Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOOR. It is the Jesse
Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: oh boy, what a Wednesday. It has been the amount
Speaker 1: of news that has dropped in the last twenty four
Speaker 1: hours about the incoming Trump administration, the new Senate leader. Ah,
Speaker 1: that is just it's going to be difficult to pack
Speaker 1: all this into the next three hours of The Jesse
Speaker 1: Kelly Show, but we will do it. So that's what
Speaker 1: we have on tap for tonight. I'm going to address
Speaker 1: these things. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna address these
Speaker 1: things in order. I'm gonna give it to you right now.
Speaker 1: How long I'm gonna take on each one, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But we are going to talk first and foremost about
Speaker 1: Pete hag Seth being potentially Secretary of Defense. Remember all
Speaker 1: these are potential until they're confirmed by the Senate. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Matt Gates. Donald Trump appoints Congressman Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to say, puts up
Speaker 1: Congressman Matt Gates up to be the next day g
Speaker 1: again banking on a Senate process. And then Taulca Gabbert
Speaker 1: for Director of National Intelligence. We will get to a
Speaker 1: little bit of the Senate leadership race. That ship has
Speaker 1: kind of already sailed. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2: We will.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the evils of the Biden administration and
Speaker 1: what they did DEI wise, what the future is. First,
Speaker 1: I do think before we go any further and we
Speaker 1: dig into this Secretary of Defense thing, a lot of
Speaker 1: you love this stuff, a lot of you hate it.
Speaker 1: I do think we should do something that's really, really,
Speaker 1: really important. Let's make sure we're always keeping the most
Speaker 1: important thing first. And the most important thing is acknowledging
Speaker 1: and praising me when I call things ahead of time,
Speaker 1: as only an oracle can do. You see what, Chris,
Speaker 1: it's fine, Chris, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Don't quit.
Speaker 1: You see back in February of this year. February of
Speaker 1: this year, that's almost a year ago. This guy, Jesse Kelly,
Speaker 1: who might be an oracle, he said this, the list
Speaker 1: of potential replacements is really bad.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Yes, there is a chance a more conservative upstart like
Speaker 1: Rick Scott can mount some sort of a revolution within
Speaker 1: the Senate GOP and maybe takeover. That's probably about the
Speaker 1: best we could hope for. But the truth is, there
Speaker 1: have been a couple guys who've been gunning for this
Speaker 1: leadership spot for a long time, sucking up to Mitch McConnell,
Speaker 1: proving to the DC swamp that their team players, of course,
Speaker 1: that they all play ball. And those two names are
Speaker 1: John Cornyn, he's much less likely, and John Thune, John Thune,
Speaker 1: john Thune from the blood red state. John Thune, who
Speaker 1: should have been primary forever ago.
Speaker 2: But of course he's handsome and speaks.
Speaker 1: Very well on TV, so the moron GOP primary voter
Speaker 1: goes out and votes for him every time. John Thune's
Speaker 1: probably going to be our next Senate minority or majority leader.
Speaker 2: Ah, almost a year ago.
Speaker 1: Feels good to be Chris. Is there anything you'd like
Speaker 1: to say before we get into the rest of the
Speaker 1: show to me or I hate my job? Is not
Speaker 1: what I was looking for, Chris? Do you have anything
Speaker 1: any way to acknowledge your hero anyway? Let's set that
Speaker 1: aside and let's talk about good things. Pete Hank Seth,
Speaker 1: Matt Gates, Taulsey Gabbard. Let's talk about first Let's let's
Speaker 1: set the table, shall we, and let's talk about disruptors.
Speaker 1: Have you ever have you ever seen anything about these
Speaker 1: civilian boot camps. I'll tell you I actually went through.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a guy about this recently. In fact,
Speaker 1: the last fish and trip I did with my dad.
Speaker 1: Do you remember I told you we went fishing the
Speaker 1: day before he died. We actually got a guide to
Speaker 1: help us get into some redfish. Now, not a fancy
Speaker 1: guide here again, just the local guy's Louisiana guy, a
Speaker 1: guy we already knew.
Speaker 2: Hey, give you.
