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just I've been watching and listening to the confirmation hearing
of Pete Hegseth or Secretary of Defense. And all right,
so here is this socialist guy up in wherever northeast
is stand Angus King?
Speaker 3: You express that with approval, Senator, I'm very familiar with
that as a concept, having spent a year at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
guarding seven hundred of those that attacked us on nine eleven.
Speaker 4: I just want to be clear, are we are we
going to abide by the by the Geneva Convention and
the prohibitions on torture or are we not As a circumstance.
Speaker 3: As I've stated multiple times, the Geneva Conventions are what
we base ours What an American first national security policy
is not going to do is hand its prerogatives over
to international bodies that make decisions about how our men
and women make decisions on the battlefield. America first understands
we send Americans for a clear mission and.
Speaker 1: A clear objective.
Speaker 3: We have equipped them properly for that objective, everything the
very few, and then we stand behind them with the
rules of engagement that allow them to fight decisively understanding
America's energers.
Speaker 4: Which is why we see I just have a few seconds.
I was very disturbed in your opening state, but where
you you talked about the priorities that you have. We
will work with our partners and allies to deter aggression
they know Pacific from the communist Chinese. There's not a
mentioned in this statement about Ukraine or Russia. Is this
code for We're going to abandon Ukraine?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Senator.
Speaker 3: The president this is that's a presidential level policy decision.
He's made it very clear that he would like to
see a end to that conflict. We know who the
aggressor is, we know who the good guy is. We'd
like to see it as advantageous for the Ukrainians as possible,
but that war needs.
Speaker 4: You talk a lot about the terms of China. I
would submit that Jijingping is watching what we do very carefully.
If we abandon Ukraine, that would be the strongest single
possible to Jijingping that he can take Taiwan without significant
resistance from this country.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Senator.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think maybe having like a vegetable as
a president that might also send a message to the Communists.
Speaker 1: To mister Hedge's leadership record concern.
Speaker 2: All right, so this is so that was Angus King,
Senator Angus King. Yeah, like really focusing like a laser
onto this idea that Hegzeth outlined in his book, talking
about letting our troops go and fight and win with
clear defined missions and exit strategies, so we are not
bogged down in twenty plus years of war. You go in,
you do the mission, you get out, and that's it. Right,
that's a part of that. And we heard all of
these stories at the time, right where troops on the
battlefield were trying to trying to adhere to rules of
engagement that made it impossible for them to carry out
the mission objective for them to win. And that's what
he's talking about that you start off at the you know,
with he talked about these different echelons of or layers or.
Speaker 1: Levels of.
Speaker 2: Rules Geneva Convention, and then you've got this, you know,
the Uniform Military or the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
You have those rules, and then you have the rules
of engagement. And by the time it filters all the
way down through the ranks to what he when he
was in the service as a major or sergeant major,
he had to instruct all of the NATO troops that
were coming in what the rules of engagement were. So
heg Seth knew he knows what those rules are, and
he was the guy who was first in through the door,
kicking down the doors in these various war zones. He
knows what the practical impact of those rules of engagement
are on the troops. He would go through the door.
One of the stories is that he would be first
through the door. He would be the first one in.
So this way, any of the people that were under
his command, if they made the wrong decision, it would
ruin their lives. So he would go in first. And
Angus Smith or sorry, Angus King, tries to turn this
into you support waterboarding and torture.
Speaker 1: Like I thought Mazie Herono.
Speaker 2: Was the village idiot that had broken containment, but it
might actually be Angus King two. Maybe okay, maybe there
are multiple villages here. They are from different sides of
the country. King is from what Maine or something. Mazie
Herono unable to ask a follow up question, likely because
either she's drunk.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, it's not true. I don't know if she
was or not, But like.
Speaker 2: Those questions are scripted for her, and it is so
obvious because she cannot think past the question mark in
the sentence. So there's this lead in of false assumptions
and smears and stupidity. Because it's maze Herono, there's always
a heavy dose of stupidity. So you have this this
narrative building in the front part of the question, and
then a question that really isn't connected to the narrative
or the smearing, and it's designed to get him to answer,
please answer yes or no?
Speaker 1: Yes or no? When did you stop beating your wife?
Speaker 2: Yes or no? Like that doesn't even make sense, Senator,
I'm gonna take that as a failure to answer, And
then she just moves on so bad, almost as bad
as Senator Kristen Gillibrand, who is in I think a
perpetual screech. I'm not sure she has another setting in
her delivery. It seems like just this perpetual screeching where
and her wind up, her smear assumptions go on for
like five minutes or something, and then makes all of
these allegations and stuff you you. At one point she
said that he had accused women of no not being competent,
and he never he never said that. But Jellibrand just
says it and then moves on, says a bunch of
other stuff, other stuff, other stuff, other stuff. Sorry, others
do other's dob by, there's stuff, and then throws out
a question that's detached. Why don't you want women in
the military. Okay, first off, I never said I don't
want women in the military. Heg Seth is talking about
high standards for all of the different missions, all of
the different specializations, right, and so if you are a
machine gunner, you have to be able to carry the
freaking machine gun, like that's the standard. You have to
be able to carry the weight, literally carry the weight.
