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Speaker 2: Everybody.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.

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Speaker 2: I'm David Zierra.

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Speaker 3: We had an exceptional week on the ground in Washington,

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Speaker 3: DC this week for the network with complete White House coverage,

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Speaker 3: Congressional coverage with our new correspondent Benny Harmony, and I

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Speaker 3: was at the Pentagon for New Media Week also with

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Speaker 3: Benny Harmony from Monday through Wednesday for the New Media Media.

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Speaker 2: You know, the.

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Speaker 3: Legacy media left and wouldn't sign the agreement over there

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Speaker 3: because there were a lot of leaks. People were Roman

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Speaker 3: free throughout the Pentagon. I've got great interviews with undersecretaries

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Speaker 3: in the Department of War and special advisors to Pete Hegseth.

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Speaker 3: We also had a press briefing by Kingsley Wilson, the

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Speaker 3: Press Secretary. We met with Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman,

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Speaker 3: and we had an off the record briefing with Pete

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Speaker 3: haig Seth, which was just phenomenal. And I can't talk

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Speaker 3: about the details of what we discussed, but he's so

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Speaker 3: engaging and so nice. You know, I've known him over

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Speaker 3: the years intermittently and he's always been great. I had

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Speaker 3: him on breaking point with his book American Crusade about

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Speaker 3: six years ago, very friendly. Interacted with him on the

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Speaker 3: campaign trail at many Trump rallies. He was very popular.

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Speaker 3: While I was doing Man on the Street interviews with

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Speaker 3: our other great Real America's Voice news team on the

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Speaker 3: ground at rallies, and when he was with Fox, you know,

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Speaker 3: he was meeting with the people. They love him. The

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Speaker 3: people love him. So the whole smear campaign is just

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Speaker 3: to get rid of him so they can destroy Trump.

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Speaker 3: And it's very upsetting. But our very own you know,

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Speaker 3: Congressional correspondent Benny Harmony will be on the ground later

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Speaker 3: this afternoon in California with Secretary of War Pete Heggs

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Speaker 3: set in Simi Valley, California for the Reagan Defense Forum,

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Speaker 3: and Haig Seth will also meet with aerospace industry leaders,

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Speaker 3: so we'll be bringing you information on.

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Speaker 2: That as well here. But it was really great.

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Speaker 3: And while the legacy media and like the Daily Beast

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Speaker 3: was attacking us as the new media, Oh, we're just

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Speaker 3: Trump's sick of fans. We're independent journalists, We're not qualified

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Speaker 3: to be there. And granted a lot of these guys

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Speaker 3: from Wappo and these other outlets, you know, spent years

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Speaker 3: as beat reporters in the Pentagon, but there was on

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Speaker 3: fettered access. They were near sensitive classified and on classified

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Speaker 3: areas in the Pentagon, running around, I believe, you know,

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Speaker 3: grabbing people in the hallway, getting comments from them, and

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Speaker 3: then it's news and there was It wasn't the control

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Speaker 3: that was needed there to protect our personnel and the

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Speaker 3: security of our troops and our missions. And I think

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Speaker 3: that Sean Parnell put it best, the Chief Pentagon spokesman.

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Speaker 3: You know that you can't just run wild, so powerf

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Speaker 3: phrase him. You know, you need controls. Like any federal

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Speaker 3: building in Washington, DC, you can't just walk around the

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Speaker 3: White House. You can't go anywhere in the White House

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Speaker 3: without an escort. So now there's going to be escorts

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Speaker 3: in the Pentagon, and maybe it'll help with leaks and maybe,

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Speaker 3: you know, if there was any spying or anything else

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Speaker 3: that was going on. You know, these guys deserve to

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Speaker 3: have control for the safety of our operations. And you know,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of level and forces out there that

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Speaker 3: don't like the United States, especially in the MSM. I'm

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Speaker 3: convinced of that, that's for sure. But we were great people.

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Speaker 3: There were great people in the room there. When we

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Speaker 3: had the Press Secretary open briefing that we aired live,

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Speaker 3: I got a question in to Kingsley Wilson. I'm going

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Speaker 3: we had Matt Gates in there. We had great people.

