WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.319 Do I start with Hegseth. Do I start with Doge? 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:07.240 Do I start with the Kayak stories insane? Do I 3 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:13.480 start with the mayor in Durham who got offended over 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:17.879 facts like it's really tough this morning. I will be 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.480 quite honest with you. So yesterday and I mentioned this 6 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:23.719 literally the show promo, this I don't even know. We 7 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.160 gotta change the show promo the rest of the week 8 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.440 because Trump's gonna keep naming names and people are gonna 9 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:33.280 keep losing their damn minds. And you know what, I'm 10 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.880 here for it. Now. That doesn't mean I'm gonna like 11 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.679 or you're gonna like any of the names, all of 12 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:43.960 the names, whatever it is, some of the names, and 13 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.200 you can be scratching your head. There is a divide 14 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:49.840 over Rubio and Secretary of State is a powerful position 15 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:51.960 if we could be adults and have this, But unfortunately 16 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.240 that's not how we fight anymore. We're just like Marco 17 00:00:54.359 --> 00:01:00.399 Rubio's I saw yesterday scrolling on the timeline, the show timeline, 18 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.400 I would say, separated by five tweets accounts that I 19 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:09.040 recognize as people I don't follow, and yet somehow end 20 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:14.040 up in my timeline that Marco Rubio is either a 21 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:18.760 Jew hater or is owned by the Jews within five posts, 22 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.799 and people had links and stuff, and I'm just I'm 23 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:28.799 I'm out at that point. I'm out. So if you 24 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.879 want to fight over and do your thing, fight over it. 25 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:37.640 I'm here to partially be amused. Now another's serious stuff, 26 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:39.920 and I will give you the serious assessment because you 27 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.239 have to be able to do that. You can't just 28 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:46.159 you can't meme a point one hundred percent. You can 29 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.959 kind of and we do it all the time with 30 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.079 meme appointments is a thing, you know what, I don't. 31 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:54.799 I don't know if I've heard anyone say that, So 32 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:56.400 you know what, that's my thing, and if you ever 33 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.359 hear anyone using it, call them out. You know. A 34 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:05.840 meme appointment is uh, somebody who's who's put in there 35 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.240 purely totrol people. And they would have to lack the 36 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.599 qualifications because there are a lot of people who will 37 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:17.120 have qualifications perhaps to do a job, but because of 38 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.080 a news cycle or because of their time and how 39 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.120 they've interacted with people previously. Where somebody's got an axe 40 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.560 to grind that's not even relevant to this, Like somebody 41 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.719 will point them and they'll do it just to get 42 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:34.120 under the that person's skin. I have not seen that 43 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.159 yet with Trump's appointments here, and I'll give you an exam. 44 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:41.120 And it's not always that, but it's also sometimes a 45 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:45.039 bad one. And I'll tell you a really, really famous one, 46 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.159 and you guys remember it, even though you're probably racking 47 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.520 your brain for an example, George Bush. Do you remember 48 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.240 when George Bush did a me or attempted to do 49 00:02:54.280 --> 00:03:01.520 a meme nomination, in this case a meme nomination. Harriet Myers, 50 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:07.319 his family attorney, a woman who I believe changed him 51 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:09.639 at one point, like she'd been with the Bushes for 52 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.199 a long time. 53 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:11.039 Now. 54 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.039 Was she a lawyer? Yes? Did she ever have any 55 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.520 aspiration for Supreme Court? I guess maybe all lawyers do. 56 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.960 But it was clear that he did that because he said, 57 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.639 f and I'm going to do it, and also you 58 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.960 ain't gonna like it, but I don't care. And then 59 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.919 he realized some of the people around him didn't like it, 60 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.400 and you remember they withdrew the nomination. Then he nominated 61 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.919 a Hispanic guy. And famously you should research this. The 62 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:45.240 Democrats and there are on the record within the sourced 63 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.919 news articles of people who talked about how Democrat leadership 64 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:54.719 at that time decided that they would not allow a 65 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.919 Hispanic Supreme Court nominee or in this case, excuse me, 66 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.360 I want to be very clear. They were empty to 67 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.919 nominate him to the d C. Circuit Court or the 68 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:10.039 DC Court district just under the Supreme