Speaker 1: Cup hundred bucks, get us out there, get us in
Speaker 1: us some red fish. Let the kids get some red fish. Anyways,
Speaker 1: great dude, But we're out there, and we're friends with
Speaker 1: this guy. So we're out there, we're just gabbing about life,
Speaker 1: and he started talking about one of his sons. One
Speaker 1: of his sons lost his mind. Really, I don't mean
Speaker 1: lost his mind, lost his mind, but his kid hit
Speaker 1: his sixteen seventeen year old years and really really lost
Speaker 1: his way, started abusing booze, running around with the wrong crowd,
Speaker 1: getting super defiant at home. Grades fell Off went from
Speaker 1: being an elite athlete to a bum. He just was
Speaker 1: really blowing his life up as young men are wont
Speaker 1: to do, and was turning into a disaster. And then
Speaker 1: one night, believe me, all this is going coming back
Speaker 1: to politics.
Speaker 2: Stay with me.
Speaker 1: One night, he steps up to his father. He was
Speaker 1: back talking his mom. His dad stepped in and said,
Speaker 1: don't you talk to your mom like that? And he
Speaker 1: bows up to his father and threatens to beat up
Speaker 1: his dad puts a finger in his chest. Okay, so
Speaker 1: crisis situation in the family, right, crisis situation, you should note.
Speaker 2: Quick side note.
Speaker 1: I went home and promptly told my sons if they
Speaker 1: ever stick a finger in my chest to talk back
Speaker 1: to their mother, no one will ever see them again.
Speaker 2: So they are very very clear on how that works
Speaker 2: in my house.
Speaker 1: All that aside, that family operated a little differently, and
Speaker 1: they were in a crisis. They didn't want their boy
Speaker 1: to lose his mind.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Where do you go? Where do you turn? They decided
Speaker 1: on a boot camp, not a military boot.
Speaker 2: Camp per se.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure you've seen these behavioral boot camps, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll put it that way. That are always run
Speaker 1: by former military guys, and they're a living hell on
Speaker 1: the troubled young men and women. This is for young
Speaker 1: boys and girls, oftentimes who got in trouble with the law.
Speaker 2: Or whatnot.
Speaker 1: You take a troubled youth and you yank them out
Speaker 1: of their environment, and you put them through hell, the
Speaker 1: hell of boot camp, and they come out the other end,
Speaker 1: not always, but oftentimes completely turned around. It is, by
Speaker 1: the way, you should know. I'll go and spoil the
Speaker 1: end of this guy's story. His son straight A's he
Speaker 1: lead athlete again, on his way to college. Girlfriend he's
Speaker 1: going to marry, doesn't disrespect his parents. Boom, night and day.
Speaker 1: So what did that look like? Well, three in the
Speaker 1: morning one night, Dad goes to the front door, unlocks it,
Speaker 1: and opens up the door for two very very loud,
Speaker 1: very large, very frightening men who stormed into his son's room,
Speaker 1: kicked in his door at three am, screamed at him
Speaker 1: to the point he was shaking in his underwear. They
Speaker 1: thought he was going to pee himself and then and
Speaker 1: they dragged him out of that house in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, threw him in the back of a
Speaker 1: truck and carted him off to a living hell of
Speaker 1: boot camp, where he was screamed at, worked out where
Speaker 1: he was cleaning toilets with toothbrushes, you know that old
Speaker 1: boot camp stuff. His life was made a living hell,
Speaker 1: and on the back end of that, his life was
Speaker 1: turned around. In order to change the direction of people,
Speaker 1: of organizations, of nations that are on a bad path,
Speaker 1: oftentimes a disruptor is necessary. And the problem we have
Speaker 1: and the problem we are going to have now as
Speaker 1: we try to write this ship as a country is
Speaker 1: we want we want the change right. We want things
Speaker 1: to turn around. I want the military to do better.
Speaker 1: I want them to be like they used to be.
Speaker 1: I want the intelligence community to be like they used
Speaker 1: to be. I want the Justice Department to turn things around. Jesse,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I want to write the ship.
Speaker 2: Only I want to I want to do it politely.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, not with him.
Speaker 2: Ooh he's icky.
Speaker 1: Oh not not that guy. No, that guy hasn't he
Speaker 1: has a tattoo. Oh gosh, this guy. Ooh he's got
Speaker 1: a criminal record. This guy. No, we can't use that guy.
