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Speaker 5: This is the Charlie Kirk Show.

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Speaker 5: Everybody right now, Pete Hegseth, our next Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 7: He was ashall in twenty fourteen and twenty seventeen in

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Speaker 7: Scott first, congratulations on your nomination, Thank you Santa, and

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Speaker 5: Right there, this is Mark Milly. What on earth did

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Speaker 6: She is such a liar on Miss Kahamas is on

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Speaker 5: The physical fitness standards are so much lower for women

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Speaker 10: Public comment, saying that women absolutely should not be in comment.

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Speaker 10: So help me understand, mister Hag said, what extraordinary event

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Speaker 3: Senator again, I very much appreciate you up my comments

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Speaker 10: You, quoting you from the podcast women shouldn't be in

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Speaker 9: I don't see that at all, mister Haig, sith.

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Speaker 10: What I see is that there's a thirty two day

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Speaker 9: And I just want to know what changed in.

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Speaker 10: The thirty two days that the song you sang is

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Speaker 3: Sing, Senator, the concerns I have and the concerns of

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Speaker 10: Let me make a suggestion about what happened in that

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Speaker 10: Now I've heard of deathbed conversions, but this is the

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Speaker 10: It's something I would have liked to talk to you

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Speaker 10: But the question I have for you on this is

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Speaker 8: Senator.

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Speaker 2: It's not even center.

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Speaker 3: It's not even a question I've thought about, because it's

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Speaker 9: I understand that yes or no here time is short.

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Speaker 2: I would consult with the President about what the policy.

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Speaker 10: In other words, you're quite sure that every general who

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Speaker 9: For ten years.

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Speaker 10: You're not willing to make that same pledge.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a general, Senator.

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Speaker 9: You'll be the one. Let us just be clear in

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Speaker 10: So you're saying sauce for the goose, but certainly not

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Speaker 3: I would want to see what the policy.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Warren, Senator Tobogum.

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Speaker 11: Uh topic conduct at vets for freedom for Hexseth, I'd

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Speaker 8: For the record police without objection.

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Speaker 11: General Heseth, I mean, mister Heseth, thank thanks for being

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Speaker 11: That's what it's all about, though, h You're a tough guy.

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Speaker 6: That's the point we must realize.

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Speaker 5: The military is slipping at such a dramatic pace that

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Speaker 5: Is what's missing, not more academics. We need less academics

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Speaker 5: But here's what's amazing at the at the lowest rank.

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Speaker 5: That's nice, but it says points, not age. Oh, I

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Speaker 5: see the older people have lower standards, but it's labeled

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Speaker 5: this points. Very Whoever designed this should be fired. Pete

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Speaker 5: heggsas should fire this person. It's very confusing because it

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Speaker 5: says points and then it goes okay anyway, doesn't even

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Speaker 5: label age, so I see how it is okay, So

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Speaker 5: it's based on age. So for example, a twenty year

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Speaker 5: old woman has to only be able to deadlift two

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Speaker 5: hundred and ten pounds, but a twenty year old man

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Speaker 5: has to be able to deadlift three hundred and forty pounds.

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Speaker 5: Said differently, a woman does not even need to be

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Speaker 5: able to pick up or carry a fellow man with

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Speaker 5: gear on at the very base minimum standard, so they

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Speaker 5: should have to be as strong in order for a

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Speaker 5: woman to serve in the military, if a woman can

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Speaker 5: deadlift three d and forty pounds, welcome in. If a

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Speaker 5: woman can do the push up standards and could do

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Speaker 5: the plank standards, which actually the plank standards are equal,

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Speaker 5: or the mile standards, So why are we lowering the

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Speaker 5: standards of the finest fighting force ever in the pursuit

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Speaker 5: of diversity? And diversity is not our strength. Equity is

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Speaker 5: not our strength, Inclusion is not our strength. Unity to

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Speaker 5: kill the enemy is our strength. There should be one standard,

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Speaker 5: full stop. This is not controversial. Ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 5: the country agrees. And for this, by the way, women

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Speaker 5: in frontline combat roles? Has that made our military better

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Speaker 5: or not as good? What war have we won since

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Speaker 5: we've allowed women in frontline military roles?

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Speaker 6: Now, seriously, what war have we won?

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Speaker 5: We got embarrassed in Iraq, we got embarrassed in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 6: We have lost our edge.

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Speaker 5: And Pete haeg Seths embodies the type of masculinity that

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Speaker 5: we need back into the.

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Speaker 6: United States military. We're going to keep going through the breaks.

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Speaker 5: As Tubberville asked Pete Haig Steth questions, stay right there.

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Speaker 11: Secretary of Defense has nearly double from fifteen hundred to

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Speaker 11: three thousand. Civilians on joint chiefs has increased from one

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Speaker 11: hundred and ninety one to almost one thousand. Our military

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Speaker 11: instraint goes down. Our staff numbers are exploding. What are

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Speaker 11: you going to do about that, Senator? We're going to

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Speaker 11: address that. We won World War Two with seven four

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Speaker 11: star generals. Today we have forty four for star generals.

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Speaker 11: There's an verse relationship.

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Speaker 3: Between the size of staffs and victory on the battlefield.

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Speaker 3: We don't need more bureaucracy at the top. We need

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Speaker 3: more war fighters.

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Speaker 2: And power at the bottom.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be my job, working with those

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Speaker 3: that we hire and those inside the administration, to identify

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Speaker 3: those places where fact can be cut so it can

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Speaker 3: go toward lethality.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Tuberville, Senator Peters, thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: Chairman Strike Zeff, welcome to this committee.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have far too much partisanship in our

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Speaker 1: country right now. I think it's eating away at the

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Speaker 1: fabric of what has always made this country great, about

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Speaker 1: bringing people together from all sorts of backgrounds, all sorts

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Speaker 1: of experiences. And we know that in our motto, together

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Speaker 1: as one, we are strong, and so we in this committee,

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Speaker 1: and certainly I speak for myself, but I think I

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Speaker 1: speak for any of my colleagues. Want to take partisanship

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Speaker 1: out of this proceeding as much as we can.

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Speaker 2: I'm not naive.

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Speaker 1: If it's out there, I get it. But we've got

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Speaker 1: to try to take that out. And I want you

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Speaker 1: to know that I was a member of this committee.

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Speaker 1: I have voted in a bipartisan way for secretaries of Defense.

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Speaker 1: I voted for two secretaries of Defense when Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: was previously president.

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Speaker 2: We had those two. We had I think.

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Speaker 1: Five total secretaries of Defense during that four year period,

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Speaker 1: So we want to keep that in mind as to

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Speaker 1: what we might see in this coming administration. But I voted,

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Speaker 1: and we voted by a big margin for those folks

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Speaker 1: as well. But part of that was the process and

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Speaker 1: having an opportunity to get to know the person and

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Speaker 1: to understand their qualifications and understand the standards. I made

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Speaker 1: repeated requests to meet with you prior to this meeting.

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Speaker 1: I know many of my other colleagues also wanted to

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Speaker 1: meet with you. I did that with the other nominees

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Speaker 1: that I was happy to vote for. I thought they

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Speaker 1: were highly qualified individuals and true professionals, and.

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Speaker 2: Yet I could never get a meeting with you.

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Speaker 1: Was there a reason you were afraid to have one

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Speaker 1: on one meetings with some of my colleagues before the hearing.

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Speaker 3: Senator, I know there was a great deal aboutreach to multiple.

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Speaker 2: Offices, schedules get full, There's a lot going on. I

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Speaker 2: was ready, and I welcome the opportunity. I was reading

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Speaker 2: my scheduled to have an opportunity to sit down.

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Speaker 8: I was ready.

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Speaker 1: It would have been so much better to have that

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Speaker 1: opportunity to talk beforehand. I think that's a big mistake

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't set us on a good course when

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Speaker 1: you refuse to meet with people and have a professional

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Speaker 1: conversation about the huge challenges that we face at the

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Speaker 1: Department of Defense. My colleagues, the folks who introduced you,

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Speaker 1: and others. The Chairman has mentioned about the management of

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Speaker 1: the DOOD as a concern, cost overruns, delays on weapons systems.

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Speaker 1: We need strong management at Parliament of Defense first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: We've got to have someone who's going to grab the

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Speaker 1: reins and give the taxpayers value for having the most

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Speaker 1: lethal fighting force in the world that defends freedoms. But

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Speaker 1: we got to do it in an efficient way. I've

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Speaker 1: heard about the jobs you've had in the past. Let's

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Speaker 1: just talk about qualifications. I know you had two previous positions.

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Speaker 1: How many people reported to you in those positions?

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Speaker 3: Senator At Vets for Freedom, we were a small upstart.

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Speaker 2: Our focus was just just the.

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Speaker 3: Number working on Capitol Hill, going back to the battlefield.

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Speaker 2: Just the number, of course, Slider, it's just the number place.

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Speaker 3: We probably had eight to ten full time staff and

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Speaker 3: lots of volunteers.

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Speaker 2: So eight.

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Speaker 1: Has there been any other We've heard about the two

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Speaker 1: and certainly there's been a lot of talk about the mismanagement,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. I'm just curious. I won't go

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Speaker 1: into that, just curious. So you had eight there have you.

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Speaker 1: What's the largest number of people you've ever supervised or

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Speaker 1: head in an organization in your career?

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Speaker 2: Not three million?

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Speaker 1: No, I don't expect that, know one, very few people

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Speaker 1: have ever had that experience.

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Speaker 2: But how many it's a good straight up question.

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Speaker 3: I think we had over one hundred full time staff,

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Speaker 3: a concern vets for America, roughly with thousands of volunteers.

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Speaker 3: So I was also a head quarters company commander, which

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Speaker 3: would have been here, let's find a couple one hundred coups.

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Speaker 3: Nothing remotely near the size of the defense de frontment.

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Speaker 3: I would acknowledge that, actually, not remotely near even a

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Speaker 3: medium sized company in America, let alone a big company

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Speaker 3: in America.

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Speaker 1: Especially a major corporation. And you're basically, we're hiring you

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Speaker 1: to be the CEO of one of the most complex,

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Speaker 1: largest organizations in the world. We're the board of directors here.

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Speaker 1: I don't know of any corporate board of directors that

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Speaker 1: would hire a CEO for a major company if they

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Speaker 1: came and said, you know, I supervised one hundred people before,

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Speaker 1: they'd ask you, well, what kind of experiences you had?

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Speaker 2: We need innovation?

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Speaker 1: Can you give me an experience or your actual experience

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Speaker 1: of driving innovation in an organization.

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Speaker 1: Organization in the world, I don't think there's a board

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Speaker 1: of directors in America that would hire you as a

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Speaker 1: CEO with the kind of experience you have on your resume.

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Speaker 1: You talk about standards, you talk about raising or we

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Speaker 1: have a problem of standards in the DoD and we

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Speaker 1: have to raise standards for the men and women who

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Speaker 1: serve Do you think that the way to raise the

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Speaker 1: minimum standards of the people who serve us is to

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Speaker 1: lower the standards for the Secretary of Defense that we

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Speaker 1: have someone who has never managed an organization more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred people, is going to come in and manage

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Speaker 1: this incredibly important organization and do it with the professionalism

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Speaker 1: and has no experience that they.

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Speaker 2: Can tell us that they have actually done that. I

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Speaker 2: have real problems with that.

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Speaker 1: This is not about other issues that are brought up.

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Speaker 2: They're all very important.

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Speaker 1: I'm just about trying to get things done, managing efficiently,

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Speaker 1: and having the best people who have demonstrated that in

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Speaker 1: a large organization. And I'm sorry, but I don't see

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Speaker 1: that in your background. There are a lot of other

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Speaker 1: things you can do very well. You're a capable person,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not.