Court. But they 69 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.599 did it because they knew that he was gonna be 70 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.560 the next guy. A lot of times they project this stuff, 71 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.360 so they didn't want they didn't even let him get 72 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.639 on the DC Court of Appeals because they knew the 73 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.680 trajectory from there would be Supreme Court. And they realized 74 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.319 that if they tried to you know, Nancy Kerrigan him, 75 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:36.240 because that's of the era him at that point from 76 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:41.120 when he was transitioning to the Supreme Court, then it 77 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.600 would play very differently. So they recapped him and strategized saying, 78 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.360 we can't allow him, we can't allow the Republicans to 79 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:55.920 appoint the first Hispanic justice. That is that is not 80 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.120 in dispute that any of that happened. It's just got 81 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:02.600 memory hold to show you how slimy stuff is. And 82 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:07.360 then you know from there from their removed so yesterday, look, 83 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:09.439 if you don't like Trump, and there's a lot of 84 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.959 people who don't have the country, well less than half 85 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:20.560 the country. You know, for doing math, you probably looked 86 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.680 at the two big ones yesterday, like the Rubio thing. 87 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.920 You're not even talking. Maybe that's the strategy, so they 88 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.680 don't even talk about Ruby. I don't know you saw 89 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.120 Pete hag. Let me start with this one, Pete hegg Seth, 90 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:39.759 who you know from Fox News. And immediately immediately people 91 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.759 are like, oh, Pete hegg Seth, Oh you got what? 92 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:48.439 Did some guy some dufish reporter, some dufish reporter, And 93 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:53.399 I'm like, did you This was from Jim Acosta yesterday? 94 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:55.079 In fact, let me read. Let me read this guy 95 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.720 who's probably gonna be fired next week, so maybe he's 96 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.079 just having a bad day. Dude, did you see that 97 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:03.800 CNN's going scorched shirt? I don't, honestly, I know you 98 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.519 guys don't believe this, even at CNN, even at our competitors. 99 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.079 Let me tell you. Let me tell you a story. 100 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.399 It is going to sound mildly self serving, So I'm 101 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.199 not going to use any names. When when I first 102 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.000 started on the air here in North Carolina, and both 103 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.079 the Triad and Triangle will remember this. There was a 104 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:27.000 talk station out of Burlington on the FM dial and uh, 105 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.319 I can't remember exactly what it called itself, but you 106 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:31.399 remember it. It was like what was it one O 107 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.199 one whatever? There was a talk station. So in each 108 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:41.399 market we competed with somebody. Curtis, right, Curtis had a 109 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.680 talk station in each marrio. Well I still do with 110 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.920 PTF and s j S. And then in the middle, 111 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.480 because we're on the FM dial, you had this other 112 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.160 talk station out of I think they were licensed out 113 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.639 of Burlington, one of the one of the communities right 114 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:03.439 there in between Triad and Triangle. And when they decided 115 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.879 they were gonna, you know, flip and get rid of everybody, 116 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:10.319 there's a message board for like industry people, and I 117 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.160 saw people just slamming on these dudes, and I called 118 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.160 one of the hosts, toy Able, to get a hold 119 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.480 of them and talk to them and be like, look, man, 120 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.519 let's this sucks. Really, I really I hate this. And 121 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:30.319 we commiserated about this shared thing and I actually had 122 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.839 him to do some fill in. So maybe some of 123 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.199 you know who it is, but I don't like to 124 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.079 see this stuff unless I personally don't like the person 125 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.160 and one of the people at the station is an 126 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.439 ass so I did not call him. But I don't 127 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.199 celebrate the contraction of the media. And here's why there 128 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.639 is a little selfish component, because anytime a news talk 129 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.839 station shuts down, if I ever need a job, that's 130 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:58.000 one less person hiring. So there's a selfish component. But 131 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.079 there's also just the human component. And I got to 132 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.240 tell you, I am having a really hard time welling 133 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.360 up any sympathy for the idea that CNN may scorched 134 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:15.759 earth it's staff because they brought them there. Everyone who 135 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.959 