Speaker 1: He's too obnoxious. Oh, Jesse, not him, not him, not him?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, not him. We want the disruptor to fix things,
Speaker 1: but we don't want the disruptor to disrupt. You don't
Speaker 1: change the young man's life. You don't change it forever.
Speaker 1: You don't improve it forever. Politely. You don't do it
Speaker 1: by doing the things you've always done. You don't do
Speaker 1: it by pouring him an extra bowl of Captain crunch
Speaker 1: possibly with crunchberries in the morning. If you want to
Speaker 1: change your life, the life of your child, if you
Speaker 1: need to radically change the path you are on, then
Speaker 1: you are going to need a disruption that is uncomfortable, uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It is time for you and me to get comfortable
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable when it comes to Pete Hegseth. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to begin there when it comes to Pete hegg Seth.
Speaker 1: You have all these people they're looking at it. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute. He was just a major. He wasn't even
Speaker 1: a general. He was on Fox News on the weekend.
Speaker 1: He wasn't this. He wasn't that. We need somebody who
Speaker 1: knows Jesse. He doesn't know what he's doing, Jesse. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have the experience. You know who has had the experience.
Speaker 1: You know who was a general. You know who was
Speaker 1: an amirl. Every single weapons grade loser who's destroyed the
Speaker 1: United States military for the last thirty forty years, they've
Speaker 1: all been generals. They've all been aberls, They've all been
Speaker 1: in the defense industry. They've all been overund Washington forever.
Speaker 1: They all knew what they were doing. So do you
Speaker 1: want change, radical change? Well, radical change disruption is going
Speaker 1: to be uncomfortable and we're going to dig into a
Speaker 1: lot of that. In fact, that'll be the show tonight
Speaker 1: on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. That and me
Speaker 1: bragging about myself. Thune, who should have been primary forever ago,
Speaker 1: but of course he's handsome and speaks very well on TV.
Speaker 1: John Thune's probably going to be our next Senate minority
Speaker 1: or majority leader. What Chris, I just wanted to play
Speaker 1: it one more time, just one more time. That's probably
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Speaker 1: Now let's address these things in order again. This is
Speaker 1: going to be the order of business. Pete hag Seth,
Speaker 1: Matt Gates for ag Taulsea Gabber DNI. But let's deal
Speaker 1: with Pete hagg Seth first and foremost, because Trump announced
Speaker 1: him last night. He wants Pete to head up the
Speaker 1: Defense Department Secretary of Defense. Big cheese, the big cheese.
Speaker 1: So let's discuss what has happened to the United States military.
Speaker 1: This has taken a long time. Yes, the Biden administration
Speaker 1: put all the problems I'm about to lay out in overdrive.
Speaker 1: But this has taken a long time for us to
Speaker 1: get where we are. The United States military over the
Speaker 1: decades ceased becoming about something that was protecting the country
Speaker 1: and started becoming something that was all about protecting the military,
Speaker 1: namely the generals in ab rules, the big shots who
Speaker 1: make the choices. A lot of this trace is clear
Speaker 1: back to what you know what, let's do. Let's do
Speaker 1: a big rewind on this shall we we have time.
Speaker 1: I know you like to dig a little deeper into
Speaker 1: things like I do. Let's go back to World War Two.
Speaker 1: That just stay with me here, Let's take a little bit.
Speaker 2: Stay with me.
Speaker 1: Before World War Two, the United States military was very, very,
Speaker 1: very small, which is exactly what it should be. It's
Speaker 1: exactly what the founders wanted. They understood we needed a
Speaker 1: strong navy, because of our position on the globe. But
Speaker 1: as far as a standing army goes, it should be small.
Speaker 1: You should have a strong nco Corps that is ready
Speaker 1: to train people up at a moment's notice. World War
Speaker 1: two breaks out, Oh we throw things into overdrive and boom,
Speaker 1: we start churning out this incredible, incredible military. But something
Speaker 1: else happened during the course of World War two. You know,
Speaker 1: the arsenal of the world, the arsenal of democracy. All
Speaker 1: that stuff is amazingly true. The United States of America.
