1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: You know, I recently lost the guy I fought in 2 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Iraq with Just hang on, hang on. I'm going somewhere 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: with this lost the guy. I'm not going to go 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: into the details name and whatnot, but I will tell 5 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: you this. If I had to go into combat with 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: one human being, if I had to go back there's 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: a war and they called me up, which they wouldn't do. 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: But let's say they called me up and they said, Jess, 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: you got to go to war. You could pick you 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: could pick one guy. I would pick this guy. Yeah. 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that because he's passed on now, 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: God rest his soul. I said it routinely when he 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: was alive. You get this guy into combat and he's 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: a warrior. I'll just put it to you that way, 15 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: an absolute warrior. But there's another part of this. Part 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: of the reason I'm not giving out names and things 17 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: like that is because I do have to discuss the 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: other part of this guy. We're going somewhere with this. 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: Hang on a thing, use a little rough around the edges. 20 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: If I was sending look forget about me, forget about 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: me one of my sons, they mean everything to me, right, 22 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: I would send them with this guy into combat. Hey, Jesse, 23 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: you can pick one guy to send with your sons 24 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: to be this guy, Like, that's how great of a 25 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: warrior this is. However, if I was to pick somebody 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: to baby babysit my sons, there's a good chance this 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: would be the last person on Earth I would allow 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: to do so. If I was to go out with 29 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: this guy, as I have several times, the chances it's 30 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 1: going to end in some kind of a bar fight 31 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: are high. And it did very rough around the edges, tattoos, 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: bad language, spoke about women in ways that aren't the 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: most appropriate. I'll just put it to you that way. Now, 34 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: why am I discussing this human being? What does this 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: have to do with anything? Well, we have this idea 36 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: in America. Now you probably don't, but a lot of 37 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: Americans do. We have this idea about what the warrior 38 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: really is. And you know what we do. We picture 39 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: Captain America. That's what we do. Perfect hair, perfect teeth, 40 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: perfect jaw line, perfect pecks. Very polite, yes, ma'am, No sir, 41 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: let me hold that door open for you. No, young lady, 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: I just would like a dance. Thank you, appreciate it. 43 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: I will pick you up at church on Sunday. That 44 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: guy exists, sure, but that's not what most of the 45 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: warriors I've known are. They're type A rough around the 46 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: edges dudes who talk tough, act tough, get in fistfights, 47 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: drink too much, get ugly tattoos, and make bad financial decisions. 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Type A dudes. That's what lots of them are. Most 49 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: of them are. And you know what Type A dudes 50 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: like my friend again rest his soul who passed on. 51 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: You know what, they don't want to do. You know 52 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: what they won't do. They won't sign up to fight 53 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: under a Pride flag. They won't And if they're already in, 54 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: they'll leave. Guys like that don't have any interest in 55 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: fighting for that crack. And you can hate that guy 56 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: or maybe not want that guy around your wife, but 57 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: that guy wins your wars for you. All those brave 58 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: souls we just celebrated, We just got done celebrating D Day. 59 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: What do you think those guys were, like, all those 60 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: brave souls storm into beaches? Think they were all just 61 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: the most polite dudes in the world. Do you think 62 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: they drink too much, smoke too much, cuss too much? 63 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: That's who wins your wars for you. And we are 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: now fostering an environment in our military that is going 65 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: to completely destroy the military because without those guys, you 66 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: don't have a military. Oh, you have fancy gadgets, fancy plaines, 67 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: fancy missiles, fancy radar, all those things. You know what 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: all those things mean if you don't have warriors on 69 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: the ground. Nothing, absolutely nothing. Now, this stuff has been 70 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: going on for a long time, slowly, very slowly. Obviously 71 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: under Biden it's ramped up. Check out this army. Yet. 72 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: This is the story of a soldier who operates to 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: your nation's patriot missile defense systems. It begins in California 74 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: with a little girl raised by two moms. I also 75 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: marched for equality. I like to think I've been defending 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: freedom from an early age. Sure, I'd spent my life 77 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: around inspiring women, but what had I really achieved on 78 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: my own? One of my sorority sisters was studying abroad 79 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: in Italy. Another was climbing Mount Everest. I needed my 80 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: own adventures, my own challenge, and after meeting with an 81 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 1: Army recruiter, I found it a way to prove my 82 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along. Maybe you're 83 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: inspired by that ad, maybe or not. But I want 84 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: you to picture my friend who's no longer with us. 85 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: He's a seventeen eighteen year old as he once was, 86 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: and he's thinking about joining the US Army and he 87 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: sits down and he's presented with that AD. What's he 88 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: going to do? He's going to walk out the door 89 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: and he's never going to fight for this country ever, 90 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: is not because they won't fight under this. We recently 91 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: had the news a US Army base, well, the US 92 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: Army is considering letting soldiers change their duty station if 93 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: they're offended by local laws that apply to their choice 94 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: of gender. I mean, we have the Secretary of Defense 95 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: out there saying trans rights are human rights, and today 96 00:05:53,040 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: we reaffirm that transgender rights are human rights and that 97 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: America is safer and better when every qualified citizen can 98 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: serve with pride and dignity. Yeah no, And as much 99 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: as I'd love to dump on the US Army the 100 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: whole show, my beloved Marines are just as guilty. There's 101 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: nobody who's not doing this now in the US military. 