sat there and said, yeah, we don't need an on 136 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.079 the record source. Yeah, just put it out there. We 137 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.600 don't need to. You checked it once with your buddy 138 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.399 you went to college with, who now works at the 139 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:30.000 Department of whatever. Sure, yeah, absolutely, no, that's fine. Let's say, 140 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.840 you know what, let's work in the good people on 141 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:38.559 both sides thing about nine times. Let's uh, you know, 142 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.480 you know, CNN is getting massively sued in like nine 143 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.000 different directions where those lawsuits are proceeding forward. They're gonna 144 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.240 Veritas is probably gonna they're gonna owe Veritas a ton 145 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:51.159 of money. Other people are not paying attention to this 146 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:55.360 because it's it's early on, but a judge has just 147 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.720 said that they can move forward, and it has excoriated 148 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.240 CNN for their position. Their position basically is they can 149 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:06.279 lie about who Veritas is because one time Veritas did 150 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.080 something that they got their hands slapped for and that's 151 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:14.879 not how that works. So I have a hard time 152 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.679 with worrying about Jim Acosta's future. That being said, here's 153 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:25.039 what he wrote. Where did I sorry, I tweeted a 154 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:35.600 whole bunch of stuff yesterday, dude, do all right? Here 155 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.320 we go. Here is here's Jim Acosta's take and Pete 156 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.679 hagg Seth being nominated for Secretary of Defense in a 157 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.080 sign he has been watching his cabinet selections or making 158 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.399 his cabinet selections while watching TV. Trump picks Fox anchor 159 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:56.399 Pete hagg Seth he Secretary of of Defense, and then 160 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.080 you get down there and people are calling him a 161 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.039 do fish and a Costa po said something else along 162 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.480 those lines. Obviously he's clearly like, oh, he only picked 163 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.600 him because he's on Fox. 164 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:05.919 All right. 165 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:09.399 This is why CNN's getting what they get because I 166 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.360 didn't know. I actually here's I was full disclosure. I 167 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.879 know I've I've met Pete haig Seth on several occasions 168 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:21.000 because he is from the Twin Cities and he was 169 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.360 working partially in the Twin Cities when I was in 170 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.600 the Twin Cities and we were the Fox. We were 171 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.919 the Fox Radio or Fox Radio affiliate too, and he 172 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.000 did some radio stuff. And then the point, the point 173 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.919 is I've met the guy I thought he was. I 174 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:36.960 thought he was dec He came across as smart dude, 175 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.200 but I didn't know much about him. I knew he'd 176 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.879 been in the military because he's got the tats, all right. 177 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:48.000 That being said, LaCosta throws this out there and never 178 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:53.559 bothers to check. Pete hegg Seth has a degree from 179 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.159 Princeton and a degree from Harvard, and I thought those 180 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.799 on the left really respected those. But more than that, 181 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:05.360 Pete Hegseeth also has trigger time. That's right. Yeah, he's 182 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.399 a military member and he did he did. He worked 183 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.759 at Guantanamo. He spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan to tours 184 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.399 over there. He has two bronze stars. I believe he 185 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:23.519 holds the rank of major within I think it's guard service, 186 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.960 a lot of it. But he holds the army rank 187 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.679 of major two bronze stars. Now he's not a general, 188 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.600 but look where some of the generals have got us. 189 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.799 Look at the current def sec. He is a He's 190 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:42.960 a general, Lloyd Austin. Do you think that with the 191 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.559 general in charge, the military is going in the direction 192 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:48.679 that it should be a lot of people don't. But 193 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.080 if you're going to insult the guy, maybe listen to 194 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:53.480 him for a few minutes and then try to draw 195 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.039 a conclusion whether he's going to be able to lead, 196 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.679 because making that transition to lead, that's a fair question. 197 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.879 But here's a little snip of heg Schef doing an interview, 198 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.879 not doing the reporting, but doing an interview, and I 199 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.399 think it provides a little insight. 