Episode 4366： Explosive Attacks In House Intelligence Subcommittee Cont.
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In this episode, we hear from Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Mike Hayden, Director of the Office of the Director of Military Intelligence, and Director of Public Diplomacy, Mike McCartan. They discuss the recent cyberattack on a Boeing 737-200 by the Houthis in Yemen, as well as the lack of accountability from the administration for the incident. They also discuss the importance of public broadcasting and the role of public media in public safety.
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is we put out cybersecurity advisories on a whole host of systems on the
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signal on the signal app that was included in that advisory right what
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we've done is we've put out an advisory on how to use the signal app and and
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other encrypted applications because we do encourage our employees and their
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families to use because there's risk to that out there there are okay general
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Cruz DOD also issued a warning about vulnerabilities to the signal app
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recently correct that's correct okay director Gabbard you were on this signal
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text chain in question correct yes as was mr. Whitcoff the administration's lead
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negotiator with the Russians correct yes and at the time mr. Whitcoff was
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actually in Russia during this chat discussion was he not I was not aware of
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that was he on his personal phone at the time I don't know well it's my
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understanding that he was indeed in Russia director Gabbard you were also
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traveling during this discussion correct yes and where were you I was traveling
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through the Asia Pacific region I don't recall which country I was in at that
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time you don't remember the country I'd have to go back and look at the
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schedule director Gabbard I want to direct your attention again to the text
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chain where it says just confirmed with CENTCOM we are a go for mission launch
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does that indicate to you that there is about to be a military operation yes
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director Gabbard earlier in this hearing we heard about the DOD's
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classification standards I want to now turn my attention to your classification
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standards you're the director of national intelligence the office of the
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director of national intelligence classification guide says quote
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information providing indication or advance warning that the US or its allies
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are preparing for an attack in quote is to be classified as top secret are you
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director Gabbard have the Houthis indicated an ability to shoot down
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American aircraft yes they have in fact done so haven't they yes including
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MQ-9 Reapers haven't they that's correct and that was one of the systems used in
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the attack recently that's the subject of this discussion is it not correct
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general Cruz are you familiar with this system I'm not wearing my glasses at the
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moment but I'll help you out this is an SA-3 anti-aircraft system correct are you
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I'm gonna have to ask you it's an SA-6 I'm gonna guess that this is also an
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advanced anti-aircraft system is it not it is it was used widely in the Balkans in
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the 90s correct and the Houthis also have this system don't they they certainly
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do and they've employed it against our aircraft have they not they have
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attempted to correct I spent my life in service to this country I deployed three
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times to combat in service to this nation I learned in that time in service
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that responsibility is core to leadership you accept responsibility when
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things go wrong you admit mistakes you set the standard from the very top it is
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completely outrageous to me completely outrageous to me the administration
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officials come before us today with impunity no acceptance of responsibility
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excuse after excuse after excuse well we send our men and women down range to do
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incredibly difficult incredibly dangerous things on our behalf and yet nobody is
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willing to come to us and say this was wrong this was a breach of security and we
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won't do it again it is outrageous and it is a leadership failure and that's why
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Secretary Hegseth who undoubtedly transmitted classified sensitive
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operational information via this chain must resign immediately there can be no
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fixes there can be no Corrections until there is accountability and I'm calling on
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the administration to move forward with accountability I yield back gentleman
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yields gentleman from Texas mr. Mr. Crenshaw thank you Mr. Chairman thank you all for
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being here good to see many of you again and thank you for thank you for enduring
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too long days I will note I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists getting killed and I want to talk
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about cartels this is a this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart but
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investigating it thoroughly for the last couple of years and I'm glad to see that
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it's mentioned in all of your opening statements I mentioned we're going to
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shift back we're going to shift back to the dough sharing Crockett of Texas is up
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let's hear her miss karger what about you I agree I think it's important for us to
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report on the on the important news of the day so let's talk about the critical
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role of public media during his first time President Trump's own Department of
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Homeland Security highlighted the importance of public broadcastings role in
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public safety in 2018 his administration stated quote PBS and local public
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television stations play a crucial role in protecting communities by delivering
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essential information to individuals and first responders these benefits are all
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made possible by public broadcasting stations unique reach reliability and role
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across America and are especially vital in rural and underserved areas madam