Speaker 1: We turned to our incredible economy, our incredible manufacturing base,
Speaker 1: and we turned it into a military factory. We had
Speaker 1: auto plants, making tanks and planes. We simply turned to
Speaker 1: our economy and said, you're in a wartime footing, now
Speaker 1: go And they did their jobs well, and we should
Speaker 1: be proud and honestly amazed by what we accomplished back
Speaker 1: then as a nation. However, something happened. Eisenhower himself saw
Speaker 1: it happening. Something happened. There's a yin and a yang
Speaker 1: to things, right, a good and a bad, a cause
Speaker 1: and effect. What happened during that time is a lot
Speaker 1: of private sector companies and big shots in the military
Speaker 1: figured out that war is really good business. It involves
Speaker 1: hoovering up a lot of money for yourself. You know
Speaker 1: what's better if you're forward the people going out there
Speaker 1: and buying model ts. What's better is the United States
Speaker 1: government writing you large taxpayer back checks to make planes
Speaker 1: and trains and automobiles. Okay, not the automobiles. I was
Speaker 1: going off the movie, but you get what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's a lot easier money, and there's a lot more
Speaker 1: of it. And post World War Two, we started to
Speaker 1: reduce the size of our military and mass again, but
Speaker 1: the private sector and the military people never really lost
Speaker 1: sight of the fact that war it's a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: especially when you're not one of the ones being shot at.
Speaker 1: War's a blest when you're a general in the rear
Speaker 1: with the gear, when you're a mogul boeing raytheon. War
Speaker 1: is a grand old time. Then Korea kicks off, and
Speaker 1: because we had reduced our military again, we once again
Speaker 1: had to ramp it back up quickly. And remember we
Speaker 1: had marines on a boat on the way to Korea,
Speaker 1: on a way to fight in Korea. We had marines
Speaker 1: on a boat finishing boot camp. We were so short
Speaker 1: on men. They're grabbing marine recruiting classes and finishing boot camp.
Speaker 2: On a boat. Gosh, that just suck.
Speaker 1: Anyway, That's how it shortchanged we were. And then we
Speaker 1: watched half a million Chinese for over the border and
Speaker 1: now we have cold war stuff. And after that we
Speaker 1: looked around as a country and said, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: this whole reducing the size of the military thing, we
Speaker 1: got a slow way down on that.
Speaker 2: Clearly, we need to be.
Speaker 1: Cutting edge and we need to be ready to go
Speaker 1: anywhere anytime. It was really Korea world War two in Korea,
Speaker 1: that was really the seed change for United States of
Speaker 1: America to change its foreign policy from being very hands
Speaker 1: off you do what you do into instantly, Hey.
Speaker 2: We need to be able to be anywhere.
Speaker 1: If we have to be in Madagascar or Korea, or
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union or Antarctica, we need to be able
Speaker 1: to be anywhere anytime and fight a huge war. Totally
Speaker 1: changed our mentality there. And guys like I mentioned Eisenhower,
Speaker 1: who would know saw this coming. That's why he gave
Speaker 1: that infamous, infamous speech. I would ask you to go
Speaker 1: listen to it yourself about what's known as the military
Speaker 1: industrial complex, and what that pretty much is, it is
Speaker 1: an industry. It's not defense. It's become an industry unto itself.
Speaker 1: If you're at the Pentagon, if you're a general, if
Speaker 1: you're an admiral, if you're a flag officer, you don't
Speaker 1: put your son in harms way. For the most part,
Speaker 1: you yourself will never be in harm's way. You're a
Speaker 1: civilian with a better looking uniform, and war is good
Speaker 1: for you. You get a new command here, a new
Speaker 1: command there. If you're a huge defense contractor, war is
Speaker 1: amazing for you. If you're a politician, especially a Republican
Speaker 1: politician over the years, but this applies to all of them,
Speaker 1: you look super patriotic standing in front of the troops
Speaker 1: and sending them into combat. This is not unique to America.
Speaker 1: Unpopular politicians throughout history have gone to war because the
Speaker 1: nation gets whipped up with patriotic fury, and then off
Speaker 1: the war you go and your popularity numbers sore. War's
Speaker 1: been amazing for all these types, but it hasn't been
Speaker 1: amazing for you the taxpayer, and it hasn't been amazing
Speaker 1: for the men on the ground, and it hasn't been
Speaker 1: amazing for the defense of this country.