200 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.720 The Pentagon is in the book the exact amount of years, 201 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.120 but in the past x number of years ten, twelve, fifteen, 202 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.799 the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its 203 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.080 war games against China. We lose every time inside the 204 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:25.519 Pentagon wargames. 205 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:27.399 We know what our real capability. 206 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.000 You see, we didn't even get to this part of 207 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.240 the war and warriors, I mean the military industrial complex, 208 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:32.759 the way we procure weapons systems. 209 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.759 You know, we're always the. 210 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.120 Way our system works, the way our bureaucratic system works, 211 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.840 where the speed of weapons procurement works. We're always a 212 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.440 decade behind and fighting the last war, whereas China there 213 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:49.039 we have a we have you know what Romsfeld say, 214 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:50.080 you go to the war of the Army, you have 215 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.799 we have the army China's building an army specifically dedicated 216 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:56.840 to defeating the United States of America. That is, that 217 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.000 is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if our whole, 218 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.480 if our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and 219 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.559 the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe. 220 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.120 And yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all that, 221 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.480 but a big part of it. And if you know, 222 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.240 fifteen hypersonic mixiles can take out our ten aircraft carriers 223 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:15.240 in the first twenty minutes of. 224 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.039 A conflict, what does that look like? 225 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.200 I mean, and when they're if they've already got us economically, 226 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:27.639 which you pointed out very well with our grid culturally, 227 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:31.159 there's plenty of elite capture going on around the globe, 228 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.799 I mean, and then microchips and everything. 229 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:34.639 Why do they want Taiwan? 230 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.960 They want a corner the market completely on the technological 231 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.320 future and can't even drive our cars without the stuff 232 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.919 we need out of China these days. I mean, they 233 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.519 have a full spectrum, a long term view of not 234 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:51.399 just regional but global domination. And we are we have 235 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.639 our heads up our asses all right. 236 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:57.919 Regardless of your political affiliation, did anything he bring up 237 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.559 there not sound like a legitimate concern? You may not 238 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:03.960 like how he's going to go about it, You could 239 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.879 feel he's exaggerating. But are there people who believe that 240 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:11.080 China just wants to hang out on their own property 241 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.519 and not really screw with anybody? Is there? Is there 242 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.159 anyone who believes that? Honestly? Not just people are going 243 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.120 to respond to him, be like, oh, China is the great? 244 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:25.360 Do you're going to see between him and uh the 245 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:32.960 National security Uh? The Congressman Waltz not Walls. This is 246 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.240 going to keep screwing with me? Who are both? They're 247 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.360 obviously quite hawkish on China in the way that hawkish 248 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.080 is meant not go attack them, but recognize and prepare. 249 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.960 Does anyone disagree with that? Have you seen what China does? 250 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.120 I've talked about this on the rate. It cannot be 251 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.120 stressed enough China's modus operendi and I have seen it. 252 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.080 I have there is visual evidence for any of you 253 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.159 who travel go to a country that China's trying to 254 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.000 ingratiate themselves in, there will be a new big big 255 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.759 old something, big old something. There are many nations in 256 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:14.000 Africa where they came in and this is how it works. 257 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.480 This is this is what they do. Your people are starving, 258 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.440 you live in a palace. You you know you spend 259 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:25.159 all the money. They're gonna eventually come and behead you. 260 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.080 You need to do something. China will come in and say, hey, 261 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.559 what if we build a railroad between like whatever the 262 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:33.240 two big cities are. It'll be a ton of work. 263 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.960 So you can put your people to work, and we'll 264 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.440 pay you to allow us to do this, because only 265 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.039 half the employees are going to be your citizens and 266 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.960 the other half will be China. They're creating work outside 267 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.840 of China for Chinese workers. Meanwhile, the big, big old 268 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:54.480 money payment that they give to the desk spot that 269 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.240 just goes right in his pocket. And they have now 270 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:03.519 pro heared an additional vote at the UN and access 271 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.399 to resources. And sometimes it's not a railroad in central America, 272 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.039 most of the soccer stadiums are built by China. I 273 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:12.279 don't know if you know this same deal, We'll be 274 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.559 right back. Obviously, not all these are going to pan out. 275 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.600 Some of them need confirmation. Some someone will have a 276 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.639 skeleton in their closet. And you know, the Democrat machine 277 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.320 is currently doing that in the same way that the Republicans. 