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Speaker 1: Ahead on American Sunrise, Today is the day Republicans going

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Speaker 1: on the offensive as Democrats try to play hardball over

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Speaker 1: a deal to keep the government open.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna let you take the people's government hostage

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Speaker 2: and then get to give you everything he won. And

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Speaker 2: that's really the state of the negotiation.

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Speaker 1: Ahead, Missouri Congressman Mark Alford joins us to discuss the countdown.

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Speaker 3: To the shutdown. Plus more.

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Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Haiksath slated to have a meeting with top

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Speaker 1: military brass today, but the real story very well may

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Speaker 1: be that President Trump will be there.

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Speaker 3: So what's expected to come out of this gathering?

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Speaker 1: And the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk had a

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Speaker 1: date with the judge on Monday. Just how much evidence

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Speaker 1: does the prosecution have? Those stories and so much more

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Speaker 1: Right now on American Sunrise.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, a Maria.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to American Sunrise.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's culture.

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Speaker 5: We have breaking news to share with you.

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Speaker 3: Politics.

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Speaker 4: President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

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Speaker 3: We've got your cover. This is what it.

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Speaker 4: Looks like to be a patriot.

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Speaker 3: We have to protect the American family.

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Speaker 5: The American dream is still alive.

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Speaker 3: I'm David Brody. I'm Terrence and.

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Speaker 5: I'm doctor Gina. Good morning everybody. I am doctor Gina.

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Speaker 5: We are live with you from the Palm Beaches. Let's

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Speaker 5: bring in David Brody. He's in Washington, DC. Terrence Bates

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Speaker 5: in our Denver newsroom.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning, Doctor Gena, and David. Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys.

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Speaker 1: So look, I'm just gonna get right to it because

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Speaker 1: all the coverage that you're going to see today is

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Speaker 1: going to revolve around the government shut down, and appropriately

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Speaker 1: so as it is a big story. But I have

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Speaker 1: to tell you, guys, the most interesting story to me

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Speaker 1: is that President Trump is heading to Quantico, Virginia to

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Speaker 1: To some degree, it's unprecedented because it's never happened at

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Speaker 1: so I'm really watching that. I'm curious to see what's

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Speaker 6: David.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what's interesting here is that the question becomes,

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Speaker 4: why can't we do this on a conference call, so

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Speaker 4: to speak, and so since so therefore it's in person.

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Speaker 4: The President's going to be there. This is going to

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Speaker 4: be about national defense strategy. I think you're going to

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Speaker 4: see Pete Haigseth.

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Speaker 7: Lay that out. Obviously.

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Speaker 4: The President set to speaker on nine am Eastern time.

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Speaker 7: Here.

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Speaker 4: We're monitoring that it's going to be about national defense strategy.

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Speaker 4: But what exactly what announcements will be made. My sense

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Speaker 4: basically go with the what they've always talked about Gina

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Speaker 4: lot of resistance from certain military brass inside the Trump administration.

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Speaker 4: So you can already see the Washington Post headlines coming

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Speaker 5: Whatever it is, he really wants everybody to see it,

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Speaker 5: you know, I see President Trump. I could see President

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Speaker 5: But I could also see him saying, you know what,

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Speaker 8: But whatever it is, he really.

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Speaker 5: That's right, that's right. But he does like to make

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Speaker 5: So with that, maybe we should get to the Bible first.

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Speaker 5: Do you think we'll do it? That's absolutely Isaiah fifty five,

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Speaker 5: The most important piece of scripture in terms of keeping

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Speaker 5: being a parent sculpts too. I always think of trying

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Speaker 5: Mama was right. That's the vision God gives us. That's

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Speaker 2: A lot from Senate Democrats, from House Democrats about the

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Speaker 3: Well, we know that.

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Speaker 2: American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to

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Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: The Speaker would love to do it, the Senate Majority

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Speaker 3: Let's work on it together.

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Speaker 2: But let's do it in the context of an open

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Speaker 3: Essential services to the American people. That's all that we're

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Speaker 2: And the fact that they refuse to do that shows

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Speaker 7: For more.

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Speaker 5: Let's bring in Missouri Congressman Mark Alford Carsman. Well, what

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Speaker 5: are your predictions as to how this is going to go.

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Speaker 5: Aside from the fact that the Democrats are going to

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Speaker 7: Good to see.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they always blame it on us, and in pass shutdowns,

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Speaker 9: the media has gone along with this. They're not going

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Speaker 9: be a Schumer shutdown. We did our job two weeks ago.

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Speaker 9: We passed a continuing resolution, a clean cr with a

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Speaker 9: of course is Chuck Schumer's modus operandi to just let

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Speaker 9: in sixteen hours and some fifty minutes, the government will

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Speaker 9: not be funded, and that will mean that the thirty

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Speaker 8: He's holding us hostage.

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Speaker 9: We've done our work, We've done the reasonable rational thing

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Speaker 4: just a bad play by Democrats for sure. The last

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Speaker 4: By the way, I wish we would have played the

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Speaker 4: all right. A couple of facts about the plan itself, Congressman,

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Speaker 4: the forty eight hostages, living and dead within seventy two hours.

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Speaker 4: Of signing the agreement, then in exchange they get two

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Speaker 1: Congressman, before we let you go quickly. Want to get

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Speaker 9: I've visited seven of our eighteen rural hospitals so far.

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Speaker 9: We have fifty four in Missouri and that's in part

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Speaker 5: Congressman Alford from the great state of Missouri, thank you

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Speaker 5: so much for your time.

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Speaker 7: We love you.

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Speaker 6: Congressman take care.

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Speaker 9: Love you mean it yellow tie today.

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Speaker 5: All right, you guys. Coming up next, we check out

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Speaker 4: You're looking at a live picture there there is the

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Speaker 4: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, who

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Speaker 8: There's Pete Hegsaf. Actually, let's listen in for a moment.

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Speaker 3: Can we do that real quick?

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Speaker 4: This is in Quantico for Junia.

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Speaker 8: Joint Chiefs, Generals, admirals, commanders, officers, senior listed, NCOs, enlisted

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Speaker 8: in every member of our American military. Good morning, good morning,

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Speaker 8: and welcome to the War Department. Because the era of

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Speaker 8: the Department of Defense is over. You see, the motto

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Speaker 8: must prepare for war. This is, of course, not a

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Speaker 11: George Washington, the first leader of the War Department.

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Speaker 8: It captures a simple yet profound truth. To ensure peace,

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Speaker 8: we must prepare for war. From this moment forward, the

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Speaker 8: only mission of the newly restored Department of War is

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Speaker 8: this war. Fighting, preparing for war, and preparing to win,

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Speaker 8: unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war,

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Speaker 8: No one here wants war. But it's because we love peace.

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Speaker 11: We love peace for our fellow citizens.

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Speaker 8: They deserve peace, and they rightfully expect us to deliver it.

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Speaker 8: Our number one job, of course, is to be strong

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Speaker 8: so that we can prevent war in the first place.

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Speaker 8: The President talks about it all the time. It's called

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Speaker 8: peace through strength, and as history teaches us, the only

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Speaker 8: to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is

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Speaker 8: by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department.

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Speaker 8: In other words, to our enemies, fa fo. If necessary,

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Speaker 8: our troops can translate that for you. Another way to

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Speaker 8: put it is peace through strength, brought to you by

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Speaker 8: the warrior ethos, and we are restoring both. As President

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Speaker 8: Trump has said, and he's right, we have the strongest,

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Speaker 8: That is true, full stop. Nobody can touch us. It's

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Speaker 8: we will continue in this term. But it's also true

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Speaker 8: because of the leaders in this room and the incredible

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Speaker 8: troops that you all lead. But the world, and as

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Speaker 8: the chairman mentioned, our enemies get a vote. You feel it,

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Speaker 8: I feel it. This is a moment of urgency. Urgency,

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Speaker 8: enemies gather, threats grow, There is no time for games.

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Speaker 8: We must be prepared if we're going to prevent and

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Speaker 8: part of peace through strength, and either we're ready to

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Speaker 8: of course, requires more troops, more munitions, more drones, more patriots,

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Speaker 8: more submarines, more B twenty one bombers. It requires more innovation,

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Speaker 8: The time is now and the cause is urgent. The

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Speaker 8: The free world requires allies with real hard power, real

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Speaker 8: giving a speech next month that will showcase the speed,

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Speaker 8: coming soon. This speech today, as I drink my coffee,

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Speaker 8: wrote quote, war is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste.

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Speaker 8: Combat leaves an indelible mark.

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Speaker 8: For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for

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Speaker 8: The Department did it. Foolish and reckless political leaders set

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Speaker 8: the War Department requires the next step. Underneath the garbage

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Speaker 8: is a deeper problem and a more important problem that

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Speaker 8: we are fixing and fixing fast. Common sense is back

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Speaker 8: at the White House, so making the necessary changes is

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Speaker 8: actually pretty straightforward. President Trump expects it and litmus test

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Speaker 8: for these changes. It's pretty simple what I want my

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Speaker 8: eldest son, who is fifteen years old, eventually joining the

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Speaker 8: types of formations that we are currently wielding. If in

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Speaker 8: any way the answer to that is no, or even yes,

447
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Speaker 8: but then we're doing something wrong because my son is

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Speaker 8: no more important than any other American citizen who dons

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Speaker 8: the cloth of our nation. He is no more important

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Speaker 8: than your son, all precious souls made in the image

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Speaker 8: and likeness of God. Every parent deserves to know that

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Speaker 8: their son or their daughter that joins our ranks is

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Speaker 8: entering exactly the kind of unit that the Secretary of

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Speaker 8: War would want his son to join. Think of it

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Speaker 8: as the Golden rule test. Jesus said, do unto others,

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Speaker 8: that's which you would have done unto yourself. It's the

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Speaker 8: ultimate simplifying test of truth. The New War Department golden

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Speaker 8: rule is this, do onto your unit as you would

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Speaker 8: have done onto your own child's unit. Would you want

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Speaker 8: him serving with fat or unfit or undertrained troops, or

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Speaker 8: alongside people who can't meet basic standards, or in a

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Speaker 8: unit where standards were lowered so certain types of troops

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Speaker 8: could make it in in a unit where leaders were

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Speaker 8: promoted for reasons other than merit performance and war fighting.

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Speaker 8: The answer is not just no, it's hell no. This

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Speaker 8: means at the War Department, first and foremost, we must

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Speaker 8: restore a ruthless, dispassionate, and common sense application of standards.

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Speaker 8: I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are

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Speaker 8: out of shape, or in combat unit with females who

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Speaker 8: can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men,

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Speaker 8: or troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons,

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Speaker 8: platform or task, or under a leader who was the

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Speaker 8: first but not the best. Standards must be uniform, gender neutral,

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Speaker 8: and high. If not, they're not standards, they're just suggestions,

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Speaker 8: suggestions that get our sons and daughters killed when it

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Speaker 8: comes to combat arms units, and there are many different

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Speaker 8: stripes across our joint force. The era of politically correct,

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Speaker 8: overly sensitive don't hurt anyone's feelings. Leadership ends right now

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Speaker 8: at every level. Either you can meet the standard, either

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Speaker 8: you can do the job. Either you are disciplined, fit

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Speaker 8: and trained, or you are out. And that's why today,

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Speaker 8: at my direction, and this is the first of ten

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Speaker 8: Department of War directives that are arriving at your commands

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Speaker 8: as we speak, and in your inbox today, at my direction,

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Speaker 8: each service will ensure that every requirement for every combat mos,

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Speaker 8: for every designated combat arms position returns to the highest

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Speaker 8: male standard. Only because this job is life or death.

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Speaker 8: Standards must be met and not just met. At every level.

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Speaker 8: We should seek to exceed the standard, to push the envelope,

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Speaker 8: to compete its common sense and core to who we

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Speaker 8: are and what we do. It should be in our

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Speaker 8: DNA today. At my direction, we are also adding a

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Speaker 8: combat field test for combat arms units that must be

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Speaker 8: executable in any environment, at any time, and with combat equipment.

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Speaker 8: These tests they'll look familiar. They'll resemble the Army Expert

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Speaker 8: Physical Fitness Assessment or the Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test.

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Speaker 8: I'm also directing that warfighters in combat jobs execute their

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Speaker 8: Service Fitness Test at a gender neutral, age normed male

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Speaker 8: standard scored above seventy percent. It all starts with physical

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Speaker 8: fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do

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Speaker 8: regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly,

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Speaker 8: it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really

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Speaker 8: any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable

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Speaker 8: to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of

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Speaker 8: the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world.

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Speaker 8: It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not

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Speaker 8: who we are. So whether you're an airborne ranger or

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Speaker 8: a chairborne ranger, a brand new private or a four

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Speaker 8: star general, you need to meet the height and weight

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Speaker 8: standards and pass the PT test. And as the Chairman said,

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Speaker 8: yes there is no PT test, but today, at my direction,

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Speaker 8: every member of the Joint Force at every rank is

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Speaker 8: required to take a PT test twice a year, as

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Speaker 8: well as meet height and weight requirements.

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Speaker 11: Twice a year every year of service.

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Speaker 8: Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our Joint

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Speaker 8: Force is required to do PT every duty day. Common sets.

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Speaker 8: I mean most units do that already, but we're codifying

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Speaker 8: and we're not talking like hot yoga and stretching real

520
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Speaker 8: hard PTE. There's either as a unit or as an individual.