102 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: The Marines just put out something for pride month, rainbow 103 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: colored bullets in the kevlar and the helmet, the works. 104 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: It's all over the place. It can't be stopped. And look, 105 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: when I was joining the Marines, part of the reason 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: I joined the Marines was I wanted to see what 107 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: I was made of. I wanted to be a tough 108 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: guy and I wanted to be one of those studs 109 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: I saw on TV. Could I even do it what 110 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: I quit? I don't know, but I want life to 111 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: be hard. Now, if this is what we're presenting to 112 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: new potential recruit, guys that want to be tough, want 113 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: to challenge, want to see what they're made of, They're 114 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: gonna go seek out challenges elsewhere. They're not going to join. 115 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: They're not going to join to do this kind of idiocy. 116 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: So where does all this lead us? In a military? 117 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: What happens when you start doing this, Well, you get 118 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: a soft purge. You soft purge all the good guys out, 119 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: and you soft purge the good guys you want to 120 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: join into going to do something else. How's that end up? 121 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the USS Bonham Richard ends up 122 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: burning at Port. It was at Port. They didn't even 123 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: turn on the fire alarm for ten minutes after the 124 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: ship costs fire caught fire ten minutes. We found out 125 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: afterwards that the ship's fire fire stations all shut down 126 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: a disaster. We found out afterwards that they did have 127 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: fire drills. Oftentimes people wouldn't even show up. You see, 128 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: when you decide your entire US mill terry needs to 129 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: be the LGBTQ force, that leaves precious little time for 130 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: little things like I don't know, putting out fires on 131 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: a ship. How this ends, I mean, look, that's a 132 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: small example. You know how this ends. How this ends 133 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: is a US carrier group at the bottom of the 134 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean, five ten thousand sailors and marines on board, 135 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the ocean. That's how it ends. 136 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: When that day happens. When that day comes in, it 137 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: will come. But if this still continues, you'll know exactly 138 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: why we're there. We have official Marine Corps accounts getting 139 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: in little Twitter fights with Tucker Carlson of all things. 140 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: I mean, this is how far the rot has gotten, 141 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: and the rot is top to bottom. Now, let's not 142 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: gloss over this fact at all. Part of this has come, 143 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to the Navy and infantry units. 144 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: With the integration of women onto these vessels, it's more 145 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: than just the LGBTQ insanity stuff. Women have no place 146 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: on a deployed naval vessel at all. I don't care 147 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: if that offends you. I need to clarify that you're 148 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: welcome to email in and yeah, I don't care. It 149 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything to me. Ask anyone who was serving 150 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: in the Navy when women got integrated on the ships, 151 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: asked them how that worked out. It's not anti women, 152 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: it's not anti men. It's pro biology stuff. A bunch 153 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: of women on a ship with a bunch of eighteen 154 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: year old men, and what do you think's going to happen? Romance, drama, disaster, 155 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: lots of things are going to happen that don't involve 156 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: getting the Navy ready or keeping the Navy ready to 157 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: fight battles. They of course decided to try this in 158 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: other units too, like my beloved Marine Corps. Oh, we 159 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: definitely need women in the infantry. We need female infantry officers. 160 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 1: One of, if not the first female infantry officer, was 161 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: there for about fifteen minutes before she was pregnant from 162 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 1: somebody within her own platoon that she was supposed to 163 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: be commanding. All this leads to the soft purge of 164 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: the military. And remember, the soft purge is the studs 165 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: who are already in. They've been in putting in the work. 166 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: They have wealth of knowledge in their mind. They've been 167 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: to so many schools, this school and that school. And 168 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: he's disqualified and that qualified. And you need that guy 169 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: to train future generations. He's in there. He's a stud. 170 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: He knows he's a stud. He wants to train future 171 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: studs and keep up the fight for this country. He 172 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: doesn't want another seminar finding out how evil he is 173 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: for being white. You're gonna get out and he's gonna 174 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: go make a pile of money, going to do something else. 175 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: He knows that option is always there for him. Didn't 176 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: want to take it, want to serve his country. He's 177 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: gonna take it now. And possibly more damaging. Will never 178 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: know because you can't ever quantify this. Maybe more damaging. 