Speaker 2: I'll continue in a second hang.
Speaker 1: On John Thune, who should have been primary forever ago.
Speaker 1: But of course he's handsome and speaks very well on TV.
Speaker 1: John Thune's probably going to be our next Senate minority
Speaker 1: or majority leader.
Speaker 2: That was me from back in February.
Speaker 1: I don't know if i've played you played that for
Speaker 1: you yet on the show, but that was me being
Speaker 1: right back in February. Anyway, Stop, we'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a while. Right now, we're talking about Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 1: We're doing a little backstory on the United States military
Speaker 1: and what eventually happened to it. So we were talking
Speaker 1: about the military, how it eventually became bloated, how it
Speaker 1: eventually became an industry unto itself, with the politicians working
Speaker 1: with the defense contractors who were working with the generals,
Speaker 1: and it just becomes one large club. And what they're
Speaker 1: doing is bloodsucking your tax dollars, promoting each other, paying
Speaker 1: each other, having a blast on the world stage. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, you're not any safer, only you are a
Speaker 1: whole lot poorer. Now Vietnam comes along. I went over
Speaker 1: the World War two Korean War thing Vietnam represented a
Speaker 1: completely different change that was equally, if not the most
Speaker 1: devastating thing we have seen in Vietnam. Vietnam it changed
Speaker 1: how the officer corps handled each other. It changed how
Speaker 1: colonels and generals and admirals handled each other. One thing,
Speaker 1: if you ever read any books on World War Two,
Speaker 1: the documentaries won't generally be that good at this. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are a good podcasts for it. But if
Speaker 1: you read World War two books, whatever campaign it may be,
Speaker 1: for Europe or Normandy or Italy or the Pacific or
Speaker 1: any of those things, one thing that will hit you
Speaker 1: hard is how often the commander was relieved of duty,
Speaker 1: and relieved was about as good as you could hope
Speaker 1: for lots of the time. Oftentimes these guys were court martialed,
Speaker 1: publicly humiliated. Go look what they did to the big
Speaker 1: cheese at Pearl Harbor. That they will destroy your career
Speaker 1: and your reputation if you, as a commander fail, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't even have to be your fault. And
Speaker 1: that was not unique to our military. The history of
Speaker 1: the world was oftentimes like that. And Rome, if you
Speaker 1: screwed up bad enough, they'll flat out kill you. You'll go back,
Speaker 1: you'll have a quick trial and they'll just kill you
Speaker 1: right there, is it?
Speaker 2: Sorry? General, not acceptable?
Speaker 1: Gone dead? And in Vietnam, for a variety of reasons,
Speaker 1: that's when that changed. That's when the officer corps, all
Speaker 1: these flag officer types, all those fancy generals and admirals,
Speaker 1: that's when they all got together with each other and
Speaker 1: they said, hey, why are we doing this to each other?
Speaker 1: Whenever we screw up, we have to resign, we retire,
Speaker 1: and disgrace and whatnot? What if instead of accountability, what
Speaker 1: if we just protected each other at all times?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: The men and the dudes on the ground, the guys
Speaker 1: out there getting shot, No no, there's still no no
Speaker 1: grace for them whatsoever. The second day screw up, we
Speaker 1: will destroy their careers and we'll court martial them and
Speaker 1: we'll completely wreck their lives. But us, hey, we're we're
Speaker 1: the generals. Let's not do this to each other anymore.
Speaker 1: Worth We're on the same team, right, don't you agree? General?
Speaker 1: Don't you agree? And that poisonous culture continued past Vietnam,
Speaker 1: and it exists today in what I hope to be
Speaker 1: its final form. Twenty years of Iraq and Afghanistan, twenty
Speaker 1: years of men and women dying, and the ones who
Speaker 1: didn't die blown up PTSD all over the place, missing
Speaker 1: body parts. And that's just the American troops will set
Speaker 1: aside what happened to others overseas, twenty years of failure.
Speaker 1: I know guys who watched their friends die so they
Speaker 1: could put in a well in an Afghan village. Well,
Speaker 1: the villagers decided to never use. I know guys who
Speaker 1: guarded the poppy fields, you know, Heroin. I know guys
Speaker 1: who were put in charge of guarding the poppy fields
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Did you know that the Green Beret in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan who caught a one of the Afghan security forces
Speaker 1: viciously abusing a young boy. I won't go into it.