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Speaker 8: I do not.

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Speaker 1: You have not convinced me that you're able to take

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Speaker 1: on this tremendous responsibility with a complex organization and having

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Speaker 1: little or no significant management experience.

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Speaker 3: Senator, I'm grateful to be hired by one of the

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Speaker 3: most successful CEOs in American history.

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Speaker 2: Should I be confirmed.

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Speaker 8: Mister Haig said that it seems to me that you've

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Speaker 8: supervised far more people than the average United States senator

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Speaker 8: supervisors to.

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Speaker 1: And except for except for former governors, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 8: Senator moll And, I understand you are yielding back your

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Speaker 8: time and do not wish to ask question I was

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Speaker 8: missed formed my Senator Bullen. Okay, he.

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Speaker 12: Got me totally off guard there. I'd like to submit

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Speaker 12: for the record signatures by thirty two members of the

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Speaker 12: House representatives who are veterans the signature's call, and the

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Speaker 12: Senate to honor the constitutional duty of advice and consent

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Speaker 12: by conducting a fair, thorough confirmation process that evaluates his

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Speaker 12: nomination solely on the substance and merits his distinguished military service,

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Speaker 12: academic credentials, and a bold vision for revitalizing a national

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Speaker 12: fans ice unanimous consent to enter into the record without objection.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of talk.

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Speaker 12: Going about talking about qualifications and then about us hiring

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Speaker 12: him if we are the board. But there's a lot

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Speaker 12: of senators here I wouldn't have on my board because

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Speaker 12: there is no qualifications except your age, and you've got

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Speaker 12: to be living in the state and you're a citizen

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Speaker 12: of the United States to be a senator.

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Speaker 8: In fact, we've got to convince a lot of people

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Speaker 8: to vote.

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Speaker 12: And then when we start talking about qualifications for if

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Speaker 12: you're qualified for it, could the chairman tell me what

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Speaker 12: the qualifications are for the Secretary of Defense? This chairman,

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Speaker 12: could you tell me what the qualifications are for the

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Speaker 12: Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 8: I'd be happy for I'll read it for you to

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Speaker 8: let me.

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Speaker 2: Let me read it for you because I.

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Speaker 8: Was getting some advice from a second in command.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, but I'm just making a point because there's a

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Speaker 12: lot about qualifications, and I think it's sort of hypocritical

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Speaker 12: of senators, especially on the other side. I'll be talking

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Speaker 12: about his qualifications, not going to lead the secretary or

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Speaker 12: be the Secretary of Defense. And yet your qualifications aren't

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Speaker 12: any better. You guys aren't any more qualified to be

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Speaker 12: the senator than I'm qualified to be the center, except

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Speaker 12: we're lucky enough to be here. But let me read

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Speaker 12: you what the qualifications of the Secretary of Defense is,

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Speaker 12: because I googled it, and I googled it and went

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Speaker 12: through a lot of different sites, and really it's hard

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Speaker 12: to see. But in general, the US Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 12: position is filled by a civilian.

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 12: If you have served in the US Army Forces, and

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Speaker 12: I've been in the service for you have to be

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Speaker 12: retired for at least seven years, and Congress can can

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Speaker 12: weigh that. And then there's questions that the senator from

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Speaker 12: from Massachusetts brought up about serving on a board inside

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Speaker 12: the military industry, and yet your own secretary that you

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Speaker 12: all voted for Secretary of Austin. We had to vote

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Speaker 12: on a waiver because he stepped.

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Speaker 8: Out the border raytheon. But I guess that's okay because that's.

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Speaker 12: A Democrat secretary of Defense. But we so quickly forget

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Speaker 12: about that. And then Senator Kane or I guess I

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Speaker 12: better use the senator from Virginia starts bringing up the

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Speaker 12: fact that what if you showed up.

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Speaker 2: Drunk to your job?

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Speaker 12: How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?

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Speaker 12: Have any of you guys asked them to step down

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Speaker 12: and resign for their job? And don't tell me you

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Speaker 12: haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then

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Speaker 12: how many senators do you know have got a divorce

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Speaker 12: before cheating on their wives?

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Speaker 2: Did you ask them to step down?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 6: But it's for show, you guys.

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Speaker 12: Make sure you make a big show and point out

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Speaker 12: the hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and you

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Speaker 12: want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.

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Speaker 2: Give me a joke.

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Speaker 12: It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as

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Speaker 12: this higher standard and you forget you got a big

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Speaker 12: plank in your eye.

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Speaker 2: We've all made mistakes.

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Speaker 12: I've made mistakes, and Jennifer, thank you for loving him

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Speaker 12: through that mistake. Because the only reason why I'm here

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Speaker 12: and not in prison is because my wife loved me too.

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Speaker 12: I have changed, but I'm not perfect, but I found

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Speaker 12: somebody that.

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Speaker 5: Thought I was perfect.

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Speaker 12: And for whatever reason, you love Pete and I don't

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Speaker 12: know why, but just like our Lord and Savior forgave me,

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Speaker 12: my wife's had to forgive me more than once two

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Speaker 12: and I'm sure you've had to forgive him too, And

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Speaker 12: so thank you. So before I go down this rabbit

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Speaker 12: hole again, tell me something about your wife that you love.

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Speaker 3: She's the smartest, most capable, loving, humble, honest person I've

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Speaker 3: ever met.

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Speaker 2: In addition to being incredibly beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Don't forget about your kids.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about my kids. Well, she's also the mother,

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Speaker 2: an amazing mother of our blended family of seven brothers.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to help you here.

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Speaker 12: You know, do you believe that you're going to be

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Speaker 12: running the Secretary or the Department of Defense by yourself, Senator?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 3: Just as President Trump is assembling his cabinet, I look

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Speaker 3: forward and already am in the process of building one

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Speaker 3: of the best possible teams you can imagine with decades

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Speaker 3: and decades of experience outside of the pentagon driving innovation

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Speaker 3: and excellence, and also inside the building knowing how to

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Speaker 3: make it happen.

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir so.

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Speaker 12: And your organizations that you did have the privilege of running,

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Speaker 12: did you have a board that.

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Speaker 2: You in both organizations we had a board?

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Speaker 12: Yes, okay, And what did you do with that board?

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Speaker 12: What kind of decisions did you make?

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Speaker 2: Within those boards provided oversight and insight into decision making.

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Speaker 12: They all have special unique sets that may be filled

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Speaker 12: gaps that you're not the expertise in. Yes, sir so,

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Speaker 12: do you believe you're capable of surrounding yourself with capable

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Speaker 12: individuals that you're going to be able to run those

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Speaker 12: same ideas by and surround yourself with people that are

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Speaker 12: smarter and better equipped in maybe areas that you don't

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Speaker 12: necessarily care it's expertise with Senator.

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Speaker 3: The only reason I've had success in life, to include

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Speaker 3: my wonderful wife, is because of people more capable around

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Speaker 3: me and having the self confidence to empower them and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: run with the ball, run with the football, take it

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Speaker 3: down the field. We'll do this together. I don't care

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Speaker 3: who gets the credit. And in this case, that's how

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon will be run.

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Speaker 12: Let me it's in with this, mister Chairman, about the qualifications.

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Speaker 12: You got a man who has literally put his butt

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Speaker 12: on the line. He served twenty years in service, multiple deployments,

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Speaker 12: has heard the bullets.

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Speaker 2: Crack over the top of his.

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Speaker 12: Head, has been willing to go into combat, been willness,

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Speaker 12: seen friends die for this country, and he swilling, is

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Speaker 12: still putting himself through this. His wife is willing to

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Speaker 12: still stand beside him. No one he wasn't perfect, knowing

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Speaker 12: that all this was going to be brought up, he

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Speaker 12: still will to serve the country. What other qualifications does

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Speaker 12: he needed?

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Speaker 8: Sator Nugworth, and again we we really are going to

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Speaker 8: strictly enforce the rule about no demonstrations or noise. The

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Speaker 8: distinguished ranking Member just the point of personal privilege.

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Speaker 5: To make a correction.

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Speaker 13: The reason that General Auson required a waiver was not

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Speaker 13: because of his participation in a corporate enterprise. It was

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Speaker 13: because he did not have seven years of interruption between

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Speaker 13: his service and his appointment.

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Speaker 14: The second point is that if any of us were appointed.

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Speaker 13: As Secretary Defense we would be subject to the same

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Speaker 13: types of questions. And the case in point is Senator

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Speaker 13: John Towell was nominated for Secretary Defense. It was discovered

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Speaker 13: the bias colleagues that his behavior was not commensured with

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Speaker 13: the responsibilities despite his service, and he was voted down.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 8: As a chairman, Central Duckworth, you're recognized.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, it's a chairman.

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Speaker 10: And also certainly matters had to have this waiver as well,

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Speaker 10: mister acaid.

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Speaker 2: This hearing is about.

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Speaker 10: Whether you qualified to be Secretary of Defense. And one

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Speaker 10: of the qualifications to answer my colleagues's question is to

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Speaker 10: actually win the votes of every member of this committee

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Speaker 10: and to be confirmed by the United States Senate. And

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Speaker 10: you need to convince us that you're worthy of that vote,

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Speaker 10: because the people of the state of Illinois voted for

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Speaker 10: me to be their senator so that I could cast

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Speaker 10: that vote. When it comes to picking who is going

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Speaker 10: to be the next Secretary of Defense, this hearing now

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Speaker 10: seems to be a hearing about whether or not women

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Speaker 10: are qualified to serve in combat, and not about whether

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Speaker 10: or not you are qualified to be Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 10: And let me just say that the American people need

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Speaker 10: a sec def who's ready to lead on day one.

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Speaker 10: You are not that per Our adversaries watched closely during

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Speaker 10: times of transition, and any sense that the Department of

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Speaker 10: Defense that keeps us safe is being stirred by someone

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Speaker 10: who's wholly unprepared for the job puts America at risk.

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Speaker 9: I am not willing to do that.

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Speaker 2: With that in mind.

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Speaker 10: As a hexcent, I want you to try to explain

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Speaker 10: to the American people this committee who have to vote

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Speaker 10: for you, and to our troops are deployed around the world,

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Speaker 10: why you are qualified to lead the.

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Speaker 2: Department of Defense.

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Speaker 10: We already know that you've only led the largest a

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Speaker 10: two hundred person organization. We already know that you so

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Speaker 2: And at the largest budget.

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Speaker 5: Yet, Hey, Center Duckworth, A lot of people bring in

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Speaker 9: What guidance that you give the auditors?

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Speaker 7: None?

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Speaker 10: Because you've never led an audit. No one expects you

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Speaker 10: to be an accountant, mister heck set What we expect

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Speaker 9: Look, the Secret Defense is required to.

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Speaker 10: Make quick taking decisions every single day that well with

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Speaker 10: high level information it's being provided for them. A secrety

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Speaker 10: defense has to have breadth and depth of knowledge. Right now,

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Speaker 10: I am concerned that you have neither, mister heck Seth.

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Speaker 10: What is the highest level of international negotiations that you

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Speaker 10: have engaged in that you have led them? Because the

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Speaker 10: Secret Defense does lead international security negotiations, there are three

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Speaker 10: main ones that the Secretary of Defense leads and signs.

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Speaker 9: Can you name at least one of them?

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Speaker 2: Could you repeat the question, sender.

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Speaker 10: Sure, what is the highest level of international security agreement

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Speaker 10: that you have led? And can you name some that

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Speaker 10: the Secretary Defense would lead? They are three main ones.

