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Our guest today is Mark Lucas, executive vice president of
the Article three Project. He served as an infantry officer
in the Iowa Army National Guard and was awarded the
Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star Medal in Afghanistan during
the deadliest year of operation during Freedom. Mark knows well
the man President elect Trump has nominated to be the
next Secretary of Defense and he believes Pete Hegseth will
make the Pentagon great again. Mark, thanks so much for
joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio are
It's a real pleasure having you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1: Lot said over the last several weeks about Pete Hegseeth
A lot of stuff said by people who do not
know him. That's politics in a nutshell, right. There a
lot of people talking about things they don't necessarily know.
You know, Pete Hegseth, you wrote a great piece recently
for The Federalist titled exactly what we just mentioned that
Pete Hegseth will make the Pentagon great again? Why do
you believe so? And tell us about the real Pete
Hegseth that the accomplice media, Democrats and some rhinos out
there don't want necessarily I could have known about.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I've known Pee for over a decade and
we served together in the thirty fourth Infantry Division and
I was in the Iowa National Guard, he was in Minnesota.
It's the famous Red Bull Division or motto is attack Attack.
And we also got to know each other through our
share experience at Concerned Veterans for America. He was my
predecessor and he helped build just an incredible organization, and
I was in the state of Iowa running a group
called Americans for Prosperity, and Pete and I would interact
along the campaign trail. And when I was able to
replace him as he went to Fox News, him and
I started working closer even more on veteran policy. He
was a really good friend to me because he handed
me just an incredible organization, which you had mentioned earlier
that people that didn't know him. There's also this New
Yorker article that was sourced by people anonymously that made
it sound like Concerned Veterans for America with some type
of train wreck, but it was actually it was actually
the complete opposite. CVA was well posture for success. So
that's how I got to know Pete.
Speaker 1: CVA is a great organization. And of course when you
have political entities, machines again corporate media all lined up
to take somebody down, you know that they're going to
go after people that the target love respect, you know,
have been friends with for some time, work for That's
just the nature of this game. But what do you
say to all of these allegations, and of course they're
they're scandalous, they're salacious, and that's how these things are done.
Is that the Pete Hegseith, you.
Speaker 2: Know, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: And I'd tell those people if they I think Pete
Hegseth is such a threat to our country, if they
believe that Pete will put people at risk because of
his leadership, then you should go on the record, and
not just go on the record to the media, but
you can join me who by the way, I've volunteered
to testify as a character witness in front of the
Senate Armed Services Committee for Pete's confirmation, and you can
put your hand up swear under oath that everything that
you're saying is truthful. I'm willing to do that. If
they think that he's such a great risk to our country,
they should be willing to do the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have done that. I mean, you have put
your name on the line. I was curious, what have
you been hearing from Senate offices, What have you been
hearing from the usual suspects in the corporate media about
your position, your stance, and your availability to testify on
behalf of your friend.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people were surprised that the narrative
from the media was so wrong. I mean, at the
initial launch of Pete's nomination, the announcement of his nomination,
that New Yorker story came out. So I even went
on Steve Bannon's war room and he was shocked to
hear about how great of an organization Concerned Veterans for
America was so a lot of people were thankful that
somebody was willing to go on the record and tell
their story. And I know that my story is the
true story, because I don't think to date anybody has
come out on the record to talk negatively about Pete's
leadership of CVA. On the contrary, I've seen multiple people
who have interacted with him, who have worked for him,
may have been coalition partners in the vets community. They've
all come out with very glowing assessments of Pete Hegseeth's record.
Speaker 1: Why do you think it is mark that there is
like and a decent attorney. I think I know the
answer to this question because well, I've been alive long
enough to know the answer, and I've followed American politics
and covered it, particularly over these last eight plus years
when things have gotten so viscerably mean and nasty. But
why do you think so many people are going after
Pete hag Seth's head simply because Donald Trump nominated a
guy who is considered, so to speak, to be an outsider,
even though his service record is impeccable, even though he
has been, as you mentioned, a great advocate for veterans
over the years. Why do you think so many people,
a diverse group of people are trying to go after
this man's political head.
Speaker 2: There's two different reasons.
Speaker 3: One of them is a more simple explanation, and that's
Democrats that want to obstruct President Trump's nomination, and that
makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: The second reason.