278 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.120 That's what they're doing right now. They got all their 279 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.919 OPO people just waiting for those names, and they're deep diving. Okay, 280 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.000 So Pete hag Seth, Fox News anchor reporter, that's what 281 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:42.120 most people know him as the Defense Secretary. But then 282 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.639 if you make a good faith effort to figure out 283 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:50.519 whether this guy's got the chops for it or at 284 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.320 the very least has the right mindset for what you 285 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:55.320 like to see and what you voted for. If you 286 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.320 voted for Trump, that'd be the responsible thing to do. 287 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.720 So I did, and again I full discloyed. I've met 288 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:04.000 Pete Hegseth on a few occasions. I found it be 289 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.400 nice enough, dude, But he's a Twin Cities guy, and 290 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.359 I was in Twin Cities media for a long time. 291 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:14.960 So whatever, he's out there and I'm watching that interview. 292 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.039 We played a little bit of it, and he clearly 293 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.799 has some thoughts on what's going on, and they don't 294 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.279 sound unreasonable. He also has two Ivy League degrees, two 295 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:30.720 Bronze stars military service. He holds the Army rank of major. 296 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.240 He has a CIB. For those you going, oh, well 297 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:35.839 he was, you know, he's just in an office of 298 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:36.839 the penging on. No, he's not. 299 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:38.279 And I. 300 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.559 Don't understand when this information is so easy, how you 301 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:46.119 can't Now, if you say that somebody who served in 302 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.960 the Guard shouldn't be able to be death sec then 303 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:51.920 hold that opinion and let me know how that goes 304 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.440 for you. If you say that somebody at that rank shouldn't, 305 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.720 then hold that thought. I'll pull up a whole list 306 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.440 of Defense secretaries who either didn't exceed that rank or 307 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:09.039 didn't have a rank. So that's the easy way. He 308 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.440 also talks about the procurement and the ability to go 309 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:15.200 ahead and adapt, and that is something I firmly believe 310 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.359 that the US has the ability to do. We are 311 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:23.039 famous for it. Rosy the Riveter, right, Rosy the Riveter. 312 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:28.799 Everything that was the home front side of our involvement 313 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:36.119 in World War two is lauded for the ability to Hey, 314 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:38.319 all right, we can't. We got a ration medal, So 315 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.119 we're not going to do this for the war effort, 316 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.279 food for the war effort. We don't want to do 317 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.200 these things. Americans don't want to do these things. I 318 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.839 question whether modern Americans could do these things. But I'd 319 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.319 like to think that when it does hit the road, 320 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:56.799 the majority of people can adapt. So with that in mind, 321 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.440 when he's talking about the ability to adapt in new 322 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.920 style warfare and the US is very slow to do it, 323 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.079 that's a concern and it's not a unique concern to 324 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:09.680 Pete hag Seth. I was watching an interview that Shapiro 325 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:15.759 did with a couple leftist podcast hosts, and Shapiro I 326 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.799 think did a very good job in that interview. It's 327 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.920 an iced coffee hour if you want to if you 328 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.240 want to go watch it, I would watch it. The 329 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:27.359 one one host, though, is really creepy, but whatever. So 330 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:33.440 he was talking about the way in which if there 331 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.599 needs to be a development of an advancement in a 332 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:40.400 weapons system, how it works in the United States and 333 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:45.039 how it works in Israel, and what's crazy is Israel 334 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.480 has essentially and I don't know that this process flies 335 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.079 in the US, but