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Speaker 3: I have not been involved in international security arrangements because

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Speaker 3: I have not been in government other than serving in

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Speaker 3: the military, so my job has been.

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Speaker 10: So name one of the three main ones that the

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Speaker 10: talk about pidense arrangements.

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Speaker 2: I mean, NATO might be one of one that you're

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Speaker 2: referring to.

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Speaker 9: Status the Forces agreement would be one of.

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Speaker 2: Them, a force status of forces agreement.

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Speaker 3: I've been a part of teaching about Status of Forces agreement.

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Speaker 9: You don't remember to mention it. You're not qualifying, mister

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Speaker 9: heck Seth.

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Speaker 2: You're not qualified.

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Speaker 10: You talk about repairing our defense industrial complex, you're not

887
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Speaker 10: qualified to that. You could do the acquisition and cross

888
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Speaker 10: servicing agreements, which essentially are security agreements.

889
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 9: You can't even mention that you've done none of those.

890
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 10: You talked about the Indo Pacific a little bit, and

891
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Speaker 10: I'm glad that you mentioned it.

892
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Speaker 11: Mention it.

893
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 10: Can you name the importance of at least one of

894
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Speaker 10: the nations in the Ossian in Asian and what type

895
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Speaker 10: of agreement we have with at least one of those nations,

896
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Speaker 10: and how many nations are in Ossian by the way,

897
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Speaker 10: I couldn't.

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Speaker 6: Tell you the exact equations.

899
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Speaker 3: And we have allies in South Korea and Japan and

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Speaker 3: in all with Australia and trying to work on submarines

901
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Speaker 3: with them.

902
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Speaker 9: Mister hecks.

903
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Speaker 10: None of those countries, none of those company countries that

904
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Speaker 10: you mentioned, are in Asian. I suggest you do a

905
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Speaker 10: little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations,

906
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Speaker 10: Licksons Hexa.

907
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:23,879
Speaker 9: This we ask our troops to go into harm's way.

908
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 9: All the time. We ask them to go into harm's way.

909
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 9: And this behind me is a.

910
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 10: Copy of the Soldier's Creed, a copy that usually hangs

911
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 10: over my desk here in the Senate, and you should

912
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Speaker 10: be familiar with it. It's the same copy that hung

913
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Speaker 10: over my desk a well to read every single day

914
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Speaker 10: that I woke up and fought my way back because

915
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Speaker 10: I wanted to go back and serve next to my

916
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 10: buddies who saved my life.

917
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Speaker 9: The same copy.

918
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Speaker 10: These words are repeated over and over and over again

919
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Speaker 10: and mean read out two things to you, two sentences.

920
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Speaker 10: I will always place the mission first. And I am

921
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Speaker 10: disciplined physically and mentally, tough train and proficient in my

922
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Speaker 10: warrior task. Mister Hexath, our troops follow these words every

923
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Speaker 10: single day, and they man up, and they pack their

924
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 10: ruts acts, and they go to war. And they deserve

925
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Speaker 10: a leader who can lead them, not a leader.

926
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Speaker 5: Who Okay, welcome back, everybody, Email us Freedom at Charlie

927
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Speaker 5: Kirk dot com. More with the hearing here, I have

928
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 5: so many thoughts here, but this is just too good

929
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Speaker 5: to miss. Senator Duckworth is one of the dumbest US

930
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Speaker 5: senators known her for quite a while. Let's resume he has.

931
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Speaker 10: Filed for bankruptcy six times. I'm not quite sure he's

932
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Speaker 10: the kind of CEO you want to refer to as

933
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Speaker 10: a successful businessman.

934
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Speaker 5: Let me make it clear.

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Speaker 10: You can't seem to grasp that there is no US

936
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Speaker 10: military as we know it without the incredible women that

937
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Speaker 10: we serve, women who earn their place in their units.

938
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Speaker 2: You have not earned your place a sectary of defense.

939
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Speaker 10: You say you care about keeping our armed forces as

940
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Speaker 10: strong and that you like that ours meritocracy, then let's.

941
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Speaker 9: Not lure the standards for you.

942
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Speaker 2: You, sir, are a nogo at this station.

943
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Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Dougworts. I would like to submit for

944
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Speaker 8: the record a letter submitted by mister Bryan Marriott that says,

945
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Speaker 8: anyone who would claim that mismanaged funds, if that's Supremeum,

946
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Speaker 8: is ignorant of the facts. Without objection, it will be

947
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Speaker 8: admitted to the record, Senator.

948
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Speaker 15: But thank you Chairming Wicker, and congrats on your jeership

949
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Speaker 15: of this committee. I want to thank you for leadership,

950
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Speaker 15: and you're handling of this today. I think you're doing

951
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Speaker 15: a great job. So I want to also submit for

952
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Speaker 15: the record a letter submitted by mister Daniel Catlin, the

953
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Speaker 15: former operations manager, if That's for Freedom. Mister Catlin's better

954
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Speaker 15: states that mister haig Seth and mister Catlan conducted weekly

955
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Speaker 15: meetings to meticulously review every dollar that the organization spent.

956
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Speaker 8: Pete's hands on approach and.

957
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Speaker 15: Dedication to financial responsibility ensured that Vets for Freedom operated

958
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Speaker 15: within its budget. Mister Catlin's letters also states that Pete

959
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Speaker 15: treated his staff with the utmost respect, regardless of race

960
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Speaker 15: or gender.

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Speaker 8: So I asked unanimous consent to hear this into the

962
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Speaker 8: record Chairman.

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Speaker 15: Without objection, so order. Thank you, mister heg Seth. Congratulations

964
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Speaker 15: on your nomination. Thanks for appearing before the committee today.

965
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Speaker 8: I enjoy meeting.

966
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Speaker 15: We've in my office before Christmas, and I've enjoyed our

967
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Speaker 15: friendship before that. You stated in your Advanced Policy Questions

968
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Speaker 15: that the American people need to be informed, engaged, and

969
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Speaker 15: inspired to join our military. I wholeheartedly agree with that,

970
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Speaker 15: and we also have a problem though with obesity and

971
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 15: falling acting standards.

972
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Speaker 8: It's very concerning We've talked about that before.

973
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Speaker 15: So, if confirmed, how would you approach increasing the number

974
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Speaker 15: of Americans eligible to serve in the military but without

975
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Speaker 15: lowering standards?

976
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Speaker 3: Senator, I think there are already, to the credit of

977
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Speaker 3: I believe the Army and other services have now caught

978
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Speaker 3: up to that, which have piloted programs that have had

979
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Speaker 3: some success that have allowed young Americans who want to

980
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Speaker 3: serve in the military but can't necessarily pass the ASFAB

981
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Speaker 3: or pass the APFT to get into basic training, an

982
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 3: opportunity to get caught up a preparatory class. Unfortunately, yes,

983
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Speaker 3: we do have a problem of obesity in our country,

984
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Speaker 3: not necessarily something that if I'm confirmed Secretary Defense is

985
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 3: able to address.

986
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 2: But I do think leading from the front matters.

987
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Speaker 3: I do think having a Secretary Defense that will go

988
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Speaker 3: out and do pt with the troops matters that has

989
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Speaker 3: been out there and done that before, and hopefully that's

990
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Speaker 3: a motivating factor for young people. But the reality of

991
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Speaker 3: obesity and criminal backgrounds and medical problems have long.

992
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Speaker 2: Been an issue of recruitment in America.

993
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, what changed is the perception of military service because

994
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Speaker 3: of the condition of the services, and frankly because in

995
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Speaker 3: some ways the way our schools don't teach young people

996
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 3: to love the country anymore. And if you don't love

997
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Speaker 3: the country, why do you want to serve that country.

998
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: That's a deeper problem. But all of those things need

999
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 3: to be addressed to revive recruiting, and obesity is certainly

1000
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Speaker 3: a part of it.

1001
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Speaker 8: Thank you for that.

1002
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Speaker 15: So I've had multiple conversations young folks back in North Carolina,

1003
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Speaker 15: young men, young women, and we get to meet a

1004
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 15: lot of them. But you know, I hear from some

1005
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 15: of these folks who I encourage to join the military,

1006
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Speaker 15: they say that they're concerned that it's become politicized. And

1007
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Speaker 15: if confirmed, would you commit to working with my office

1008
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Speaker 15: to address the military recruiting crisis and ensuring the military

1009
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Speaker 15: is focused on war fighting.

1010
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Speaker 3: Senator absolutely a number one from day one, with a

1011
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:05,240
Speaker 3: mandate from the Commander in chief who received that mandate

1012
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,439
Speaker 3: when Americans spoke out loudly and said we want peace

1013
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 3: through strength, we want America first foreign policy, and we

1014
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 3: don't want political ideology driving decisions inside our defense department.

1015
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 2: That was clear. It's an infection that the American people.

1016
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Speaker 3: Are acutely aware of which the men and women in

1017
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Speaker 3: this room have lived firsthand. I've lived at firsthand, and

1018
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 3: that's why it will be a priority.

1019
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 2: And I truly believe, and I'm.

1020
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Speaker 3: Humbled by this the response we've already seen from young

1021
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Speaker 3: men and women who've decided to join the military when

1022
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 3: they had said I wasn't going to, but seeing a

1023
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 3: commander in chief Donald Trump reassured them. Seeing the possibility,

1024
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Speaker 3: if confirmed, of a Secretary of Defense that would have

1025
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Speaker 3: their back reassured them.

1026
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 5: And so in the first couple of months and more

1027
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Speaker 5: with Pete Hegsas, we're going to go through the breaks here.

1028
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 6: And the second hour coming.

1029
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 15: Up maintenance and fifth generation fighters while we continue to

1030
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Speaker 15: research and develop sixth generation and collaborative combat aircraft.

1031
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 3: Senator, that's a very important conversation, one that I've been

1032
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 3: looking at a great deal. A lot of it, just

1033
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 3: to be clear, involves classifications and understanding precisely cost and capabilities,

1034
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 3: including capabilities of enemy systems, both not just fourth and

1035
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 3: fifth but potential sixth generation, which you've already seen a

1036
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 3: prototype released from the Chinese. That's a danger development considering

1037
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 3: at least the publicly understood condition of ENDGAD, which I

1038
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 3: look forward to the opportunity looking underneath the hood on that,

1039
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 3: but ensuring fourth and fifth are capable and upgraded as.

1040
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 2: Necessary will be a part of our contingency. But when

1041
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 2: you look at what's happening in the Indo.

1042
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 3: Pacific, say, operability range is going to matter because it's

1043
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 3: such a large battle space that will all factor in

1044
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 3: decisions that are made. And that's where I feel, frankly

1045
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 3: a little bit liberated that I didn't work at Lockheed

1046
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 3: or any number of pick a defense contractor. I didn't

1047
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 3: mean to point one out in particular, pick any I haven't.

1048
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 3: I don't have a special interest in any particular system,

1049
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Speaker 3: or any particular company, or any particular narrative.

1050
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 2: I want to know what works.

1051
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 3: I want to know what defeats our enemies, what keeps

1052
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 3: us safe, what deters them, what keeps our enemies up

1053
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 3: at night, whatever that is, I want more of it,

1054
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 3: and I want to invest in it. And I know

1055
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 3: that's the view that President Trump has as well.

1056
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 8: Thank you.

1057
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 15: You know, some have commented recently about the need to

1058
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 15: eliminate immediately a manned aircraft. So I'd say maybe one day,

1059
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 15: but that day's not now, and certainly not before twenty

1060
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 15: twenty seven, especially in the end of Pacific. So, if confirmed,

1061
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 15: will you commit to work with my office in this

1062
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 15: committee to ensure the proper mix of fighters.