Speaker 3: Is the immense threat that Pete Hegseth presents to the
military industrial complex. You can see recently with the developments
in Syria, President Trump came out very boldly and early
saying that is not our problem, whereas President Joe Biden
actually executed some airstrikes in the region. And so the
military industrial complex, it seems to me, is trying to
cash in as much as they can before President Trump
is inaugurated and before Pete Hegseeth takes over the DoD
So as a matter of incentives, the military industrial complex,
which has been driving our foreign policy for a very
long time, they're nervous about Pete and the military industrial complex.
If you look at their record, they haven't won any wars,
but they've made a lot of money. And I can
tell you from serving in Afghanistan in twenty ten, nine
years after the initial attacks during nine to eleven, the
United States did not have a strategy to win the war,
and I knew that in my twenties as a young
infantry rifle platoonier. I was reading the press reports and
also the Intel reports before I got on the ground.
But shortly after my men arrived and we assumed command
of the battle space, I knew that there was not
a strategy to win. And now as I'm a forty
two year old man with a wife and three kids,
I understand that the objective was.
Speaker 2: Never about winning.
Speaker 3: If you look at Afghanistan or Iraq, the objective was
maintaining a recurring revenue st for these big defense contractors.
So the longer and the bloodier the war, the better
for business. But that's the worst thing for the American warfighter.
It's the worst thing for the reputation of the United
States is the world power, and also the American people.
They expect their nation's military to win wars. So that
is also the big reason is that these the DC insiders,
the people who have contracts with the military, they see
that Pete Hegsett is going to be a disruptor, just
like President Trump.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me to see some of the responses
that we're seeing and you're absolutely right. I mean, take
a look at what happened in Syria. You already have
the military industrial complex just you know, frothing at the
mouth of the potential for the money that outgoing acting
President Joe Biden has promised, of course to deliver the
so called freedom fighters in Syria. It's the same military
industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about so long ago
that has made a lot of money, a fortune off
of what's happening in Ukraine and so many other places
around the world. So you get that the criticism that
Pete haig Seth was. I believe he ended his military
career as a major, if I'm not mistaken. So he's
not you know, the usual stars and bars kind of guy, right,
He's not their kind of guy. He's not you know,
a general who is well is read once said in
the Shawshank Redemption. He's not an institutionalized man, so to.
Speaker 2: Speak, absolutely correct.
Speaker 3: He's a junior officer, and he has that mentality which
is way closer to the young enlisted soldiers than it
is being a colonel or being a general officer. So
he has that small unit mentality which in the army,
I always took great pride in because that's when you're
the closest to your men. It's also where you're the
closest to the fight. And many of these colonels and
general officers haven't actually been in the firefights that Pete
Hegseth has been in, and so they want to have
somebody that comes from their circles because they can influence them.
I'd also say Pete Hegseth was a member of the
National Guard, and this idea that a part time National
Guard officer can come in and run the Pentagon has
many of these general officers blood boiling. The Active Component
isn't necessarily a big fan of the National Guard, although
they taxed us heavily, they used our forces repeatedly on
their forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would always
use the National Guard as an opportunity to push us
to different forward locations that they didn't want to go to,
and then when they were back in Washington, the Active
Component always want to take our money away. So the
idea that Pete Hegseth, as a National Guard soldier is
going to run the Pentagon for me is incredible because
he's a true citizen soldier. He's not one of these
guys that was all focused on the military all of
the time. He's got a wider breath of experience. He's
also got an incredible academic pedigree. He didn't go to
one of the military academies, but he did go to
Princeton and he did go to Harvard. So he's got
the aptitude, a much higher aptitude than most of the
think tank policy wonks in Washington and the general officers
and the people defense companies. He's going to be able
to go in there and run circles around these guys.
So he's close with the men. He can relate more
to the average service member, and yet he can also
go into the Pentagon and run the place really well.
So I see him as a big threat. And I
also see people in the Pentagon right now that I'm
talking to off the record, they're saying that, man, we're
really excited. There's some people that are very aligned with
the America First vision and they are excited to have
President Trump back, and they're excited to have Pete Hegseth
as air SECTAF.
Speaker 1: But the military industrial complex, the Deep States, you know,
the internal Pentagon, you know that where we've seen and again,
as you mentioned, there certainly are supporters of Pete Hegseeth
within that building and supporters of the America First vision.
But you know, the people that have done much to
assist the military industrial complex, they're not as as you know,
they're not so excited about this breath of fresh air
coming through. And so there are all kinds of things
that have been ginned up about Pete haig Seth, you know,
to make his path denomination more difficult. And there are
some Republican senators of course, who have been talking about deep,
grave concerns and questions. You're an Iowa guy, so of
course we've got to get to this very important part here.