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Speaker 8: At every level, from the Joint chiefs to everyone in

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Speaker 8: this room to the youngest private leaders set the standard

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Speaker 8: and so many.

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Speaker 11: Of you do this already active Guard and Reserve.

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Speaker 8: This also means grooming standards, no more beards, long hair,

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Speaker 8: superficial individual expression. We're gonna cut our hair, shave our

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Speaker 8: shave our beards, and adhere to standards. Because it's like

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Speaker 8: the broken windows theory of policing. It's like when you

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Speaker 8: let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes,

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Speaker 8: so you have to address the small stuff. This is

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Speaker 8: on duty in the field and in the rear. If

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Speaker 8: you want a beard, you can join special forces. If not,

533
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Speaker 8: then shave. We don't have a military full of Nordic pagans,

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Speaker 8: but unfortunately we have had leaders who either refuse to

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Speaker 8: call bs and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like

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Speaker 8: they were not allowed to enforce standards. Both are unacceptable

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Speaker 8: and that's why today, at my direction, the era of

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Speaker 8: unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardoz. The era of

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Speaker 8: rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done. Simply put, if

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Speaker 8: you do not meet the male level physical standards for

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Speaker 8: combat positions, cannot pass a PT test, or don't want

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Speaker 8: to shave and look professional, it's time for a new

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Speaker 8: position or a new profession. I sincerely appreciate the proactive

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Speaker 8: efforts the secretaries have already taken in some of those areas.

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Speaker 8: Service secretaries and these directives are intended to simply accelerate

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Speaker 8: those efforts. On the topic of standards, allow me a

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Speaker 8: few words to talk about toxic leaders Upholding and demanding

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Speaker 8: high standards is not toxic. Enforcing high standards not toxic. Leadership.

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Speaker 8: Leading warfighters toward the goals of high, gender neutral, and

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Speaker 8: uncompromising standards in order to forge a cohesive, formidable, and

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Speaker 8: lethal Department of War is not toxic. It is our duty,

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Speaker 8: consistent with our constitutional oath. Real toxic leadership is endangering

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Speaker 8: subordinates with low standards. Real toxic leadership is promoting people

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Speaker 8: based on immutable characteristics or quotas instead of based on merit.

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Speaker 8: Real toxic leadership is promoting destructive ideologies that are an

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Speaker 8: anathema to the Constitution and the laws of nature and

557
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Speaker 8: Nature's God. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence,

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Speaker 8: the definition of toxic has been turned upside down, and

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Speaker 8: we're correcting that. That's why today, at my direction, we're

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Speaker 8: undertaking a full review of the Department's definitions of so

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Speaker 8: called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing to empower leaders to

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Speaker 8: enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing. Of course,

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Speaker 8: you can't do like nasty, bullying, and hazing. We're talking

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Speaker 8: about words like bullying and hazing and toxic. They've been

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Speaker 8: weaponized and bastardized inside our formations, undercutting commanders and NCOs.

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Speaker 8: No more. Setting, achieving, and maintaining high standards is what

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Speaker 8: you all do. And if that makes me toxic, then

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Speaker 8: so be it.

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Speaker 7: Second.

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Speaker 8: Today, in our direction, we're ensuring that every service, every unit,

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Speaker 8: every schoolhouse, and every form of professional military education conduct

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Speaker 8: an immediate review of their standards. Now we've done this

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Speaker 8: in many places already, but today it goes across the

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Speaker 8: entire Department of War. Any place where tried and true

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Speaker 8: physical standards were altered, especially since twenty fifteen when combat

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Speaker 8: arms standards were changed to ensure females could qualify must

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Speaker 8: be returned to their original standard. Other standards have been

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Speaker 8: manipulated to hit racial quotas as well, which is just

579
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Speaker 8: as unacceptable. This too, must end, Merit only the President

580
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Speaker 8: talks about it all the time, Merit based. Here are

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Speaker 8: two basic frameworks I urge you to pursue in this process,

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Speaker 8: standards I call my staffs are at all about them.

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Speaker 8: The nineteen ninety test and the E six test. The

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Speaker 8: nineteen nineties test is simple, what were the military standards

585
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Speaker 8: in nineteen ninety and if they have changed, tell me why?

586
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Speaker 8: Was it a necessary change based on the evolving landscape

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Speaker 8: of combat or was the change due to a softening, weakening,

588
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 8: or gender based pursuit of other priorities. Nineteen nineties seems

589
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 8: to be as good a place to start as any

590
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Speaker 8: and the E six test. Ask yourself, does what you're

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Speaker 8: doing make the leadership, accountability and lethality efforts of an

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Speaker 8: E six or frankly, an O three? Does it make

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 8: it easier or more complicated? Does the change in power

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Speaker 8: staff sergeants, petty officers and tech sergeants? To get back

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Speaker 8: to basics, The answer should be a resounding yes. The

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Speaker 8: E six tests or three tests clarifies a lot, and

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Speaker 8: it clarifies quickly because war does not care if you're

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Speaker 8: a man or a woman. Neither does the enemy, Nor

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Speaker 8: does the weight of your rucksack, the size of an

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Speaker 8: artillery round, or the body weight of a casualty on

601
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Speaker 8: the battlefield who must be carried this and I want

602
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 8: to be very clear about this, This is not about

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Speaker 8: preventing women from serving. We very much value the impact

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Speaker 8: of female troops. Our female officers and n CEOs are

605
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Speaker 8: the apps best in the world. But when it comes

606
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 8: to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat,

607
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 8: those physical standards must be high and gender neutral. If

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Speaker 8: women can make it excellent, If not, it is what

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Speaker 8: it is. If that means no women qualify for some

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Speaker 8: combat jobs, so be it. That is not the intent,

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00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 8: but it could be the result, so be it. It

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Speaker 8: will also that we mean that weak men won't qualify

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Speaker 8: because we're not playing games. This is combat. This is

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Speaker 8: life or death, as we all know. This is you

615
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 8: versus an enemy hell bent on killing you. To be

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00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 8: an effective lethal fighting force, you must trust that the

617
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Speaker 8: warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly physically capable

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Speaker 8: of doing what is necessary under fire. You know this

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Speaker 8: is the only standard you would want for your kids

620
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 8: and for your grandkids. Apply the War Department Golden Rule,

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Speaker 8: the nineteen ninety test, and the E six test, and

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Speaker 8: it's really hard to go wrong. Third, we are attacking

623
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Speaker 8: and ending the walking on eggshells and zero defect command culture.

624
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Speaker 8: A risk averse culture means officers execute not to lose

625
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 8: instead of to win. A risk averse culture means NCOs

626
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 8: are not empowered to enforce standards. Commanders and NCOs don't

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Speaker 8: take necessary risks or make tough adjustments for fear of

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Speaker 8: rocking the boat or making mistakes. A blemish free record

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Speaker 8: is what peacetime leaders covet the most, which is the

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Speaker 8: worst of all incentives.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 8: We as senior leaders, need to end the poisonous culture

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Speaker 8: of risk aversion and empower our NCOs at all levels

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Speaker 8: to enforce standards. Truth be told, for the most part,

635
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Speaker 8: we don't need new standards. We just need to re

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Speaker 8: establish a culture where enforcing standards is possible. And that's

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Speaker 8: why today, at my direction, I'm issuing new policies that

638
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 8: will overhaul the IG, EO and MEO processes. I call

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Speaker 8: it the no more walking on eggshells policy. We are

640
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 8: liberating commanders and NCOs. We are liberating you. We are

641
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 8: overhauling an inspector general process, the IG that has been

642
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 8: weaponized putting complainers, idelogus, and poor performers in the driver's scene.

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Speaker 8: We're doing the same with the Equal Opportunity and Military

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Speaker 8: Equal Opportunity policies the EO and MOO. At our department,

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Speaker 8: no more frivolous complaints no more anonymous complaints, no more

646
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Speaker 8: repeat complainants, no more smearing reputations, no more endless waiting,

647
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Speaker 8: no more legal limbo, no more sidetracking careers, no more

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Speaker 8: walking on eggshells. Of course, being a racist has been

649
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 8: illegal in our formation since nineteen forty eight. The same

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Speaker 8: goes for sexual harassment. Both are wrong and illegal. Those

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00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 8: kinds of infractions will be ruthlessly enforced. But telling someone

652
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Speaker 8: to shave or get a haircut, or to get in shape,

653
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Speaker 8: or to fix their uniform, or to show up on

654
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Speaker 8: time or to work hard, that's exactly the kind of

655
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Speaker 8: discrimination we want. We are not civilians. You are not civilians.

656
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Speaker 8: You are set apart for a distinct purpose. So we

657
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Speaker 8: as a department need to stop acting and thinking like

658
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Speaker 8: civilians and get back to basics and put the power

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Speaker 8: back in the hands of commanders and NCOs. Commanders and

660
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Speaker 8: NCOs who make life and death decisions, Commanders and NCOs

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Speaker 8: who enforce standards and insure readiness. Commanders and NCOs who

662
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Speaker 8: in this war department have to look in the mirror

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Speaker 8: and they have to pass the Golden Rule test. My kids,

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Speaker 8: your kids, America's sons and daughters. So I urge you

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Speaker 8: all here today and those watching, take this guidance and

666
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Speaker 8: run with it. The core of this speech is the

667
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Speaker 8: ten directives were announcing today. They were written for you.

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Speaker 8: For Army leadership, for Navy leadership, for Marine Corps leadership,

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Speaker 8: for Air Force leadership, space force leadership. These directives are

670
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Speaker 8: designed to take the monkey off your back and put

671
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Speaker 8: you the leadership back in the driver's seat. Move out

672
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Speaker 8: with urgency because we have your back. I have your back,

673
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Speaker 8: and the Commander in chief has your back. And when

674
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Speaker 8: we give you this guidance, we know mistakes will be made,

675
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Speaker 8: it's the nature of leadership. But you should not pay

676
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Speaker 8: for earnest mistas for your entire career. And that's why today,

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Speaker 8: at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of

678
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Speaker 8: adverse information on personnel records that will allow leaders with

679
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Speaker 8: forgivable earnest or minor infractions to not be encumbered by

680
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Speaker 8: those infractions in perpetuity. People make honest mistakes, and our

681
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Speaker 8: mistakes should not define an entire career. Otherwise we only

682
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Speaker 8: try not to make mistakes, and that's not the business

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Speaker 8: we're in. We need risk takers and aggressive leaders and

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Speaker 8: a culture that supports you fourth at the War Department.

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Speaker 8: Promotions across the Joint Force will be based on one thing,

686
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Speaker 8: merit color blind, gender neutral, merit based. The entire promotion process,

687
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Speaker 8: including evaluations of war fighting capabilities, is being thoroughly re examined.

688
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 8: We've already done a lot in this area, but more

689
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Speaker 8: changes are coming soon. Will promote top performing officers and

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Speaker 8: NCOs faster and get rid of poor performers more quickly. Evaluations, education,

691
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Speaker 8: and field exercises will become real evaluations.

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Speaker 11: Not box checks, for every one of us at every level.

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Speaker 8: These same reforms happened before World War Two as well.

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Speaker 8: General George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimpson did

695
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Speaker 8: the same thing, and we won a world war because

696
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Speaker 8: of it. As it happens, when he started the job,

697
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Speaker 8: Chairman Kane gave me a frame and a photo to

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Speaker 8: hang in my office. A matching frame and photo hangs

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Speaker 8: in his. It's a photo of Marshall and Stimpson preparing

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Speaker 8: for World War Two. Those two leaders famously kept the

701
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Speaker 8: door open between their offices for the entirety of the war.

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Speaker 8: They worked together, civilian and uniform every single day. Chairman

703
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Speaker 8: Kane and I do the same There is no daylight

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Speaker 8: between us. Our doors are always open. Our job together

705
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Speaker 8: is to ensure our military is led by the very best,

706
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Speaker 8: ready to answer the nation's call. Fifth As you have

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Speaker 8: seen and the media has obsessed over, I have fired

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Speaker 8: a number of senior officers since taking over the previous chairman,

709
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Speaker 8: other members of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders, and other commanders.

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Speaker 8: The rationale for me has been straightforward. It's nearly impossible

711
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Speaker 8: to change a culture with the same people who helped

712
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Speaker 8: create or even benefited from that culture, even if that

713
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Speaker 8: culture was created by a previous president and previous secretary.

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Speaker 8: My approach has been simple. When in doubt, assess the situation,

715
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Speaker 8: follow your gut, and if it's the best for the military,

716
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Speaker 8: make a change. We all serve at the pleasure of

717
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Speaker 8: the President every single day, but in many ways it's

718
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Speaker 8: not their fault. It's not your fault. As foolish and

719
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Speaker 8: reckless as the Woke Department was, those officers were following

720
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Speaker 8: elected political leadership. An entire generation of generals and admirals

721
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 8: were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that

722
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Speaker 8: quote our diversity is our strength. Of course, we know

723
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Speaker 8: our unity is our strength. They had to put out

724
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Speaker 8: dizzying DEI and LGBTQI plus statements. They were told females

725
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Speaker 8: and males are the same thing, or that males who

726
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Speaker 8: think they're females is totally normal. They were told that

727
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Speaker 8: we need a green fleet and electric tanks. They were

728
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 8: told to kick out Americans who refused an emergency vaccine.