179 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: That's sixteen seventeen year old boy, that guy from a 180 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: tough inner city. He's hard his nails, wants to make 181 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: his life better. The Iowa farm boy kid on a 182 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: swamp boat in Louisiana, cowboy roping cattle up in foming somewhere. 183 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: Those are the guys who win you wars, the toughest nails. 184 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: Sixteen seventeen year old that wants something better, wants to 185 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: be different, wants to be a tough guy. And when 186 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: he turns on the news and he sees Pride flags 187 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: flying on US Army bases and drag shows happening on 188 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: US Air Force bases, you know what he says to himself. 189 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: He says, I bet I can find other options. I 190 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: don't need to join that. I won't join that, and 191 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: rest assured. This has national security implications. We talk about 192 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 1: we should step in here, should we invade there? Should 193 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: we send troops here? Well, very very very shortly, you're 194 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: going to be asking can our troops even win when 195 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: they go into these places? I know that may have 196 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: made you uncomfortable, but I'm right. We have a great 197 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: show for you tonight on the Soft Purge of the 198 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: Military Hang. Each morning, the President of the United States 199 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: receives a highly class briefing on the most important issues 200 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: facing the country. It's called the President's Daily Brief or PDB. 201 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: It's delivered by America's spies and analysts. Well, now you 202 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: can hear your very own PDB in the form of 203 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: a podcast hosted by me Brian Dean Wright, a former 204 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: CIA operations officer. Each morning at six am Eastern, I'll 205 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: bring you fifteen to twenty minutes of the most important 206 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: issues facing the country, giving you the critical intelligence and 207 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: analysis you need to start your morning. General Melly, I 208 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: can only conclude that your advice about staying in Afghanistan 209 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: was rejected. I'm shocked to learn that your advice wasn't 210 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: sought until August twenty fifth on staying past the August 211 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: thirty one deadline. I understand that you're the principal military 212 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: advisor that you advise. You don't decide. The president decides. 213 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: But if all this is true, General Milly, why haven't 214 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: you resigned. Resigning is a really serious thing, and it's 215 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: a political act. If I'm resigning in protest, it would 216 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: be an incredible act of political defiance for commissioned officer 217 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: to just resign because my advice is not taken. Yes, Generals, 218 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: that's the point. If well, you know what, let's talk 219 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: to Tom about it. Joining me now. Tom Amentzo, former 220 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: Army ranger, co author of the book The Twenty Year War. Tom, 221 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: We're talking about on our special the rot in the military, 222 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: and a big part of the rot in the military 223 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: is the leadership of the military. Are I mean, honestly, 224 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: anything above an O six anymore sucks And I don't 225 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: know when that happened or how that happened, but these guys, 226 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: it disheartens the troops when you have leadership like this. 227 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: You know, Milly, I go back and forth on that guy. 228 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: On one hand, he has had such an incredibly tricky 229 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: set a situation, but on the other hand, it's like, 230 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: I don't I can't remember a person who was so lauded, 231 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: you know, through their career. Then it was people were 232 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: so concerned that they weren't going to maybe or maybe 233 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: not do the right thing. And then somehow they've survived 234 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: multiple disasters across two administrations and still keeps on ticking 235 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: like he's he's been in this job for too long. 236 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: He's been around, and you just see that sort of second, third, 237 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: and fourth order effect coming down from him in the 238 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: senior command, Like I am just amazed that he's still 239 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: in the post. How does it affect Describe for people, 240 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: how it does affect people when you have a bad 241 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: whether it's your battalion commander all the way up to 242 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: obviously a big shot like Millie. How does that affect 243 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: the guys on the ground. So I think these guys 244 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: get up in these posts and they think that the 245 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: young PFC doesn't know that his leader is an idiot. 246 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: He always shows his leaders an idiot when that's the case, 247 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: and it does affect them a lot. Yeah, well, it's 248 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: one of those things, the proofs in the pudding. Like 249 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: one of the great things about the military, especially combat arms, 250 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: as you can't hide man, you are on the ground, 251 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: You are making decisions in real time, and when you 252 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: make the wrong decision, you need to be held to 253 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: account for it. Now, the best leaders are going to 254 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: make mistakes too, they just make less and then they're 255 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: the ones that hold the hands up and say, I 256 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: made a mistake, my bad. Here's how we're going to 257 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: fix the mistake. And that's the critical thing. No one's perfect. 258 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: Everyone's going to screw things up. But it's like what 259 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: you see from a bad leader time and time again, 260 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: is it's either always someone else's fault or their leader 261 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: plan wasn't executed correctly, or if only X, Y or Z, 262 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: it happened. It's like, no, no, no no, You've got to 263 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: take accountability. You've got to say the buck stopped me. 264 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: The literal definition of a platoon leader in the Ranger 265 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: the Ranger Handbook for Ranger School is the platoon leader 266 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: is responsible for what platoon does or fails to accomplish. 