Senator in Iowa Jonie Ernst has been critical. She's not
said no to his nomination, Pete heggss nomination, but she
has certainly put it out there that she has concerns
about Heggs's nomination. She was supposed to meet with the nominee,
of course, on Monday. What have you heard so far
from that front is is Jony Ernst coming around and
is she concerned quite frankly about the political repercussions that
she could face in twenty twenty six primary in deep
red state Iowa, if she decides she's going to vote
against and lobby for others to vote against Pete hagg Seth.
Speaker 3: Well, at this point in the nomination process, there has
not been a single Republican who's indicated there is no
vote against Pete haig Seth, and that also includes Joni Ernst.
I believe that this week Jooni will move to a yes.
She's had several meetings with Pete over the last week.
She's known him for years, and Pete had a great
meeting this afternoon with her. He had very positive comments
from the meeting. So I believe that she'll get to
a yes, and then we can take that next step
forward where we know that we've got the Republican support
in the Senate Armed Services Committee and we just got
to move through that process to the confirmation hearings and
get him to a floor vote and get him sworn in.
Speaker 1: But you hear from others like Lindsey Graham, and from
what Joni Ernst has said, it sounds like they're really
buying the story that we are being sold by the
usual suspects in the accomplice media. And you know they
have their motivations and interest, but how can anybody at
this point And I'm not saying that you don't vet
and you don't investigate nominees for these very important, powerful
cabinet positions, but how often have we seen the accomplice
media and their allies on the left absolutely lie to
the American people. I think you can There's a case
that comes instantly to your mind in my mind, and
that is Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. How many times
will people have to be burned, including Republican senators, before
they get the idea that what they read in the
papers not real true.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right what we're seeing that this is Cavanaugh
at two point zero, and the media understands that they
have to try to kill this nomination before it actually
gets to the confirmation process. So they're trying to litigate
this in the media with anonymous sources with false accusations.
I think the media ultimately understands that these accusations will
not hold up to scrutiny, so they're trying to put
the maximum amount of pressure on people like Jonie Ernst
and try to leverage all of their media channels to
build this sense of doubt with President Trump in his circle.
But what we've seen is Trump has doubled down. He
loves the way that Pete hegg Seth is fighting. Trump
is not backing down, and Pete Heggseth isn't backing down.
Speaker 2: So for these.
Speaker 3: Accusers, they have to be willing to come forward. And
what we learned during the Brett Kavanaugh process is that
we cannot have a presumption of guilt in this process.
We need to start with the presumption of innocence, and
the accusers have to come forward and we have to
validate whether.
Speaker 2: Those are true or false.
Speaker 3: My colleague get the Article three project is Mike Davis.
He's a lifelong friend. He went to Iowa with me.
He was on ground zero during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation.
He was the chief counsel for nominations underneath Chuck Grassley
when Grassley was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which
by the way, Chuck Grassy will be the chair of
the Judiciary again in twenty twenty five. And Mike saw
all these fake accusers coming forward against Brett Kavanaugh. He
saw the media jump on board and really try to
elevate these accusations and Mike's whole point during that process.
He told senators who are getting wobbly, he said, if
these accusations aren't true, you have to move forward. So
for Pete Hegseth in his background of maybe he drank
a lot of alcohol, he had problems with some marriages,
that history does not disqualify Pete Hegseth as a nominee
to be the Secretary of Defense. If that's the case,
If Congress wants to start saying that womanizing and drinking
is a disqualification for public service, I think we're gonna
have a lot of politicians out of a job.
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: Our guest today is Mark Lucas, executive vice president of
the Article three Project. He's joining us to talk about
his friend, a guy he's known for a long time,
served in the most dangerous places in the world, with
Pete Hegseth, President elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense. Now,
you raise a very good point, and that's why all
of this pearl clutching, And let's be honest, perhaps it's
not an issue that's bio ones want to get into.
But you know, Joni Ernst has some issues in her past.
We know through a divorce decree. In those court filings
and documents, their allegations some pretty silacious allegations there involving
the Senator. So I don't understand all this pearl clutching.
I mean, if there are real assaults going on, that's
one thing, but there's been no evidence substantiated to show that.