Speaker 1: The Green Beret was punished for that. Failure after failure,
Speaker 1: disgrace after disgrace. How many generals and admirals lost their jobs?
Speaker 1: How many had public trials, resigned? Fired? How many? No?
Speaker 2: None? Really?
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, if anyone offended Obama, they did,
Speaker 1: but really none. They all went on and wrote books.
Speaker 1: You can say betray us, but betray us didn't go
Speaker 1: for military reasons. He went because he ended up having
Speaker 1: a relationship with a young lady instead. The kind of
Speaker 1: military we have now what the men and women on
Speaker 1: the ground see at at the highest levels, they see
Speaker 1: this craft.
Speaker 3: How does it strike you that no one is held accountable?
Speaker 3: Because I know how it strikes a lot of people
Speaker 3: around the world that you can get away with murder
Speaker 3: and nobody's punished for it.
Speaker 4: I do understand that we appreciate that not everybody's gonna
Speaker 4: support this decision. What I can tell you is we
Speaker 4: looked at this thing very, very comprehensively, and again we
Speaker 4: acknowledge that there were procedural breakdowns, processes were not executed
Speaker 4: the way they should have been, But it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 4: indicate that an individual or individuals have to be held
Speaker 4: to account for that.
Speaker 3: But look, this is more discipline inside the Pentagon at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe they're no charges brought up, but is
Speaker 3: anyone demoted or disciplined for what happened, then well.
Speaker 4: What we are going to do. There's not going to
Speaker 4: be individual discipline as a result of this, really, but
Speaker 4: what we are going to do is learn from this,
Speaker 4: and we're going to enact and improve our procedures and
Speaker 4: our to try to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1: A flag officer in Saipan was relieved of his command,
Speaker 1: not because of cowardice, not because he really necessarily did
Speaker 1: anything wrong. He was relieved of his command because his
Speaker 1: troops weren't thought to be moving fast enough, and he
Speaker 1: lost his command and lost his reputation. That was back
Speaker 1: in World War Two. Here in the modern United States
Speaker 1: of America, we can send a Reaper drone to wipe
Speaker 1: out ten completely innocent civilians, and the Pentagon will announce
Speaker 1: publicly that nobody has resigned, nobody's even been reprimanded. In fact,
Speaker 1: we don't even really think anyone did anything wrong. Best
Speaker 1: of luck to you today. Did you know that the
Speaker 1: United States military that they've wargamed a war with China.
Speaker 1: Did you know that we've lost every one of those wargames.
Speaker 1: They know our capabilities, they know their capabilities, and so
Speaker 1: they do these advanced level wargames to see, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: going to do this. That means they'll do this, So
Speaker 1: we'll do this, and they'll do that, and they kind
Speaker 1: of walk through it. It's a it's an exercise to
Speaker 1: see where you're at. Did you know we get our
Speaker 1: lunch eaten by the Chinese if it's at the war's
Speaker 1: fought over there.
Speaker 2: To know that.
Speaker 1: The United States military is in a state of crisis,
Speaker 1: I can't even describe. The officer corps is so full
Speaker 1: of losers, in politicians and idiots, the pentagons full of traders,
Speaker 1: the defense in the military industrial complex, the defense contractors.
Speaker 1: That relationship is a disaster. How they've bought off politicians
Speaker 1: to continue things like Ukraine without end and exchange for
Speaker 1: large campaign donations. Our United States military is in a
Speaker 1: state of crisis, and I not only fear for my
Speaker 1: country as a whole, for the men on the ground,
Speaker 1: the ground pounders, the guys who actually see combat, I
Speaker 1: am terrified for them at the disastros poisonous, filthy leadership
Speaker 1: we have in the United States military. As of now,
Speaker 1: I have email after email after email.
Speaker 2: Jesse.
Speaker 1: I'm getting out, Jesse, I'm getting out, Jesse. I can't
Speaker 1: take it anymore, Jesse, I'm not letting my son join.