they have a crazy efficient way. 336 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:58.720 In fact, individual segments of their military will sometimes develop 337 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:03.160 something just because they're empowered to do it. And Iron 338 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.319 Dome or portions of Iron Dome are in fact one 339 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.200 of those examples. They're like the idea like crazy, you know, 340 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:13.880 because you're talking like Reagan Star Wars stuff when they 341 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.559 first started developing this so and and Hexsa's talking about that. 342 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:20.279 You want to see a funny version of what that 343 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:25.680 looks like. There's a uh, there's a movie starring Wesley 344 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.839 from the Princess Briy carry Eules called The Pentagon Wars 345 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.400 and the whole premise, and it's definitely it's it's exaggerated 346 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:39.880 a little, but it talks about the development of the 347 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:44.480 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Is the is what they use there. 348 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.319 It's got Kelsey Grammar and who by the way, the 349 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.200 other day, it's funny. The other day somebody's like they 350 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.400 mentioned Kelsey Grammar as though he was dead, and I'm like, 351 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:55.920 what do you did something happen that I missed? And 352 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:57.720 they were in They're like no, no, no, his wife shot 353 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.079 him years ago. And I'm like that's Phil Hartman. So 354 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.599 now that made me feel old, because I'm like, are 355 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.400 we to the point now where the guys who were 356 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.400 where all the stuff that happened when I was a 357 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.480 kid are now getting into the forget pile? I hate that, 358 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:17.000 but we move forward. So heg Seth was one. But 359 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:21.960 I'm gonna tell you I don't. It's not often that 360 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:24.759 I will laugh more than just chuckle when I see 361 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.759 a story. And I was dying yesterday. I was dying 362 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:32.759 yesterday when I saw this statement. In fact, when I 363 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:36.240 saw the statement, because people mock these up online, I 364 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:38.319 went and I wanted to make sure. So I found 365 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:42.119 do you remember the Caroline Levitt, the spokeswoman, the campaign 366 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.480 spokeswoman who we had on for Trump, very sharp lady. 367 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:49.599 Also that video of where they're doing Oh wait, hold on, 368 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:56.519 just wait, what is this? It's sec death not death 369 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.519 set excuse me? Military guys are jump put on me. 370 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.079 You got you and your acronyms and your abbreviations. I 371 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.680 can't keep it straight. Whatever Defense Secretary's secretary of defense whatever. 372 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:13.839 All right, anyway, So I'm sitting there and so the 373 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.839 Caroline Levet, who's also in that video, who's like typing 374 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.119 Trump's tweets. So I had not seen it. Ross when 375 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:21.519 I sent it to you said you had seen it, 376 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:23.279 what like a week or something before that, I had 377 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:25.319 not seen it. I don't know. I think that stuff's 378 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:27.880 kind of cool because it showed during a Harris campaign, 379 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:29.920 kind of how Trump does the tweet thing, and it's 380 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:32.680 kind of how I suspected or it is him tweeting 381 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.359 but not physically pushing the buttons. But I think sometimes, 382 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.880 because we've seen him literally tweet, sometimes it is him. 383 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.119 So I found where she tweeted it out, so there 384 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.079 was no question. Let me read this statement, all right, 385 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:50.240 statement from President Donald J. Trump. I am pleased to 386 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:54.119 announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with 387 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:59.680 American patriot Vivek Ramaswami, will lead the Department of Government 388 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:06.319 of Affairiciency. Let's uh, let's pause and think about what 389 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.119 that acronym is for a moment. If we could ross 390 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:12.400 Department of Government Efficiency, what would the acronym. 391 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:14.000 Be on that? That would be a doge? 392 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:16.160 Oh? How would you pronounce it? 393 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:18.680 Doge? I believe? 394 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:19.920 Oh doge? 395 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:22.440 Huh? I had the same response. I read this last 396 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.559 night and I was reading along and then I get 397 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:27.160 to the Doge part because then in the in the 398 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.799 memo or whatever the release, it's in parentheses, like you 399 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.920 know Doge. And I just started laughing, and I'm like, 400 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.480 this has to be like a mock made up Trump announcement. 401 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.599