729
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Speaker 8: They followed civilian policies set by foolish and reckless political leaders.

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Speaker 8: Our job, my job, has been to determine which leaders

731
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Speaker 8: simply did what they must to answer the prerogatives of

732
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Speaker 8: civilian leadership, and which leaders are truly invested in the

733
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Speaker 8: Woke Department and therefore incapable of embracing the War Department

734
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Speaker 8: and executing new lawful orders. That's it. It's that simple.

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Speaker 8: So for the past eight months, we've gotten a good

736
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Speaker 8: look under the hood of our officer corps. We've done

737
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Speaker 8: our best to thoroughly assess the human terrain. We've had

738
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Speaker 8: to make trade offs and some difficult decisions. It's more

739
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 8: of an art than a science. We have been and

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Speaker 8: will continue to be judicious but also expeditious. The new

741
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Speaker 8: compass heading is clear out with the sharellis the Mackenzie's

742
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Speaker 8: and the millies, and in with the Stockdales, the schwartz Coughs,

743
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Speaker 8: and the patents. More leadership changes will be made of that,

744
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Speaker 8: I'm certain, not because we want to, but because we must.

745
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Speaker 8: Once again, this is life and death. The sooner we

746
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Speaker 8: have the right people, the sooner we can advance the

747
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Speaker 8: right policies. Personnel is policy. But I look out at

748
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Speaker 8: this group and I see great Americans, leaders who have

749
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Speaker 8: given decades to our great republic, at great sacrifice to

750
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Speaker 8: yourselves and to your families. But if the words I'm

751
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 8: speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should

752
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 8: do the honorable thing and resign. We would thank you

753
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Speaker 8: for your service. But I suspect I know the overwhelming

754
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 8: majority of you feel the opposite. These words make your

755
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 8: hearts full. You love the War Department because you love

756
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Speaker 8: what you do, the profession of arms. You are hereby

757
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 8: liberated to be an apolitical, hard charging, no nonsense, constitutional

758
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 8: leader that you joined the military to be. We need

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Speaker 8: you locked in on the M, not the D, the E,

760
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 8: or the I, not the DE or the die of dime.

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Speaker 8: By that, I mean the M military of the instruments

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Speaker 8: of national power. We have entire departments across the government

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Speaker 8: dedicated to diplomatic, informational, and economic lines of effort. We

764
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Speaker 8: do the m nobody else does, and our gofos need

765
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Speaker 8: to master it in every domain and every scenario. No

766
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Speaker 8: more distractions, no more political ideologies, no more debris. Now,

767
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Speaker 8: of course we're going to disagree at times. We would

768
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Speaker 8: not be Americans if we didn't. Being a leader in

769
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Speaker 8: a large organization like OURDS means means having frank conversations

770
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Speaker 8: and differences of opinion. You will win some arguments and

771
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 8: you will lose some arguments. But when civilian leaders issue

772
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Speaker 8: lawful orders we execute. We are professionals in the profession

773
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Speaker 8: of arms. Our entire constitutional system is predicated upon this understanding.

774
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 8: Now seems like small thing, but it's not. This includes

775
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 8: as well the behavior of our troops online. To that end,

776
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 8: I want to thank and recognize the services for their

777
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 8: new proactive social media policies. Use them. Anonymous online or

778
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 8: keyboard complaining is not worthy of a warrior. It's cowardice

779
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 8: masquerading his conscience. Anonymous unit level social media pages that

780
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 8: trash commanders, demoralized troops, and undermine unit cohesion must not

781
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Speaker 8: be tolerated.

782
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 7: Again.

783
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,240
Speaker 8: Three's E sixes.

784
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Speaker 7: Six.

785
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Speaker 8: We must train and we must maintain. Any moment that

786
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 8: we are not training on our mission or maintaining our

787
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 8: equipment is a moment we are less prepared for preventing

788
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Speaker 8: or winning the next war. That is why today, at

789
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Speaker 8: my direction, we are drastically reducing the ridiculous amount of

790
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Speaker 8: mandatory training that individuals and units must execute. We've already

791
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Speaker 8: ended the most egregious. Now we're giving you back real time,

792
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Speaker 8: less PowerPoint briefings and fewer online courses, more time in

793
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Speaker 8: the motor pool, and more time on the range. Our

794
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 8: job is to make sure you have the money, equipment,

795
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Speaker 8: weapons and parts to train and maintain, and then you

796
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Speaker 8: take it from there. You all know this because it's

797
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Speaker 8: common sense. The tougher and the higher the standards in

798
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Speaker 8: our units, the higher the retention rates in those units.

799
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Speaker 8: Warriors want to be challenged, troops want to be tested.

800
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Speaker 8: When you don't train and you don't maintain, you demoralize,

801
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Speaker 8: and that's what our best people decide to take their

802
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 8: talents to the civilian world. The leaders who created the

803
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 8: Woke Department have already driven out too many hard chargers.

804
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Speaker 8: We reverse that trend right now. There is no world

805
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Speaker 8: in which high intensity war exists without pain, agony, and

806
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Speaker 8: human tragedy. We are in a dangerous line of work.

807
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 8: You are in a dangerous line of work. We may

808
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 8: lose good people, but let no warrior cry out from

809
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 8: the grave if only I had been properly trained. We

810
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 8: will not lose war fighters because we fail to train

811
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Speaker 8: or equip them or resource them. Shame on us. If

812
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 8: we do train like your warriors' lives depend on it,

813
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 8: because they do. To that point, basic training is being

814
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Speaker 8: restored to what it should be scary, tough, and disciplined.

815
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Speaker 8: We're empowering drill sergeants to instill healthy and new recruits, ensuring.

816
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 11: That future war fighters are forged.

817
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 8: Yes they can shark attack, they can toss bunks, they

818
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 8: can swear, and yes they can put their hands on recruits.

819
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Speaker 8: This does not mean they can be reckless or violate

820
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Speaker 8: the law, but they can use tried and true methods

821
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Speaker 8: to motivate new recruits to make them the warriors. They

822
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 8: need to be back to basics at basic as well,

823
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 8: of course, and you know this basic training is not

824
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 8: where mission readiness should end. The nature of the evolving

825
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 8: threat environment demands that everyone in every job must be

826
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Speaker 8: ready to join the fight if needed. A core crew

827
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 8: of the Marine Corps. Is every marine a rifleman. It

828
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 8: means that everyone, regardless of MOS, is proficient enough to

829
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Speaker 8: engage an enemy threat at sea, in the air, or

830
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Speaker 8: in a so called rear area. We need to ensure

831
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Speaker 8: that every memory of our uniform military maintains baseline proficiency

832
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 8: and basic combat skills, especially because the next war, like

833
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 8: the last, will likely not have a rear area. Finally,

834
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Speaker 8: as President Trump rightly pointed out when he changed the

835
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 8: department name, the United States has not won a major

836
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Speaker 8: theater war since the name was changed to the Department

837
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Speaker 8: of Defense in nineteen forty seven. One conflict stands out

838
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 8: in stark contrast, the Gulf War. Why. Well, there's a

839
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 8: number of reasons, but it was a limited mission with

840
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 8: overwhelming force and a clear end state. But why did

841
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 8: we execute and win the Golf War the way we

842
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 8: did in nineteen ninety one? There's two overwhelming reasons. One

843
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 8: was President Ronald Reagan's military build up gave an overwhelming advantage,

844
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 8: and two military and Pentagon leadership had previous formative battle

845
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 8: field experiences. The men who led this department during the

846
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 8: Gulf War were mostly combat veterans of the Vietnam War.

847
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 8: They said never again to mission creep or nebulous end states.

848
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 8: The same holds true today. Our civilian and military leadership

849
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 8: is chalk full of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who

850
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 8: say never again to nation building and nebulous end states.

851
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 8: This clear eyed view all the way in the White House,

852
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 8: combined with President Trump's military build up, postures us for

853
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 8: future victories if and we will and when we embrace.

854
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Speaker 11: The War Department, and we must. We are preparing every day.

855
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 11: We have to be prepared for war, not for defense.

856
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 11: We're training warriors, not defenders. We fight wars to win,

857
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 11: not to defend. Defense is something you do all the time.

858
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 8: It's inherently reactionary and can lead to overuse, overreach, and

859
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 8: mission creep. War is something you do sparingly on our

860
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,919
Speaker 8: own terms and with clear aims. We fight to win.

861
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 8: We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We

862
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 8: also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie

863
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Speaker 8: the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and

864
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Speaker 8: kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct

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Speaker 8: and overbearing rules of engagement. Just common sense, maximum.

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Speaker 11: Lethality, and authority for war fighters.

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Speaker 8: That's all I ever wanted as a platoon leader, and

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Speaker 8: it's all my E six squad leaders ever wanted. Back

869
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Speaker 8: to that six rule. We let our leaders fight their formations,

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Speaker 8: and then we have their back. It's very simple, yet

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Speaker 8: incredibly powerful. A few months ago, I was at the

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Speaker 8: White House when President Trump announced his Liberation Day for

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Speaker 8: America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today

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Speaker 8: is another liberation day, the liberation of America's warriors in name,

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Speaker 8: indeed and inauthorities. You kill people and break things for

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Speaker 8: a living, you are not politically correct and don't necessarily

877
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Speaker 8: belong always in polite society. We are not an army

878
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Speaker 8: of one. We are a joint force of millions of

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Speaker 8: selfless Americans. We are warriors. We are purpose built not

880
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Speaker 8: for fair weather, blue skies or calm seas. We were

881
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Speaker 8: built to load up in the back of helicopters five

882
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Speaker 8: tons or zodiacs in the dead of night, in fair

883
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Speaker 8: weather or foul, to go to dangerous places to find

884
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Speaker 8: those who would do our nation harm and deliver justice

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Speaker 8: on behalf of the American people in cl close and

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Speaker 8: brutal combat if necessary. You are different. We fight not

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Speaker 8: because we hate what's in front of us. We fight

888
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Speaker 8: because we love what's behind us. You see, the Ivy

889
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Speaker 8: League faculty loungers will never understand us, and that's okay

890
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 8: because they could never do what you do. The media

891
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 8: will mischaracterize us, and that's okay because deep down they

892
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Speaker 8: know the reason they can do what they do is you.

893
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Speaker 8: In this profession, you feel comfortable inside the violence so

894
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Speaker 8: that our citizens can live peacefully. Lethality is our calling card,

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Speaker 8: and victory our only acceptable end state. In closing, a

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Speaker 8: few weeks ago, at our monthly Pentagon Christian Prayer service,

897
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Speaker 8: I recited a commander's prayer. It's a simple yet meaningful

898
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Speaker 8: prayer for wisdom for commanders and leaders. I encourage you

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Speaker 8: to look it up if you've never seen it, But

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Speaker 8: the prayer it ends like this, And most of all, Lord,

901
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Speaker 8: please keep my soldiers safe, lead them, guide them, protect them,

902
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Speaker 8: watch over them. And as you gave all of yourself

903
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Speaker 8: for me, help me give all of myself for them.

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Speaker 8: And Amen. I have prayed this prayer many times since

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Speaker 8: I've had the privilege of being your secretary, and I

906
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Speaker 8: will continue to pray this prayer for each of you

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Speaker 8: as you command and lead our nation's finest go forth

908
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Speaker 8: and do good things, hard things. President Trump has your back,

909
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Speaker 8: and so do I, and you'll hear from them. Shortly,

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Speaker 8: move out and.

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Speaker 11: Draw fire, because as we are the War Department godspeeding.

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Speaker 7: O job.

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Speaker 1: So you were just listening to Secretary of War Pete

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Speaker 1: Hegseth layout a ten point plan for improving the military

915
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Speaker 1: foundational In that plan is restoring some of the standards

916
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Speaker 1: that he says have been lost over the past couple

917
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Speaker 1: of decades and really getting the War Department back to

918
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Speaker 1: a war fighting posture. He says that he doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: want war, but if war were to happen, the Department

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Speaker 1: will be ready and the soldiers will be ready to respond.

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Speaker 1: He of course, was addressing a group of hundreds of

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Speaker 1: generals and admirals who have come in from around the country.

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Speaker 1: They are now waiting to hear from President Trump, who

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Speaker 1: is in route to QUANTICOVERAG to address that group. Let's

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Speaker 1: bring in doctor Gina David and John Solomon now to

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Speaker 1: talk a bit more about this. John, first of all,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you. What do you make of what

929
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Speaker 3: we just heard from the Secretary of War?

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Speaker 12: Well, listen, First off, this meeting is unprecedented. I've been

931
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Speaker 12: a journalist thirty five years and I've never seen a

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Speaker 12: meeting like this. I think this is a reset moment

933
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Speaker 12: in the Pentagon. Hegseeth has been in charge for about

934
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Speaker 12: six months. He's gotten his general structure together, he's got

935
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Speaker 12: his team together, and now he wants to reorient a

936
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Speaker 12: Pentagon that over the last four to five years drifted

937
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Speaker 12: towards things like DEI and genderism and transgender and not

938
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Speaker 12: on the core capabilities of war fighting. And during that

939
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Speaker 12: four year period when there was social engineering going on

940
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Speaker 12: in the Pentagon, our enemies made enormous gains. The way

941
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Speaker 12: that Russia is fighting warfare against Ukraine with drones far

942
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Speaker 12: exceeds our current drone out of geez. The way China

943
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Speaker 12: and Russia both have developed hypersonic missiles ahead of the

944
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Speaker 12: United States leaves us behind in war fighting. And I

945
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Speaker 12: think Pek has had laid down the gauntlet today, which

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Speaker 12: is this ten point plan is designed to get the

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Speaker 12: United States in a position to always maintain its point

948
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Speaker 12: of supremacy in fighting wars, and that's something that was

949
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Speaker 12: slipping under the Biden ears, whether it was the Afghan withdrawal,

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Speaker 12: hypersonic missiles or social engineering.