Speaker 1: I fought in the Global War on Terror, and I
Speaker 1: still speak to so many guys who fought in it
Speaker 1: with me. Not a single friend of mine, not one
Speaker 1: is encouraging his children to join. Almost every single one
Speaker 1: of them, to a man is telling his kids they're
Speaker 1: not even allowed. That's a military in crisis, and that
Speaker 1: brings me to Pete hag Seth. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: potential new sect def again. All these guys have to
Speaker 1: get through Senate confirmation. Some may have more trouble than others.
Speaker 1: Before we get to any of that, let's talk really
Speaker 1: quickly about people living in a war zone constantly. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine living in Israel and you're constantly in a
Speaker 1: war zone, That trip to the coffee shop on the
Speaker 1: corner might easily be a stabbing or a bomb you
Speaker 1: at any moment, At any moment you're picking up the
Speaker 1: kids from school, the alarms might go off and you
Speaker 1: guys might have to scramble and get to a bomb
Speaker 1: shelter somewhere because rockets are raining down. This is what
Speaker 1: it's like for these people every single day. You know
Speaker 1: how many of these people don't have food, They need
Speaker 1: emergency food, places to live. People don't know about this
Speaker 1: because it's ignored. The Ifcj's on the ground helping these people,
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Speaker 1: hegg Seth pick and I need to make sure everyone understands.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat this several times during the show. He
Speaker 1: has to get confirmed in the Senate. There are some
Speaker 1: positions that do not require a Senate confirmation, like that
Speaker 1: wonderful Florida Rep. Mike Walls, former Green Beret Donald Trump
Speaker 1: named him as National Security Advisor. That is not a
Speaker 1: position that requires a Senate confirmation. Secretary of Defense does
Speaker 1: require a Senate confirmation. What is a Senate confirmation? Well,
Speaker 1: you need fifty one. You need fifty one votes. And remember,
Speaker 1: if there's ever a problem with that, jd Vance can
Speaker 1: add a fifty first. So, Pete Hegg Seth, I just
Speaker 1: laid out all the problems in the military. They are vast.
Speaker 1: We need a disruptor. Now, Jesse he doesn't have the experience.
Speaker 1: He's not a general. He thought of it. He served
Speaker 1: this country for twenty years and led men in combat.
Speaker 1: I don't mean sitting back in the rear with the gear.
Speaker 2: I don't mean.
Speaker 1: Stplan papers for a general. Pete Haig Seth had on
Speaker 1: a flak jacket and went out two bronze stars and
Speaker 1: led men like a lion in combat. He knows exactly
Speaker 1: what the men on the ground go through for this
Speaker 1: country and still cares. He didn't get so separated from
Speaker 1: those men that he became a filthy loser politician like
Speaker 1: Mark Milly did, who sold out every ounce of honor
Speaker 1: he ever had. Pete Haig Seth, he ended up getting out.
Speaker 1: Do you know why he got out? Because they can
Speaker 1: entered his rhetoric too extremes, so they ran him out
Speaker 1: of the National Guard. He told me that himself, what
Speaker 1: kind of rhetoric was extreme? Oh, I don't know, wonderful
Speaker 1: things like this.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, you gotta fire, you know, you
Speaker 5: gotta fire the Chairman of Joint Chiefs, and you gotta
Speaker 5: fire this. I mean, obviously gonna bring in a new
Speaker 5: Secretary Defense. But any general that was involved, General admiral
Speaker 5: whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke,
Speaker 5: it's gotta go. Either you're in for war fighting that
Speaker 5: and that's it. That's the only litmus tests we care about.
Speaker 5: You got to get DEI and cert out of military
Speaker 5: academy so you're not training young officers and to be
Speaker 5: baptized in this type of thinking. And then, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were saying I
Speaker 5: don't know nineteen ninety five, let's just make those the standards.
Speaker 5: And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that
Speaker 5: you know did top gun Maverick and create some real
Speaker 5: ads that motivate people that want to serve.
Speaker 1: I don't know, does that sound good to you? Sounds
Speaker 1: wonderful to me? And I should know if that was
Speaker 1: from uh, the Sean Ryan, which is amazing. I love Sean.
Speaker 1: Pete sat down with Sean Ryan, and Pete has been
Speaker 1: out there saying things, well, a lot of these things
Speaker 1: you've heard on this show for a long time, and
Speaker 1: things that may make you uncomfortable, might even make you squirm,
Speaker 1: might even offend you. Yet things that are one hundred
Speaker 1: percent accurately.