And as you say, if that's the standard that someone
had some rough nights drinking in their youth or had
a broken marriage, there would be a lot of folks
in the swamp out of jobs right now. No doubt
about it. But why do these people keep believing this
stuff and keep this whole pretentious notion that they're upholding
some sort of moral code in Washington, d C of
all plays.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I grew up in smalltown Iowa, and I moved to
DC for five years, and I could not believe how
many conservatives in Washington would read the Washington Post, would
watch CNN, and would read the New York Times. And
there's this bubble in Washington, and these conservatives they're stuck
in his echo chamber, and it starts to rub off
on them. They start to buy into this conventional wisdom
that these narratives are true, and the media knows this
and they can apply maximum pressure. However, the grass roots,
the conservative grass roots, like in the state of Iowa
that delivered Trump a historic re election all across the
country where President Trump won every single major state. Not
only does President Trump have a mandate, but the grass
roots has a mandate, and they'll be voting in primaries,
in voting in elections in twenty twenty six. So for
these Republicans, they have to get smart. If you look
at the Democrats, they vote in line on every single nominee,
and they even pick up Republicans. I can't believe the
amount of Republicans that vote for America Garland and Secretary
of Defense Lloyd Austin and Christopher Wray. So you know,
I'm not saying that you just avoid the facts. I
do believe that the Senate has advice and consent responsibilities.
But we cannot continue to be cowed by the media.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: They need to start listening to the voters, and they
need if they were politically adept, they'd understand President Trump
has got some major cotails and America First isn't going anywhere.
There's a complete realignment in the Republican Party that's moving
towards populism, as moving towards Trump's vision of disruption of
the government, and I hope the dismantling of the administrative state,
returning to the rule of law and being more in
touch with regular people.
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, I hate to be a dead horse, but
you know Joni Earnst for a long time, you know,
and she has you know, military career service, and obviously
she has done a number of things on that front
for veterans of ACKed service members. You know her record,
But why why would she push this right now. Has
she been reading the Des Moines Registers pre polling of
the election. She's been reading Anne Selzer's polls and just
didn't didn't take a closer look. I remember Anne Selzer,
of course, the gold standard, so to speak, of polling
in Iowa for years for the Des Moines Register right
before the election predicted based on her polling that Kamala
Harris would beat Donald Trump in Iowa or she at
least she led by three percentage points. Donald Trump ended
up winning by thirteen percentage points in deep red Iowa.
I say all of that by way of asking the question,
doesn't Senator Ernst know what the grassroots really is in
Milwaukee Milwaukee in Iowa and the impact that they will
have coming up in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2: Oh, she absolutely does.
Speaker 3: And the one thing I'll say with Jonie Ernst is
she was a victim of sexual assault. So she has
a very strong feeling about this topic. And she's also
addressed it within the military. We call it sharp sexual harassment,
assault response and prevention. So she has a very strong
feeling on this issue, and it's taking her a little
bit of time to talk with Pete and on this issue,
and I think a couple of other issues. So I
do have a lot of sympathy for the survivors of
sexual harassment and and that's why Brett Kavanaugh as well
with some members of Congress, you know, they were they
were very cautious. But what we have to do is
as quickly as possible, look at those accusations, put them
through the paces, find out they're valid or they're invalid,
and then move on, because then if we give credence
to these fake accusations, it just hurts, you know, real
sexual assault survivors. So I do believe that Joni and
Ernest is going to get to a Yes, I've gotten
indications that she's supporting Cash Patel and some of these
other great Trump America First nominees, and she's just taking
a little bit more time on Pete and I believe
she'll write to the right decision.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard that she's very enthusiastic about many of
the other nominees. You know, it's just I guess it
goes back to and boils down to why would any
of Why would any Republican politician, And I don't care
if you're a politician from Maine or Alaska Senator from
Mayne or Alaska. Why do you keep believing the stuff
that is pushed out there when we know what the
left in this country and their public relations agents in
the corporate media have tried to do with Donald Trump
and the Americans who support in America First Vision. Now
let's turn our focus though to the guy that you know,
Pete Hegseth, as a military leader. What are the kinds
of qualities? And I think we're all learning more about
his very courageous, valiant record to go along with yours.
But what kind of leader would Pete Hegseth be in
the Pentagon as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2: Well, Pete was.
Speaker 3: An infantry officer, and just like me, we were both
infantry platoon leaders in combat. He was in Iraq and
in Afghanistan, and warfighters, we don't have the luxury of
being distracted by frivolous matters.
Speaker 2: Right when you're in combat.