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Speaker 3: John Conrad from g Captain It's a publication and a

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Speaker 3: website that follows maritime and naval operations around the world.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the guy was so smart. It was so

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Speaker 3: great to have him in the room. And you know,

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Speaker 3: Todd Wood of CDM do an investigative reporting in the

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Speaker 3: So we asked tough questions of Kingsley Wilson. We also

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Speaker 3: I'm convinced that the Biden administration was compromised. You know,

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Speaker 3: we were pursuing rare earth deals in Afghanistan as well,

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Speaker 3: So did we leave the door open for China to

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Speaker 3: come in and get that access because Biden was compromised,

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Speaker 3: you know, because Hunter Biden was compromised, and they were

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Speaker 3: and the bunch. So these issues are really important. And

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Speaker 3: I asked about protection for our troops deployed National Guard

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Speaker 3: units and what additional states under Title ten? The President

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Speaker 3: can go into states under Title ten, but Title thirty

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Speaker 3: two is under the governor's control, Like in Memphis, the

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Speaker 3: Like the Department of War released information to us about that.

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Speaker 3: And also you know, extra security measures and extra deployments

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Speaker 3: who refuse the vacs like eighty five hundred cases pending.

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Speaker 3: And I met with Anthony Tata from the Pentagon, from

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Speaker 3: Tom tillis from South North Carolina, Republican senator. You know

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Speaker 3: it is critical of the second strike, But does he

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Speaker 3: care about the three thousand North Carolinians that died last

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Speaker 3: year from drug overdoses and all the tens of thousands

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Speaker 3: for that? And as Maduro, who has an illegitimate government

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Speaker 2: Sums it up.

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Speaker 3: the six hundred or so ship Navy? What's up with

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Speaker 3: we have the military readiness that we need? So these

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Speaker 3: new rules that they asked us to sign wasn't that

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Speaker 3: big of a deal. It wasn't anything that bad. The

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Speaker 2: And now they.

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Speaker 3: Got to have escorts. So it was really an amazing

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Speaker 3: the column that Maria Karina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader

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Speaker 3: who got the Nobel Peace Prize, she wrote a column

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Speaker 3: in there she explains exactly why we're in Venezuela, you know,

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Speaker 3: an illegitimate leader down there, and I don't want boots

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Speaker 3: what's going on down there. And she writes this great

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Speaker 3: And by the way, she's in hiding right now. Anyone

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Speaker 3: This is organized crime and power, armed and bankrolled by

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Speaker 3: America's enemies across the hemisphere. Narco terrorists and the dictators

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Speaker 3: who shield them are chloring for more control. They weaken democracies,

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Speaker 3: poison our societies, and target the United States directly. Nowhere

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Speaker 3: once the most prosperous in Latin America, rich in oil, gas,

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Speaker 3: it's a hijack nation. She goes on, We're proud of

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Speaker 3: All of that was shattered when the Cartel de la

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Speaker 3: Soles hijacked the state nearly twenty seven years ago. Its

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Speaker 2: They governed the country the way the.

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Speaker 3: And from the beginning they viewed the United States not

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Speaker 3: You're watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. And

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Speaker 3: I had a great week on the ground as new

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Speaker 3: It was really a special We met with several Pentagon officials.

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Speaker 3: read a little bit more of Maria Corina Machado, the

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Speaker 7: Here to get it done.

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Speaker 2: How are you serving doing great? Thank great to be

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Speaker 8: Yeah, great to be here. We're glad to have you here.

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Speaker 8: It's great to have you on board, and look forward

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

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Speaker 3: the RAV team. You know, we really got it together.

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Speaker 3: We're on the ground, we're everywhere, and especially in Washington,

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Speaker 3: covering the White House, Capitol Hill, now the Pentagon. It's

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Speaker 3: really really an exceptional opportunity ahead for us to participate

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Speaker 3: in this, and I'm looking forward to an exciting year.