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Speaker 6: Our enemies made great gains.

952
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Speaker 12: During the Biden years, and Trump and hens Eth are

953
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 12: determined to not let that trend continue.

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Speaker 4: So John, actually, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Gina, Well, I was just gonna ask you, so what

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Speaker 5: happens now, John? I mean, you know, so we're going

957
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 5: to look like military men. We're gonna work out like

958
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Speaker 5: military men. We're going to go back to the days

959
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Speaker 5: where being manly was not a bad thing, and we're

960
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 5: going to pull the standard. And but what does that

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Speaker 5: look like in terms of what happens to the people

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Speaker 5: in the military. Do you think they will just get

963
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Speaker 5: out on their own? Do you think that they will

964
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Speaker 5: have to force them out? What happens to them?

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Speaker 12: Well, I think some will leave, just like we saw

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Speaker 12: in the FBI and the Justice Department, wokesters leaving when

967
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Speaker 12: they didn't like the direction that the president set. In

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Speaker 12: this case, the FOS that Pete Hexseth has set is

969
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 12: the compass, and those who don't like the direction of

970
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 12: the compass will either bail out or because of these

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Speaker 12: new standards, they'll be held accountable to the new standards

972
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Speaker 12: and they'll be forced out. But that's how you create

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Speaker 12: organizational change, particularly an organization as big and as resistant

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Speaker 12: to change as the Endagon. First you set the compass,

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Speaker 12: Then you set the standards that weed the weed from

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Speaker 12: the chaff, and then I think the real work begins.

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Speaker 12: Where are where our biggest weaknesses are. Right now, our

978
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 12: procurement process has not been able to keep up to

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Speaker 12: the threats that our enemies have created. We're slow in procurement,

980
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 12: we're behind, We're always over costs and underperforming on new

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Speaker 12: military equipment.

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Speaker 6: We want to change that.

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Speaker 12: So we've got new fighter jets being built, we've got

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Speaker 12: new war helicopters being built. We had we were the

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Speaker 12: leader in drone warfare back during in the period of

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Speaker 12: nine to eleven. We could blow people out of that

987
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 12: sky with or from the sky with hell fire missiles.

988
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 12: But today small undetectable drones are becoming an important part

989
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 12: of warfare, and we weren't building those until very recently.

990
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 12: And so after you change the ethos and the compass

991
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 12: is set, the procurement processes, the war strategies, the concepts

992
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 12: of finding a war that we're still pretty much in

993
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 12: a cold war posture, and how we go about defending ourselves.

994
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 12: And I think this administration will change to the twenty

995
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Speaker 12: first century where China is the preimitive threat.

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Speaker 1: John, sorry to cut you off here, but we do

997
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: want to go to the White House, President Trump speaking

998
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: there just moments ago, as he is now en route

999
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: to Quantico.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen in.

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01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 10: How many federal war we plan to lay off. Well,

1002
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 10: we made you a lot, and that's only because of

1003
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 10: the Democrats. And as you know, they.

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01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 13: Wanted to be able to take care of people that

1005
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 13: have come into our country illegally, and no system can

1006
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 13: handle that. And so we're totally opposed on that. But

1007
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 13: we can't take care. We just can't do it. I'd

1008
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 13: love to do everybody. I'd love to do the whole world,

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01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 13: but our country can't handle people that come into our

1010
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 13: country illegally. And they want to give them full health

1011
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 13: care benefits. They want to open the wall again.

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Speaker 10: Can you believe it? I can't even believe it. They

1013
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 10: want to open the wall. They haven't taken away boys

1014
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 10: playing in women's sports. They haven't done that. Men playing

1015
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 10: in women's sports.

1016
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Speaker 13: It's like they don't change. They lost an election in

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01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 13: a landslide and they don't.

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Speaker 7: Changel gave a how long plan to give amos to

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Speaker 7: respond two.

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Speaker 13: That's the fireproople, things like, oh, we're going to do

1021
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 13: about three or four days.

1022
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Speaker 10: We'll see how it is.

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Speaker 13: All of the Arab countries are signed up. The Muslim

1024
01:04:55,520 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 13: country is all signed up, Israel's all signed up. This

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01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 13: waiting for a mass, and a mass is either going

1026
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 13: to be doing it or not, and if it's not,

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01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 13: it's going to be a very sad end.

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01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 14: Is a mind is the president is the room to

1029
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 14: negotiate or is you take it or leave this deal?

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01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 14: If their room doesn't negotiate with the Moss, or it's

1031
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 14: there is no money the deal.

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Speaker 10: You know, with a Moss, we want very simple.

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01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,439
Speaker 14: We want the hostages back immediately.

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Speaker 13: And we want some good behavior. And you know, it's

1035
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 13: pretty pretty simple. You don't get simpler, think of it.

1036
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 13: We've signed every country in the Middle East.

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Speaker 10: This is like an impossible thing. It's never been done before.

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Speaker 10: This is more than Gaza.

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Speaker 13: Gaza is big stuff, but this is Gaza is a

1040
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 13: piece of it.

1041
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 10: And if they were tective deal you said that is

1042
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 10: you real hot?

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01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 14: You're backing to do whatever they need to do.

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01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 13: What do you in vases that let them go and

1045
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 13: do what they have to do.

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01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 10: They could do it pretty easily. I would let them

1047
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 10: go and do what they have to do.

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Speaker 13: You know, we've killed about twenty five thousand a mos

1049
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 13: so certainly they've paid a big price for October seventh.

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Speaker 10: And this is a whole new group. You know, they

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01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:04,959
Speaker 10: come in, and they come in, they keep coming.

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Speaker 13: But there's a whole different group and their leadership has

1053
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Speaker 13: been killed three different times.

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Speaker 10: So they've paid a big price.

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Speaker 13: We hope that they're going to have a nice, calm life.

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Speaker 10: Maybe it won't.

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Speaker 13: Happen, but if it does, it'll be one of the

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Speaker 13: greatest things ever to happen.

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Speaker 10: We'll have actual peace in the Middle East.

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Speaker 8: Or you preparing to take fright against truck tanks in Venezuela.

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Speaker 10: And we'll see what happens with Venezuela.

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Speaker 13: Venezuela has been very dangerous with drugs and with other things,

1063
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Speaker 13: and they've been very, very dangerous, So we'll see what

1064
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Speaker 13: happens with Venezuela. We had a lot of drugs coming

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Speaker 13: in through water. We call water drugs just a simple term.

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Speaker 13: And we don't have any boats on the water. There

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Speaker 13: are no boats, there are no fishing boats, there are

1068
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Speaker 13: no anything. So we hit a number of boats. You

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Speaker 13: probably saw that.

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Speaker 10: And since we did that, we.

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Speaker 13: Have absolutely no ugs coming into our country.

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Speaker 10: Via water because it was lethal.

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Speaker 13: And now we'll look at Cartel's We're gonna look very

1074
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Speaker 13: seriously at Cartel's coming by.

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Speaker 10: Land warring in this address.

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Speaker 8: Why gather all the generals in one place first.

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Speaker 10: Well, this is only in the spree of cords.

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Speaker 7: You know what.

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Speaker 13: The spreetecorders is only a spirit. We're gonna be talking

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Speaker 13: to them. Pete Hexas is talking right now. I'm gonna

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Speaker 13: have to leave because I have to talk to them.

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Speaker 13: But these are our generals, our admirals are leaders, and

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Speaker 13: it's a good thing.

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Speaker 10: A thing like this has never been done before because

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Speaker 10: they came from all over the world.

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Speaker 13: And there's a little bit of expense, not much, but

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Speaker 13: there's a little expense to that. We don't like the waste,

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Speaker 13: would rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly, but

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Speaker 13: this was the one time we had to do a

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Speaker 13: great spiritizing.

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Speaker 10: It's gonna be great I've seen it already. We have

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Speaker 10: every general, every admiral. We have great people. We have

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Speaker 10: our real warriors over there.

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Speaker 13: And when they're not good, when we don't think they're

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Speaker 13: our warrior, you know what happened, we say you're fired,

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Speaker 13: get out. We had some real bad ones last time.

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Speaker 13: You know, I rebuilt the military, the entire military.

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Speaker 10: But I had a.

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Speaker 13: Couple and I had unbelievable people. To do that, you

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Speaker 13: have to, but I had unbelievable people in there.

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Speaker 10: But I also had some bad ones at the top,

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Speaker 10: like Milly and Maddison. That le Yesper, I.

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Speaker 13: Called him too always, too late, Yes, for he was horrible.

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Speaker 13: So but I learned, because you know that was I

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Speaker 13: was just in there and I put these people in.

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Speaker 13: They were recommended by Rhinos and others, and then.

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Speaker 10: I could what we have now is the best.

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Speaker 13: But even despite that, I rebuilt the military in my

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Speaker 13: first turn.

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Speaker 10: We had a great first time.

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Speaker 13: We had the greatest economy ever, and it's being beaten

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Speaker 13: by a lot this time.

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Speaker 10: So I'm going over. I'm gonna be meeting.

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Speaker 13: I'm going to be meeting with generals and with admoals

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Speaker 13: and with leaders.

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Speaker 10: And if I don't like somebody.

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Speaker 14: I'm going to fire him right on the spot.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: As we said, President Trump now headed over to Quantico, Virginuary.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be meeting with those military leaders, the

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Speaker 1: top generals and admirals that he discussed. Will of course

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Speaker 1: take you there live the moment he takes the podiums

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Speaker 1: by understanding that he is now on the ground in

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Speaker 1: Quantico and driving on over to the facility where those

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Speaker 1: leaders are. Let's bring back in John, doctor Gina and

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Speaker 1: David John. So there's so much to take in. And

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Speaker 1: President Trump meeting with these military generals, as he said,

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Speaker 1: to spiritize them.

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Speaker 3: That's just part of it. But it's also happening.

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Speaker 1: And he kind of addressed this during that news conference

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Speaker 1: amid the backdrop of a potential government shut down, a

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Speaker 1: very likely government shut down, and this new peace agreement

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Speaker 1: that everyone is signed on to, but Hamas in Israel

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Speaker 1: and Gaza, and President Trump saying that, you know, if

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Speaker 1: if Hamas doesn't sign on, he's going to let Israel

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Speaker 1: move forward as it needs to move forward. In order

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Speaker 1: to quote well, he didn't say this, but I'm going

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Speaker 1: to say it myself. Handle its business if you will.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, yeah, that's what you call compass sitting that

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Speaker 12: press conference right there.

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Speaker 6: If I don't like a general because he's not on

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Speaker 6: board with me, he's fired today.

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Speaker 12: If a mouse doesn't like the deal, they'll be eradicate,

1144
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,520
Speaker 12: take the deal, live comfortably, or get eradicated. If Democrats

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Speaker 12: don't want to lose two hundred thousand workers in the

1146
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 12: federal workforce, don't shut the government down today. A level

1147
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 12: of clarity that President Trump brings in these press conferences,

1148
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 12: which is this is where I'm at, no more falling around.

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01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 12: The American people don't want excuse making and dog tail wagging.

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Speaker 6: We want action.

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Speaker 12: And you see today he sets the compass on all

1152
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 12: of these issues very very clearly, and I think that

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Speaker 12: in the next few days, no matter how history plays out,

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01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 12: the American people now know where the President stands on

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Speaker 12: each of these issues.

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Speaker 6: And why he stands on him.

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Speaker 12: He explains why they remade the Pentagon, why they're doing

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Speaker 12: this meeting today. I don't want to waste the money

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Speaker 12: it's on travel, but hey, one time, getting everybody aligned

1160
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 12: is important so that we can go back and do

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Speaker 12: the mission right. He's very clear about why he's doing it,

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Speaker 12: what he's doing, and I think that makes the expectation

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Speaker 12: of his enemies and those in his trenches fighting for

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Speaker 12: him a lot easier to carry out because they know

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Speaker 12: exactly where the president stands. And I think that's what

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Speaker 12: you just saw in that little six minute ditty.

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Speaker 4: John, Have you ever seen any sort of speech like

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Speaker 4: we just saw from Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to just read a couple of comments he said.

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Speaker 4: He said, no more quote fat generals. They need to

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Speaker 4: meet the height and weight standards. The male standard only

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Speaker 4: was the quote grooming standards. He said, If you don't shave,

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Speaker 4: that's it. You go join the special forces. He said,

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Speaker 4: quote no more quote beardos. He said, no more walking

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Speaker 4: on Eggshell's strategy.

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Speaker 7: I just go on.

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Speaker 4: He says, no more identity months, DEI offices, dudes and dresses,

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Speaker 4: no more climate change worship, no more division distraction, gender illusions.

