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00:02:39.000The question in front of us is, will the Senate be able to have a pocket veto to be able to tell the president, no, we're in charge, you're not in charge?
00:02:50.000As Pete Hegseth, who should become the Secretary of Defense as an honorable and brave and great man, a patriotic man, will be able to survive the thicket of Senate Republicans.
00:03:03.000At the center of all this is an extraordinary test case and somebody that we have not really focused on this program at all over the last couple of years.
00:03:18.000Joni Ernst ran as a rebel, as an outsider.
00:03:22.000Joni Ernst ran as someone that was going to try to change the business-as-usual process in Washington, D.C., Now, I've actually never met Joni.
00:03:32.000It's one of the few senators I have never had a chance to meet.
00:04:19.000Joni Ernst herself wants to have Pete Hegseth's job.
00:04:22.000It's the worst kept secret in Washington, D.C. Joni Ernst wants to become the Secretary of Defense.
00:04:27.000And since she wants to become the Secretary of Defense, she has launched a very nasty, below the surface campaign to try and torpedo and thwart Pete Hegseth.
00:04:38.000And with that, go against President Trump.
00:04:41.000Joni Ernst So Joni Ernst Is now being flushed out and
00:05:11.000is being singled out as being the reason why all of a sudden Hegseth is having all these difficulties.
00:05:18.000This is Joni Ernst, who was asked a question today of whether or not she supports Pete Hegseth becoming the Secretary of Defense.
00:05:27.000Play cut 108. Will you support his nomination?
00:05:33.000Well, I did have a very long, lengthy discussion with Pete yesterday, and I do appreciate his service to the nation.
00:06:48.000Walking through, I think it was the Philippines.
00:06:50.000But do you remember when he was hospitalized and his chief of staff didn't tell the president for several days?
00:06:56.000And of course, he also oversaw purging thousands of experienced troops to pursue a politically motivated vaccine mandate.
00:07:03.000One of which, where Joni Ernst did not fight the fact that tens of thousands of troops got kicked out of the military for not wanting to take the COVID shot.
00:07:15.000Now, Joni Ernst is not saying one way or the other, but this is the new playbook of what the Senate is trying to do.
00:07:20.000The Senate is trying to stop Trump's agenda before it gets to a vote.
00:07:25.000Now, Lloyd Austin, who Joni Ernst voted for, and so did Deb Fischer and Hoven and Lankford and Roger Wicker and John Thune, they all voted for Lloyd Austin.
00:07:59.000Oh, no, what bothers you, and now we're getting down to the essence, is that Pete Hegseth is focused on the U.S. military on lethality, lethality, lethality.
00:09:39.00093. Pete Heggseth, if he survives, will probably be at 50 or at 51. Why is it that Republican senators are so excited and move fast to give Joe Biden his nominees, but Republican senators don't want to give Donald Trump his nominees?
00:10:29.000You go up against Pete Hegseth, the president, repeatedly, then don't be surprised, Joni Ernst, all of a sudden you get a primary challenge in Iowa.
00:10:38.000Don't be surprised, Mike Rounds, when you get a primary challenge.
00:10:45.000We don't get a mandate like this from the American people just to have it thwarted by a bunch of dorks that we never heard of from the U.S. Senate, twiddling their thumbs and protecting the war machine.
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00:13:43.000Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan all voted for Alejandro Mayorkas, but they have questions about Pete Hegseth.
00:13:53.000So, Joe Biden's Lloyd Austin got 93 yes votes and Hegseth is going to have to be a squeaker.
00:14:03.000It's because Senate Republicans, many of whom, are more loyal to the regime and more loyal to the DC cabal to the mafia than to their voters.
00:14:18.000And one of the things, again, this is not playtime here.
00:14:22.000We've been talking about this for quite some time.
00:14:24.000It is time for Turning Point Action and, yes, Turning Point PAC. We are going to be launching some primaries, and we do not know what states yet.
00:14:34.000But we're going to measure twice, and we're going to cut once.
00:14:37.000And, you know, people say, oh, Charlie, they're going to come after you guys.
00:15:16.000I don't want to have to do this if every one of them said we're voting for President Trump's nominees.
00:15:22.000But if we're going to go play patty cake and have to try to cut deals to get our secretary of defense, in fact, that's what somebody said is, well, Trump's going to have to cut a deal.
00:16:20.000By the way, she was in a very competitive Senate race, and Donald Trump made multiple visits in 2020 and bailed her out in a very competitive Senate race.
00:16:48.000It's really remarkable how many Senate Republicans are quick to give Joe Biden what he wants, but are very hesitant to give Donald Trump what he wants.
00:16:58.000Donald Trump is standing by Pete Hegseth 100%.
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00:18:39.000Dan Sullivan is up in Alaska, but that's a little risky one because Alaska can be really goofy because of ranked choice voting, and he's been okay.
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00:22:40.000Joining us now is Timothy C. Parlatore, attorney for Pete Hegseth.
00:23:00.000It is something that the media has tried to put out there and they've used some of these false claims to create that.
00:23:08.000But the reality is that Pete is somebody who I think is going to be a good champion for everybody in the Department of Defense, men and women.
00:23:17.000And so a lot of these isolated incidents, false incidents from years ago, really don't have any bearing on that.
00:23:23.000And I'm happy to go through each and every one of these because they're all false.
00:24:56.000But then you go look at his statement.