Speaker 5: Straight up just saying we should not have women in
Speaker 5: combat roles, hasn't made us more effective? Has it made
Speaker 5: us more lethal? Has made fighting more complicated? We've all
Speaker 5: served with women and they're great. It just our institutions
Speaker 5: don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not
Speaker 5: traditionally over human history, men in those positions are more capable.
Speaker 1: Does that sound like somebody who wants to disrupt how
Speaker 1: the military has been conducting itself.
Speaker 2: You bet it does.
Speaker 1: He's somebody passionate about fixing this military, and I have
Speaker 1: previously lacked faith that we can get this done without
Speaker 1: someone like this. I have dreamt of, yes, an experienced
Speaker 1: but outsider type of person who will step in and
Speaker 1: break up this horrible flag officer network, defense contractor network,
Speaker 1: this network of filth in the Pentagon, full of all
Speaker 1: kinds of garbage people screwing things up. I have dreamt
Speaker 1: of a potential outsider stepping in and saying no more,
Speaker 1: there's a new sheriff in town. And maybe, just maybe
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this just because I'm friends with Pete.
Speaker 1: Maybe Pete Hegseth is that guy, and he's not somebody
Speaker 1: that I knew about ahead of time. I will tell
Speaker 1: you I had. I had a dream of a concept,
Speaker 1: if you will had I had a nameless, faceless person,
Speaker 1: and Pete Hegseth is basically exactly what I wanted. Somebody
Speaker 1: who knows exactly how to build a military, build a
Speaker 1: lethal fighting force. And my phone has been melting from
Speaker 1: the grunts I'm friends with who are still in and
Speaker 1: fighter pilots, I should note, and they are all kinds
Speaker 1: fired up for the potential to change things. That and
Speaker 1: the fact that these crazy libs hate him.
Speaker 4: Former and future president is moving quickly to fill the
Speaker 4: clown car and round out his cabinet before he changes
Speaker 4: his mind and fires them all.
Speaker 1: Moments ago, Trump.
Speaker 4: Announced to BIT he has selected Fox Weekend morning show
Speaker 4: host and can't make this up, Pete Haiksach to Service
Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense because why.
Speaker 1: Not Fox Weekend Morning show host, A tour in Iraq,
Speaker 1: a tour in Afghanistan, two bronze stars, and they have
Speaker 1: him reduced down to a Fox Weekend morning show host.
Speaker 3: Here was Don Lemon, an official statement from Donald Trump saying,
Speaker 3: I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete
Speaker 3: Hegseth to serve in my cabinet as the.
Speaker 2: Secretary of Defense. What at first, some of these folks, these.
Speaker 1: Nominations, I said, okay, or appointments, all right, they're a
Speaker 1: little extreme.
Speaker 2: But there were some.
Speaker 3: Normal people in there, kind of normally, you know, like
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio or Mike Wallas, a couple of you know,
Speaker 3: just regular old Republicans in there.
Speaker 1: But Pete, good morning, we can host on Fox News.
Speaker 2: Come on. That's exactly why I love it.
Speaker 1: And remember this, whenever these people reference stuff, well, we
Speaker 1: had some normal options. You notice how they always end
Speaker 1: up referencing the Republicans who won't really oppose them in
Speaker 1: any significant way to them. Those are the normal Republicans.
Speaker 1: You could have had a reasonable Republican, And of course
Speaker 1: reasonable Republican always and forever means a Republican. He may
Speaker 1: oppose me on some things, but I know when the
Speaker 1: rubber meets the road and I really start with my
Speaker 1: rabbit animal communist ways, the reasonable Republican will probably try
Speaker 1: to meet me halfway and moderate and do things in
Speaker 1: a bipartisan fashion. That's what he means by reasonable Republican.
Speaker 1: I love this pick. I am so excited about it.
Speaker 1: Now we'll set that aside. There's the Petegg Seth because
Speaker 1: we have a lot of news. Let's deal with the
Speaker 1: Senate leadership thing, and then the Matt Gates pick, which
Speaker 1: has half the people doing backflips, half the people throwing
Speaker 1: up in the trash can. This has been a podcast
Speaker 1: from wor