267 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Same thing with the company commanders, same thing with the 268 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: battalion commander, same thing with the brigade commander, the division commander, 269 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: all the way up. They're responsible for what that organization 270 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: does or fails to accomplish. And when things are not 271 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: being accomplished, it's on them. Period. That's it. That's where 272 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: it stops. Okay, So where are the resignations? Tom? I mean, look, 273 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: you wrote that, you quite literally wrote the book the 274 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: Twenty Year War, a twenty year war, failure after failure 275 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: after failure after failure for twenty years. And was there 276 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: a single resignation due to poor conduct, mismanagement, something like that, 277 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: or beyond any scandal things that happened. Was there a 278 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: single one? And I missed it? Not? I mean not 279 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: that I not that I can remember. And you know 280 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: that's part of the problem is with the twenty years 281 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: And this is one of those things about when you 282 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: start getting high enough, the higher that you go up 283 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: the ranks, the more of a politician you become. That's 284 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: that's really the truth. That's not an accident. For the 285 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: last two Secretaries of Defense have both been former four 286 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: star flag officers, former sent in comic commanders, things like this, like, 287 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: because they've gone into a position where the higher you 288 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: go up into that rarefied error, the grayer that line 289 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: gets between commander and politician. And I think that that's 290 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,959 Speaker 1: what you're seeing. So why would any of these people resign? 291 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: It's not in their best interest? I mean, I mean 292 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: flat out like, why would you resign and get all 293 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: of that heat and take all of those those things 294 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: out there unless you happen to be in a stanm 295 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: Crystal position where you're the four star you're the four 296 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: star commander of Rolling Stone rides a hit pie sign, 297 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: right Like, if there's no incentive not to do it, 298 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: then at the end of the day, you're in this 299 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: tiny little inner circle of you know, that's the line 300 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: gets grayer and grayer. And you've seen that over the past, 301 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: I think especially over the past ten years since you know, 302 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: Asalama bin Laden was taken out of that gray line 303 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: between being a politician and being you know, a commander. 304 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: And I think that that's hurting the military. Okay, but 305 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: you say it's not in their own best interest, and 306 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: I don't disagree. But we're dealing with people who are 307 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: thought to be patriots, right, I mean, lots of these 308 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: guys have put their lives on the line for the country. 309 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: It is in America's best interests, so they don't ever 310 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: take that into account anymore. That goes away once you 311 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: get promoted, you know. I think that this is one 312 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: of those fallacies human nature. I think perceptions nine tenths reality. 313 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: I think that Lloyd Austin thinks he's doing a good job, 314 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: I really do. I mean, Afghanistan was an absolute debacle. 315 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: You know, he's he's done a better job with the Ukraine. 316 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: If we're going to try and be as an honest 317 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: and authentic broker as I can be. But in his mind, 318 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: I'm sure he thinks he's doing a great you know. 319 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: You know, I've had the privilege to talk to some 320 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: senior you know, generals and things like that that you know, 321 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: some of whom I frankly told him I was critical 322 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: of some of the choices they made, they thought they 323 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: were doing the best that they could. And that's I 324 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: think part of the problem is that you get into 325 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: that echo chamber and you start thinking that way, and 326 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: you start believing it, and it becomes more and more complicated, 327 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: and it's incredibly frustrating when, especially for me, you know, 328 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: I left as a platoon sargeant. You know, I had, 329 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: you know, forty five dudes, and like, that's who I 330 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: was responsible for, making sure that they ate, making sure 331 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: they had bullets, making sure that they had everything. And 332 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: to me, it's like you look up and you're like, 333 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: what are you guys doing? And but you get higher 334 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: up there, you get more than echo chamber. And I 335 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: really think, and this is part of the problem that 336 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: some of these people think they're doing a good job. 337 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: I actually think that my lead things he's doing a 338 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: good job, and that's part of the problem. Good grief, 339 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: tom Amenta, Thank you so much, brother, I appreciate you. Hey, 340 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: thanks brother, all right. Joe Kent joins us next. That's 341 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: so profoundly embarrassing, joining me now running for congress. One 342 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: of the great ones running for congress, Joe Ken He's 343 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: also retired Green Beret Joe. I know people don't like 344 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: to talk about this, and everyone likes to imagine that, 345 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: you know, the military is always gonna be fine, and 346 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: it's always gonna be just fine, and it's always gonna 347 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: protect us in a bunch of guys who will storm 348 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: beaches for you. But Van, I see some ugliness happen 349 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: up there, brother, Yeah, I mean I really actually, this 350 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: is my least favorite topic. I get asked all the 351 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: time by young people, Hey, I really want to join 352 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: the military and be a Marine, be a Green Beret, 353 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: and I normally would say, hey, that's awesome. I'm really 354 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: excited for you. But just the direction that the military 355 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: has taken since Biden really came in. There was a 356 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: lot of it going on near the Obama administration too, 357 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: but right now, with the extremist purge, with the vaccine 358 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: mandates being forced down these people's throats, and then with 359 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: the horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan, it's just our military is 360 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: in absolute disarray, which is a complete and total travesty, 361 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: but also it's completely avoidable. I mean, we have the 362 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: most battle hardened force right now after twenty years of 363 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: continuous conflict and it seems like the Biden administration is 364 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: doing everything they can to not just purge patriots, but 365 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: to purge any kind of warrior spirit that we have 366 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: from our ranks. It's dangerous and disgraceful. Joe, you brought 367 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: up the vaccine mandate. Now, obviously you're a retired Green Beret. 368 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 1: What are you hearing from that tip of the spear 369 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: community about the vaccine requirements? Are they being affected? We're 370 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: talking berets and you know, rangers and seals and whatnot. 371 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: Are these guys uniquely affected by these vaccine mandates? Yeah, 372 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: you know they are. I mean, it takes a long 373 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: time and a lot of hard work and determination to 374 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: get into any of our elite forces. So when guys 375 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: make it to that level and then they get told 376 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: that hey, you have to take this vaccine or it's 377 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: all or not and we're adition to put you out 378 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: of the military, or we're not going to let you 379 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: advance your training or deploy. These guys all want to deploy, 380 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: and so a lot of them have been forced to 381 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: take the vaccine. Now, I know some of them are 382 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: drawing a hard line and they're saying, hey, I'm going 383 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: to draw my line in the sand. I'm gonna get 384 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: out here. But it's really having a serious effect on 385 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: making people commit these very intense types of programs that 386 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: are very critical to our national security. You know, I 387 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: know quite a few people who got put out of 388 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: the military or decided to leave early, and these are 389 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: guys we should have attained, you know, in the service. 390 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: And there's something also that no one is talking about. 391 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: There's like one reporter I've seen cover it. There is 392 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: a rash of young people falling over dead from heart 393 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: attacks right now, young fit guys. A lot of special 394 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: operators at Fort Bragg. I actually even know a few 395 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: of these guys who've died. You know, I served for 396 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: over twenty years in the special operations community. And there's 397 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: lots of things that we're killing us in that time 398 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: frame between the Wars, suicide PTSD and then toxic exposures. 399 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: But this cardiovascular epidemic that's going on right now, people 400 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: just young fit men just falling over dead from heart attacks, 401 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: that is brand new, and I think there's a direct 402 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: cause and effect that at least needs to be explored. 403 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: With the vaccine that's just not being covered at all 404 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: right now, with it by the DoD Joe. Will you 405 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: explain I've done so, but I wasn't a Green Bret. 406 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: Will you explain to people why it matters so much 407 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: when you have some salty seasoned veteran choose to get out. 408 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: I've tried to explain the institutional knowledge that now is gone, 409 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: it's vaporized, it's not passed down to that new group 410 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: of guys who come in, and he's worth so much 411 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: more than just one dude getting out. Will you explain this? Yeah, 412 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: I mean, in order to make it anywhere in Special 413 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: Forces all us to use green Berets as an example. 414 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: It takes at least a year and a half to 415 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: qualify and earn your Green Beret, and then you're brand 416 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: new and you truly don't know that much that the 417 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: qualifications course. It's intensive, it's great training. However, you're brand new, 418 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: you need to go to a team full of very 419 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: seasoned operators. And really we had that from the War 420 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: on Terre. We had guys that run a full spectrum 421 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: of operations Iraq, Afghanistan and other places throughout the world. 422 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: And so if we're starting to put some of these 423 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: guys out early, a lot most guys that go into 424 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: special operations, there's a good chance that they're going to 425 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: be career soldiers. They're going to stay in for twenty 426 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: years or beyond. And now when you tell them that 427 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: they have to take this vaccine and then they see 428 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 1: the way that they were employed, how everything came crumbling 429 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: apart in Afghanistan and the extremist standown too. That really 430 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: is disproportionately targeted people that lean right, which is a 431 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: lot of folks in the special operations community, in the 432 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: combat arms community. If we start putting these people out 433 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: that next generation, they're going to be put in a 434 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: very dangerous position because they're not going to have season 435 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: leaders to tell them just how intricate and complex a 436 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: lot of these operations are special forces. We specialize in 437 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 1: a region of the world. So I spent a lot 438 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: of time in fifth Group, so in the Middle East 439 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: and Iraq in particular. The lavant was something