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Speaker 3: But listen, the Republicans I have a two twenty I

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Speaker 3: think to two thirteen majority in the House. But the

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Speaker 3: Cook Political Report and other the average of the last

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Speaker 3: six major polls and Real Clear Politics has the Dems

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Speaker 3: up by four. And the election in Tennessee, you know,

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Speaker 3: it was a victory for the GOP, but they cut

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Speaker 3: the lead almost in half from what Trump won by

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Speaker 3: twenty two points in that district, and they gained thirteen

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Speaker 3: points on the Republicans over there. And that candidate, you know,

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Speaker 3: she did destroy herself by bashing the great people of

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Speaker 3: Tennessee at Nashville. So she committed political suicide. But it's

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Speaker 3: something we really got to watch. They got to get

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Speaker 3: their act together. But I got more great interviews from

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon at New Media Week. Here one with Dane Use,

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Speaker 3: the Assistant Secretary of War for Legislative Affairs, about the

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Speaker 3: NDAA coming up. The Continuing Resolution runs out in January.

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Speaker 3: And then I got ste Scheller, member of the Afghanistan

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Speaker 3: Accountability Task Force and senior advisor to Undersecretary Tata. These

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Speaker 3: guys are great we want accountability for what happened in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 2: Watch this.

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Speaker 3: We're here with Dane Ughes, the Assistant Secretary of War

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Speaker 3: for Legislative Affairs, here at the Department of War.

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Speaker 2: How are you today, sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thanks thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: So you got a big responsibility here. You have to

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Speaker 3: deal with Congress.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about your role in the Pentagon.

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Speaker 9: Sure, I'm the oversea the Lobslitive Affairs Enterprise for the Department.

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Speaker 9: So we represent the Department to Congress. That includes all

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Speaker 9: of the all the under secretaries that it comprised, the

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Speaker 9: Office's Secretary of War, the military departments to combat commands

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Speaker 9: and provide our best best legislative advice to the Secretary

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Speaker 9: and the other senior leaders of.

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Speaker 3: The So our congressional correspond to Benny Harmony is keeping

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Speaker 3: us in the loop on hot issues before Congress. One

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Speaker 3: of them is the NDAA. Tell us about that. Because

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Speaker 3: the Continuing Resolution expires in January.

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Speaker 9: Right, right, January thirtieth, our office oversees that interactive process

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Speaker 9: with the Congress on an annual basis. We represent the

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Speaker 9: Department to Congress and put for the Department's legislative proposals

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Speaker 9: and priorities for consideration in that bill on an annual basis,

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Speaker 9: and we've been in active negotiations over the last several

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Speaker 9: months with our committees in the White House.

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Speaker 3: Hey, the shutdown effect operations or anything for the Pentagon

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Speaker 3: or anything in your role.

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Speaker 9: Yes, it did. You know throughout the department. You know,

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Speaker 9: lot of people were furloughed during that time. My office,

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Speaker 9: we we didn't didn't furlow anybody during that time. We

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Speaker 9: pushed through because we were in the middle of NDIA

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Speaker 9: negotiations and so it was it was critical for us

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Speaker 9: to have h full staffing during that time. But of

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Speaker 9: course enablers and other people that we work with on

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Speaker 9: a regular basis, not everybody was available, so that that

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Speaker 9: definitely slowed things down for us a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's great to be our new media week. So

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Speaker 3: many great people here.

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Speaker 2: On the ground. You guys have been very open with us,

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Speaker 2: and we're excited to be here.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Tell us a little bit about your relationship with

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Speaker 3: Congress when it comes to Operation Southern Sphere.

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Speaker 9: So, you know, with Operation Southern Spere, we have been

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Speaker 9: engaging with Congress on that since uh, you know, since

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Speaker 9: the operation began in September. We have done nineteen engagements

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Speaker 9: with both the House and Senate on on the operation,

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Speaker 9: providing with operational details of all the strikes that have

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Speaker 9: that have taken place.

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Speaker 3: Are you required to do that every time there's an

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Speaker 3: operation or.

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Speaker 9: Uh, there's not a legal requirement to conduct in person briefings.

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Speaker 9: We have a legal requirement to provide the committees with

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Speaker 9: with a classified report on those strikes. And that's something

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Speaker 9: that we that we do every single one.

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Speaker 3: And what's the the mission of that to make sure

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Speaker 3: there isn't misinformation put out there and to get on

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Speaker 3: the record exactly what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: It's transparency, is to provide the committees with a detail

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Speaker 1: accounting of what we've done.

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Speaker 9: And uh, it's it's it's it's ensure there's a transparency

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Speaker 9: between the different branches of.