Speaker 3: You have to be very focused, and guys like Pete
and I would focus on what I called the big four, Shoot, Move, communicate,
and stop bleeding. Whenever my men had white space on
their calendar, I always said, we need to train on shoot, Move, Communicate, stop,
bleeding right, because that those are the key for skill
sets they're going to keep us alive. And in that
Big four it might surprise you, but transgender surgeries and
understanding white rage they didn't quite make the list.
Speaker 2: So Pte's going to go into the Pentagon and he's
going to.
Speaker 3: Refocus our military on the basics, the fundamentals. We're going
to cut out DEI. We're going to cut out all
of this crap that doesn't help our military become a
more lethal fighting force. That's what Donald Trump expects, that's
what the American people wants, And you're starting to see
the world is starting to understand that we're going in
a different direction. So as a leader, he's got the
vision to get back to the basics. Also, he's got
an incredible aptitude. I mean I mentioned earlier. He went
to Harvard, he went to Princeton. He's been researching and
reading and observing foreign policy his entire life. And you
can see how he's evolved like I did when I
was younger. After nine to eleven, I couldn't wait to
get at Afghanistan. We wanted to deploy, We wanted to
take the fight to the enemy. But Pete and I
both arrived at the same conclusion that after years away
from combat, looking back on it as older men with
wives and families, wasn't quite worth it. We didn't have
a strategic objective. Winning was never a part of it.
So he's also going to reorient our foreign policy in
the mold of President Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I can tell you this, it hits home.
It hits home for you as a father, and I'm
sure it hit home for your parents too, growing up
in Southeast Iowa. And that is you know, you want
the best for your children, and the best for your
children if they decide to go into a into military service,
whether that's for a tour of duty or you know,
as a career. And I can tell you my son
is weighing that right now as a senior in high
school very seriously. You want to make sure that if
they're putting their lives on the line, that the chief
officers in that Pentagon who are making decisions about putting
their lives on the line have their best interest in mind.
And you lived it, and Pete Hegseth lived it, and
you explained it before there were a lot of people
in the Pentagon and in Washington DC that simply did
not have the best interests not only of those young
men and women serving in dangerous places in mind, but
the American people as well in general.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I look forward to the policy vision that Pete
will bring to the DoD and as a young people
that are looking at a career in the military. I've
heard that the enlistment numbers are up. I hear people
are very optimistic about the direction of the army, and
I think that Pete Hegseth is going to return the
long needed respect that the military deserves because we've had
some really bad leadership from Joe Biden, Secretary Defense Lloyd Austin,
the former Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mark Milly.
These guys have embarrassed our country. They abandoned our service
members in Afghanistan on a boshwa' row, they kicked out
so many people due to the COVID nonsense. And Pete,
along with President Trump, is going to restore the respect
to our military.
Speaker 1: It has taking a beating the reputation of the US
military around the world, and I think you can see
it as the transition period kicks into higher gear that
the world is indeed watching of course they were watching
on November fifth. They've been watching some time, and you
can see that dynamic shift. You can see what's happening
in the Middle East, and you can see what's happening
in Russia and Ukraine. But this country has given a
lot of tax payer money to these endless wars across
the country. Does that change day one with Pete Haig
Sith as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: It does, and we're going to return to a peace
and prosperity agenda. I saw this first hand with President
Trump when he was Commander in chief. I volunteered to
deploy to South Korea at the height of the crisis
with Kim Jong un, and President Trump brought a completely
different strategy to Korea. He did not listen to these
career military people or these policy wongs from Washington, DC
think tanks who said you should not talk to Kim
Jong un. President Trump said, well, I think it's good
to talk to people and become friends with people who
have nuclear weapons. I think it's good to have a dialogue.
And so when I got to Korea, I thought that
war was imminent. I remember reporting the work every day
in an underground bunker. I'd review satellite imagery that I
could see the faces of North Korean soldiers. But President
Trump and his leadership and his innovative approach to foreign
policy completely changed the dynamic on the Korean peninsula. Pete
Hegseth shares that same vision. He's going to be very,
very cautious before he commits troops anywhere in the world.
And that's going to benefit the American people, our sons,
our daughters, but it's going to benefit the world.
Speaker 2: These forever wars have killed.
Speaker 3: So many people, and now you look at Ukraine and
the thousands of lives lost and the billions of dollars
of money waste, and now you look at Syria. The
world desperately needs President Trump and sect F Pete Hegseth,
because they're going to return our world back to a
more stable footing.