that I 440 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: knew very well. We have to have a proficiency in 441 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: the language and in the culture, and those aren't really 442 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: things that you can learn in a school. It just 443 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: takes time to get that experience. And again, what we've 444 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: done with this in the last sixteen months between the 445 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: extremist standown, and between the vaccine mandate, we've taken a 446 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: lot of these people who we should be encouraging and 447 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: incentivizing to stay in the military. We've been putting them out, 448 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: and I think we have a much less ready force 449 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: right now as a result, Joe, we do. We have 450 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: a recruitment plot problem, recruitment across the borders down. I 451 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: suspect it's because the the Cajun and the swamps of Louisiana, 452 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: the Iowa farm boy, the hardened dude in the inner 453 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,479 Speaker 1: city who wants a better life. I suspect these guys 454 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: don't look at a military the way it is right 455 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: now and say, man, that's what I want. I mean, 456 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: I joined the Marines because I wanted to see if 457 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: I was a tough guy. Well, I don't see that 458 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: crap now, and I think these guys are going on 459 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 1: to do something else. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if you 460 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: are an alpha guy or even an alpha girl, and 461 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: you want to go test your medal against the best, 462 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: and you want to go kick some butt for your country, 463 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: right now, the military is doing everything they can to 464 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: tell you that this isn't the place for you. If 465 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 1: you just look at the all the different recruiting literature 466 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: that's come out lately, all the different ads, it seems 467 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: like they're just trying to really genuflect to the people 468 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: that we're never going to do the military in the 469 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: first place. So it's it's no doubt and it shouldn't 470 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: be a surprised to anybody that now our recruiting numbers 471 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: are down because the typical type A folks that are 472 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: going to try and seek out that challenge and then 473 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: go serve because they're patriots, we're not even speaking to 474 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,479 Speaker 1: them anymore. And I think it's a shame. That's why 475 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: I said that at the top of this. It's hard 476 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: for me when I get you motivated young men coming 477 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: up to me saying like, I wanted to join the military, 478 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: how do you feel about doing it right now? And 479 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it kind of breaks my heart right now. 480 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 1: It's it's fifty fifty. You know, if something you want 481 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: to do, I can't stop you. But you've got to 482 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 1: look at the current administration and maybe wait until we 483 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: get some better leadership in there. Yeah, that's a fact, 484 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 1: all right. The military military industrial complex, what is it 485 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: and how is it affecting this soft purge. Well, people 486 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: need to realize that the military is very much it's 487 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: a business. They buy, we buy armaments, and it's not 488 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: just to outfit our troops and our forces, and a 489 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: lot of this goes to the partner forces that we 490 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,719 Speaker 1: have throughout the world, and then a lot of it 491 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: has into these different arms deals like you're right now 492 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: play out in Ukraine. We just voted to send forty billion. 493 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: Before that, it was thirteen billion, all going to arm 494 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians. And a lot of that's coming from major 495 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: defense contractors. A lot of the former retired generals, like 496 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: the current Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, they sit on 497 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: the boards like Austin's on the board of Raytheon. They 498 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: send the boards at these defense contracting companies, and really 499 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: the continuation of war that is a massive boom for 500 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: the military industrial complex, in particular when it comes time 501 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: for US to occupy places, long term build bases, those 502 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: types of things. But then also training and equipping other forces, 503 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: that's a massive boom as well. I mean with what's 504 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: happening right now. If Ukraine, the Ukrainians said they needed whatever, 505 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: it is fifty three billion dollars worth of javelins and 506 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: other equipment. So we send that over, but then a 507 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: day or so later you hear from the so called 508 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: experts and depending on they're like, well, we're depleting our resources. 509 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: So actually the military industrial complex gets paid twice. They 510 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 1: get paid once to send it all overseas, then they 511 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: get paid again when they resell the same stock right 512 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: back to the Department of Defense. And it's a circle. 513 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: It's a circular a process too, because you have the 514 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: generals that are all sitting on the boards, are getting 515 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: ready to go on the boards when they retire. What 516 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: a duck one racket. Joe Kent, what's your website? Brother, 517 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: so people can support you? Yeah, Joe Kent for Congress 518 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: dot com. Any support people can give greatly appreciated and 519 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: run against the establishment and the far left. Joe Ken 520 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: for Congress dot com. Go support the man. Thank you, brother, 521 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it. Hang on, can I have the 522 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: only one that like, let's up American flags and will 523 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: say oh oh, like someone does come on the beach 524 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: with American fall chair. They're giving me a very like 525 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: trunky vice. Anything American flag is like very trump now, 526 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: And I'm just like I can't any of it. Yeah, 527 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: we have a bit of a patriotism problem in this country. 