If you cannot meet that standard, then you should not
have that role if you cannot meet the physical standards.
You should not have the role that the physical standards require,
because the weaponry doesn't get lighter. Right, the shells if
you're you know, are in artillery, they were Tom Cotton
mentioned this. A single artillery shell is like one hundred pounds.
If you can't lift that thing, then you have no
business getting an mos as a as an artillery amo loader.
Speaker 1: Right. You shouldn't be able. You should not be put.
Speaker 2: In charge of putting the shells into the weaponry if
you cannot lift the shell. This seems so freaking basic
and common sense that only Democrats, apparently on the Senate
Arm Services Committee can be this subtuse. Of course, here's
the thing they are not. They just need their YouTube moment.
They need to have a YouTube moment. They need to
be able to cut about twenty seconds or so thirty
seconds maybe a minute out of the the you know,
the questioning, and then send it out to get the
donations flowing. Same thing goes for the people that interrupted
the opening statement by Pete Hegseth, which so far they
have not had further interruptions. But these leftists get up
there and interrupt his opening his opening statement, and then
they get removed and the chair of the committee, Like
I would not have run it like that after the
first one. I would have said, next one, anybody who
does this, you're you're getting arrested, We're pressing charges. You're
getting arrested. And if it happens again for the second time,
I'm clearing the room everybody out, especially if you are
wearing pink, because you could see these people were they
were all Code pinkers. They were all there dressed up
in their silly little clown costumes, all dressed in pink
with stupid looking glass. Actually that is on trend now.
Apparently it's the big, big thick frames for the liberal women.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they don't. I don't know why, but.
Speaker 2: Like that, so they're all and they got these silly
hats on and stuff like I can tell who's going
to disrupt this meeting.
Speaker 1: It's them. It's the Code bink people.
Speaker 2: That have been doing it for twenty years. Oh, Elizabeth
Warren speaking of village idiots.
Speaker 7: In this role. Now, I've been trying to get answers
from you for quite some time on this. You haven't
wanted to meet or to answer any of my questions.
So we'll just have to do it here.
Speaker 1: You can dive in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to pick up on some of the
questions to ask by Senator Shahen and Jill Brandon Verona,
and I just want to.
Speaker 1: Make about the women in the military again, the.
Speaker 7: Facts that I think are undisputed. I'm not going to
talk about anonymous sources. I'm just going to quote you directly.
We've got the video, we've got it in print. So
going back to January twenty thirteen, you told a Fox
News interviewer that women in the military simply couldn't measure
up to men in the military, saying that allowing women
to serve in combat roles would force the military to
lower the bar. You picked up on that same theme
in twenty fifteen making remarks on Fox News.
Speaker 1: You see what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They're conflating every single mos Because he talks also in
his book about people he has served, women he has
served with, who served bravely, courageously, we're awesome teammates, has
no bad words about them. He's talking about specific things.
And if you are like, if you meet the standard,
you can do any job. If you can't meet the standard,
you should not be doing the job, and the military
should not be lowering the standards in order to juice
the stats in order to get more people into those
jobs with the lower standards.
Speaker 1: That's what he's been talking about.
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty clear, and maybe the Democrats do too,
and that's why they're just conflating all of this stuff together.
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Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5: Hello Pete. I wanted to just touch on the uh
hegsths nomination. It's there. It's a Democrat playbook. The hagsth
could have literally won a war by himself and they
would still say that he would be worse than Hitler.
And they're all going to come out and say every
bad thing that that's can be said. The Republicans are
going to be like, guys, we have to be nice, No,
we don't. This is war on a different scale than
what Pete's done. But this is war. We need to
politically destroy anyone who is against making the military as
lethal and as efficient as possible.
Speaker 2: Well, that's been the message that heg Seth has been hammering.
Republicans have not have not taken the position that you
said you're worried that they're taking. They've all been even
Jonie Ernst what they had a cordial exchange and she
was one of the Republicans that they were saying she
may not support him. So yeah, I mean, it looks
like the Republicans are going They're not going to be
abandoning hag Seth at least so far is what I
could tell.
Speaker 5: So they're not going to abandon him, but they're gonna
but they're not going to come out and fight with
the same uh fervor that the Democrats have. They're gonna
be like.