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chairwoman I would ask unanimous consent I seek unanimous consent to enter into the
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record the 28 without objection so ordered and madam chair I also seek
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unanimous consent to enter into the record the 2019 report title modernizing the
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nation's public alert and warning system from Trump's without objection so
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ordered in the report FEMA encouraged quote the use of public broadcast
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capabilities to expand alert warning and communication capabilities to fill gaps in
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rural and underserved areas mr. Ohlman what's a more significant domestic threat
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reporting the murder of George Floyd or dismantling most of America's emergency
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communication systems can you please repeat the question for me congresswoman
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which one is more of a threat reporting the murder of George Floyd or
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dismantling most of America's emergency communication systems dismantling the
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emergency systems and isn't it true that in a last borrow Alaska is the only I'm
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sorry and isn't it true that KBRWAM in borough Alaska is the only broadcast
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service available in an area of more than 90,000 square miles that is correct it's
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also the north slope where the majority of all the oil production that comes from
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Alaska is takes place thank you so much and isn't it true that without these
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stations broadcast Americans in rural communities would lack access to
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life-saving information and public safety alerts that is correct so in your
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opinion would eliminating funding for stations in rural America like WNGH
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Channel 18 and the chairwoman's district hurt Americans it would hurt
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Americans yes in fact Georgia Public Broadcasting serves as the official
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distributor of evacuation route information during state ordered
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evacuations and the chairwoman is here advocating to strip their funding look the
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doge agenda isn't about government efficiency it's about breeding corruption
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at the expense of the safety of the American people particularly Americans
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living in rural or remote parts of the country they don't care about public
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safety they don't care about emergency management and they don't care about
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free speech all of which are harming American people in fact I'm a skip off
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real quick because they have tried to come for you miss mayor and I just want to
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clarify you did not work for NPR when those statements were made did you that is
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correct and to be clear free speech is not about whatever it is that y'all want
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somebody to say and the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not
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Fox News is bullshit we need to stop playing because that's what y'all are
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doing in here you don't want to hear the opinions in any of anybody else and the
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Constitution says Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing of
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religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the gentlewoman's
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time has expired the gentlewoman's time has expired
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madam chairwoman okay put them into the record you may miss consent please without
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objection so ordered thank you I'd like to put under this NPR article what
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Biden preemptive pardons for family members could mean for presidential
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powers without objection so ordered I now recognize the gentleman from Ohio Jim Jordan
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for five minutes thank you madam chair miss Maher who is Uri Berliner mr
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Berliner is a former senior editor that's all the former senior business
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editor for NPR how long do you work at NPR I believe he was there just over 25
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years 25 years award-winning journalist did he win any awards I were our time to
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body award that's pretty important in it that is a pretty distinguished
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journalist right certainly and I wrote he wrote a long story about what you do at
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NPR is NPR biased uh congressman I have never seen any instance of never of
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political bias determining editorial decisions no well miss Bert mr uh Berliner
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in his story a couple last year wrote I've in the DC area editorial positions at NPR he
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said he found 87 registered Democrats zero Republicans is that accurate we do not
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track the numbers or the voter registration but I find that was award-winning
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journalists who worked 25 years at NPR mr Berliner was he lying when he wrote that
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I am not presuming such I just don't have we don't track that information about our
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journalists 87 to zero and you're not biased I think that is concerning if those
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numbers are accurate it's concern I mean it wasn't 44 43 wasn't 60 27 it wasn't 70 17 it
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wasn't even 80 to 7 it was 87 Democrats zero Republicans and you say NPR is not biased
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how about the big stories over the last few years according to mr Berliner again he wrote
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on the Trump Russia story he wrote at NPR we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist
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representative Adam Schiff they said they interviewed him 25 times that accurate I was not there at the
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time but those numbers sound accurate those sound accurate but then he said when the Mueller report
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came out and they said Mueller said Robert Mueller said he found no evidence of collusion he said
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Russiagate faded from our programming is that accurate again I was not there at the time I'm not I
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couldn't say you couldn't say I was not at NPR at the time you didn't prepare for that you knew we
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were going to ask you about this guy didn't you it's come up like 6,000 times already in the hearing
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I just couldn't say whether it faded from our uh coverage sir how about this story October 2020
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New York Post had the Hunter Biden laptop story and one of those editors I guess one of those 87