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Speaker 4: We are done with that blankety blank. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 4: never quite I mean seriously, I mean, this was provocative

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Speaker 4: and maybe I should put that in all caps.

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Speaker 12: Well, listen, I think Pete xth is the perfect emissary

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Speaker 12: of President Trump. President Trump is just as blunt, and

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Speaker 12: I think the Pentagon for the last ten years, if

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Speaker 12: we're being blunt drifted into something other than warfare. And

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Speaker 12: I think today this was a cardiac paddle's moment to

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Speaker 12: all the generals. If whatever Joe Biden and Barack Obama

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Speaker 12: told you the military is going to do, we ain't

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Speaker 12: doing it unless it's war fighting, unless it's protecting the country,

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Speaker 12: unless it's getting in position to defeat our enemies.

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Speaker 6: And I think that sometimes.

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Speaker 12: When you're taking a big institution, applying those cardiac paddles

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Speaker 12: quickly and creating the shock standard, that's what he did today.

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Speaker 12: But pt xth a lot like President Trump talks, let's

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01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 12: get right down to the bass tax and let's not

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Speaker 12: waste any time.

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Speaker 6: Using euphemism to describe what we're doing. No more dudes

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Speaker 6: and dresses.

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Speaker 12: I think that's pretty clear what he means by that,

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Speaker 12: So I bet you it's pretty well received. I've known

1201
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Speaker 12: a lot of military people who have chafed under the

1202
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 12: last four or five years of the Biden administration and

1203
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 12: the insanity they thought they saw there. You know, there

1204
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 12: are some woke generals that got through the process and

1205
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 12: got to the top of the food chain because they

1206
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 12: were following the DEI, transgenderism, ideology. They'll probably get squeezed

1207
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Speaker 12: out quickly. But the men and women downstream, I think

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Speaker 12: they like this realignment.

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Speaker 4: I got to tell you, John, get ready for the

1210
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 4: anonymous sources, stories coming from the New York Times, Washington Post,

1211
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 4: the deep State, These generals, I say, generals, go ahead,

1212
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 4: take a John. They're out for blood now, yeah, some are.

1213
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Speaker 12: And they'll be unemployed quickly. I think the President just

1214
01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 12: said I don't like you, You're gone. And I think

1215
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 12: he's proven that you're going to see the apprentice pentagon

1216
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 12: style pretty soon, hired for anyone who doesn't get on

1217
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 12: board with us, because the stakes are too high.

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Speaker 5: And I think the President understands that very interesting. This

1219
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 5: language of will return to the highest male standard. Only

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Speaker 5: do you think he'll address women in combat. He's on

1221
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 5: the record in November twenty twenty four saying we should

1222
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Speaker 5: not have women in combat roles. It hasn't made us

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Speaker 5: more effective, it hasn't made us more lethal, It has

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Speaker 5: made fighting more complicated. I happen to agree with him.

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Speaker 5: I don't want anyone to mistake me for making some

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Speaker 5: sort of feminist argument here. It doesn't matter what I think,

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Speaker 5: what do you think he's going to do about it,

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Speaker 5: John Well.

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Speaker 12: I think, based on what he said today, that if

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Speaker 12: a woman can meet the standards of what used to

1231
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 12: be the male combat war standards, they get in. And

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Speaker 12: by the way, all the men and women who fight

1233
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Speaker 12: in our front lines are regardless of what role they're in,

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Speaker 12: we honor them every day that we are the country

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Speaker 12: we are because of the sacrifices they make. His point is,

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Speaker 12: when you're in the battlefield, you got to meet a

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Speaker 12: standard of victory, and if you can't meet that standard,

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Speaker 12: we'll find another role for you. But I don't think

1239
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 12: you'll see a diminished role for women in the military.

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Speaker 12: They play an enormous role. But if you're going to

1241
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Speaker 12: be on the front lines of battlefield, then you're facing

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Speaker 12: an enemy who has mortal capabilities. You better have those

1243
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 12: same mortal capabilities. You can't be a little off course

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01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 12: just to meet some sort of equity standard. And I

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 12: think that that's what he's talking about. It's all about

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01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 12: being able to win wars. And I think it's such

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01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 12: a clear standard. They'll be lawsuits, they'll be anonimous leagus.

1248
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 12: David's right, the Anonymous Whisper campaign will start tomorrow. But

1249
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Speaker 12: the great thing about this Trump White House, unlike the

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01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 12: first Trump bite us, they really don't give a rat

1251
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 12: about what the New York Times in Washington Post report.

1252
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 12: They care what the people at Kalamazoo, Michigan and des Mooite,

1253
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Speaker 12: Iowa think about. And I think that that's a pretty

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Speaker 12: liberating moment of this administration.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and John, just to punctuate what you said, women

1256
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 5: have always mattered a lot in the military. Before the

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Speaker 5: women served very significant roles in the military. It was

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Speaker 5: the DEI that I think threw us so badly.

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Speaker 6: That's right. I totally agree. That couldn't be better.

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Speaker 3: Said, You're right, hey, John.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you typically look at political speeches or

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Speaker 1: speeches in general, you look at them in terms of

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Speaker 1: style and substance. I think it was a substance filled speech.

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Speaker 1: Even in terms of style, it was interesting.

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Speaker 3: I felt like I was watching a Ted talk to

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Speaker 3: some degree.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean that's what this Trump administration is. That's

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Speaker 15: a good way and looking at it. This is a listen.

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Speaker 15: This administration has a lot of scale people who are

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Speaker 15: born in the air of social media. They know how

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Speaker 15: to talk, they know how to signal, they know how

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Speaker 15: to set a compass. They know how to shock because

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Speaker 15: that's what works on social media and so in I

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Speaker 15: don't know how long Pete's speech was, but it was

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Speaker 15: a short speech, but it had quite a bullet a

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Speaker 15: few intellectual bullets fired.

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Speaker 12: And that's I think the style of everyone. When you

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Speaker 12: look at the cabinet secretaries, you look at those meetings

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Speaker 12: where they go around the cabinet meeting, everybody has to

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Speaker 12: make a sticket point right away.

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Speaker 6: And that's the.

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Speaker 12: Standard that the president has set for communicating. And in

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01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,799
Speaker 12: an error where we have lots of noise, you couldn't

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Speaker 12: have you couldn't avoid the specifics of what Peter Pete hegkstha.

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Speaker 6: He said it very clear. There's no one in the

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Speaker 6: room who didn't understand what the message was.

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Speaker 4: And is not lost on me, by the way, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of us that the American the big American

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Speaker 4: flag behind him, which made me think of George Patton,

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Speaker 4: George C. Patton in that movie I saw You. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but but it's true, right, I mean, tell me the

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Speaker 4: visuals don't matter here, they matter, they matter.

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Speaker 6: They do listen.

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Speaker 12: Part of the dei transgenderism era of the Biden administration

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Speaker 12: was also an error to try to shift the American

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Speaker 12: idea that we're a globalist fighting force and we have

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Speaker 12: to be alongside others. And the answer is in Donald

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Speaker 12: Trump's world, and the answer of the American people gave last

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Speaker 12: November fifth, America first. And I think that flag as

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Speaker 12: opposed to a United Nations flag or some multilateral flag.

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Speaker 12: Our troops are fighting in American war first, and it

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Speaker 12: will help our our allies around the world when it

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Speaker 12: makes sense, when it's in the American interest. By the way,

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Speaker 12: that used to be the standard of foreign policy until

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Speaker 12: the Obama Biden year's changed it to some globals agenda.

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Speaker 12: But the flag is just one of many clear statements

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Speaker 12: that we're in America first military now, as we are

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Speaker 12: in America first administration.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely. John.

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Speaker 3: Always good to talk to you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you us this morning, Sean.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, we'll talk soon. John, Thanks so

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Speaker 3: much again.

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Speaker 6: Folks.

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Speaker 3: As you see there on.

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Speaker 1: Your screen, we're standing by for President Trump to address

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Speaker 1: those top military leaders in Quantico, Virginia. The moment he

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Speaker 1: takes the podium will take you there. We hear that

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Speaker 1: he is on the ground now in Quantico, and headed

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a quick break. We're back in just two minutes.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at a room filled with top military leaders,

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Speaker 1: top US military leaders who've come in from around the

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Speaker 1: country to hear from President Trump. Just moments ago, they

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Speaker 1: got a talk from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. President Trump,

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Speaker 1: we're hearing, is on the ground in Quantico, Virginia.

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Speaker 3: And making his way here to the stage.

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Speaker 7: Again.

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Speaker 1: When he does arrive there, we of course will take

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Speaker 1: you there to hear his remarks. But again, these are

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Speaker 1: top military generals and admirals from around the country, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of them. We're hearing in place for this unprecedented meeting

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Speaker 1: where they will hear from President Trump. Here in short order,

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Speaker 1: we'll take you there live. In the meantime, we are

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the opening bell at the New York

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Speaker 1: Stock Exchange pre market trading. Looking kind of rough, some

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Speaker 1: red on our board. But again, we'll take you to

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Speaker 1: the opening bell once it happens here in short order.

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Speaker 1: If President Trump is speaking, then we're going to forego

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Speaker 1: that and hear from the President first. Though, let's get

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Speaker 1: you over to David Okay.

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Speaker 4: Tvates appreciate it. Let's do a daily dose of dollars

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Speaker 4: in common sense, or at least as much as we

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Speaker 4: can before the President speaks. That means Shake Novaka is

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Speaker 4: with us, of course. The host of American Centrise early edition, Jake, Well,

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Speaker 4: there's something about the possible government shutdown that I know

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Speaker 4: is just killing you. It's all connected to the September

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Speaker 4: jobs report. What do you got? You're shaking your head, Jake.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, David.

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Speaker 16: If there's a government shut down, we won't get our phony,

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Speaker 16: baloney jobs report on Friday morning.

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Speaker 8: What will we do?

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Speaker 16: I hate government economic reports, even if there is no

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Speaker 16: partisanship involved. They're inaccurate, they're useless. They are just a

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Speaker 16: number that the market's bet on. So I'll make you

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Speaker 16: a deal, Wall Street. If you don't get your jobs

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Speaker 16: report Friday morning, I will roll a pair of dice

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Speaker 16: and you can bet on that number, because that's about

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Speaker 16: as important as the job's report number is. It's inaccurate,

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Speaker 16: it doesn't really tell us much. I know it makes

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Speaker 16: money for you one way or the other, but that's

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Speaker 16: only because you've placed to bet. It's meaningless. I am

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Speaker 16: hoping we don't get the jobs report on Friday. It

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Speaker 16: is such a misleading number and doesn't tell us about

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Speaker 16: the things about our economy that we need to know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: By the way, we're doing the picture and picture look

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Speaker 4: this morning, waiting for Trump to speak any moment now, Jake,

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Speaker 4: By the way, regarding jobs, what about these mass layoffs

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Speaker 4: that President Trump is talking about. Actually, hang on for

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Speaker 4: a second, let's go to Petere haig'stay at the podium.

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Speaker 8: Quantico, Well, you've heard from me, so now it's the

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Speaker 8: main event.

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Speaker 6: Our commander in chief.

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Speaker 8: I have the privilege every single day of watching him

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Speaker 8: put America first of ensuring that our warfighters have everything

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Speaker 8: they need. His compass is clear. He's easy to follow

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Speaker 8: because you know he has our back. I was thinking backstage.

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Speaker 8: The man who was the commander in chief when the

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Speaker 8: War Department was created was George Washington. The man who

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Speaker 8: was president when the War Department was re established. He

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Speaker 8: is President Trump, and when he found out about this

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Speaker 8: gathering of senior leaders, he said, I would be honored

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Speaker 8: to come in order to address and thank the incredible

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Speaker 8: Americans who defend our nation. He has a heart full

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Speaker 8: of gratitude and love for what you do, and we

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Speaker 8: get a chance to see it every day, and I'm

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Speaker 8: honored that this morning you all firsthand get to see

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Speaker 8: it as well. So ladies and gentlemen join me and

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Speaker 8: welcoming the forty fifth and forty seventh President of the

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Speaker 8: United States, our commander in Chief, Donald J. Trump.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much, Pete. That great job you're doing, too,

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Speaker 7: fantastic job. I've never walked into a room so so.

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Speaker 7: And before this is don't laugh, don't leave. You'ren love

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Speaker 7: to do that. You know. We just have a good time.

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Speaker 7: And if you want to applaud, you applau And if

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Speaker 7: you want to do anything you want, you can do

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Speaker 7: anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying,

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Speaker 7: you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank,

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Speaker 7: there goes your future. You just feel nice and loose, okay,

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Speaker 7: because we're all on the same team. And I was

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Speaker 7: told that, sir, you won't hear you won't hear a

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Speaker 7: murmur in the room. They said we had to loosen

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Speaker 7: these guys up a little bit. So you just have

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Speaker 7: a good time. But I want to thank Secretary Hegseat

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Speaker 7: and General Kane, General raising Kine for a reason they

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Speaker 7: call him that. When I heard his name, I said,

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Speaker 7: you're the guy I'm looking for. The jew chiefs of

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Speaker 7: staff and so many others in this room together represent

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Speaker 7: the greatest and most elite fighting force in the history

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Speaker 7: of the world, the United States Military. We're very proud

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Speaker 7: of our military. Rebuilt the military during my first terms,

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Speaker 7: one of the greatest achievements. We had the greatest economy

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Speaker 7: in history, and I built the military. Those are the

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Speaker 7: two things I say more than anything else. And I

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Speaker 7: also kept us safe at the borders. We had very

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Speaker 7: good borders. We didn't have people coming in from jails

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Speaker 7: and prisons and everything like took place over the last

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Speaker 7: four years. They'll never forget what happened to this country

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Speaker 7: over the last four years. With the incompetence. There could

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Speaker 7: be no higher honor than to serve as you're a

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Speaker 7: commander in chief. It is a great honor. And look

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Speaker 7: at you, just incredible people. Central casting of my dad.