528 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: Joining me now retired US Army colonel, my friend Kurt Schlichter, 529 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: also the author of the book We'll be Back, The 530 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: Fallen Rise of America. Kurt. Before we get to the 531 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: military specifically, I have often said that we have a 532 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: patriotism problem. I mean, that guy's not the exception right there, 533 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: He's quite common. How did that happen? I don't know. 534 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: Is it something about estrogen and the inability to do 535 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: push ups? I mean, look at that guy. I mean seriously, 536 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: if I were him, I head to a gym and 537 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: not come out until I didn't look like I was transitioning, 538 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: all right, Kurt, Well, m we're gonna transition right from 539 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: that into the actual military portion of this Chairman the 540 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs is Mark Milly. Everyone famously remembers when he 541 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: got up and had this to say, I want to 542 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: understand white rage, and I'm white and I want to 543 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of 544 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: people to assault this building and try to overturn the 545 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? 546 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: I want to find that out. Kurt would be one 547 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: thing if that was just him running his mouth in 548 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: front of senators. But we now have reading lists handed 549 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: out by the military about how evil whitey is. I 550 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: know you probably get these. I know I do emails 551 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: from people who are serving talking about the open anti 552 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: white racism now taking place in the military. Kurt, this 553 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: is not good. Oh well, First of all, Mark Milly 554 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: is the worst chairman of the Joint Jesus Staff and 555 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: the history of Joint Jesus Staff. He's a disgrace. Look 556 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: at what happened to Afghanistan. If we had a real president, 557 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: he'd have been fired along with every one of them, 558 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: and replaced with I don't know, find me the first sergeant, 559 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: give me get a little dost of common sense. Look, 560 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: the military is no longer a war fighting organization. It's 561 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: an organization designed to promote leftist values. And you know, 562 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: and of course it's kind of self destructive for them, 563 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: because the left very very much wants to have a 564 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: heavily armed force that's able to impose its will. These 565 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: guys can't even impose their will upon each other. It's 566 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: really a disaster on every level. And the next Republican 567 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: President's going to have to come in, set the news 568 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: standard and absolutely clean house. How do you set the 569 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: news standard? What do you mean by cleaning house? Kurt? 570 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: What can he do? What should he do? Well? As 571 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: I write in my new book, will be Back the 572 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: Fallen Rise of America, would you generously blur? The first 573 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: thing is the new president needs to not be dazzled 574 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: by the stars on the epileps of these generals, and 575 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: that was one of Trump's problems. Trump was impressed by 576 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: generals and all the stuff they've got on their uniforms. 577 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: The only thing that impresses me as a track record 578 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: of victory. Mark Millie has presided over exactly zero military 579 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: victories in the last two decades, So I think that's 580 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: that's the most important of all his decorations, the big 581 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: fat zero in the W column. He needs to come 582 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: in and he needs to set a standard quickly, but 583 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: he needs to devote time. As a commander at the 584 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: battalion level, acting brigade commander, my most powerful weapon system 585 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: for managing my units was my time and attention. The 586 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: new president should put aside an hour every single day 587 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: and start making demands. General. My demand is that you 588 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: eliminate every position that has the word equity, diversity, or 589 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: inclusion in it. You transfer whoever occupies that slot into 590 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: a combat slot, and you will report to me tomorrow 591 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: at nine am that you have accomplished my intent. What 592 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: is your what is your question? What are your questions 593 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: about my intent? So bring your decutive officer when you 594 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: come in, bring your deputy. So if you fail to 595 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: tell me that you have accomplished the mission I've assigned you, 596 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: I will relieve you of command and I will promote. 597 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: I will put your deputy in charge, and the next 598 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: day your deputy will come and report to me that 599 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: my intent has been accomplished. You do that a couple times, 600 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: you're going to see massive changes. Soldiers do what commanders check. 601 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: If the commander's checking war fighting, we'll see more war fighting. 602 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: The fact is our commanders, such as he is at 603 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: desiccated old pervert, is checking wokeness. So we're getting wokeness. Kurt, 604 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: why I have this want to talk about why hasn't 605 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: merely resigned? And I agree, how is million not resigned 606 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: in the wake of Afghanistan? But that's not what gets 607 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: me court. It's that none of them did nobody, no one, 608 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,720 Speaker 1: no admiral, no general, no nobody has stood up and said, hey, 609 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: this is a dangerous direction. I love my country. I 610 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: resign in protest. Not one look. They do it quietly, 611 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 1: they get out, or they get passed over. A lot 612 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: of people leave the service, you know, at twenty years, 613 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: where they could have gone thirty, because they're just done 614 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: with it. Some don't even try and become a career. 