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Democrat editors said this we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories we
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don't want to waste the listeners and readers times on stories that are just pure distractions was
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that a pure distraction story our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake
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as do I yeah the whole country knows that was a mistake definitely impacted the election or I
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think it certainly impacted the election how about the COVID origin story that's pretty big story too
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right Mr. Berliner said we became fervent members of the team natural origin even declaring that the lab
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leak was debunked by scientists turns out though the lab leak is what most people think actually caused
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the COVID virus sorry sir is there a question there there is you guys were oh for three on on the three
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the three of the biggest stories in the last five years you guys were oh for three and yet you
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maintain that NPR is not biased uh congressman I do not believe we are politically biased no we are
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a non-partisan organization non-partisan organization what's happening to your listeners over the last five
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years went up down or stayed the same uh it has gone up and down and is now going back up
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well I I thought five years ago is that 60 million and you said in your opening statement I think 43
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million that's correct so 43 million now and it was at 60 million five years ago I can do some math
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that looks like it went down and is now going back up is now going back up yes it is how much
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has it went back up it's gone up a couple of millions over the past oh so you you went from 60
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million to 41 million now you're back up to 43 million uh in a year's time I'm very proud of that
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growth sir okay you're proud of that that growth okay but over five years it's went down 18 million
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that is correct sir okay uh should taxpayers subsidize NPR uh I believe that taxpayers
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subsidize local stations sir that is the vast majority of what I thought you said you got 11
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million from corporation of public broadcasting which is taxpayer funding directly to you right
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that is to support the public and then local stations get it from the corporation of public
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broadcasting that right they get tax 100 million that goes to the local 100 million goes to local
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stations and then those local stations buy back programming content from you so
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that money goes to local stations comes back to you gets routed through the local stations all
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taxpayer money those fees are actually based on private donations rather than on federal funding
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well we all know money is fungible so some of it gets put in there um certainly we could we could
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agree that money is fungible what more money for less listeners you fired the guy who pointed all this
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out who said that you were so biased to the left that you lost listeners which is exactly happening
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and you're here maintaining that oh you need you need to continue to get taxpayer money I did not fire
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mr berliner sir okay the guy that that left after all that understand understand are you are you
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fundraising off today's hearing uh sir I believe that there was a message that went out earlier
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today letting people know we were coming in yes yeah and at the bottom of the message it said
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donate now right I don't recall the exact language show it to you right there it is donate now I mean
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I'm not against fundraising we all do it I mean I get it but it's I assume this this this fundraising
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is probably going to all the left listeners who are subsidized content by the taxpayers and that's
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the gentleman's time is that's the rub I yield back I now recognize miss randall from washington for
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five minutes thank you so much you know I um I'm new to uh congress this is my first term and I came
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from a legislative body that um okay I'm bored already lady um get you got in these hearings you
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got to get cut to the chase don't give me your backstory um we're gonna go back to intel in a
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second I want to make sure we highlight something for the audience this audience was name checked
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by the ranking member the ranking member remember it's always a senior member of the minority this be
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the democrats congressman hymes of connecticut and he's a uh he's a he is a player in democratic
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circles and particularly intel he name checked this audience uh at the beginning because they fear the
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war and posse they understand the war and posse uh can put their shoulder to the wheel and make
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things happen want to make sure you get the bill blaster app you get article three there's a lot going on
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today one thing is very evident I'm gonna go back to the intelligence in a minute
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that's very evident today they are targeting pete hegseth they are targeting the secretary of
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defense the democrats have made a decision it's not waltz that's the target they want to go after
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because they understand how hard it is to get confirmed they're going after pete hegseth
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it's quite evident uh by cash flow's uh uh um questions by other questions are being asked by what
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they're putting up on the charts of the uh of the uh text messages they're very much focused on pete
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hegseth what he said and i think three of them are already called for either uh secretary of defense
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hegseth uh resignation or to be uh fired the armed services committee of the senate which is chaired
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by republicans is talking about wicker uh in his ranking member jack reed who was on the intelligence
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yesterday jack reed is no friend of the administration uh they're talking about having
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an investigation and here he's quote unquote bipartisan armed services is the uh is basically
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the uh the main committee in dealing with the pentagon that's the uh committee of jurisdiction is
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what's called in the congress committee of jurisdiction if he's investigating that the target right now i
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believe is pete hegseth and as you remember the effort it took for us to get pete hegseth uh confirmed