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Speaker 7: To each and every one of you, thank you for

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Speaker 7: your unwavering devotion to the armed forces and to the

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Speaker 7: country that we've all sworn a sacred oath to defend.

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Speaker 7: We all have that oath, every one of us. I'm

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Speaker 7: thrilled to be here this morning to address the senior

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Speaker 7: leadership of what is once again known around the world

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Speaker 7: as the Department of War. I know Pete spoke about it.

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Speaker 7: He gave a great speech. I thought, great speech. I

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Speaker 7: don't want him to get so good. I hate that,

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Speaker 7: you know, I hate it. I almost fired him. I said,

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Speaker 7: you can't. I don't want to go on after that.

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Speaker 7: Now he gave a great speech, but he talked about

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Speaker 7: Department of War. We were sitting there. I said, didn't

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Speaker 7: it used to be called the Department of War. Then

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Speaker 7: he goes, yes, sir, they changed it like in the

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Speaker 7: early fifties. So we won the First World War, we

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Speaker 7: won the Second World War, we won everything in between,

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Speaker 7: and everything before that we only won. And then we

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Speaker 7: went away woke. That was probably the first sign of wokeshness.

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Speaker 7: And we changed you to defense instead of war. And

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Speaker 7: I said, what do you think, how do you think

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Speaker 7: if we changed you back? Would that be a nice idea?

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Speaker 7: And Pete loved it immediately. Some people think they thought

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Speaker 7: about it, you know, they gave it a little thought.

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Speaker 7: But in the end we did it. And I have

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Speaker 7: to be honest, it's so popular. It's I thought would

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Speaker 7: be met with fury on the left. But they're sort

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Speaker 7: of giving up. I must be honest with you. They've

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Speaker 7: had it. They've had it with Trump. They've been after

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Speaker 7: me for so many years. Now here we are here,

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Speaker 7: we are come to the White House anytime you'd like.

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Speaker 7: Now they'd given up. Bad a lot of bad people.

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Speaker 7: But all over that's been so popular, it's been very popular.

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Speaker 7: I really thought that we were going to have to

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Speaker 7: sort of fight it through. There's been no fight. There's

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Speaker 7: been no fight like what I called the Gulf of

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Speaker 7: America the Gulf of America because to me, it was

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Speaker 7: always the Gulf of America. I could never understand we

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Speaker 7: have ninety two percent of the frontage, and for years,

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Speaker 7: actually three hundred and fifty years, they were there before us,

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Speaker 7: it was called the Gulf of Mexico. I just had

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Speaker 7: this idea. I'm looking at a map, I'm saying, we

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Speaker 7: have most of the frontage. Why is it Gulf of Mexico.

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Speaker 7: Why isn't it the Gulf of America. And I made

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Speaker 7: the change and went smoothly. I mean, we had a

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Speaker 7: couple of fake news outlets that refused to make the change,

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Speaker 7: and then one of them, AP took us to court

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Speaker 7: and we won, and the judge, who was a somewhat

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Speaker 7: liberal judge, said, the name is the Gulf of America.

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Speaker 7: Because AP refused to call it the Gulf of America.

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Speaker 7: They wrote, they're not a good outfit, by the way

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Speaker 7: they call it the Gulf of Mexico. I said, no,

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Speaker 7: the Gulf of America is the name, and the judge

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Speaker 7: actually said that, in fact, you can't even go into

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Speaker 7: the room because what you're doing is not appropriate. The

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Speaker 7: name is the Gulf of America. Google Maps change the name.

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Speaker 7: Everybody did, but AP wouldn't, and then we won in court.

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Speaker 7: How about that? Isn't that so cool? The Secretary Hexa

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Speaker 7: beautifully described the name change reflects far more than the

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Speaker 7: shift in branding. It's really a historic reassertion of our

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Speaker 7: purpose and our identity and our pride. That's when we

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Speaker 7: go with the word war, and you know, we want

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Speaker 7: war because we want to have no wars. But you

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Speaker 7: have to be there, and you know, sometimes you have

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Speaker 7: to do it. I have settled so many wars since

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Speaker 7: we're here almost nine months, and I've settled seven, and

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Speaker 7: yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all.

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Speaker 7: Although I don't know Pakistan India was very big, both

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Speaker 7: nuclear powers. I settled that. But yesterday could be the

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Speaker 7: settlement in the Middle East that hasn't happened for three

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Speaker 7: thousand years. I said, how long have you been fighting?

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Speaker 7: Three thousand years? So that's a long time. But we

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Speaker 7: got it, I think settled. We'll see Hamas has to agree.

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Speaker 7: They don't. It's going to be very tough on them,

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Speaker 7: but it is what it is. But all of the

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Speaker 7: Arab nations, Muslim nations have Israel has agreed. It's an

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Speaker 7: amazing thing. It just came together. War is very strange,

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Speaker 7: you know, you never know what's going to happen with war.

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Speaker 7: The easiest one of them all is Putin. I said,

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Speaker 7: number one, it's a war that would have never happened

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Speaker 7: if I were president of The election weren't rigged, and

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01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 7: if I were president of that war would have never happened,

1506
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:57,600
Speaker 7: not even a little chance. And it didn't happen for

1507
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 7: four years. But I knew Putin very well, and I

1508
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 7: thought that would be easy because I know him so

1509
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 7: well well. That one turned out to be the hardest

1510
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 7: of them all. We had some that were not settleable,

1511
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:12,120
Speaker 7: and they all got settled. So if this works out

1512
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:15,960
Speaker 7: that we did yesterday with the Middle East, then that's

1513
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:18,360
Speaker 7: that's more than a war. That's lots of wars, that's

1514
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 7: all combined. That's a lot of wars. Many of you

1515
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:23,919
Speaker 7: were over there and many different capacities in many different countries.

1516
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:27,479
Speaker 7: Was a that's a big that's a big part of

1517
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:30,360
Speaker 7: the earth. But if that works out, it would be

1518
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:33,320
Speaker 7: eight plus. I got to give myself two or three

1519
01:29:33,360 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 7: for that one, and then we just have the one

1520
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:37,640
Speaker 7: to settle. And we have to settle it up with

1521
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 7: President Putin and Zelenski going to get them together and

1522
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:44,680
Speaker 7: get it done. But the only way we can do

1523
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 7: that is through strength. I mean, if we were weak,

1524
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 7: they wouldn't even take my phone call. But we have

1525
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 7: extreme strength. We had the horror show in Afghanistan, which

1526
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:58,560
Speaker 7: is really the reason I think that Putin went in.

1527
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 7: He saw that horror show by Biden and his team

1528
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 7: of incompetent people, and that showed I think it gave

1529
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:07,839
Speaker 7: him a path in. I wasn't there any long longer.

1530
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 7: I watched that and was so so horrible. I think

1531
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:14,560
Speaker 7: it was the most embarrassing day in the history of

1532
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 7: our country. And now we're back and that's it. We're

1533
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 7: not going to have any of that crap happened. I

1534
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:25,160
Speaker 7: can tell you that was terrible, so terrible. Together, we're

1535
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:29,400
Speaker 7: reawakening the warrior spirit. And this is a spirit that

1536
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 7: won and built this nation. And from the cavalry that

1537
01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 7: tamed the great planes, to the ferocious and yielding power

1538
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 7: of Patent Bradley and the great General Douglas Macgarth, and

1539
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 7: these were all great men in this effort. We're a team.

1540
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:50,599
Speaker 7: And so my message to you is very simple. I

1541
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 7: am with you, I support you, and as president, I

1542
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,200
Speaker 7: have your backs one hundred percent. You'll never see me

1543
01:30:56,240 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 7: even waver a little bit, I don't hear doing so well. Together.

1544
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:09,639
Speaker 7: Over the next few years, we're going to make our

1545
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 7: military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer, and more powerful than it

1546
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:18,800
Speaker 7: has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear as you

1547
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:21,760
Speaker 7: probably know, but we'll upgrade that also, and just hope

1548
01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 7: we never have to use it. We have to hope

1549
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:27,240
Speaker 7: we never have to use it, because the power of

1550
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 7: that is so incredible. I see things I don't think

1551
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 7: they show it to you. I really want them to

1552
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:38,639
Speaker 7: show it to you. But when you see the result

1553
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 7: of what's left you never want to use that, never, never, ever.

1554
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 7: We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently and

1555
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 7: I sent a submarine, nuclear submarine, the most lethal weapon

1556
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 7: ever made, Number one. You can't detect it. There's no way.

1557
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 7: We're twenty five years ahead of Russia and China in submarines.

1558
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:11,880
Speaker 7: Russia is actually second in submarines, China's third, but that

1559
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 7: you know they're coming up. They're coming up. They're weight

1560
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:17,799
Speaker 7: lower in nuclear two, but in five years they'll be equal.

1561
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 7: They're coming up, and you don't have to be that

1562
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 7: good with nuclear. You could have one twentieth what you

1563
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 7: have now and still do the damage that would be,

1564
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:34,160
Speaker 7: you know, that'd be so horrendous. But I announced that,

1565
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:37,519
Speaker 7: you know, based on his mention of nuclear, and it

1566
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:40,000
Speaker 7: was really a stupid person that works for I mentioned

1567
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:44,519
Speaker 7: the word nuclear. I moved a submarine or two. I

1568
01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:50,759
Speaker 7: won't say about the two over to the coast of Russia,

1569
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 7: just to be careful, because we can't let people throw

1570
01:32:55,560 --> 01:33:02,200
Speaker 7: around that word. Well at the end word. There are

1571
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 7: two end words, and you can't use either of them,

1572
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 7: can use either of them. And frankly, if it does

1573
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 7: get to use, we have more than anybody else, we

1574
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 7: have better, we have newer, but it's something we don't

1575
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 7: ever want to even have to think about. But when

1576
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 7: somebody mentions that that submarine started immediately thereafter and it's

1577
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 7: just lurking, but I'm sure we're not going to have

1578
01:33:29,320 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 7: to use it. But it's an amazing it's undetectable, totally ours.

1579
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 7: There's a totally detectable We can detect them easily. We

1580
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:45,520
Speaker 7: go right to the spot. But we have genius apparatus

1581
01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 7: that doesn't allow detection. It doesn't allow detection at all

1582
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,559
Speaker 7: by anybody above water or below water. It's incredible. We're

1583
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,960
Speaker 7: way ahead of everybody. And then and other things as

1584
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 7: a result of the exciting renewal of the spirit of

1585
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 7: our own and that's what it is. It's really reaching

1586
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 7: at spirit unprecedented heights. Over the past eight months, new

1587
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 7: enlistments I'm so proud of this have surge to recornize

1588
01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:15,720
Speaker 7: the highest we've ever had. And we used to have

1589
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:19,519
Speaker 7: recruiting shortages. If you remember, about a year and a

1590
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:22,360
Speaker 7: half ago, I was at the beginning stage of a

1591
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:26,479
Speaker 7: campaign and things came out that you couldn't get people

1592
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 7: to join the armed forces. And by the way, the

1593
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:32,679
Speaker 7: police officer, fire department. I always put the fire department

1594
01:34:32,720 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 7: in because they're great. They're great, and I got ninety

1595
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 7: five percent of their vote too. That helps. When you

1596
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 7: get ninety five percent of the vote, you always have

1597
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 7: to mention them. But they're great and they're brave. In

1598
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,080
Speaker 7: our inner cities, which we're going to be talking about

1599
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 7: because it's a big part of war. Now, it's a

1600
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 7: big part of war. But the firemen go up in

1601
01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:53,599
Speaker 7: ladders and you have people shooting at them while they're

1602
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 7: up in ladders. I don't even know if anybody heard that,

1603
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:58,720
Speaker 7: and I said, don't talk about it much, but I

1604
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 7: think you have to incredible. They're up in one of

1605
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:04,920
Speaker 7: these ladders that goes way up to the sky, rescuing people,

1606
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 7: and you have animals shooting at them, shooting bullets at

1607
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 7: firemen that are way up in death territory. You fall

1608
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 7: off that letter, it's over. It's over. They don't even

1609
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:21,559
Speaker 7: have to inspect you when you hit the ground, and

1610
01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 7: you have people shooting bullets at them in some of

1611
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,400
Speaker 7: these inner cities. We're not going to let that happen.

1612
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 7: So I always mentioned the fireman because that's actually a

1613
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 7: big problem we have they are unbelievable. Like you, they're

1614
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:38,639
Speaker 7: unbelievable people. For the first time run record. In twenty

1615
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 7: twenty five, the Navy, Air Force, and Space Force all

1616
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 7: met or surpassed their recruiting goals three months early. That

1617
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:53,559
Speaker 7: never happened before. And the Army did even better. Congratulations Army.