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Speaker 2: Government, right right.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about some of the other issues going on

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Speaker 3: with Congress or oversight or anything like that.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, obviously with NDA wrapping up this week,

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Speaker 9: that's that's been the kind of first and foremost the

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Speaker 9: major thing that we have been been concentrating on, and

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Speaker 9: I think we're in a really good place. It's been

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Speaker 9: a very collaborative process of the last several months with

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Speaker 9: both the House and Center and the White and the

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Speaker 9: White House, and I think we're in a really good,

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Speaker 9: good place.

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Speaker 1: We'll see a lot of great reform is going.

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Speaker 2: Did you serve in the Pentagon under previous administration?

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 9: I am a I'm a Trump forty five alumni as well.

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Speaker 9: Uh so I worked with the legislative affairs in the in

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Speaker 9: the secretaries off.

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Speaker 3: Can you talk about the difference maybe in the tenor

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Speaker 3: of flavor of what's going on here, the motivations and

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Speaker 3: uh do you see a difference between this administration, Trump's

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Speaker 3: second term and say the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: So you know, from Trump one to Trump too. You

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Speaker 1: know Trump one was was great.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, we we did a lot of great

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Speaker 9: things here at the Pentagon during the first term.

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Speaker 1: You know, great teams. Yeah, uh we're we're put together.

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Speaker 9: At that time and and Trump too, we just we've

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Speaker 9: just elevated.

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Speaker 1: And I think the team that.

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Speaker 9: The White House is put together here the secretary of

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Speaker 9: all the under secretaries, maybe the most collaboratively. And it

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Speaker 9: really has been fantastic to see really the kind of

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Speaker 9: the cohesive leadership and and really.

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Speaker 2: That's been the common thread today. Everyone we're talking to.

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Speaker 1: Well, we did not we did not coordinate that.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you know that there's enthusiasm and uh you know,

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Speaker 3: and officials have expressed that to me across the board.

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Speaker 2: You know that they're you know, they're they're working hard

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Speaker 2: and working together. They want to get it done.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 9: Everyone wants to get it done. Everyone's working together. You know,

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Speaker 9: it was running in the same direction hard. So it

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Speaker 9: really has been been great.

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Speaker 3: Well, I want to thank you Dane Hughes your you're

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Speaker 3: the Assistant Secretary of War for Legislative Affairs, Congressional Liaison. Right,

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Speaker 3: I want to thank you for joining us today and

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Speaker 3: thanks for this opportunity for real America's voice.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 2: All right, such, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: At the Pentagon here on the ground and we're joined

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Speaker 3: today from former Lieutenant colonel and the US Marines Stu Scheller.

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Speaker 6: How are you, sir, I'm good day. Thanks for having

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Speaker 6: me on.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you. A credible story.

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Speaker 3: You're here at the Pentagon and you're you're senior advisor

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Speaker 3: to Anthony Tata for personnel right and readiness. Correct, that's correct,

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Speaker 3: and so much going on, right, they're early withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Speaker 3: You're also the head of the Afghanistan Deputyility Task Course

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Speaker 3: task Force, the Deputy correct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us about your role there.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So the Secretary of the War charged us with

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Speaker 10: going through and looking at the facts surrounding general officers,

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Speaker 10: military leaders decisions. So far, there's been lots of investigation,

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Speaker 10: but no one has really fully looked at all the

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Speaker 10: facts of the decisions that were made. Once President Biden

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Speaker 10: said with withdrawal, you know, he made that decision based

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Speaker 10: on the assumption that he had military leaders capable and

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Speaker 10: competent enough to pull off a military operation.

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Speaker 2: When did that task force start?

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Speaker 10: So we came together, you know, the first couple of

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Speaker 10: us were there in September. The team really came together

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Speaker 10: in October. We planned to have a draft of the

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Speaker 10: report done in February. Final report declassified available to the

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Speaker 10: public before summer.

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Speaker 3: And is the goal to hold say senior officers and

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Speaker 3: others responsible for decisions made that led to or how

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Speaker 3: it was handled Abbygate and the early withdrawal.