1063
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 2: Manned and unmanned.

1064
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 3: I look forward to working with you on that, Senator,

1065
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 3: because unmanned will be a very important part of the

1066
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 3: way future wars are fought. Just the idea of survivability

1067
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 3: for a human being drives cost and time in ways

1068
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 3: that unmanned systems do not. But I look forward to

1069
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 3: that conversation.

1070
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Speaker 8: Sended you. Thank you, Senator budd I'm now recognized, Senator

1071
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 8: read for a unanimous consent requests.

1072
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 13: That's fair, and I would ask you and sent that

1073
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 13: two letters be submitted for the record. A one letter

1074
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Speaker 13: signed by numerous organizations, including the Government Accountability Project, the

1075
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Speaker 13: other signed by several organizations including the Truman National Security.

1076
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 8: Doctor without objection, So ordered now, Senator Kelly. Senator Rosen

1077
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 8: got here after the gavel went down. Do you really

1078
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Speaker 8: want to go ahead of her?

1079
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: I am going to defer to my good friend and colleague,

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Speaker 1: Senator Rosen, and as a real great State of Nevada.

1081
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 8: Really good decision, Senator Rosen, you were recognized, and thank you.

1082
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 16: Senator Kelly, I owe you one thank you German Wicker,

1083
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 16: ranking member read for holding this hearing, and mister Hegseth,

1084
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 16: I appreciate your service and your willingness to serve again. However,

1085
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 16: I am deeply disappointed that you would not agree to

1086
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 16: meet with me as other members have said on this

1087
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Speaker 16: committee prior to this hearing, as.

1088
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Speaker 14: Is the president for this committee and others. So let

1089
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 14: me tell you a.

1090
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 16: Little bit about what I would have talked about had

1091
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 16: you made yourself.

1092
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 14: Available prior to the hearing.

1093
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 16: Nevada is home to the premiere aviation training ranges for

1094
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 16: both the Air Force and the Navy, the largest ammunition

1095
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 16: deep in the world, and the only place in the

1096
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 16: country where we are able to verify the reliability of

1097
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 16: our nuclear stockpile without the need for explosive testing. The

1098
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 16: Nevada National Guard is one of the only few units

1099
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 16: across the country with the mission.

1100
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Speaker 14: Of fighting wildfires.

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Speaker 16: It's for another hearing and currently activated to fight the

1102
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Speaker 16: devastating fires around Los Angeles in support of our neighbors.

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Speaker 16: We therefore play a critical role in our national security,

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Speaker 16: and the person who holds the position of Secretary Defense

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Speaker 16: matters greatly to Nevada service members and our military equities.

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Speaker 16: But every single person who serves in the military. We've

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Speaker 16: talked about my colleagues, esteem colleagues who've talked about recruitment

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Speaker 16: and retention.

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Speaker 14: One day they will become a veteran.

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Speaker 16: So my veterans and the folks who are due serving

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Speaker 16: active duty now are concerned about what you think. DoD

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Speaker 16: does not have jurisdiction over Nevada's two hundred thousand plus veterans,

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Speaker 16: but I am interested in your views about the service

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Speaker 16: members once they've transitioned out of the military, given the

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Speaker 16: influence you would have while they're in service.

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Speaker 14: If confirmed. In twenty nineteen, on.

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Speaker 16: A segment of Fox and Friends, you said that Veterans

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Speaker 16: Service Organizations vsos, I'm going to quote encourage veterans to

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Speaker 16: apply for every government benefit they can ever get after

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Speaker 16: they leave the service. You stated you don't want to quote,

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Speaker 16: be dependent on government assistance from the VA based on

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Speaker 16: injuries or illnesses that might have arisen from your military service.

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Speaker 16: So I'm just going to ask you a few yes

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Speaker 16: or no questions about veterans. Understanding you don't have jurisdiction,

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Speaker 16: but this is important to our morale is important to

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Speaker 16: our recruitment, and is important to our retention, and it

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Speaker 16: is important to how we.

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Speaker 14: Respect others in this country.

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Speaker 8: So yes or no?

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Speaker 9: Please?

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Speaker 16: Do you believe that vsos are wrong to support veterans

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Speaker 16: in obtaining the benefits that they have rightfully earned and

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Speaker 16: deserved when they signed that line like you did for

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Speaker 16: your service?

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Speaker 2: Yes, or deserve the benefits they've earned.

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Speaker 3: I have been in many battles with veteransizations over differences

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Speaker 3: of opinion about how to deliver those yes or no veterans.

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Speaker 14: You believes are wrong.

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Speaker 2: Is a very broad term. We were a vs O also, ma'am.

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Speaker 2: But some of those services.

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Speaker 16: Should they be able to help them that the veterans

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Speaker 16: obtain the benefits that they have earned?

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Speaker 5: Yes or no?

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Speaker 14: Should anyone be.

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Speaker 2: Able to help every veterans should have rapid access to

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Speaker 2: You believe that.

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Speaker 16: Veterans should be ashamed for having sought and obtained the

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Speaker 16: benefits that they have earned. Do you think veterans should

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Speaker 16: be ashamed to seek out benefits?

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Speaker 2: Senator, I think they're not be ashamed.

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Speaker 5: As a nation.

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Speaker 2: Of the amount of veterans that.

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Speaker 3: Committed should hit a brick wall they hit, they commit

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Speaker 3: suicide because the Great Wall.

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Speaker 5: Take that reform.

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Speaker 2: You're not courage enough.

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Speaker 16: How about veterans who suffer lasting of injuries or illnesses

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Speaker 16: due to their military service? Do you do you think

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Speaker 16: they deserve our support and assistance? I mean, your your

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Speaker 16: quit your answers to these they're too broad. People want

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Speaker 16: to know, are you willing to supp court our veterans

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Speaker 16: organizations that will help our veterans get every damn thing

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Speaker 16: that they deserve because they signed on the dotted line

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Speaker 16: to keep us safe, just like you did.

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Speaker 14: I respect that, will.

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Speaker 2: You, Senator, with all due humility.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's anyone in this room over

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Speaker 3: the last twenty years that have worked harder to ensure

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Speaker 3: that our.

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Speaker 2: Veterans are taken care of.

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Speaker 3: It's been a passionate, a life alongside with so many

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Speaker 3: on this day is to make sure that veterans will

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Speaker 3: see and it is a recruiting crist veterans are prependent.

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Speaker 14: On the government.

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Speaker 2: They don't.

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Speaker 14: On the government.

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Speaker 16: Do you believe that veterans getting these benefits are dependent

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Speaker 16: on the government or do you believe it's a benefit

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Speaker 16: they've earned and deserved through their service.

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Speaker 2: It's a benefit they've earned and a hand up to.

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Speaker 16: These are your works, and so you have again changed

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Speaker 16: your position where you believe the veterans are dependent. Now

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Speaker 16: you believe they've earned and deserved it. I just think

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Speaker 16: it's disrespectful to change that position. These are these are

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Speaker 16: benefits that people may need throughout their life and may

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Speaker 16: not know when they need them or how they're going

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Speaker 16: to need them, and they need to be there when

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Speaker 16: they do. Thank You'll move on to my next question,

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Speaker 16: America's role in the world, our alliances, the threats in

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Speaker 16: America is facing.

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Speaker 14: They're serious or wide.

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Speaker 16: Ranging, from China to Russia, Tranian bacterirism. So do you

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Speaker 16: agree with the National Defense Strategy that the US cannot

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Speaker 16: compete with China, Russia and their partners alone and certainly

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Speaker 16: cannot win a war that way, And this is a

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Speaker 16: quote from the National Defense Strategy. Is your interpretation that

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Speaker 16: American first foreign policy is America alone? Does that include

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Speaker 16: abandoning our allies and partners such as NATO, Taiwan, Israel,

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Speaker 16: and others. And if we can't win alone and we

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Speaker 16: don't strengthen our strategic partnerships, I would say that position,

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Speaker 16: your position places on a strategic path to lose to

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Speaker 16: our adversaries, So maybe you're okay with.

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Speaker 14: Choosing that path for America. I want to know how

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Speaker 14: you square.

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Speaker 16: That position with the positions you articulated in your book

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Speaker 16: where you wrote that NATO is at relic, at best

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Speaker 16: a distraction, and should be scrapped and remade.

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Speaker 14: Are you okay with sending us down a path where

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Speaker 14: we can't win?

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Speaker 2: Senator?

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Speaker 3: The world has had our friends in the world have

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Speaker 3: had no better ally our allies, and have had no

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Speaker 3: better friend than President Donald Trump. Who's Donald Trump I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about in every way? In ways this administration has not.

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Speaker 3: He has ensured that the NATO alliance has become far

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Speaker 3: more robust.

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Speaker 2: He worked Donald Trump's.

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Speaker 14: Going to the Pacific as well. Is Donald Trump going

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Speaker 14: to stand behind your.

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Speaker 5: All? Right? Jackie Rosen is making a fool of herself here,

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Speaker 5: Senator from Nevada who should not be a US Senator,

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Speaker 5: as she exchanges some spicy words with Pete Hegseth, our

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Speaker 5: next Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 6: Let's listen in.

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Speaker 2: Guid's Best Guidance to the President of United States on

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Speaker 2: matters like.

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Speaker 16: That, Do you think that if we concede to Vladimir

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Speaker 16: Putin that that will hurt our credibility with our allies

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Speaker 16: and partners, and do you not believe that our adversaries

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Speaker 16: are watching.

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Speaker 8: Some You can take that for the record, mister Jackson,

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Speaker 8: Senator Schmidt, thank you, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 17: I'd like to submit for the record a letter submitted

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Speaker 17: by mister Christopher On, the former director of Operations for

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Speaker 17: Vests for Freedom mis Ron.

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Speaker 8: His letter states that the suggestion quote, the suggestion.

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Speaker 17: That funds were misused for personal gain, lavish parties, or

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Speaker 17: other improper purposes is categorically false. Throughout my time working

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Speaker 17: with Pete Hexep, he consistently demonstrated exceptional integrity and leadership.

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Speaker 17: I asked the unanimous consent to enter this letter into

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Speaker 17: the record without objection, so order Sat Schmid. Thank you

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Speaker 17: as chairman. Mister Hextff, good to see you here today.

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Speaker 17: Thank you for your service. Thank you saying your willingness

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Speaker 17: to serve. I also want to thank you for your

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Speaker 17: clarity in articulating the vision you have for the Department

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Speaker 17: of Defense and restoring an ethos, a warrior ethos which

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Speaker 17: is in star contrast to the ethos we've seen the

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Speaker 17: last four years, which is of weakness and wokeness. And

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Speaker 17: I want to drill down on a few things specifically

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Speaker 17: and exactly how we've gotten to where we've gotten with

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Speaker 17: recruiting and morale.

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Speaker 9: DEI.

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Speaker 17: There's been a little bit of discussion about this, but

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Speaker 17: for those watching at home, DEI is not about giving

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Speaker 17: everybody opportunity.

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Speaker 8: It is rooted in cultural Marxism, the.

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Speaker 17: Idea that you pit the room, any room with oppressor

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Speaker 17: versus oppressed. It's race essentialism and it is poison. It

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Speaker 17: has no business whatsoever in our military. I think the

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Speaker 17: American people have spoken loudly and clearly about this. They're

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Speaker 17: tired of this, they're tired of woke ideology. And to

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Speaker 17: my Democrat colleagues on the other side, if you haven't

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Speaker 17: picked up on that, you missed the plot. Because that's

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Speaker 17: what November fifth partially was about. And so let's talk

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Speaker 17: specifically about some of these DEI programs that have been

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Speaker 17: funded in our academies, specifically the Air Force Academy.