Speaker 2: Well, it's always easier to attack. I mean, when Republicans
were in the minority, it's always easier to savage and
to go after somebody, you know, easier to go on
the offense than it is to defend, you know, somebody,
because you got to just listen to the allegations and
people hear them and they're like, oh my gosh, that's
so bad. So it's easier to just throw the smears
out there. And lord knows, there's been enough of them
that have been reported against Pete hegseth. He's not done
himself a lot of favors with some of the stories
and some of the history. Now, not all of the
stuff that has been reported has been true, so that's
and he keeps saying that as well. Those are anonymous
false allegations. He keeps saying it, and Democrats just don't
hear him say it. So John, I appreciate the call.
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Which in this case is Elizabeth Warren, us Senator from Massachusetts,
famous fake Indian, and she's asking hag Seth here about
his call for generals to not go to work for
defense industry companies for ten years after retirement.
Speaker 7: Sir Hagstaff. You have written after they retire, general should
be banned from working for the defense industry for ten years.
You and I agree on the corrosive effects of the
revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors. It's something
I would have liked to talk with you about if
you'd come and been willing to visit with me. But
the question I have for you on this is will
you put your money where your mouth is and agree
that when you leave this job you will not work
for the defense industry for ten years?
Speaker 5: Senator.
Speaker 3: It's not even a question I've thought about because it's
not right now. It's not one my motivation for this job.
Speaker 7: I understand yes, time is short. I just need a
yes or no.
Speaker 3: I would consult with the President about what the policy.
Speaker 7: Other words, you're quite sure that every general who serves
should not go directly into the defense industry for ten years.
You're not willing to make that same pledge.
Speaker 3: I'm not a general, Senator, You'll.
Speaker 7: Be the one. Let us just be clear in charge
of the generals. So you're saying sauce for the goose,
but certainly not sauce for the candor.
Speaker 3: I would want to see what the policy that you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Senator Warren, Senator Tuberville, thank you.
Speaker 8: Miss chairman, and thanks for your hard work and your
committee's hard work. Miss chairman. This is uh, this has
going well.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: I'd like to submit this letter uh topic conduct at
vets for freedom for Hexseth.
Speaker 1: I'd like to sbmit that for the record. Please withou objection,
General he.
Speaker 8: Seth, I mean, mister Heseth, thanks thanks for being here
today with your FA.
Speaker 2: So anybody else note the irony of who is asking
the question about cashing in.
Speaker 1: On a title. Tim Young, Who's a comedian. You can
find him. I think he does a podcast. Uh, but
I don't see anyway Tim Young.
Speaker 2: You could He does a podcast and you can find
him on Twitter or x AT.
Speaker 1: Tim runs his mouth. That's his name, Tim runs his mouth.
So Tim Young.
Speaker 2: He points out that Elizabeth Warren questions whether or not
Pete Hegseth would cash in on the Secretary of Defense job.
Keep in mind she lied about being a Native American
to cash in, and just the other day she tweeted
an act Blue link pretending it was a charity for
victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. This is what makes
this whole thing so farcical. They are obviously coordinating. Democrats
are using their female senators on the committee to ask
about the women in combat roles. Just you know, they
keep asking the same questions over and over and over
again that Staffords obviously wrote and coordinated. And then they've
got Tim Kaine and the male senators asking the questions
about the allegations of sexual abuse. Somebody, I guess it
was a It was Mazie Herono who asked about the NDA.
Has he ever she started doing this I think during
the Britt Kavanaugh hearings. So she says she always asks
everybody who comes before for before the committee for a
confirmation hearing, she always asks them, have you ever been
accused of you know, being told no base rape, okay,
sexual assault? Has anybody ever accused you of this? Or
have you ever done this sort of thing? And haig
Seth says no, And then she asked, have you ever
had anybody sign an NDA to cover it up? And
once again, like those types of agreements, it's like, surely
she knows, even somebody as shallow as Herono knows that
people in powerful positions that have money or at least
it's perceived that they have money, get accused of things
that they did not do, and then they get basically extorted.
That's what heg Seth's lawyer said. Heg Seth's lawyer says
that this was basically extortion. That he was on Fox News.
He has money because he's on Fox and so you
accuse him of something, and then you sue him, or
you say I'm going to go public or something. They
then write a check, you sign the non disclosure agreement,
and then they're not allowed to talk about it. They
can't make any more accusations against you in public, they
can't continue to lob these allegations. That's what you're paying for.
And the people who make false allegations know this. That's
why they do it. It's for the money when it's
not true. Right, When people make these types of false
allegations against powerful, prominent, rich people, it is for the money,
that's the point. And it's just cheaper and easier to
pay them a check and have them go away. I
don't like it. I don't know if I mean, well,
I'm not rich, but then again people may think I
am because I'm on the radio, which tells me they
know nothing. About radio's but the amount of time and
turmoil it would take and the expense. Right, So you
can either spend one hundred two hundred thousand dollars in
legal bills, it take five years to litigate, get dragged
through the courts, drag through the media, or you write
them a check for twenty thousand dollars. I don't know
what the going rate for hush money is. Maybe we
could ask Stormy Daniels's. But you pay the money and
they go away, and then you move on with your life.
