DEEI really should stand for it. Didn't earn it as
Speaker 1: a force of diversity, equity and inclusion. But when you
Speaker 1: look at what's transpiring right now, particularly as it pertains
Speaker 1: to our security in this country or for this country,
Speaker 1: there's a reason to be alarmed. Why do I say that,
Speaker 1: because the hits keep on coming for President Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 1: Est yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nolan had a.
Speaker 2: Perse stolen at a restaurant in DC.
Speaker 1: Inside the purse was a passport, a driver's license, and
Speaker 1: government access badge, three thousand dollars in cash.
Speaker 2: And blank checks, according to the reports.
Speaker 1: According to USA Today, specifically, the Secret Services launched an
Speaker 1: investigation to trace any use of her financial assets. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, pause for a second, pretty.
Speaker 2: Please sugar on top.
Speaker 1: One dude is the Secretary of Defense making these mistakes.
Speaker 1: And I had a Homeland Security just got robbed, pickpocketed
Speaker 1: that not even pickpocket. They stole a purse, secret service
Speaker 1: around the people like that. They still stole a purse.
Speaker 1: How hell I happened? Protecting the country, you can't protect
Speaker 1: yourself from some of the most basically rudimentary things that
Speaker 1: you should be able to avoid letting happen. By the way,
Speaker 1: this comes from the same cabinet. I mean, have you
Speaker 1: seen Pete hagk Seth speak.
Speaker 2: In the past.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when the whole email scandal involving Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton that a lot of people on the left believe
Speaker 1: course to the election because a week before a week
Speaker 1: or two before the election, James Comey, then the head
Speaker 1: of the FBI, decide to announce that there was an
Speaker 1: investigation into emails that Hillary Clinton was using on a
Speaker 1: private server, thereby threatening national security in the eyes of
Speaker 1: critics who wanted to take her down. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: Pete hegg saith the same Pete hagik Seths that we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Saint Pete Hegg sath that got his wife
Speaker 1: and his brother in text change with national security information.
Speaker 1: That Pete heik seth, Ladies and gentlemen, I want to
Speaker 1: rewind the clock by nine years when the whole Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton thing was going down, right prior to the election,
Speaker 1: lessen of Pete Hagk say talk about Hillary Clinton at
Speaker 1: that particular moment in time. This is Pete Haikseth, and
Speaker 1: we are quoting any security professional, military, government or otherwise
Speaker 1: would be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted for
Speaker 1: being so reckless with this kind of information.
Speaker 2: Say what, say what? Say what? He actually said that,
Speaker 2: Yes he did, Yes he did. He most certainly said that.
Speaker 2: Put that quarter piece saying, Hank set up there again.
Speaker 2: Please put up on that full screet gain. I need
Speaker 2: that RDY to see it. Because this man who is.
Speaker 1: The Defense Secretary for the United States of America, who.
Speaker 2: Got busted.
Speaker 1: Exchanging information of national security importance about the Hoodies and
Speaker 1: Yemen ultimately scheduled to be bombed, that same dude set
Speaker 1: down about Hillary Rodal Clinton. Any security professional, military, government
Speaker 1: or otherwise, We'll be fired on the spot and criminally
Speaker 1: prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information.
Speaker 2: So that doesn't apply to you, now, huh sir, not
Speaker 2: at all. I mean you just completely insident on this.
Speaker 1: And now you've got Homeland Security secretary getting her persnatched.
Speaker 1: So we got the Apartment of Defense and Homeland Security
Speaker 1: being compromised on personal levels involving security matters, and that too,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is telling us the trust without national security.
Speaker 1: Remember what Trump said about Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is
Speaker 1: gonna take a minute. Listen to the forty seventh president
Speaker 1: of the United States, who he is now, when he
Speaker 1: was in route to becoming a forty fifth president of
Speaker 1: the United States, competing with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the
Speaker 1: election at twenty sixteen. Take a look at Trump and
Speaker 1: what his positions were. Let us listen, please.