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Speaker 8: It was advised.

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Speaker 17: As disfavored language to refer to your mom and dad

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Speaker 17: as mom and dad.

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Speaker 8: Okay, dear mom and dad, I'm right home. Don't say that.

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Speaker 2: That's insane. We're all just people.

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Speaker 17: You can't say that either and in an effort to

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Speaker 17: police this, and in nineteen eighty four Orwellian novel, there

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Speaker 17: was actually an eyes and ears program to rat on

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Speaker 17: your fellow students who might say mom and dad or

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Speaker 17: just say, in a tough situation, you know what, we're

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Speaker 17: all just people can't say that. This wasn't limited, by

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Speaker 17: the way, to our academies. The Secretary of the Air Force,

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Speaker 17: our current Secretary of the Air Force, and a memo

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Speaker 17: from August of twenty twenty two, thought we had too

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Speaker 17: many white officers advocated for quotas and if you crunch

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Speaker 17: the numbers, that meant that fifty eight hundred white officers

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Speaker 17: who worked really hard should be fired in the United

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Speaker 17: States of America. I don't know how we got here.

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Speaker 17: And by the way, the Air Force isn't alone here.

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Speaker 17: The Navy sort of touted a drag queen influencer. This

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Speaker 17: stuff is insane, and people wonder why recruiting is dropped off.

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Speaker 17: And let me just go through a few numbers that

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Speaker 17: I want to get your comments on how we fix this,

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Speaker 17: because it's gone completely off the rails. In twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 17: the Army missed the recruiting goal of sixty thousand soldiers

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Speaker 17: by over fifteen.

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Speaker 8: Thousand in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 17: The Navy missed their recruiting goals by over seven thousand

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Speaker 17: in twenty twenty two. The Air Force couldn't only couldn't

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Speaker 17: meet their standards their numbers. Even though they lowered their standards,

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Speaker 17: they've lowered their standards to meet numbers.

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Speaker 8: They still can't get to mister Heseth, we got to

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Speaker 8: fix this.

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Speaker 17: I think what you've demonstrated today is that you have

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Speaker 17: the talent and the ability and the desire to fix it.

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Speaker 8: How are you going to fix it?

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator, thank you for the question.

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Speaker 3: First and foremost, upfront, you have to tear out DEI

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Speaker 3: and CRT initiatives, root and branch out of institutions percent

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Speaker 3: and then you have to put in Army, Navy, and

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Speaker 3: Air Force secretaries and others civilian positions at the helm

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Speaker 3: who are committed to the same priorities that the President

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Speaker 3: of the United States is, and if confirmed, the Secretary

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Speaker 3: of Defense will be send a clear message that.

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Speaker 2: This is not a time for equity. Equity is a

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Speaker 2: very different word than equality.

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Speaker 3: Equality is the bedrock of our military men and women

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Speaker 3: duty positions in uniform, black, white, doesn't matter. We treat

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Speaker 3: you equally based on who you are in the image

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Speaker 3: of God as an individual, and we all get the

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Speaker 3: same bad haircuts. You're not an individual, you're part of

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Speaker 3: a group. Equity prescribes some sort of an outcome based

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Speaker 3: on differing attributes that we have that divide us, what

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Speaker 3: skin color are you, what gender are you, and that

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Speaker 3: infuse that into institutions, which manifest in things like quotas

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Speaker 3: formal or informal, which does what to morale, sends it

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Speaker 3: in the tubes, and it makes people feel like they're

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Speaker 3: being judged by something other than how good they are

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Speaker 3: at their job, which is poisonous inside institution.

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Speaker 17: So on top of this recruiting crisis that wasn't enough

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Speaker 17: for this administration during the COVID hysteria and in their

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Speaker 17: attempt to fire one hundred thousand people who work for

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Speaker 17: bigger companies because they didn't get.

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Speaker 8: The COVID shot or to mask five year olds, they.

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Speaker 17: Decided also to make this a central plank in their

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Speaker 17: policy at the Pentagon, eight thousand well trained, So we

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Speaker 17: got a recruiting crisis. Eight thousand well trained men and

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Speaker 17: women were fired, were fired Will you.

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Speaker 8: Commit today, mister hext hexth.

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Speaker 2: To recruit these folks back, to.

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Speaker 17: Give them back pay and give them an apology from

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Speaker 17: the United States government for how they were disrespected.

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Speaker 3: Senator, I will commit to this, because the Commander in

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Speaker 3: Chief has committed to this, that not only will they

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Speaker 3: be reinstated, they will receive an apology, back pay, and

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Speaker 3: rank that they lost because they were forced out due

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Speaker 3: to an experimental vaccine.

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Speaker 8: And thank you.

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Speaker 17: And I'm a limited time, but I just want to say,

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Speaker 17: for all the talk of experience and not coming from

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Speaker 17: the same cocktail parties that Permanent Washington is used to,

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Speaker 17: you are.

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Speaker 8: A breath of fresh air. And again, if you weren't

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Speaker 8: paying attention to.

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Speaker 17: What this election was all about, it was about the

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Speaker 17: disruptors versus the establishment, and the American people have had

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Speaker 17: enough of business as usual for the same people that

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Speaker 17: we line up for these same.

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Speaker 8: Jobs who give us the same results.

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Speaker 17: We need somebody who's going to go in there and

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Speaker 17: fight for innovation, fight for change. I think you're that person,

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Speaker 17: and I appreciate your willingness to sit here and listen

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Speaker 17: to some of these undignified attacks.

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Speaker 8: It's ridiculous. Thank you, Captain Mark Kelly, you're right.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister chairman.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on your chairmanship. I want to make a request

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Speaker 1: of the Committee that we have a second round of questions.

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Speaker 8: Pursue it to the bipartis of the staff agreement that

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Speaker 8: we reached late last year. This will be one round

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Speaker 8: of seven minute questions.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, mister Chairman.

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Speaker 8: I'll be happy to recognize my colleague, mister Reid.

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Speaker 13: I think it's important to note for the record that

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Speaker 13: when Secary Hegel was here, we had three rounds of questioning,

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Speaker 13: and Secretary Carter was here, we had two rounds of questioning.

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Speaker 13: And I cannot recall any time where I have denied,

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Speaker 13: as a chairman a member to ask for a second

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Speaker 13: round and receive the second round. So we are, I think,

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Speaker 13: violating the.

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Speaker 8: Principals of the Committee and I just want to record

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Speaker 8: and your comment is noted.

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Speaker 1: You, mister Hexa, thank you for being here today. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for your service to this country.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Senator.

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Speaker 1: A few nominee come into this room with all the

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Speaker 1: necessary experience to do this job, to be Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 1: We get that it's a reflection onjust how big of

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Speaker 1: a job this is. What I want to understand is

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Speaker 1: whether or not you bring any of the necessary experience

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Speaker 1: that this job requires. And here's where I'm concerned, Senator

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Speaker 1: Coleman and introducing you. And this is a quote he

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Speaker 1: said he has struggled. And okay, let's go back a

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Speaker 1: great personal challenge, all.

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Speaker 5: Let's go back to Senator Mark Kelly, who is asking

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Speaker 5: our next Secretary of Defense, Pete hegg Seth, questions.

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Speaker 6: We're going to go right to the break.

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Speaker 2: As a party at the Grand Hyatt at Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: You were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up

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Speaker 1: to your room.

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Speaker 2: Is that true or false? Anonymous smears.

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Speaker 1: Another time, a CBA staffer stated that you passed out

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Speaker 1: in the back of a party bus.

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Speaker 2: Is that true or false? Anonymous smears.

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Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, while in Louisiana on official business for CBA,

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Speaker 1: did you take your staff, including young female staff members,

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Speaker 1: to a strip club?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, Anonymous smears.

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Speaker 1: So is it accurate that the organization reached a financial

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Speaker 1: settlement with a female staffer who claimed to be at

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Speaker 1: a strip club with you, and there was a colleague

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Speaker 1: who attempted to sexually assault her.

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Speaker 3: Was there a financial settlement? Senator, I was not involved

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Speaker 3: in that. I don't know the nature of how that

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Speaker 3: played out, but.

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Speaker 1: You understand there was a financial settlement for a young

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Speaker 1: female staffer who accused another member of the organization, not you,

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Speaker 1: of sexual assault in a strip club.

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Speaker 2: We have multiple statements on the record referring to that.

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Speaker 2: But you claim you were not there when that occurred.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: Now the behavior I cited if true, do you think

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Speaker 1: that this behavior of intoxication going into these type of establishments,

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Speaker 1: women on your staff being so uncomfortable that they have

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Speaker 1: to file these sort of harassment claims.

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Speaker 2: Do you think this is appropriate behavior for a leader?

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Speaker 3: Senator welm with Senator, the overwhelming majority of anyone who's

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Speaker 3: worked for me, including the on the record statements that

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Speaker 3: have been submitted to this with their name on it,

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Speaker 3: on the record, men and women who worked with me

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Speaker 3: every day, are the overwhelming preponderance of evidence that testify

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Speaker 3: to my leadership and professionalism in leading that's for freedom

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Speaker 3: and concerned.

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Speaker 2: Veterans for America.

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Speaker 3: My leadership has been completely impugned on these veterans organizations

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Speaker 3: that did fantastic work.

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Speaker 2: Mister Hesh, I'm not even going to got the I'm

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Speaker 2: not even going.

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Speaker 3: To go into the activation our financial books with integrity

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Speaker 3: across the board. How many people everybody who I have campaign, I.

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Speaker 2: Have limited time.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into the accusations that come

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Speaker 1: from Fox News. You have some of your Fox News

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Speaker 1: colleagues here. There are multiple instances of accusations against you

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Speaker 1: about drinking on the job, anymous, all false, all refuted

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Speaker 1: by my colleagues who I worked with for ten years

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Speaker 1: at six am to nine pm, and everything. Challenge here

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Speaker 1: for me, mister Hesse only seed it is when there

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Speaker 1: is discussional about personal challenges and you admittedly had issues

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Speaker 1: with heavy drinking, it's hard to kind of square this

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Speaker 1: to square the circle here, it's kind of.

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Speaker 2: A difficult thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, if I have about a ninety

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Speaker 1: seconds left here, if you had to answer these questions

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Speaker 1: about sexual assault against you and your drinking and your

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Speaker 1: personal conduct, would it have been different if this if

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Speaker 1: you were.

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Speaker 2: Under oath, Senator. All I'm pointing out is the false

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Speaker 2: claims against me. Okay, take it. You do not want

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Speaker 2: to answer that question.

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Speaker 1: Walked into this here in this morning concern that you

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Speaker 1: haven't demonstrated adequate leadership in your civilian roles. And this

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Speaker 1: is a dangerous world we're living in here, and America

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Speaker 1: cannot afford a Secretary of Defense who is unprepared for

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Speaker 1: that mission. I'm going to leave with concerns about your transparency.

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Speaker 1: You say you've had personal issues in your past, yet

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Speaker 1: when asked about those very issues, you blame an anonymous

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Speaker 1: smear campaign, even when many of these claims are not anonymous.

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Speaker 5: Which is it.

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Speaker 2: Have you overcome personal issues or are you the target.

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Speaker 3: Of a.

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Speaker 6: Okay everybody.

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Speaker 5: Senator Mark Kelly is wrapping up with Pete hegg Seth.

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Speaker 5: I want to actually hear from someone who's been in

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Speaker 5: the room to fight for Pete Hegseeth. It is caught

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Speaker 5: Cash Larson, who is running seals for Pete Hegseeth.

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Speaker 8: Cash.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to the program. Cash.