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Speaker 10: Our goal is just to present all the facts of

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Speaker 10: the military leaders. But what I will say is there

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Speaker 10: was You know, all the investigations up to this point

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Speaker 10: have said that the Abbygate attack was not preventable, and

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Speaker 10: I think the facts tell a different story. There's about

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Speaker 10: five or six decisions in there. If any one of

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Speaker 10: them had been different. You know, it's always easy to

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Speaker 10: Monday morning quarterback. But what we're going to do is

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Speaker 10: present the sec wor end potus president of the United

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Speaker 10: States that says this is the worst day in American history.

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Speaker 10: We're going to declassify and to show them all the facts.

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Speaker 10: Then they can make those decisions.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted to talk about the environment here at

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon. You know, Peter Navarro, we said get it

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Speaker 3: done in Trump time, and the common theme today that

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Speaker 3: I've taken away from this is that you guys are

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Speaker 3: getting stuff done. And how does it compare maybe to

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Speaker 3: a previous administration or the Pentagon culture. Do you see

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Speaker 3: any bit of a c change at all and the

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Speaker 3: attitude and getting things accomplished?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So here in the Pentagon, ninety percent of the

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Speaker 10: employees are careerists, ten percent or political appointem So I'm

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Speaker 10: one of the political appointees, and so you know, the

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Speaker 10: game in the Pentagon is there's a lot of people

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Speaker 10: and you can always slow roll something so you know,

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Speaker 10: get it done. To Trump speed and the Pentagon, it's

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Speaker 10: not always a straight line.

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Speaker 6: You got to go A to C to F to D.

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Speaker 10: Right, But that band said, I do think we've weeded

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Speaker 10: out with with you know, Elon Musk and DRP and

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Speaker 10: everyone that didn't want to be here at opportunities to leave,

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Speaker 10: which really allowed the core group that's here to make

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Speaker 10: a lot of changes.

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Speaker 6: And you're absolutely right P and R.

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Speaker 10: Leading the way with the warrior ethos trying to refocus

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Speaker 10: the military. People talk about the military being a political

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Speaker 10: really what they mean is we want to focus them

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Speaker 10: all on the goal of closing with and destroying the enemy.

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Speaker 10: That's why the Department of a war and so that's

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Speaker 10: what we're trying to do. And to your point, I

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Speaker 10: think a lot of things are happening, and we're all

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Speaker 10: rolling as hard as we can because we don't want

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Speaker 10: to disappoint Corner and Potus, right.

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Speaker 3: And military guys want to stay focused on the mission,

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Speaker 3: so that be distracted with other stuff.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: The new media here this week, it's We're invited here

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Speaker 3: Real America's Voice. I was really impressed in the briefing

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Speaker 3: you off the record briefing with Secretary Hegseth and yesterday

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Speaker 3: with the Press Secretary Kingsley.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was really pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: It's a new group here, but a knowledgeable bunch. How

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Speaker 3: is your interactions today with the new media?

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Speaker 6: That's been great.

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Speaker 10: You know, I don't think you know, you don't want

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Speaker 10: a media that's complete, completely friendly, and that hasn't been

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Speaker 10: the case that I've experienced today.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of people asking tough questions and we

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Speaker 6: need the media to root out a lot of the things.

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Speaker 10: I mean, we can't see everything that there's The media

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Speaker 10: serves a very important role.

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Speaker 6: I think the president sets a tone.

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Speaker 10: He's more available to the press, even hostile press, more

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Speaker 10: than anyone. And it's really, you know, what we don't

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Speaker 10: want to do based on all the misinformation or fake news.

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Speaker 10: Has just closed the wall down with the press because

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Speaker 10: since the founding of our government, the press is served

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Speaker 10: a vital role.

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Speaker 6: And I'm just happy to see new blood.

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Speaker 10: I think a lot of the people that were in

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Speaker 10: here were entrenched and just entitled a little bit.

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Speaker 6: So having a new.

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Speaker 10: Group that's fresh is just good for the organization.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some of the legacy media, you know, has

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Speaker 3: been saying, you know, the the new group, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're just Lackey's and all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: But that's not my experience at all.

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Speaker 3: Here, tough questions were asked and people want answers. COVID reinstatement, Afghanistan,

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Speaker 3: accountability issues, yeah, all kinds of stuff. So it's been

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Speaker 3: an impressive experience. I want to thank you for joining us,

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Speaker 3: Stu Scheller, It's an honor.

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Speaker 6: Thanks Dave.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right.