You keep going, and you're not happy about it. I
don't like the fact that I had to write the check,
but it's a cheaper alternative in every category except the one,
which is where you have to pay for something you
didn't do. But when you talk to people who are
in that level of wealth, in that income bracket, they
they know that this is essentially a cost of not
doing business. It's a cost of living, just like a
security detail when you become famous.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that you have to pay for.
And again, I don't like it, but that's what he's saying.
Speaker 2: And for some reason Democrats don't understand it, which is
weird because I know there's a whole boatload of members
of Congress.
Speaker 1: That had to pay out these NDAs too. HEGs like.
Speaker 2: If I'm up there, I'd be like, well, wy don't
you guys release the list of all the NDAs. Y'all
have had people sign for you in exchange for the payoffs, right,
haven't members of Congress been extorted in this same way
or all guilty too? Why don't you release the list
of all of them?
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is now Tammy Duckworth. So, first off, as I mentioned earlier,
Democratic senators at the hearing have coordinated their questioning, and
now she's going to use that coordination to attack Pete.
Speaker 1: Hegseth. The Secretary of Defense nominae you it's a chairman.
Speaker 5: Center Duckworth, You're recognized.
Speaker 6: Thank you, miss a chairman. And also Secatary Mattis had
to have this waiver as well, with Zach said, this
hearing is about whether you are qualified to be Secretary
of Defense, and one of the qualifications to answer my
colleagues's question is to actually win the votes of every
member of this committee and to be confirmed by the
United States Senate.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not true. That's a lie.
Speaker 2: A nominee does not need to win the support of
every member of this committee. That's not true. They need
to be confirmed by the Senate. But that also does
not require a unanimous vote, just needs a majority.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 6: And you need to convince us that you're worthy of
that vote, because the people of the state of Illinois
voted for me to be their senator so that I
could cast that vote when it comes to picking who
is going to be the next Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2: Also not true, right, he doesn't need to convince you.
He doesn't need to convince all the Democrats, who, by
the way, have a long history of not supporting the
nominees of Republican presidents during these hearings. Republicans, on the
other hand, do But here we go.
Speaker 6: This hearing now seems to be a hearing about whether
or not women are qualified to serve in combat and
not about whether or not you are qualified to be
Secretive of Defense.
Speaker 2: The reason why that the hearing has become that is
because of your fellow Democrats who keep asking about this topic,
and now she's using their focus. The Democrats focus on
this issue as if he has made this the focus
of the hearing. I suspect he would rather it not
be the focus.
Speaker 6: And let me just say that the American people need
a sec deaf who's ready to lead on day one.
Speaker 2: You are not that person.
Speaker 6: Our adversary is watched closely during times of transition, and
any sense that the Department of this keeps us safe,
it's being strayed by someone who's wholly unprepared for the
job puts America at risk, and I am not willing
to do that. With that in mind, mister heck Seth,
I want you to try to explain to the American
people this committee who have to vote for you, and
to our troops are deployed around the world, why you
are qualified to lead the Department of Defense. We already
know that you've only led are the largest of two
hundred person organization. We already know that you so badly
mangled a budget that after you left they had to
bring in a forensic accountant to figure out what went wrong,
and that the largest budget you ever managed was about
eighteen billion dollars. You know that is about fifty one thousand,
five hundred and sixty times fewer lower than the Department
of Defense budget of eight hundred and twenty five billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't even know if she knows what she
just said there.
Speaker 6: Sixteen million dollars is fifty one thousand, five and sixty
eight times smaller than the defense budget. Please describe to me,
mister hex Saith, you talk about DoD passing an audit.
Please describe to me a time or an organization when
you that you led underwent an audit. Because you say
you're going to hire smarter people than you to run
this audit, I'm not asking you to be an accountant.
I want you to be able to tell me what
kind of guidance will be given to those employees, what
will happened if whether or not you passed that audit.
Have you led an audit of any organization? Yes or no?
I don't want a long answer. Yes or no? Have
you led an audit of any oranization of which you
were in charge?
Speaker 5: Senator.
Speaker 3: In both of the organizations I ran, we were always
completely fiscally response yes, way, yes or no.
Speaker 6: You can't answer this question, yes or no? Did you
lead an audit? Do you not know this answer?
Speaker 3: Senator? Yes, my leadership or an organization.
Speaker 2: That's a Senator just screaming at a candidate a nominee.
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