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Speaker 5: Tell us what you are seeing up close and personal

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Speaker 5: in the room here and how your friend Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 5: is doing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And Charlie, it's honored Yon.

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Speaker 18: I actually just stepped out of the hearing room to

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Speaker 18: speak with you and your audience right now. As you've seen,

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01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 18: it's followed back and forth between being contagrius with some

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Speaker 18: of the senators and others senators appreciating the support for

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Speaker 18: Pete's nomination. I think the most important thing to take

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Speaker 18: away from actually inside the hearing room is that they

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Speaker 18: are about fifty Special Operations veterans inside the room there

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Speaker 18: to support Pete, a couple MMA professional MMA fighters. That's

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Speaker 18: probably the most lethal room in America right now. And

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Speaker 18: what that means beyond being a badass room, is that

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Speaker 18: in the Special operations community, when we go through selection process,

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Speaker 18: we use peer review as a really critical essential tool

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Speaker 18: to select the best of the best. Essentially, you see

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Speaker 18: Pete Haigseth being peer reviewed by the actual war fighters

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Speaker 18: in the room right now, and.

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Speaker 5: People who have served with Pete, people who.

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Speaker 18: Have gone through arduous experiences with Pete, are there to

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Speaker 18: support them.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's being reflected in the cuestomer. So

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Speaker 5: let's talk about the military standards and how they have

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Speaker 5: been relaxed and how they're different for males and females.

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Speaker 5: And this has been a big issue made in this

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Speaker 5: committee hearing. What is the truth regarding this? Yeah?

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Speaker 18: Absolutely, I think that it's been a sticking point in

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Speaker 18: several of the q and as back and forth with

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Speaker 18: the different senators. I think the important thing to emphasize

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Speaker 18: is that Pete wants to return military culture to a

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Speaker 18: culture that's front sight focused on war fighting, and in

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Speaker 18: order to do that, he believes that we have to

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Speaker 18: maintain extraordinarily high standards.

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Speaker 5: There's been a lot of discussion.

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Speaker 18: About this, but sitting in the back of the room,

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Speaker 18: in my opinion, is actually not that much webspace. There's

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Speaker 18: a unanimous consent agreement that there should be really high

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Speaker 18: standards for our war fighters, and they should be vigorously enforced.

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Speaker 5: And both centers on both sides of.

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Speaker 18: The aisles and the perspective nominee Pepe except seem to

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Speaker 18: be incongruence about that.

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Speaker 5: It seems to be breaking down.

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Speaker 18: There's a sort of series of kind of like ad

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Speaker 18: hominin or sort of personal attacks, But that neglects the

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Speaker 18: bigger issues that everybody both on the dais up there

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Speaker 18: and then Pete sitting in the hot seat, everybody there

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Speaker 18: actually cares about national security really deeply. You know, from

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Speaker 18: the back of the room, I wish they'd spend a

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Speaker 18: lot more time focusing on the big stuff that everybody's

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Speaker 18: concerned about rather than the small stuff.

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Speaker 5: In closing here, hush because I know I got to

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Speaker 5: get back in. What do you think Pete hegsats will

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Speaker 5: do for military recruitment and morale? Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 5: truth is Pete's already done it.

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Speaker 18: Look, we're as the hearing started off, you saw the

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Speaker 18: Senate Committee chair say that we're living in a moment

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Speaker 18: of consequence. We're at one of the most volatile periods

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Speaker 18: in global history Africa Special Operations Command Africa, so clearly

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Speaker 18: we're serves at the most volatile time on the continent

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Speaker 18: in the last many decades. So these are dangerous times

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Speaker 18: requires transformation leadership, and it's going to require new generational

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Speaker 18: war fighters. There's no better testament to the ability to

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Speaker 18: inspire and move people towards a mission than all of

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Speaker 18: these former warfighters who spent the last twenty years fighting

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Speaker 18: the global War on Terror. Mobilized to be motivated for Pete,

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Speaker 18: come out for Pete. So I think that votes pretty

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Speaker 18: well for recruitment and.

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Speaker 5: The next generation of war fighters.

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Speaker 18: I think empirically there's already been a spike in recruitment

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Speaker 18: and I think that's because a lot of the American

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Speaker 18: public is aligned with the values that Petus shows us.

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Speaker 6: Tech.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your time. Get back in

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Speaker 5: the room and keep on supporting Pete.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Charle. Email us as always Freedom at charliekirk dot

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Speaker 5: to continue with the Pete hegseth hearing. He is dialoguing

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Speaker 5: right now with Senator Jim Banks, which, by the way,

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Speaker 5: is going to be one of the best senators in

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Speaker 5: not obviously thrilled out in the signup, but it's BVP,

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Speaker 5: More with Pete Hagk's We're going to go right through

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Speaker 5: the breaks today and says shoot us an email Freedam

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Speaker 6: Stay right there.

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Speaker 3: It comes back to strong, clear leadership, patriotic, pro American

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01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 3: leadership that says we're not going to focus on all

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01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 3: the other political prerogatives.

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Speaker 2: That's why we all have political perspectives.

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01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 5: I said this.

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Speaker 2: Before and I'll say it again. In uniform, none of

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Speaker 2: that matters.

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Speaker 3: You wear green, you wear blue, you bleed red, that's it.

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Speaker 3: Who you vote for it doesn't matter. But when the

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01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 3: perception of that changes, then you don't want people deciding

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Speaker 3: whether to serve based on a political party in power.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing for.

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Speaker 3: Continuity inside your military, and it's fragile right now, President Trump,

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Speaker 3: and if I'm confirmed, with my leadership, we're going to

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Speaker 3: restore the continuity of an a political military that acts

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Speaker 3: decisively and only based on merit.

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Speaker 10: You and I.

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Speaker 2: It's not basic, but they're fundamental. You and I agree

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01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 2: that wokeness is weakness.

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Speaker 8: Mister Hegseth.

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Speaker 19: Do you support racial quotas in recruitment or promotions in

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Speaker 19: the United States military?

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Speaker 2: Senator, I do not support any form of racial quota.

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Speaker 19: Do you support affirmative action in our nation's military academies?

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Speaker 3: Senator, I only support hiring and promoting and admitting the

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Speaker 3: best and brightest, whatever their background is.

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Speaker 19: I think that's very important, mister Hegseth. Lloyd Austin, the Secretary,

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Speaker 19: later went a wall. He disappeared for days and never

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01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 19: told the president, didn't even inform the President's chief of

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Speaker 19: staff that he was going into the hospital.

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Speaker 2: Will that ever occur on your watch?

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Speaker 3: No, Senator, I know in any one of my jobs,

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Speaker 3: if I had decided to go a wall for even

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Speaker 3: a day or two in uniform around that that would

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Speaker 3: have been a concern.

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Speaker 19: I believe accountability matters. No one to this day has ever,

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01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:12,480
Speaker 19: as you've said, been held accountable for what happened in Afghanistan.

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01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 19: It was embarrassing to this country. It's impacted this country greatly,

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Speaker 19: and I applaud you and President Trump for being accountability

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01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 19: back to our Pentagon.

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01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 2: With that, I yelled back.

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Speaker 8: Chair recognizes the distinguished ranking Member for unanimous consent. Request.

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Speaker 13: Mister Chairman, I would like to submit an article discussing

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01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:38,680
Speaker 13: some of the issues of readiness and DEI. There has

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01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 13: been a comment that five point nine million man hours

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Speaker 13: have been used for DEI. General Maya clarified that that

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Speaker 13: is an estimate out of more than two million man

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Speaker 13: hours after depopt offence.

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Speaker 8: Invested during the time period. Where's this published, sir?

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Speaker 13: This is published by Megan marsh and I will get

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Speaker 13: the also okay.

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Speaker 2: Military dot Com.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, without objection, it will be admitted to the

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Speaker 8: rec and Senator Slutkin, welcome to the committee.

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Speaker 5: Thank Yourek, Thank.

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Speaker 20: You, Senator, and thank you for referencing the great Carl

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Speaker 20: Levin as you introduced me.

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Speaker 14: We miss him in Michigan.

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Speaker 20: For those of who I haven't met in my one

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Speaker 20: week that I've been sworn into the Senate. I'm a

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01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 20: CIA officer, recruited after nine to eleven. I did three

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Speaker 20: tours armed in I rock alongside the military, and have

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Speaker 20: worked for four different secretaries of Defense, both Democrat and Republican,

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Speaker 20: proudly and watch them make decisions that literally determine the

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Speaker 20: life and death of Americans in the dark of night.

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Speaker 20: I'm also a Democrat representing a state that Trump won, right,

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01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:57,280
Speaker 20: we both went on the same ballot, So I understand

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01:29:57,320 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 20: that President Trump has the right to nominate his people.

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Speaker 20: We are going to have policies that we disagree with.

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Speaker 20: All of that to me comes very standard. What I

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Speaker 20: think I'm most concerned with is that no president has

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Speaker 20: the right to use the uniform military in a way

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Speaker 20: that violates the US Constitution and further taints the military

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01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 20: as that a political institution that we all want right.

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Speaker 20: And our founders designed the system so that we had

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Speaker 20: posse commentatis that we weren't going to use active duty

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Speaker 20: military inside the United States and make American citizens potentially

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Speaker 20: scared of their own military.

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Speaker 14: We went through our own.

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Speaker 9: Experience with that with the British.

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Speaker 20: As the Secretary of Defense, you will be the one

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Speaker 20: man standing in the breach.

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Speaker 9: Should President Trump give an.

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Speaker 20: A legal order, right, I'm not saying you will, but

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01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 20: if he does, you are going to be the guy

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Speaker 20: that he calls to implement this order. Do you agree

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Speaker 20: that there are some orders that can be given by

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Speaker 20: the commander in chief that would violate the US Constitution?

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Speaker 3: Senator, thank you for your service, But I reject the

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Speaker 3: premise that President Trump is going to be giving illegal order.

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Speaker 14: No, I'm not saying you will.

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Speaker 20: But if do you believe there is such a thing

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Speaker 20: as an illegal order that Joe Biden or any other

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Speaker 20: president Donald Trump could give? Is there anything that a

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Speaker 20: commander in chief could ask you to do with the

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Speaker 20: uniform military that would be in violation of the US Constitution?

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Speaker 3: Sending anybody of any party could give an order that

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Speaker 3: is against the constitution or against the law.

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Speaker 9: Right, okay?

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Speaker 5: So and are you so?

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Speaker 20: Are you saying that you would stand in the breach

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Speaker 20: and push back if you were given an illegal order?

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Speaker 3: I start by saying I reject the premise that President

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Speaker 3: I understands.

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Speaker 6: The great reset stops to Charlie kirkfect show.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: The dialogue between a Miss Slotkin, Senator Slotkin very tight

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Speaker 5: senate race there in Michigan and Pete Hegseth is continuing.

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Speaker 5: But now I want to invite a fan favorite of

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Speaker 5: going to join at some point. Mark, welcome back to

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Speaker 5: the program. Well, thanks for having me back, but I

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Speaker 5: need to say I'm a bit angry. Tell me why

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Speaker 5: read to you from my wristband.

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Speaker 21: My video podcast host went to Greenland and all I

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Speaker 21: got was a slazy wristband.

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Speaker 5: Dude, you brought me nothing. You brought me literally, I

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Speaker 5: that is so funny explaining I.

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Speaker 6: Gotta tell you was.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 6: I no, it's very interesting, I I do. You might

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Speaker 6: be in the running. Mark.