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Speaker 3: Back with more Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to joining us.

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Speaker 3: A super weekend on the ground at the Pentagon and

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Speaker 3: as part of the New Media, and I'm going to

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Speaker 3: get to some great interviews here with Kingsley Wilson. I

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Speaker 3: got to ask her a question in the open press briefing.

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Speaker 3: She's the Press secretary for the Department of War and

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Speaker 3: also Tim pauletour Jack lawyer and senior advisor to Pete

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Speaker 3: Hegseat talks about the legalities of the strikes. But I

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Speaker 3: want to get back to Maria Machade. Go to the

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Speaker 3: New York Post, look up Maria Michade. Check out our column.

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Speaker 3: It's the single best piece of writing I've read in

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Speaker 3: a long time, and explains what's going on in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: And I'm going to continue reading from what she wrote

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Speaker 3: here because she talks about how this decisive action has

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Speaker 3: a cut off the cartel's financial lifelines, strengthening the US

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Speaker 3: presence in the Caribbean and applying pressure Armadura and is

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Speaker 3: in a circle to move Venezuela towards the transition to

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Speaker 3: its people that they mandated. And nearly nine million Venezuelans

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Speaker 3: have fled the country so far, and in exus exit

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Speaker 3: is larger than Sirias or Ukraine's. This catastrophe is the

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Speaker 3: direct result of a war Nicholas Medora declared against his

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Speaker 3: own people. The goal is now clear to end that

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Speaker 3: war and allow Venezuelans to return home once and for all.

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Speaker 3: Others warned that Venezuela could become another Iraq or Libya

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Speaker 3: if the cartel falls. That comparison collapses when you consider

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Speaker 3: the most important fact, the Venezuelan people themselves. Because other

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Speaker 3: people are warning that Venezuela could become this other Iraqui Alibya,

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Speaker 3: we are united society without tribal or sectarian fractures in

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Speaker 3: Venezuela where a peaceful, modern nation with a long democratic

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Speaker 3: culture and deep historic ties to the United States. Our

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Speaker 3: identity was built on institutions, civic life, and an open,

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Speaker 3: outward looking spirit, the exact opposite of the criminal structure

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Speaker 3: that was hijacked in our state by Nicholas Mendoro. In

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Speaker 3: July twenty four, despite every obstacle the cartel imposed, Venezuelans

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Speaker 3: defeated Medora at the polls by sixty seven to thirty percent.

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Speaker 3: That victory was documented through technology, civic organizations, and overwhelming evidence.

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Speaker 3: The majority of our military and police forces support that

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Speaker 3: democratic mandate. The Venezuelan people have already ordered a transition

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Speaker 3: of power. A legitimate government is awaiting. The truth is simple,

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Speaker 3: Venezuela already has a legitimate government chosen.

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Speaker 2: By the people.

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Speaker 3: The only thing standing between Venezuelans and freedom is a

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Speaker 3: narco terrorist syndicate clinging to stolen power. This is why

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Speaker 3: Trump's administration's measures do not push Venezuela towards chaos. They

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Speaker 3: move the future of Venezuela on to who they voted for,

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Speaker 3: towards the US, safer and more stable hemisphere. Our interests

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Speaker 3: move in the same direction, a win win for both nations,

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Speaker 3: and this goes on. She says, Now we must finish

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Speaker 3: what we began together. Venezuelans have already done the impossible,

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Speaker 3: but Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: I don't want boots on the ground. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to see US servicemen.

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Speaker 3: Die, but we got to continue cutting off the head

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Speaker 3: of the snake financially, the drug trade, narco terrorism in

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Speaker 3: forty countries, and it's critical for us to stay engaged.

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Speaker 3: We got this massive carrier strike group down there. Hopefully

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Speaker 3: we can accomplish some of that some of that stuff

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Speaker 3: down there. But I've got great interviews from the Pentagon

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Speaker 3: on the ground again.

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Speaker 2: Watch this, Yes, Hi, David Zeer, Real America's voice. It's

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Speaker 2: great to be here.

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Speaker 3: I want to know if you could confirm any additional

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Speaker 3: National Guard deployments under Title ten in additional cities, and

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Speaker 3: have any governors reached out for help under Title thirty

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Speaker 3: two as well, And how do you determine how National

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Speaker 3: Guard troops how many are armed?