Speaker 3: I think the one that you should really be apologizing for,
Speaker 3: and the thing that you should be apologizing for, are
Speaker 3: the thirty three thousand emails that you deleted and that
Speaker 3: you acid washed, and then the two boxes of emails
Speaker 3: and other things last week that were taken from an
Speaker 3: office and are now missing.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: I didn't think i'd say this, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: say it. And I hate to say it, but if
Speaker 3: I win I am going to instruct my Attorney General
Speaker 3: to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation
Speaker 3: because there has never been so many lies, so much deception,
Speaker 3: there has never been anything like it, and we're going
Speaker 3: to have a special prosecutor. When I speak, I go
Speaker 3: out and speak. The people of this country are furious.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, the people that have been long term
Speaker 3: workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been
Speaker 3: anything like this where emails and you get a subpoena,
Speaker 3: you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you
Speaker 3: delete thirty three thousand emails and then you asked it
Speaker 3: washam or bleach them, as you would say. A very
Speaker 3: expensive process. So we're going to get a special prosecutor
Speaker 3: and we're going to look into it, because you know
Speaker 3: what people have been Their lives have been destroyed for
Speaker 3: doing one fifth of what you've done. And it's a disgrace,
Speaker 3: and honestly, you ought to be ashamed.
Speaker 1: Of yourself, needless to say, Hillary Rodham. Clinton followed that
Speaker 1: up immediately by calling that a bunch of lives, encouraging
Speaker 1: folks to fact check her, claiming that it was a
Speaker 1: complete fabrication.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: And that was the same moment where she was saying,
Speaker 1: she said, thank goodness, somebody like him is not our
Speaker 1: commander in chief and overseeing law enforcement in this country.
Speaker 1: And that was when Trump said, yeah, because you'd be
Speaker 1: in jail. So that was the same you know back
Speaker 1: and forth that happened in twenty sixteen. I only bring
Speaker 1: that up because since Trump is about law and order,
Speaker 1: since he is about competence, since he is about transparency,
Speaker 1: since he is about all of these things.
Speaker 2: What's up with your peeps?
Speaker 1: What's up with you know, Christy Nolas it's not a
Speaker 1: fireable offense. You're looking at the Secret Service. How you
Speaker 1: let somebody snatch your pocketbook. But in the case of
Speaker 1: Pete hegseth to find out that his wife and his
Speaker 1: brother no national security clearance, there was a part of
Speaker 1: these these communications, and you've got national security folks appalled
Speaker 1: by that. Something has to be said about that, Something
Speaker 1: has to be done about that. Now a White House
Speaker 1: is calling it fake news, these reports, that's saying they're
Speaker 1: looking to replace him. According to everybody that I've spoken to,
Speaker 1: because I've cultivated a few sources in Washington over the
Speaker 1: past few months.
Speaker 2: Of course, they say that, you know, knowing Trump.
Speaker 1: He'll probably stick with Pete hagg Seth just because the
Speaker 1: national media is trying to compel him to let him go,
Speaker 1: and Trump doesn't want to ever be seen as somebody
Speaker 1: who caves in to such pressure. Nevertheless, that is the
Speaker 1: situation right now. There are numerous reports and pr came
Speaker 1: out with something. White House called it fake news, CNN
Speaker 1: said something, others have said something in regards to Pete
Speaker 1: haig Seth maybe approaching his final days as the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense for the United States. The White House says, no,
Speaker 1: that's not the situation. We'll see who's right, who's telling
Speaker 1: the truth, who wrong. We will find out. But what's
Speaker 1: undeniable and undebatable is that at this moment in time,
Speaker 1: the inexperience of Pete Hagk's at this show. And that's
Speaker 1: all I've been saying. You know, to go from a
Speaker 1: weekend host on Fox News to be in the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense for the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Is a bit extreme of a push.
Speaker 1: And when you're willing to do something like that, you
Speaker 1: don't get to turn to everybody else and talk about
Speaker 1: DEI being a problem. You know, you're supposed to be,
Speaker 1: especially you're the president of the United States, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be making sure that people in these positions.
Speaker 2: Are qualified to do the job. That should be a
Speaker 2: priority just as much.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say more, because loyalty to the president does matter.
Speaker 1: You have to have people in your cabinet that you
Speaker 1: can trust, so I'm not going to dismiss that. But
Speaker 1: equally as important is their competence and their professionalism and
Speaker 1: their integrity. And right now people believe they've got a question.
Speaker 1: Look at Pete Hegseth and question all of that. And
Speaker 1: in terms of your Homeland Security secretary and your Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense both being embroiled in security issues, that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like the President of the United.
Speaker 2: States has picked has picked the very best and the
Speaker 2: very finest for the jobs. It's all I'm saying. It's
Speaker 2: all I'm saying.