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Speaker 5: I bought a bunch of tourist trap stuff, including like

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Speaker 5: seal fur and you know, very like local delicacy, so

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Speaker 5: you might be in the running for some reindeer sausage. Okay,

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Speaker 5: that'd be better than this frummy wristband at the inauguration.

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Speaker 5: If we run into each other, I'll give you some

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Speaker 5: reindeer sausage. Not a joke, by the way, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 5: Uh No, it's one. That's that's a separate top of

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Speaker 5: another time. One of the most fun I've ever had. Mark,

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Speaker 5: I see that you or meant not being an airport,

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Speaker 5: which I've actually done many hits from an airport, so

1759
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 5: uh that or it's a very green screen. I've done

1760
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:45,720
Speaker 5: many hits from airports, so uh, I want to.

1761
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:46,560
Speaker 6: Totally get it.

1762
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 5: Which one?

1763
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 21: But it's it's named after a very prominent conservative Republican

1764
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 21: brands today, I think you're if I was support I.

1765
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, I, Well, I I thought it was.

1766
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:00,559
Speaker 5: If I'm not just based on the background than the esthetic.

1767
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 5: I've spent many a time in Reagan. So Mark, I

1768
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 5: know you've been catching some of the hearing here. What

1769
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 5: is your analysis and do you think Pete Hegseeth is

1770
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 5: likely to become the Secretary of Defense. I think he

1771
01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:18,680
Speaker 5: will unless there's a bunch of Republicans who secretly have

1772
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 5: said they're going to vote know and they're just being

1773
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:26,000
Speaker 5: encouraging at the hearings to avoid conflict with mega.

1774
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Speaker 21: Democrats. I think have done a pretty good job, better

1775
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,639
Speaker 21: than the opposition party typically dies of having the topics

1776
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:36,840
Speaker 21: organized and focusing pretty well on the things they wanted

1777
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:39,920
Speaker 21: to bring out. But there's no bombshell as far as

1778
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:42,360
Speaker 21: we know, there's no startlingness. The chairman's holding firm if

1779
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:47,479
Speaker 21: you just reported, no additional rounds of questioning and nothing

1780
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 21: the Democrats did because the witness was very well prepared.

1781
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,560
Speaker 21: He didn't lose his temper, he didn't say things he

1782
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:58,640
Speaker 21: should have said, he didn't create damaging soundbites. He was

1783
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,760
Speaker 21: a case study, just as his team was a case

1784
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 21: study in November and December to get him to this point.

1785
01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 21: He was a case study and had to handle tough questions,

1786
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,919
Speaker 21: and none of the Republicans seeing the least bit concerned

1787
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 21: on the committee now. The Senator talks from Utah said

1788
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:19,200
Speaker 21: this morning that he's undecided and if people's suspicion that

1789
01:36:19,560 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 21: Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins might vote to Know means

1790
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 21: the committee may be amit misleading. The committee is pretty

1791
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,400
Speaker 21: supportive in the main and the candidates to vote KNOW

1792
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 21: are largely not on the committee, So I don't think

1793
01:36:32,560 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 21: he's out of the woods yet, but I do think

1794
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 21: it appears he'll get a favorable vote in the committee,

1795
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:39,080
Speaker 21: and then once he's on the floor, I think President

1796
01:36:39,080 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 21: Trump can can put down a fair amount of pressure

1797
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:44,440
Speaker 21: if there is any effort.

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Speaker 5: To stop them. So let me ask you mark the

1799
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 5: kind of whole slate. It seemed as if things were

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01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,760
Speaker 5: not going great for Pete, but then of course there

1801
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:59,680
Speaker 5: was this threat of primary challenging that we or may

1802
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:01,680
Speaker 5: may or may not have been involved in. Do you

1803
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 5: think that changed the direction of the future of the

1804
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 5: whole slate being confirmed?

1805
01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:10,920
Speaker 21: I think three things happened that changed the direction of

1806
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:14,200
Speaker 21: the slate. First of all, you and your colleagues made

1807
01:37:14,240 --> 01:37:16,760
Speaker 21: it clear, and people try to cast us.

1808
01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 5: To something evil and dark.

1809
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:20,560
Speaker 21: It just made it clear that there'd be accountability for

1810
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 21: those who didn't support the President's nominees. And I think

1811
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:26,960
Speaker 21: some of the senators got that message. They're not interested

1812
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,640
Speaker 21: in going against the energy of the party. Number Two,

1813
01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:31,880
Speaker 21: I think the team's geared up.

1814
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 10: Right.

1815
01:37:33,240 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 21: When you're nominated for something, you get a shirpa, you

1816
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:37,960
Speaker 21: get a press age, you get a small team of

1817
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:41,240
Speaker 21: folks usually a former center to help guide you through

1818
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 21: the process and interact with the Senate options.

1819
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:46,360
Speaker 5: And I think those teams weren't necessarily up.

1820
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 21: And running in every case, and now they are, and

1821
01:37:48,320 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 21: I think they've they've fired really good people for that. Finally,

1822
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:55,439
Speaker 21: you know, if you look at the sum total, besides

1823
01:37:55,520 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 21: Pete hegsen there haven't been vague revelations about Tulci gabber,

1824
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 21: about Bobby Kennedy, about I'm blanking on his name, the

1825
01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:10,240
Speaker 21: FBI nominee Cash Pattel. There just haven't been revelations. And

1826
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:14,320
Speaker 21: so it's easy for the Senators and for folks like

1827
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:17,280
Speaker 21: you to say these are old stories. You know, we're

1828
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 21: moving on, We're focused on the positive. So I think

1829
01:38:19,880 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 21: those three things have combined to create a very positive situation.

1830
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 5: And last, I'll just say, and.

1831
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 21: I've reported this before, and I know you know, the

1832
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 21: level of communication between mar Lago folks like you, the

1833
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 21: Senators who are the most supportive senator, it's remarkable the

1834
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 21: text change and the constant communication to be right on

1835
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:44,920
Speaker 21: top of any weak points. Since it's just a model

1836
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 21: for how this stuff works, and the Democrats really are

1837
01:38:47,200 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 21: not in a position to match that then, So, yeah,

1838
01:38:51,280 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 21: this is really kind of the first online administration when

1839
01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:56,760
Speaker 21: you think about it, and it's real time and it's interactive.

1840
01:38:56,840 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 21: Can you comment on that mark, it's a little bit

1841
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:00,679
Speaker 21: of kind of next genl to coal warfare.

1842
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1843
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:05,920
Speaker 21: I mean, you know, in the olden days when I

1844
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,360
Speaker 21: was your age, we had war rooms, right, and people

1845
01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 21: sat in there with analog telephones and no email, and

1846
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 21: you know, you were rapid responses. You wrote and sent

1847
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 21: out a blast facts within half an hour. You all

1848
01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 21: are twenty four to seven online on phones, primarily able

1849
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 21: to and.

1850
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 5: Consuming a lot of incoming.

1851
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 21: So if you know, Elizabeth Warren writes an eighty page

1852
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 21: letter saying, here are all my questions, It's not like

1853
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 21: the next afternoon you all are up and running and

1854
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:36,960
Speaker 21: figuring out what.

1855
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 5: If anything, do we need to do about this.

1856
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 21: It's instantaneous analysis, communications, decision making, execution, and it's with

1857
01:39:45,600 --> 01:39:47,879
Speaker 21: a group of people who are all very very online

1858
01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:51,920
Speaker 21: and who have a metabolism. And not everybody metabolism is

1859
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 21: quite as great as yours for this stuff, but most

1860
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:55,360
Speaker 21: everybody is.

1861
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:57,960
Speaker 5: And I think people like you and Elon Musk and

1862
01:39:58,040 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 5: Steve Bannon.

1863
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 21: Kind of set the pace for others and cause others

1864
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:07,439
Speaker 21: who might have more children or need more sleep, or

1865
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 21: interested in spending three hours with a football game to say, hey,

1866
01:40:11,320 --> 01:40:13,280
Speaker 21: you know, I can't do that right now. It's a

1867
01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:16,200
Speaker 21: critical period for the revolution, so we need to be

1868
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:18,600
Speaker 21: up and running and keeping pace with the guys and

1869
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:21,559
Speaker 21: gals who set the pace, which is again, very online,

1870
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 21: very twenty four seven. I'm pretty online. I'm pretty twenty

1871
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 21: four to seven. But you all are doing it in

1872
01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:31,679
Speaker 21: a very tribal coordinated way. That is, you know again,

1873
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 21: the Democrats just start matching that right now. And that's

1874
01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 21: an advantage because things things move quickly.

1875
01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:41,360
Speaker 6: And I take that as a great compliment, thank you.

1876
01:40:41,520 --> 01:40:42,280
Speaker 6: And you're right.

1877
01:40:42,439 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 5: The sleep is not always abundant. Sometimes you know, you're

1878
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 5: up at one or two am because you just have

1879
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,680
Speaker 5: all this incoming. And I do have to say that

1880
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:52,240
Speaker 5: is one of the great superpowers of being on the

1881
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 5: West coast right now in Palm Beach, but being on

1882
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:56,559
Speaker 5: the West coast, you can kind of stay up very

1883
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 5: late and you can kind of set the news cycle

1884
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:01,360
Speaker 5: for the next day while everyone else is asleep.

1885
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 6: So Mark, I want to shift.

1886
01:41:03,240 --> 01:41:05,400
Speaker 21: It's almost like I thought, it's almost like please, but

1887
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:08,080
Speaker 21: It's almost like them on those text change with you, Isn't.

1888
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 5: It almost like exactly? I want to shift gears slightly

1889
01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:16,160
Speaker 5: on this program. We've said that if twenty seventeen was

1890
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:18,880
Speaker 5: marked by the resistance, it seems as if that twenty

1891
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:22,200
Speaker 5: twenty four and twenty twenty five is marked by the acquiescence.

1892
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:26,160
Speaker 5: Breaking news here while we were on air, to be

1893
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 5: on the DAIS, which is where President Trump is getting

1894
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:32,599
Speaker 5: sworn in, is a big deal. It's cabinet officials, it's family,

1895
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:36,160
Speaker 5: you know, It's people that are very close and organizers

1896
01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 5: that have been around. The DAIS will now include Mark Zuckerberg,

1897
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 5: Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Elon's not a surprise, but

1898
01:41:45,360 --> 01:41:48,679
Speaker 5: Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will be on the DAIS.

1899
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:54,080
Speaker 5: What is your reaction going from twenty seventeen full out resistance.

1900
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 5: We're almost to the day, four years from the day

1901
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:04,800
Speaker 5: of January sixth. You have Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk bending the knee.

1902
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:08,000
Speaker 5: Help me understand this. You know, I'm working on an

1903
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:08,599
Speaker 5: article now.

1904
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:12,799
Speaker 21: I hope I can finish it soon about Donald Trump's

1905
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:16,639
Speaker 21: second term is the greatest mulligan of all time. If

1906
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:19,439
Speaker 21: the conditions under which he will enter office is so

1907
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,880
Speaker 21: different than eight years ago. And you're citing one example

1908
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 21: that's so fascinating because it involves human beings. Donald Trump

1909
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 21: loves well, he loves success, he loves trophies, human trophies,

1910
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:34,920
Speaker 21: and he loves having a relationship with powerful people. And

1911
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 21: you're right, Elon's not a surprise at this point. But

1912
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:44,200
Speaker 21: Elan hasn't always been supportive of Donald Trump. The other

1913
01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:45,360
Speaker 21: go it would have been shocking.

1914
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:45,760
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1915
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 21: Yeah, So we've eased into that one, right. The other

1916
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 21: two we've eased into as well.

1917
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:51,519
Speaker 18: Right.

1918
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 5: Zuckerberg has been tomor a lago at least twice we know.