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Speaker 11: Great question. So I don't have anything to announce at

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Speaker 11: this time in terms of new deployments, but I can

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Speaker 11: tell you that our mission set is critical. We are

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Speaker 11: keeping American cities safe all across this country, and we

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Speaker 11: are going to remain committed to that these missions aren't

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Speaker 11: going to stop in Chicago, in Los Angeles, in DC.

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Speaker 11: We understand the urgent threat that is facing many of

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Speaker 11: these cities, and the National Guard is proud to step

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Speaker 11: in alongside our law enforcement partners to help with that.

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Speaker 11: And I can't confirm that everybody in DC is now

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Speaker 11: armed and a lot of our DC National guardsmen are

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Speaker 11: now also doing joint patrols with members of the police

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Speaker 11: Department here in d C. So their safety is of

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Speaker 11: course top of mind, and we will continue to make

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Speaker 11: sure that they're able to do their jobs in keeping

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Speaker 11: all of our great Americans safe across our cities.

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Speaker 3: An incredible day here at the Pentagon, and we have

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Speaker 3: Commander and JAG lawyer Tim pauletour How are you, Sar.

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Speaker 3: Very good Following you for a lot of years, It's

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Speaker 3: great to see you today. Everybody's been so great here

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Speaker 3: opening up for New media Week right, so we're on

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Speaker 3: the ground here and I wanted to discuss with you

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Speaker 3: some of the legal things going on. Your special advisor

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Speaker 3: to Secretary of War, heag seth right.

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Speaker 2: And tell us what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Boat strikes, Venezuela, Southern spear, What's what's happening?

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Speaker 7: A lot of you know, just just the normal, right,

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Speaker 7: you know, it's we've had over the past week.

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Speaker 6: You know, all of this, you know.

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Speaker 7: Kerfuffle if you will, over whether this second strike was lawful,

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Speaker 7: whether it was ordered by the Secretary. And the reality

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Speaker 7: is much of what you saw in that reporting they

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Speaker 7: relied upon anonymous sourcing without really matching it to what

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Speaker 7: the reality is. And the reality is any operation like that,

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Speaker 7: it doesn't go off of an oral order like that.

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Speaker 7: They have very detailed, written, vetted, signed rules of engagement

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Speaker 7: and that's what controls, not any oral order. There wasn't

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Speaker 7: any oral order. And ultimately a lot of the reports

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Speaker 7: that are coming out, and I was saying, the word

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Speaker 7: that the Pentagon and the President is throwing Mitch Bradley

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Speaker 7: under the bus totally untrue. Admiral Bradley is a combatant commander.

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Speaker 7: He is somebody that we trust to make the right decisions.

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Speaker 7: And the fact that the Secretary and the President have

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Speaker 7: said there was no unlawful order that doesn't throw Bradley

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Speaker 7: under the bus. That frees him up because under the

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Speaker 7: original narrative that was being put out, Bradley's guilty because

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Speaker 7: he followed an unlawful order. By pulling the fake unlawful

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Speaker 7: order off the table, it instead frees up Bradley to say, no,

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Speaker 7: I was the commander, I made a decision based on

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Speaker 7: the conditions as I had them at the time. And

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Speaker 7: so by allowing him to actually go out there and

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Speaker 7: do that, you're allowing him really to defend himself. And

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Speaker 7: so all of these claims of war crimes and everything else, that's.

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Speaker 2: The kind of right.

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Speaker 3: That's what we want in the military, right people to

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Speaker 3: be able to do that drab correct.

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Speaker 7: And that's another piece of this is that when they

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Speaker 7: talk about how, oh, Secretary of Hegseith order the following strike,

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Speaker 7: that does not actually match the reality of this administration. Okay,

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Speaker 7: back in the Obama administration, yes, a lot of the management,

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Speaker 7: a lot of the decision making was held at the top.

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Speaker 7: But whether it's the first Trump administration or the second

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Speaker 7: of Trump administration, one of the key features in this

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Speaker 7: building is that it put the push the command responsibility

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Speaker 7: back down to the commanders to allow them to command

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Speaker 7: and that's what happened here.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted to talk about quickly on the battlefield

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Speaker 3: in Afghanistan. You know, how do you treat the combatants

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Speaker 3: non uniform, not under a flag our nation state? How

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Speaker 3: do you treat them with geneva And now we don't

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Speaker 3: sign on to the Convention of the Seas right and

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Speaker 3: so like when people say they violated international law by

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Speaker 3: doing this, what are they referencing to?