615 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: But no, we see that all across the board. Jesse. 616 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: You know, I keep being told that we should respect 617 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: the fbion because it's only some people on the seventh floor, 618 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: and they're a lot. There are a few bad apples, 619 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,360 Speaker 1: but there are a lot of good ones. Who's the 620 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: person who said, hell, no, I won't be any part 621 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: of this. I'm not going to drag Peter Navarro off 622 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: a airplane. I'm not going to go get a Republican 623 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: candidate for a governor of bishop again. I'm not going to, 624 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, participate in the framing of a bunch of 625 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: na'er do wells for kidnapping the Stephord gov. H No, 626 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 1: I'm not doing any of that. I quit. We don't 627 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: see any of them, which tells me institutions fatally flawed. You. 628 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: We need to defund and disband the FBI completely because 629 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: it's become a disgrace. And as for the military, we 630 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: can't defund and disband it, but we can throw out 631 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: generals who fail to comply. I would start, if I 632 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: were the president, firing all the chairmen in the Joint Chiefs. 633 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: I would promote and not necessarily free report stars. I 634 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: might reach down to some two stars folks that I 635 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: thought would do what I want them to do. I 636 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: would also fire all the heads of the military academies. 637 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 1: I would fire the heads of the training and doctrine commands. 638 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: I would fire the heads of all the organizations that 639 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: have promoted this poisonous end up. And I would make 640 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: it very clear if you want a career, you are 641 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: a war fighter. If you you know, if I see 642 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: another rainbow helmet tweet or anything like that, if I 643 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: see anything having to do with where anybody's grandfather came from. 644 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: We don't have months anymore, you know, we don't have 645 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: celebrations of ethnicities anymore. That's all done. Generals, what are 646 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 1: at admirals? What are your questions about my intent? And 647 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: then you start firing people. I think you will find 648 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people are very happy to get back 649 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: the war fighting. Yeah, but you guys spend and attention 650 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: and power. Kurt. Just all right. Finally, Joe Biden had 651 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: this to say about China and Taiwan. I got a 652 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: military question for you after this. Are you willing to 653 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,439 Speaker 1: get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that, Yes, 654 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:59,279 Speaker 1: you are. That's a commitment we made. Well, that's a 655 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 1: commitment we made. Are not. Look, here's a situation. We 656 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: agree with a one China policy, We've signed on to 657 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: it and all the attendant agreements made from there. But 658 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,240 Speaker 1: the idea that that it could be taken by force, 659 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: just taken by force is not is just not appropoal 660 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,879 Speaker 1: dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to 661 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: what happened in Ukraine. And so it's a it's a 662 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: burden that is even stronger, Kurt. Can we even stop 663 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: China if we want to? Well, first of all, let's 664 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: figure out if we want to, He says, that's the 665 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: commitment we made. Well, we didn't make any commitment. There's 666 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: one way the United States makes a commitment to a 667 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 1: foreign country. It's through a treaty ratified by our senators, 668 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,399 Speaker 1: and that hasn't happened. Now. It may be a good 669 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: idea policy wise, it may be a good idea strategy wise, 670 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: and I'm sure there are ways to do it, not 671 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: under the you know, ruined military that we have now, 672 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: but under a revised military. But we've got to start 673 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: from the basics. If we're going to agree to spend 674 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: American lives and treasure to defend another country, which I'm 675 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: not necessarily against, we need to go through the process. 676 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: Is you know this desiccatal pervert deciding he's going to 677 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,240 Speaker 1: go to war against the nuclear arms superpower because because 678 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 1: he wants to, because he's born between during that interregnum 679 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 1: between when Matt Locke and murder she wrote comes on, No, No, 680 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,760 Speaker 1: that's not how we do it. Kurt Schlick there, everybody. 681 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: The book is We'll be back. Thank you, my brother, 682 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,759 Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thanks Jesse. All right, we'll be back. 683 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 1: It matters. Honestly, if the military is being destroyed, it 684 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,839 Speaker 1: might be the most important thing in the world now 685 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: not right now, not right now, because we're not under attack, 686 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: there's not even really a threat of attack. But what 687 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: do we do? What do we do if they choose 688 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: to come here? Can we stop them? We're used to 689 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: The only country we've ever known is having the most 690 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: powerful military in the world. That's the only country you 691 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,400 Speaker 1: and I have ever known. If that goes away, I 692 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: think we'll find our standards on the world stage, our 693 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: influence on the world stage goes away with it. What's 694 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: happening in our military is a very big deal when 695 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 1: it has to be stopped. All right, all right, we'll 696 00:39:45,280 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: do it again. Each morning, the President of the United 697 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,280 Speaker 1: States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important 698 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: issues facing the country. It's called the President's Daily Brief, 699 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: or PDB. It's delivered by America's spies and analysts. 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