1919
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 5: Have he brought gifts.

1920
01:42:56,560 --> 01:43:00,760
Speaker 21: Was reported today he's trying to settle for cash potentially

1921
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:05,120
Speaker 21: suit Donald Trump has against Facebook and Bezos a few

1922
01:43:05,160 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 21: months ago, maybe a few weeks ago, I guess months

1923
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 21: ago now, made some had a New York Times event,

1924
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 21: made some publicly supportive comment.

1925
01:43:13,479 --> 01:43:15,879
Speaker 5: Look, part of it is purely cynical.

1926
01:43:16,720 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 21: They don't want the federal government to come after them,

1927
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:22,720
Speaker 21: and being close to Donald Trump is the best way

1928
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:23,799
Speaker 21: to protect their interests.

1929
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,640
Speaker 5: But part of it is patriotism.

1930
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 21: Part of it is respect for what he's accomplished not

1931
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 21: just surviving being shot, but the greatest comeback in modern

1932
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 21: American political history.

1933
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 5: And part of it is Trump's.

1934
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:45,080
Speaker 21: Desire to really rely on a private sector for a

1935
01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 21: lot of the successes that he wants to have. And

1936
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:52,559
Speaker 21: he's welcomed these folks tomorrow Algos, He's met.

1937
01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:55,280
Speaker 5: With them, and they're not the only ones. They're obviously prominent.

1938
01:43:55,320 --> 01:43:57,840
Speaker 21: They're most the richest people in the world and run

1939
01:43:57,960 --> 01:44:01,360
Speaker 21: businesses that are unparalleled and you in history. But but

1940
01:44:01,640 --> 01:44:04,000
Speaker 21: but there are lots of CEOs who've been to mar

1941
01:44:04,040 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 21: A Lago and who who welcome the opportunity to be

1942
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:10,160
Speaker 21: at the table. And as you know, well, Donald Trump

1943
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 21: is not a big Texter and a big email or

1944
01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:15,000
Speaker 21: you want to be in his presence. The more you're

1945
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:16,600
Speaker 21: in his presence, the more you influence you have, the

1946
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 21: more you're involved in decisions and consultations and conversations.

1947
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 5: And these guys get the joke.

1948
01:44:21,439 --> 01:44:24,840
Speaker 21: They want to be near him, to quote the great

1949
01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 21: political philosophers, the Carpenters, just like me, They long to

1950
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 21: be close to him.

1951
01:44:33,160 --> 01:44:34,920
Speaker 6: Mark, we have to dash. But I just.

1952
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 5: I think it's just going to be incredibly delicious to

1953
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:44,240
Speaker 5: watch the picture of you know the typical people, Jared Evanka,

1954
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 5: don Eric Zuckerberg, Bezos. It's not like they're just donating

1955
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:51,560
Speaker 5: the token one million dollars. They want to be on

1956
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 5: the dais that that's that's a big big It's like

1957
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:56,720
Speaker 5: big deal.

1958
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:01,640
Speaker 21: It's like dogs playing poker. It's like a collige she

1959
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:04,960
Speaker 21: can't believe actually exists. And I will expect you to

1960
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 21: drag me everywhere Saturday through Monday night.

1961
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:12,680
Speaker 5: I want to be wherever you are. We will cut

1962
01:45:12,680 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 5: a deal. You're welcome with the turning point ball I

1963
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:17,040
Speaker 5: will give you. I'll give you one of the exclusive

1964
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:22,720
Speaker 5: insights into the village people. So okay, I think I'll

1965
01:45:22,720 --> 01:45:24,320
Speaker 5: be a full report or whatever I need to be.

1966
01:45:24,439 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 21: I just I want to experience those seventy two hours

1967
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:28,479
Speaker 21: exactly as you do.

1968
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:32,760
Speaker 5: Mark, You're the best. Come back anytime. Thanks so much,

1969
01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 5: Safe Trump, Welcome home to America.

1970
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 6: Thank you.

1971
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 8: Well.

1972
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,479
Speaker 5: Maybe nuke will be part of America. Soon the hearing

1973
01:45:42,560 --> 01:45:46,280
Speaker 5: has adjourned. I believe that is over. For now, we

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Speaker 5: Let's continue the picture and picture if we can. Phoenix

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Speaker 5: of Pete Hegseth, who is embracing the people around him. So,

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Speaker 5: from an understand a word of my sources, which I

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Speaker 5: think my sources are pretty pretty good, this is it.

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Speaker 2: There is.

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Speaker 6: There is no other hearings besides us.

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Speaker 5: That's it. From what I can understand, and from from

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Speaker 5: all the research that has been gathered and all the sourcing,

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Speaker 5: I do not believe that there is going to be

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Speaker 5: round too there will be a committee vote and then

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Speaker 5: a floor vote and that's it. I believe this is

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Speaker 5: the end of questioning. And so Pete Haigseth did wonderful.

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Speaker 5: Stay right there. Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us Freedom

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Speaker 5: at charliekirk dot com and make sure you subscribe to

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Speaker 5: the Charlie Kirkshaw Podcast. If you guys are in the

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Speaker 5: car on the road in transit, Charlie Kirkshaw Podcast is

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Speaker 5: the place for you, and we have exclusive analysis, in

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Speaker 5: depth commentary. Yeah, let's go full screen on that if

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Speaker 5: we can. I'd like to narrate along as Pete hegg Seth.

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Speaker 5: He's been through helen back these last couple of months,

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Speaker 5: lied about, slandered, criticized.

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Speaker 6: Let's go.

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Speaker 5: Can we go full screen and keep my mic because

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Speaker 5: I'm having this, thank you very much. So that is

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Speaker 5: Pete around friends and family.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 6: There's Arthur Schwartz, I know him.

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Speaker 5: There is Mike Walls there, Pete taking pictures kind of

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Speaker 5: like a celebrity, if you will. And Pete just got

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Speaker 5: done with one of the hardest things that you can do.

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Speaker 5: So this is what Pete is doing right now. Pete

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Speaker 5: is saying hello, and thanking all the veterans that were

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Speaker 5: there in support of him. Today, by the way, what

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Speaker 5: a sigh of relief Pete can have right now? It

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Speaker 5: is very difficult because the Democrats on that committee were

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Speaker 5: intentionally provoking him. It was an intentional provocation campaign, intentional

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Speaker 5: and Pete handled it beautifully. It was a masterclass by Pete.

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Speaker 5: Hegseth attacking his marital life, his personal decisions. Well, now

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Speaker 5: he has a drinking problem, and like, hold on a second.

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Speaker 5: First of all, the military is not exactly the place

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Speaker 5: of sobriety. I don't drink, not a fan of it,

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Speaker 5: but it's not a moral issue. However, it's all in

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Speaker 5: the past. Nobody is, No person is ever above rising

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Speaker 5: above what the demons of their past are. That is

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Speaker 5: completely and totally unfair. He was measured, he didn't take

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Speaker 5: the bait. He's a true patriot. And there is the

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Speaker 5: Senate hearing room where this all took place and from

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Speaker 5: according to all sources that I have, it's now going

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Speaker 5: to go to a committee vote which will probably pass

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Speaker 5: on pure partisan lines. We're watching you, Jony Ernst. By

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Speaker 5: the way, did you notice how boring Jony Ernst's questions were.

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Speaker 6: Do you notice how.

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Speaker 5: How non dramatic, how tempered Jony Ernst's questions were.

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Speaker 6: She flew a little bit too close to the sun.

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Speaker 6: She didn't want to get rond. And now Jony Ernst

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Speaker 6: is Pete Hegseth's biggest fan.

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Speaker 5: And honestly, I got to give credit for the foreign

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Speaker 5: flag where Roger Wicker, I mean, it was just ridiculous

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Speaker 5: wearing the Ukrainian flag. He handled the committee really well.

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Speaker 5: I got to give him credit for that. The whole

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Speaker 5: Ukrainian flag thing is just ridiculous, but I got to

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Speaker 5: give him credit. He handled it like a gentleman. He

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Speaker 5: stood up against the left, that ridiculous co chair that

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Speaker 5: he has in the Democrats with the Cooper or whatever.

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Speaker 6: His name is.

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Speaker 5: He can never remember that guy's name, and so forgettable.

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Speaker 5: Jack Reid, Jack read it sounds like he's like a

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Speaker 5: federal agent. Jack Reid just feels made up. Senator Reid,

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Speaker 5: he just says, yeah, yeah, thanks so much, thanks for coming.

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Speaker 5: He didn't want to turn this into a long standing melodrama,

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Speaker 5: long standing, unnecessarily unnecessary.

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Speaker 6: Issue, so he just said, okay, thanks so much.

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 6: Pete hegg Seth's hearing is over.

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Speaker 5: It's going to now go to a committee vote and

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Speaker 5: then the floor vote, which means Pete Hegseth can assume

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Speaker 5: the duties as the Secretary Defense, likely as soon as

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Speaker 5: Monday or Tuesday.

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Speaker 6: Let me repeat that.

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Speaker 5: Pete HeiG Seth can assume the duties of becoming the

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Speaker 5: Secretary Defense on Monday afternoon or Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker 6: So here's what happens.

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Speaker 5: They did their advice and consent, They're going to do

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Speaker 5: a committee vote, and then they have to hold I think,

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Speaker 5: the floor vote. So President Trump gets sworn in and

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Speaker 5: he says, so help me God. In five hours, five

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Speaker 5: days and twenty two hours. In five minutes, five days,

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Speaker 5: twenty two hours, President Donald Trump goes to the outer

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Speaker 5: room of the Capitol, it's called the signing room, and

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Speaker 5: he signs the nominations Pete hegg Seth, Scott Bessentt, Doug Burnham,

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Speaker 5: Cash Patel. He signs all these nominations and then the

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Speaker 5: Senate will pick it up that afternoon. And that afternoon,

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Speaker 5: Pete Heggseeth can then get in a motorcade and ride

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Speaker 5: right into the Pengagon and Pete Hegseth can then that

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Speaker 5: evening around seven or eight at night, get to his

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Speaker 5: desk as the head of the Secretary of Defense and

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Speaker 5: start signing executive orders. Not executive orders, but memorandums. Only

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Speaker 5: the president senda give orders.

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Speaker 8: No more.

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Speaker 6: Woke is none of this nonsense CRT.

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Speaker 1: So by.

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Speaker 5: Eight thirty or nine pm on this coming Monday evening,

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Speaker 5: wokeism will be on its way out of the mill. Deep.

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Speaker 5: Of course, is can be a lot of excommunication of

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Speaker 5: these demons that have to happen, But the military should

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Speaker 5: not be a sociological experiment. The focus should be should

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Speaker 5: be on lethality and meritocracy. Pete Hegseth understands the mission

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Speaker 5: statement of the military should be to protect our national

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Speaker 5: interests and kill the enemy without apology.

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Speaker 6: Do so quickly.

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Speaker 5: We are not a nation building operation. We are not

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Speaker 5: an infrastructure organization. We are not a sociological experiment operation.

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Speaker 5: It is about protecting the homeland and killing the enemies. Lethality, meritocracy,

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Speaker 5: integrity and fidelity to the nation. Well done, Pete hegg Seth.

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Speaker 5: We're behind you one hundred percent. We have been in

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Speaker 5: the trenches fighting for you and looks as if, according

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Speaker 5: to all reporting, you are now on a glide path

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Speaker 5: to become the Secretary of Defense, and if anybody votes

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Speaker 5: against you, there will be a primary challenge visiting your

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Speaker 5: state soon. Mark that down and take into the bank,

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Speaker 5: so vote accordingly. Talk to you guys soon