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Speaker 7: Right, So, what they're talking about there is it is

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Speaker 7: unlawful to target shipwrecked individuals. And this is a little

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Speaker 7: bit different from on land. There are different laws related

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Speaker 7: to the sea. Shipwrecked individuals may not be targeted for killing.

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Speaker 7: But what that's talking about, that's not talking about this situation.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about remember in World.

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Speaker 7: War Two where the Germans and the Japanese would come

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Speaker 7: in after hitting an American ship and you have American

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Speaker 7: sailors in the water swimming and they would come in

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Speaker 7: and they would straighten them with machine guns to kill

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Speaker 7: them in the water. That's the war crime here. If

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Speaker 7: you have two injured terrorists who are still on the boat.

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Speaker 7: The boat is damaged, but the boat is floating, and

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Speaker 7: I'm speaking hypothetically here, but the boat is damaged, floating,

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Speaker 7: he still has cocaine on board. Admiral Bradley's orders were

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Speaker 7: to put the cocaine and the boat to the bottom

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Speaker 7: of the ocean. If there happened to be two wounded

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Speaker 7: terrorists on board, they are collateral damage. If they're two

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Speaker 7: wounded terrorists clinging to a piece of wood off to

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Speaker 7: the side, you can't shoot them.

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Speaker 1: You can shoot the boat.

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Speaker 7: If they're on the boat, they're collateral damage.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I wonder if you know, I heard

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Speaker 3: of Republican congressman today criticizing it, and I'm like, what

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Speaker 3: about the three thousand people are overdosed to North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Last year, right, you know, in his state.

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Speaker 7: And that's one of the problems is that you have

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Speaker 7: politicians that are making broad, sweeping statements and they're pronouncing

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Speaker 7: guilt without knowing all of the facts and quite frankly,

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Speaker 7: without knowing all of the law. You know, we've had

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Speaker 7: a lot of people that have gone onto x to

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Speaker 7: give their uninformed legal opinion over Oh, well, if there

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Speaker 7: were two wounded people, then it's clearly a war crime. Well, no,

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Speaker 7: it's not.

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Speaker 1: Not.

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Speaker 7: If they are on a lawful target. We did this

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Speaker 7: in World War two Battle of Midway. We destroyed one

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Speaker 7: of the Japanese carriers. It was dead in the water,

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Speaker 7: it was unable to fight, unable to launch a recovery aircraft,

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Speaker 7: and full of wounded Japanese sailors. You know what we

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Speaker 7: did with the USS Nautilus continue to pump torpedoes into

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Speaker 7: it until it went to the bottom of the ocean,

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Speaker 7: killing most of the injured Japanese sailors on board. Not

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Speaker 7: a war crime because the military objective was to take

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Speaker 7: the aircraft carrier out of the fight so it couldn't

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Speaker 7: be towed back, repaired, and returned to the fight.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, But if.

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Speaker 7: Instead they were machine gunning Japanese sailors in the water,

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Speaker 7: that's the war crime.

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Speaker 2: Well I got that. That's very interesting.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for informing our audience out there, because you know,

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Speaker 3: our real Americas voice news we want to bring the

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Speaker 3: truth to the people. I just want to have one

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Speaker 3: last question for you about you know, what's what's the

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Speaker 3: atmosphere like in the Pentagon under this administration, say, compared

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Speaker 3: to previous administrations, it seems like there's a lot of

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Speaker 7: I was never in the building in a previous administration,

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Speaker 7: so I can't really speak to that, but there is

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Speaker 7: a lot of great enthusiasm here. I think people are

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Speaker 7: excited about a lot of the change the Secretary headset

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Speaker 7: is making, and I think that there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: All Right, everybody command to Tim Paula, tour Special Advisor

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Speaker 3: to Secretary of warpete Hegseth, thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much and Merry Christmas. All right, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank everybody for joining the Rap family

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Speaker 3: and watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News.

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Speaker 2: See you next time.