1618
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 7: They met everything. And these were the highest standards because

1619
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 7: we're making it larger. Were much higher standards that you

1620
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 7: had four years ago, three years ago during the sleepy

1621
01:36:04,080 --> 01:36:10,320
Speaker 7: Joe Biden era, and the Army did it four months early.

1622
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 7: And you remember a year and a half ago they

1623
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:17,320
Speaker 7: said the big stories that were way behind with the Army,

1624
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 7: Air Force, the Navy, the Marines were way behind, Coast

1625
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 7: Guard and even Space Force. I love space Worts because

1626
01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 7: that was my creation. You know, when you create something,

1627
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:29,080
Speaker 7: I love it. And the people we put in there

1628
01:36:29,080 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 7: were good. I got that right. We put in great

1629
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:34,559
Speaker 7: people initially, and we've really dominated. We really dominated in

1630
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:40,600
Speaker 7: that sphere. Now. We were way behind China and Russia

1631
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:43,240
Speaker 7: and now we dominate. Space Force turned out to be

1632
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,080
Speaker 7: a very important thing. I said from the beginning. You know,

1633
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:48,320
Speaker 7: when Biden came into office, he wanted to determine it,

1634
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:50,559
Speaker 7: and he said, and this thing called space Force, so

1635
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 7: we could get rid of that. And he got hammered

1636
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 7: by the people in this room for even suggesting it,

1637
01:36:56,800 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 7: because it's very important, one of the most important. Time

1638
01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:04,599
Speaker 7: goes by, it'll get more and more important. But we're

1639
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 7: now at one hundred and six percent of our recruiting

1640
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 7: targets for the year, and that's the best in far

1641
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:14,519
Speaker 7: more than a generation. And for the Marines, morale is

1642
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,719
Speaker 7: so strong that the Marine Corps will meet its twenty

1643
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:21,040
Speaker 7: twenty six retention targets before the end of October, which

1644
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,640
Speaker 7: never happens. And that's the earliest it's ever happened in

1645
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 7: the history of our country. And it makes you feel good,

1646
01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:30,799
Speaker 7: you know, I felt guilty. I'd go make a speech

1647
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 7: in front of never people like you. You are the

1648
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 7: you are the leaders, but people soldiers, and I felt

1649
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:44,719
Speaker 7: embarrassed because it'd be stories about you know, you couldn't

1650
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:48,559
Speaker 7: we couldn't fill up our Army, Navy air for we

1651
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:53,919
Speaker 7: couldn't fill them up. And it was headlines is headlines.

1652
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 7: It was during Biden's four years. The autopen I call

1653
01:37:57,479 --> 01:38:00,120
Speaker 7: them the auto pen that's how would you like to

1654
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 7: have your things signed by not adopandi. You know, when

1655
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 7: I have a general and I have to sign for

1656
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 7: a general because we have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper,

1657
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 7: I said, throw a little more gold on it. They

1658
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 7: deserve it. I want the a paper, not the d

1659
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 7: paper we used to sign a piece at garbage. I said,

1660
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 7: this man's going to be a general, right, yeah, I

1661
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,160
Speaker 7: don't want to use this. I want to use the big,

1662
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:25,320
Speaker 7: beautiful firm paper. I want to use the real gold writing.

1663
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:31,439
Speaker 7: When you talk about the position, and they're beautiful, but

1664
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:34,439
Speaker 7: how would you like to have that where some kids

1665
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 7: sitting in the back office is having it signed with

1666
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,639
Speaker 7: an autopen I thought about it, and I thought about

1667
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 7: your people, first admirals, generals, I said, somebody works as

1668
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:49,599
Speaker 7: it's whole life. He gets into maybe the academy's or wherever.

1669
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:52,799
Speaker 7: But however, you got there, and you go through years

1670
01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 7: of work, and now you become an admiral or a

1671
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 7: general or whatever. And when you do, the President of

1672
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 7: the United say, it just signs your commission, as you know,

1673
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 7: and that commission is beautifully displayed, and I signed it. Actually,

1674
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 7: I love my signature. I really know everyone loves my signature.

1675
01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 7: But I signed it very proudly, and I always think

1676
01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 7: to myself, how can you have an autopen sign this.

1677
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:19,800
Speaker 7: It's just so disrespectful to me. It's just totally disrespectful.

1678
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 7: And it turned out that almost everything he did was

1679
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:26,400
Speaker 7: signed by Autopen, except for what he gave his son

1680
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:30,479
Speaker 7: Hunter pardon. He signed that one. And that's actually the

1681
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 7: worst signature I've ever seen. That was the bit the

1682
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:37,720
Speaker 7: autopen looks much better. But as leaders are, commitment to

1683
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:40,439
Speaker 7: every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure

1684
01:39:40,439 --> 01:39:43,800
Speaker 7: that American military remains the most lethal and dominant on

1685
01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:46,800
Speaker 7: the planet, not merely for a few years, but for

1686
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:51,599
Speaker 7: the decades and generations to come, for centuries. We must

1687
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 7: be so strong that no nation will dare challenge us,

1688
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 7: so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us, and

1689
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,559
Speaker 7: so capable that no adversary can even think about beating us.

1690
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:08,280
Speaker 7: And we've had it recently. I had India and Pakistan

1691
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 7: were going at it, and I called them both and

1692
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:13,560
Speaker 7: in this case I used trade. I'm not going to

1693
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 7: trade with He used to two nuclear nations, big nuclear No, no, no,

1694
01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:20,920
Speaker 7: you cannot do that. I said, yes, I can you

1695
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 7: go into this freaking war that I'm hearing about you know.

1696
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 7: Actually they just shut down seven planes. Seven planes. It

1697
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:30,639
Speaker 7: was starting. There's a lot of bad blood, and I said,

1698
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:32,040
Speaker 7: you do this. It was not going to be any

1699
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:37,160
Speaker 7: trade and I stopped it was going. It was raging

1700
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:40,639
Speaker 7: for four days, but that was just the beginning and

1701
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 7: we stopped it. It was a great thing. And the

1702
01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:47,920
Speaker 7: Prime Minister of Pakistan was here along with the Field

1703
01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:51,479
Speaker 7: Marshal who's a very important guy in Pakistan, and he

1704
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 7: was here three days ago. And I didn't even realize

1705
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 7: it as beautiful as he said it. But he said

1706
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 7: that to a group of people that were with us,

1707
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 7: two generals, but a group he said, this man saved

1708
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 7: millions of lives because he saved the war from going

1709
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 7: on and that war was going to get very bad,

1710
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:16,679
Speaker 7: very very bad. President Trump saved millions and millions of lives.

1711
01:41:16,720 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 7: That was a bad war. And I was very honored.

1712
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 7: I love the way he said it. Susie Wilds was there.

1713
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 7: She said, that was the most beautiful thing. But we

1714
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:30,639
Speaker 7: saved a lot of them, saved a lot of them.

1715
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:37,519
Speaker 7: Even in Africa. We saved the Congo with Rwanda, they've

1716
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,479
Speaker 7: been fighting for thirty one years. Ten million people dead.

1717
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 7: I got that one done and very proud of it.

1718
01:41:45,280 --> 01:41:49,240
Speaker 7: So if this works out, we'll have eight eight in

1719
01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 7: eight months. That's pretty good. Nobody's ever done that. Will

1720
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 7: you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They'll give it.

1721
01:41:57,320 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 7: They'll give it to some guy that didn't do a

1722
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:01,320
Speaker 7: damn thing. Give it to a guy that wrote a

1723
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 7: book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it

1724
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:06,519
Speaker 7: took to solve the war. Said, he'll get the Nobel Prize.

1725
01:42:06,520 --> 01:42:10,160
Speaker 7: We'll go to a writer now. But well, let's see

1726
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:12,760
Speaker 7: what happens. But it's to be a big insult to

1727
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:14,760
Speaker 7: our country. I will tell you that I don't want it.

1728
01:42:14,800 --> 01:42:17,640
Speaker 7: I want the country to get it. It should get it,

1729
01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:19,680
Speaker 7: because there's never been anything I think of it. So

1730
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 7: if this happens, I think it will. I don't say

1731
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 7: that lightly because I know more about deals than anybody.

1732
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:26,880
Speaker 7: That's what my whole life was based on. And they

1733
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 7: can change, and this can certainly change. But we have

1734
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 7: just about everybody. We have one signature that we need,

1735
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:39,000
Speaker 7: and that signature will pay in hell. If they don't

1736
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 7: sign I hope they signed for their own good and

1737
01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 7: we create something really great. To have done eight of

1738
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 7: them is just like such an honor. And then we

1739
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:56,600
Speaker 7: have Putin and Zeliski, the easiest one of them all.

1740
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 7: I said that one I'll get done. I thought that

1741
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 7: was going to be first. The other so much harder.

1742
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 7: Some of them Azerbaijan, this was going on for thirty

1743
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 7: six years. They said it's not solvable, so you can't

1744
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:12,519
Speaker 7: don't do it. I said, I will do it. I

1745
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:14,200
Speaker 7: will do it, and I got on the phone with

1746
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:18,040
Speaker 7: the two countries. They were great. They were great. I

1747
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:20,280
Speaker 7: knew immediately. I knew as soon as I started talking

1748
01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:21,880
Speaker 7: to him, we're going to solve that war. We did.

1749
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:25,240
Speaker 7: Now they're so happy. Now they're friends. Once said he's

1750
01:43:25,280 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 7: been president for thirty two years. Twenty two years. He said,

1751
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 7: you know, for twenty two years, I did nothing but

1752
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:34,599
Speaker 7: kill his people. They were in the room together at

1753
01:43:34,600 --> 01:43:37,880
Speaker 7: the Oval office and they started off spread like this,

1754
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:43,040
Speaker 7: have the beautiful, resolute task. And one was here and

1755
01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:46,720
Speaker 7: one was here. You couldn't get further away. That's the

1756
01:43:46,760 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 7: furthest I've ever seen two people in front of me.

1757
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,759
Speaker 7: And as the hour went by, they got closer closer, closer,

1758
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 7: and at the end of the hour we had it done,

1759
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 7: and they hugged and hugged and hugged, and I said,

1760
01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 7: that's so nice, and you're gonna remained friends. And I

1761
01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:03,519
Speaker 7: spoke to them, one of them the other day. He said, no,

1762
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:06,840
Speaker 7: he's now my friend, but for twenty two years. He's

1763
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 7: been the head of Azerba for twenty two years. And

1764
01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 7: the other guy, great guy to seven And you know

1765
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,520
Speaker 7: that war, that was a war that was not solvable,

1766
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 7: he said, for seven years. The other one said, for

1767
01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,280
Speaker 7: twenty two years, all I did was kill his people.

1768
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 7: That's all I've done. I said, well, we're going to

1769
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 7: put us up to that. So we solved that. So

1770
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:30,840
Speaker 7: it's a great thing. It's a great feeling. You know,

1771
01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:36,719
Speaker 7: you're saving Kosovo and Serbia. You're saving so many lives

1772
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,799
Speaker 7: doing this, if you can do it. But our people

1773
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 7: deserve nothing less than the very best, and we're never

1774
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:46,040
Speaker 7: going to let them down. And if we can solve

1775
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 7: wars instead that you're having to fight wars, wouldn't that

1776
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 7: be wonderful? Wouldn't that be wonderful. That's why one of

1777
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 7: the first executive orders I signed upon taking office was

1778
01:44:57,160 --> 01:45:00,960
Speaker 7: to restore the principle of merit. That's the most important

1779
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 7: word other than the word tariff. I love Tariff's most

1780
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 7: beautiful word. But I'm not allowed to say that anymore.

1781
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:12,519
Speaker 7: I said, tariff is my favorite word. I love the

1782
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,479
Speaker 7: word tariff. You know, we're becoming rich as hell. We

1783
01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:17,960
Speaker 7: have a big case of further Supreme Court, but I

1784
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:21,040
Speaker 7: can't imagine because this is what other nations have done

1785
01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 7: to us, and do we have great legal grazlo. But

1786
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 7: you still have a case of being very bad. Something happened.

1787
01:45:28,439 --> 01:45:33,680
Speaker 7: But I said, my favorite word in the English Dictionary

1788
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:36,599
Speaker 7: is the word tariff. And people thought that was strange,

1789
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:39,479
Speaker 7: and the fake news came over and they really hit

1790
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 7: me hard on it. They said, what about love? What

1791
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:46,680
Speaker 7: about religion? What about God? What about wife? Family? I

1792
01:45:46,760 --> 01:45:50,120
Speaker 7: got killed when I said tariff is my favorite word,

1793
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 7: so I change It's not my fifth favorite word, and

1794
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:57,160
Speaker 7: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that, but they

1795
01:45:57,240 --> 01:45:59,640
Speaker 7: hit me hard. But it is. I mean, when you

1796
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:03,599
Speaker 7: look at we've taken in trillions of dollars, we're rich

1797
01:46:04,360 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 7: rich again, and they'll never be when we finished this out,

1798
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 7: There'll never be any wealth like what we have. Other

1799
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:15,000
Speaker 7: countries were taking advantage of us for years and years.

1800
01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 7: You know that better than anybody and now we're treating

1801
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:22,120
Speaker 7: them fairly. But the money coming in is we've never

1802
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 7: seen anything like it. The other day they had thirty

1803
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:28,280
Speaker 7: one billion that they found three one billion dollars. So

1804
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 7: we found thirty one billion dollars and we're not sure

1805
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 7: from where it came. A gentleman came a financial guy.