Speaker 1: How much do you think President Trump has learned from
his first administration? And I think he was able to
accomplish a lot under duress, extreme duress of course through
most of it, but you know he was. He listened
to a lot of people. I think that he would
tell you now he wouldn't listen to again. In fact,
they're not people in his life anymore, and certainly not
in his sphere of influence. How much do you think
the president learned about the deep state from his first
term and what kind of lessons will he apply moving forward?
Speaker 3: Well, Donald Trump was never supposed to win in twenty sixteen,
and I was an early Trump supporter. I caucused for
him in twenty sixteen. His trajectory as a first time
candidate for office was to become the president of the
United States. His first time running for office wasn't city
council or congress or governor. He went straight from being
a private businessman to the President of the United States.
And when he went to Washington, he had to trust
a lot of people because he never knew Washington. He
didn't spend a whole lot of time there. He's coming
back better. He knows who's loyal, he knows who shares
his policy vision. And I see the difference already with
the type of people he's nominating, people like Pete Hegseth
Cash Pattel for FBI director, looking at Tulci, Gabbert and
rfks building a new coalition. So Trump two point zero
is going to be even more successful than his first term, which,
by the way was one of the most successful four
years at any Republican president has ever had. It was
quite the run from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, in
twenty twenty four and even better.
Speaker 1: And there is at least some confidence in knowing that
you have a Republican majority in the House and now
in the Senate, and it is I would imagine less
much less likely that he'll have to deal with impeachments
at least in the first two years years of his
time in office. You know that that's a weapon that
the Left tried to use over and over again among
many final question for you, you have been now with the
Article three Project, a very important organization doing great work
on the jurisprudence front in America. Tell us a little
bit more about the organization and what you see ahead
for the Article three Project as it relates to the
new administration.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Article three Project was founded by Mike Davis,
who clerked for Neil Gorsich on the Supreme Court. He
helped Neil Gorsich get selected as the nominee for the
Supreme Court, and then after that he went into the
Senate and helped confirm a record number of judges for
President Trump, and the Article three project is helping now
in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five of confirming
Trump's nowees, starting with Cash Patel and Pete Hegseth, and
helping President Trump build out a Department of Justice that
will focus on the rule of law. So we are
really focused on this confirmation process and really dismantling this
administrative state, returning our country back to respect to the
rule of law, fighting back against the leftist lawfare, which
Mike Davis was so effective he did over two thousand
media hits defending President Trump after the infamous Mara Lago raid.
So the Article three project is growing our Grasper's army,
and we look forward to deploying these Graspers activists all
across the country to contact their US Senators to say
confirm President Trump's nominees, to reach out to members of
Congress and people back in their home states to say,
let's return to a rule of law.
Speaker 1: Now long we know our senator in Iowa has certainly
had enough of the people who are very instrumental in
that raid of Marrow Law Go, among other things, and
putting out a letter of absolute no confidence US Senator
Chuck Grassley putting out a letter this week of absolute
no confidence in Christopher Ray, the guy who is supposed
to come in replace James Comey and clean up the
FBI of all of its abuses. Instead, he absolutely doubled down.
And so understandably, the guy who effectively ultimately authorized the
raid of President Trump's home in a very abusive investigation
will be sent packing very shortly. That's all part of it,
I mean. And that's what the Article three Project has
said over and over again this past election. And where
we stand in America today is you know about whether
this republic can exist as it has for nearly two
hundred and fifty years. That's the bottom line, is it.
Speaker 3: Not absolutely If we don't have a rule of law,
if we i don't have three strong, yet separate branches
of government, we won't survive. Our founding fathers were so
well informed of the history of government and of tyranny,
and they understood how precarious our freedom can become. They
wanted to develop this constitution to be able to have
something that government that had staying power, a government that
was responsive to the will of the people. And the
Article three Project and President Trump and Pete Hegseth, and
this new movement, the America First Movement, is going to
put us back on the right direction and return our
country back to the fundamentals.
Speaker 1: Well's the mission at the end of the day. That mission,
of course is to at this time save and secure
the Republic. And that happens, of course, the work that
you're doing with the Article three Project. It certainly happens
in the Department of Defense and the Trump administration set
to take office in a matter of weeks. Thank you
so much for joining us today. I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on you bent.
Speaker 1: Thanks to my guest today, Mark Lucas, executive vice president
of the Article three Project. You've been listening to another
edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, senior
correspondent at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more.
Until then, stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.
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