00:24:58.000His statement, which is something that makes a lot of sense.
00:25:01.000But the key to me in reading his statement is at the very end, where he says that after the consensual encounter, they sat down and talked and she was starting to have regrets.
00:25:09.000And she said, you know, I didn't go back to my husband's room.
00:25:14.000I'm going to tell him I fell asleep on a friend's couch and I'm very sorry.
00:25:18.000And yet, when you go to the husband's statement, he says that's exactly what she said when she walked in the room.
00:25:25.000So the husband actually impeaches her credibility on this fake drug thing and supports Pete's credibility by saying this is what they discussed because this is exactly what she did.
00:25:37.000So it is something that the police were able to very easily look at and say this was a consensual encounter.
00:26:03.000Yeah, so the New Yorker, what they did was they took an anonymous complaint from years ago that somebody, a disgruntled, terminated employee, had written this screed to try and get Pete fired from Fox.
00:26:17.000Fox looked into these claims back then.
00:26:21.000And the then trustee of Concerned Veterans for America wrote a letter to Fox debunking it and saying, no, he wasn't fired for these things.
00:26:32.000Here's the reason why he decided to leave.
00:26:34.000They had a philosophical difference of opinion on certain things, and he wanted to build his career at Fox.
00:26:40.000It had nothing to do with any of that stuff.
00:26:42.000They interviewed, and several of these people have since come on the record With their names, saying that all of these claims about, you know, drunken incidents, you know, strip club, all that kind of stuff, all false.
00:26:56.000People who are willing to put their names on it.
00:26:58.000Not anonymous, you know, so-called whistleblowers.
00:27:01.000And in fact, some of these things, you know, as a criminal defense lawyer, I often say, the best lies is where you take a kernel of truth, Then you change a few facts to try and make it, you know, fit a narrative.
00:27:28.000Pete wasn't even in the state at the time.
00:27:31.000So, you have all this collection of statements or allegations that have all been completely debunked by other people, but The New Yorker doesn't care about that.
00:27:41.000You know, The New Yorker went and published that without bothering to check and get corroboration because anonymous sources who are willing to say something damaging to the nominee is something that they can use to try and sink the nomination process.
00:27:56.000The other allegation comes from Fox that he has some sort of drinking problem.
00:28:13.000That failed, so now it's something new.
00:28:15.000Now they have a couple of anonymous, you know, Fox employees who claim these things happened, and yet, You saw yesterday morning how out on X, a ton of Fox News personalities and employees came out on the record with their names saying, I sat next to Pete for the past eight years.
00:28:39.000And it is just emblematic of the larger problem here that if you don't have something good to take down this nominee, if you don't have something that's actually solid, you just go with somebody anonymous who's willing to hide behind that anonymity.
00:28:56.000And I keep asking these journalists, you know what?
00:28:58.000If you want me to be able to respond to this directly, tell me who the person is so I can tell you exactly what their problems are with credibility.
00:29:06.000And of course, oh, no, no, we have to protect our sources.
00:29:09.000We can't allow their credibility to be questioned.
00:29:13.000Well, then why don't you go talk to any of these other people?
00:29:15.000You know, the New York Times reports about these alleged incidents at Fox.
00:29:20.000And when they asked me about it, I said, that didn't happen.
00:29:36.000Or just publish your fake article and wait for tomorrow morning on X to see everybody come out and say, I was there, and the New York Times published another fake article.
00:29:46.000So we're getting through a debunked sexual assault thing that's nonsense, some concerned veterans from America that it's debunked, and that he does not have a drinking problem.
00:29:54.000I mean, this is what we're spending our time on for Secretary of Defense?
00:29:59.000When you strip all the lies away, what you have is that over a decade ago, A bunch of young combat veterans who came back from the war got together and occasionally drank too much beer.
00:30:56.000I say the fact that he went through that experience, the stresses of combat, the experiences of that, the effects of that, and using alcohol to self-medicate and cope with that, and then overcoming it the way that he has.
00:31:11.000That gives him a greater perspective than any Secretary of Defense we've had in recent history to understand exactly what every single man and woman that's going to be working for him in that department is going through and what they need.
00:31:23.000And it's going to give him a much better perspective on how to take care of his people instead of just sitting there in his ivory tower like these, like Austin and Madison, all these guys, passing judgment on anybody that isn't perfect.
00:31:36.000Yeah, I just, I mean, again, I want to just say that attacking Pete for having a prior drinking problem, or not problem, but just a prior drinking pattern that he's overcome, when it comes to the military, is very rich.
00:31:49.000DC, I think, is the drunkest city in the country.
00:32:09.000Why are Senate Republicans taking this crap seriously?
00:32:13.000You know, and this is one of the reasons why yesterday and today Pete and I decided to come out significantly on offense to attack these allegations, because every single one of them has a perfect factual defense.
00:32:26.000And I think that that's what these senators need to hear, is they need to hear that defense so that they can be comfortable with this nominee, that all of these things are fake, they're in the past, they have nothing to do With the person that they're talking about putting into the Pentagon, and if anything, his experience of not only overcoming that at the time, but also now his experience of overcoming it right here, when everybody's trying to attack him and he's able to overcome that, that's going to make him a much stronger leader in the Pentagon.
00:33:01.000All he wants is for the senators to listen to him, ask him the tough questions, give him the opportunity to respond, and then make a decision based on a fair hearing of the actual facts instead of fake anonymous claims.