1806
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:39,479
Speaker 7: I said, well, what does that mean, said, we don't

1807
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 7: know where it came. I said, check the tariff shelf. No, sir,

1808
01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:46,280
Speaker 7: the tariffs haven't started in that sector yet. I said,

1809
01:46:46,360 --> 01:46:49,879
Speaker 7: yes they have, they started seven weeks ago. Check it

1810
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 7: comes back twenty minutes, say, sir, you're right. It came

1811
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:56,840
Speaker 7: from tariffs. Thirty one billion. That's enough to buy a

1812
01:46:56,880 --> 01:47:01,640
Speaker 7: lot of battleships. Admiral, to use an old term, I

1813
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:04,400
Speaker 7: think we should maybe start thinking about battleships. By the way,

1814
01:47:05,200 --> 01:47:07,360
Speaker 7: you know we have a secretary of the Navy. Came

1815
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:09,960
Speaker 7: to me because I look at the Iowa out in

1816
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:14,639
Speaker 7: California and I look at different ships and the old

1817
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:16,960
Speaker 7: pictures I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love

1818
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 7: Victory at Sea. Look at these admirals. It's got to

1819
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 7: be your old time in black and white. When I

1820
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 7: look at those ships, they came with the destroyers alongside

1821
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:27,360
Speaker 7: of them, and man, nothing was going to start. They

1822
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:30,679
Speaker 7: were twenty deep and they were in a straight line

1823
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 7: and there was nothing going to stop them. And we

1824
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:37,760
Speaker 7: actually talk about, you know, those ships. Some people would say, no,

1825
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:40,280
Speaker 7: that's old technology. I don't know. I don't think it's

1826
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:43,720
Speaker 7: old technology when you look at those guns. But it's

1827
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 7: something we're actually considering the concept of battleship. They six

1828
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 7: inch side, solid steel, not aluminum. Aluminum that melts if

1829
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:55,479
Speaker 7: it looks at a missile coming at it starts melting

1830
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 7: as the missiles about two miles away. Now those ships,

1831
01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 7: they don't make them that way anymore. But you look

1832
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 7: at it, and your secretary likes it, and I'm sort

1833
01:48:05,080 --> 01:48:07,920
Speaker 7: of open to it. And bullets are a lot less

1834
01:48:07,920 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 7: expensive than missiles. A lot of reasons I should take

1835
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 7: a vote, but I'm afraid to take that vote because

1836
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 7: I may get voted out on that one. But I

1837
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:22,720
Speaker 7: tell you it's something seriously considering. There were powers, There

1838
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 7: were big powers. They were just about as mean and

1839
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:30,360
Speaker 7: scary as you could be. So we'll look at that.

1840
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,640
Speaker 7: One of the biggest cases that we won was the

1841
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:36,680
Speaker 7: decision of the United States Supreme Court to allow us

1842
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 7: to proceed on the word merit. Merit, so those two

1843
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:45,800
Speaker 7: words are right up there. So this is, I would say,

1844
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 7: the opposite if you ask for a definition, the opposite

1845
01:48:49,320 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 7: of political correctness. We went through political correct where you

1846
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 7: had to have people that were totally unfit to be

1847
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:00,599
Speaker 7: doing what you're doing. For many reasons. I won't get

1848
01:49:00,640 --> 01:49:04,559
Speaker 7: into them, but for many reasons they were unfit. Now

1849
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:09,759
Speaker 7: it's all based on merit. That was such an unbelievable decision.

1850
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 7: I didn't expect we were going to win that one.

1851
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 7: We went in, we said we need it. We went

1852
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:17,760
Speaker 7: in for colleges, you know where kids with a sea

1853
01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:21,040
Speaker 7: average you're getting into the best colleges, and the kids

1854
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:23,920
Speaker 7: with eight averages won't get in. And kids with the

1855
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:26,639
Speaker 7: highest boards and the highest marks and the best marks

1856
01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:30,080
Speaker 7: couldn't get into the best schools. And people that had

1857
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:33,759
Speaker 7: not good boards and not very good marks I mean okay,

1858
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 7: but nothing special, they were getting into our best colleges.

1859
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:39,320
Speaker 7: I said, this is just crazy. We can't run. You

1860
01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 7: can't run a country like this. And it was lingering

1861
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 7: for years and it got to the Supreme Court and

1862
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 7: we won that decision. Merit everything's based on merit. You're

1863
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:54,240
Speaker 7: all based on merit. We're not going to have somebody

1864
01:49:54,280 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 7: taken your place for political reasons because they are politically

1865
01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 7: correct and you're not. We take the people that are

1866
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 7: going to do the best job. It's a It's very simple,

1867
01:50:06,360 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 7: and that's the way our country was built. We were

1868
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,720
Speaker 7: built on merit. We got away from it for a

1869
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:16,120
Speaker 7: long time, and everyone understands it, and it was done,

1870
01:50:16,200 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 7: it was approved. I give great credit to the Supreme

1871
01:50:19,080 --> 01:50:22,479
Speaker 7: Court because I thought they had tremendous courage. I didn't

1872
01:50:22,479 --> 01:50:26,360
Speaker 7: think they'd do that. That was tremendous. I give maybe

1873
01:50:26,400 --> 01:50:29,960
Speaker 7: for that decision, almost more than anything, because it's a

1874
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:33,519
Speaker 7: hard decision to make. It's really hard. The apparatus of

1875
01:50:33,560 --> 01:50:36,640
Speaker 7: our country was not set up for merit. It was

1876
01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 7: set up for political correctness. And you can never be

1877
01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 7: great if you're going to do that. And we're going

1878
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:47,639
Speaker 7: to be greater than we ever were before. We're bringing

1879
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:52,600
Speaker 7: back a focus on fitness, ability, character, and strength. And

1880
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:56,360
Speaker 7: it's because the purposes of American military is not to

1881
01:50:56,400 --> 01:51:01,280
Speaker 7: protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our report public and

1882
01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 7: it's the republic that we dearly love. It's to protect

1883
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:08,960
Speaker 7: our country. We will not be politically correct when it

1884
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:12,760
Speaker 7: comes to defending American freedom, and we will be a

1885
01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 7: fighting and winning machine. We want to fight, we want

1886
01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:17,759
Speaker 7: to win, and we want to fight as little as possible.

1887
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 7: You have to count on people like me to keep

1888
01:51:19,600 --> 01:51:21,680
Speaker 7: you out of wars because we don't want to go

1889
01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:23,559
Speaker 7: into wards. Many of the wars that I just told

1890
01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:26,639
Speaker 7: you about. We could have entered those wars and settled

1891
01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:28,719
Speaker 7: them in a different way. Lose a lot of our troops,

1892
01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:34,759
Speaker 7: and we're going to settle them. I guess differently. Maybe not. Actually, actually,

1893
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:36,559
Speaker 7: you might not have been able to settle them. We

1894
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 7: just would have been in the middle of a lot

1895
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:43,680
Speaker 7: of firepower. But when we do need it, you're going

1896
01:51:43,720 --> 01:51:48,280
Speaker 7: to be so ready and you know it. But very importantly,

1897
01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 7: with that goal in mind, I've committed to spending over

1898
01:51:52,600 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 7: one trillion dollars on our military in twenty twenty six,

1899
01:51:56,960 --> 01:51:59,559
Speaker 7: and that's the most in the history of our country.

1900
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 7: That's a lot of money. I hope you like that,

1901
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 7: ma'ams and sirs, I hope you like it. That's a

1902
01:52:07,600 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 7: hell of a lot of money. We have the best

1903
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:13,760
Speaker 7: of everything. Every branch is seeing major investments and as

1904
01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:17,400
Speaker 7: I announced in the Oval Office in March, we are

1905
01:52:17,479 --> 01:52:21,920
Speaker 7: rapidly moving forward with the first ever sixth generation fighter jet.

1906
01:52:21,960 --> 01:52:25,599
Speaker 7: I didn't name it. I did not name it. Boeing

1907
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:28,879
Speaker 7: came in and they said, sir, this is our submittal.

1908
01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:32,880
Speaker 7: It's the greatest fighting jet ever done. And you know

1909
01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 7: they're testing all these planes, all the companies are testing,

1910
01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:39,160
Speaker 7: and this one tested like through the room, and they said,

1911
01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:42,880
Speaker 7: we like to name it the F forty seven. I said,

1912
01:52:43,120 --> 01:52:46,240
Speaker 7: let me think about it. Then, after thinking for about

1913
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:50,759
Speaker 7: two seconds, I said, okay, you know that means forty seven.

1914
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:53,680
Speaker 7: I'm forty seven, so I'm forty five, forty six and

1915
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:56,320
Speaker 7: forty seven. Yeah, if you think about it. I just

1916
01:52:56,320 --> 01:52:59,599
Speaker 7: don't want the credit for forty six. I don't want

1917
01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:03,679
Speaker 7: to have their open borders and people coming in from

1918
01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 7: all over the world, including jails and mental insid I

1919
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 7: don't want that on my record, but I like having it.

1920
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 7: We're investing tens of billions of dollars in modernizing our

1921
01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 7: nuclear deterrence capabilities like never before, and we've begun construction

1922
01:53:19,479 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 7: on what we call the Golden Dome missile defense shield.

1923
01:53:22,120 --> 01:53:24,639
Speaker 7: It'll be the most sophisticated in the world. You watched

1924
01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:28,160
Speaker 7: it do well until they had some problems at the

1925
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:33,920
Speaker 7: end with a little bit of a lack of ammunition,

1926
01:53:34,720 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 7: defensive ammunition. But they've got that taken care of. But

1927
01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:41,599
Speaker 7: I tell you it's what we're doing is so good,

1928
01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 7: and we deserve it, you know, we help other countries

1929
01:53:44,040 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 7: with it. We don't have it ourselves. And Canada called

1930
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:49,720
Speaker 7: me a couple of weeks ago they want to be

1931
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:52,679
Speaker 7: part of it, to which I said, well, wa, don't

1932
01:53:52,720 --> 01:53:55,719
Speaker 7: you just join our country. You become fifty one, become

1933
01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:59,559
Speaker 7: the fifty first state, and you get it for free.

1934
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:03,000
Speaker 7: So I don't know if that made a big impact,

1935
01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:04,920
Speaker 7: but it does make a lot of sense. It actually

1936
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:06,640
Speaker 7: make because they're having a hard time up there in

1937
01:54:06,720 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 7: Canada now because as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming

1938
01:54:10,640 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 7: into our country. We have more investment than we've ever

1939
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:17,559
Speaker 7: had before, seventeen trillion dollars coming in as an example,

1940
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:22,160
Speaker 7: in four years Biden didn't have one trillion. We have

1941
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:26,080
Speaker 7: seventeen trillion more than that in eight months coming in.

1942
01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:30,040
Speaker 7: And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe, from

1943
01:54:30,080 --> 01:54:35,040
Speaker 7: all over AI, auto plants, everybody's coming back to the

1944
01:54:35,120 --> 01:54:39,360
Speaker 7: United States. Under my budget, we will be expanding the

1945
01:54:39,440 --> 01:54:44,280
Speaker 7: US Navy by at least nineteen ships next year, including submarines, destroyers,

1946
01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:47,200
Speaker 7: assault ships, and more. And it's going to be much

1947
01:54:47,200 --> 01:54:49,879
Speaker 7: more than that as we go along, because we basically

1948
01:54:49,960 --> 01:54:52,480
Speaker 7: don't build ships anymore. We do build submarines, but we

1949
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:57,960
Speaker 7: don't build ships. Do you know the Second World War,

1950
01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:00,520
Speaker 7: they were freighters and different types. We were doing a

1951
01:55:00,560 --> 01:55:04,800
Speaker 7: ship a day, and now we don't do ships. And

1952
01:55:04,840 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 7: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do.

1953
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:08,880
Speaker 7: I'm a very esthetic person and I don't like some

1954
01:55:08,960 --> 01:55:13,240
Speaker 7: of the ships you're doing esthetically. They say, oh, it's stealth.

1955
01:55:13,280 --> 01:55:17,600
Speaker 7: They said, it's not an ugly ship. It's not necessary

1956
01:55:18,160 --> 01:55:21,720
Speaker 7: in order to say your stealth. By the way, the

1957
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:24,560
Speaker 7: B two bombers were incredible. That is stealth. They went

1958
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 7: into that. I was with General Kahan and Pete were

1959
01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:33,840
Speaker 7: they we go the war room. But we're watching them

1960
01:55:33,880 --> 01:55:36,760
Speaker 7: go in and they were totally untouched. They were not seen.

1961
01:55:37,040 --> 01:55:39,520
Speaker 7: They were literally not seeing. They dropped their bombs. They hit,

1962
01:55:39,560 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 7: every single one of them hit its target. It was

1963
01:55:42,160 --> 01:55:47,800
Speaker 7: total obliteration. CNN when we came back, Fake news CNN. Oh,

1964
01:55:47,840 --> 01:55:51,040
Speaker 7: their camera just went off you know, their camera. Every

1965
01:55:51,040 --> 01:55:53,240
Speaker 7: time I mentioned they turned the camera up because it's

1966
01:55:53,280 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 7: never