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let's go to the intelligence committee just heard pbs jim jordan laying a pbs that outrageous that
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american taxpayers underwrite a marxist thing let's go to the intelligence back to the united states of
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america and if not what should we be doing about it thank you for your question congressman um
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i'm not fully aware and up to date on the specific example that you've mentioned and i i'll go and look
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into that and happy get back to you further absolutely look forward to having the conversation with you
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um broadly this is obviously a concern that any of these activities uh occurring near or around
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any of our military sites uh creates that potential national security risk and the potential for
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uh foreign intelligence collection i'm i'm hoping it's a it's a priority for everybody on the dais
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there it is a priority i think for the american people certainly for me i want to move on in the
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time remaining with a related topic which is the hundreds of incidents uh by predominantly chinese
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students oftentimes called gate crashers so this includes the two gentlemen in uniform on the dais
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uh i'm going to kind of point to three events that happened just last year one in grayling michigan
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which five chinese students are charged for lying and concealing evidence one in the university of
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minnesota uh where a drone flew over newport news and took pictures of classified information regarding
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ships and and uh classified systems and then one at the university of florida regarding the illicit
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acquisition and shipment of toxins biomedical drugs and research supplies to china in these cases or most of
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these cases we we encounter these people and then we release these people as a matter of fact in the
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case of florida apparently she found out that criminal charges were being prepared and she dropped out of
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school and her whereabouts remain unknown at this point um what should be our posture because we're we're
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trying to follow up after the fact we're encountering these people whether they're gate crashers or whether we
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catch them conducting this illicit activity we try and prosecute that takes a lot of man hours as you
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know director patel is this the best policy or is there something better that we can do i mean the
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immigration national act nationality act of 1952 gives the secretary of state the authority to revoke visas
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but should these people be allowed to come to this country in the first place is the question and what
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in terms of the visa issue i know that the administration is working on a policy but to
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directly answer your question anybody who utilizes the student visa program to come to this country
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to conduct criminal activity should never be allowed in this country and anyone that's doing it here in
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the united states of america from an fbi standpoint will be vigorously investigated and will use the
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expulsion or criminal process on them i yield mr chairman gentlemen yields miss plaskett
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thank you very much mr chairman and good morning to the witnesses
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we do have to in this committee try as much as possible
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i can recall being that way when i was counsel on the house ethics committee and it's a really hard
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um but i'm really struck by the fact that in december of 2023
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for not informing the president that he was having a surgery
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and now how we're treating secretary hedge path
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went in the committee on armed services to talk about and slammed austin for holding himself
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to a different standard than the american people
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um director gabber thank you for your testimony
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and one of the things that i believe i heard you say
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um a national for an intelligence and national security
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or an intelligence assessment of the impact of those cuts
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is that was that your testimony a little earlier
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either within the intelligence community or outside of it
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on what the effects of those uh cuts to us aid programs has been
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or of any of the areas in which you have oversight over
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um i know that there has been some open source reporting
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kenya our strongest regional ally in the horn of africa
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um and a key partner with us in the fight against terrorist group al-shabaab
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that's not definitive and we can talk about this in closed session
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some kenyan journalists are now being trained by beijing
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mirroring the u.s programs that have been cut by the administration
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um director gabber is letting china train kenyan journalists
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going to make kenya more or less receptive to american requests
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as you said congresswoman our relationship with kenya
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so do cuts of ours to train journalists in kenya make them more or less
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clearly there is strategic competition taking place i'll withhold
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uh my personal view uh to look at an official i was asking for your
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additionally we have ended voice of america which provided accurate unbiased
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news in our opinion meanwhile a saint petersburg university
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has announced that it's open 11 russian language centers across africa
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that pay special attention to the promotion of traditional russian spiritual and moral values
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they are an adversary thank you this i believe that this reckless cuts
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which is on the front lines of terrorism a real threat to us
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and we need to be careful of it um director patel one of the benefits of being here
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kind of in the middle is i get to hear other people's testimony
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um and the questions that are asked i know that uh mr carson asked you questions
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specifically about the counterterrorism division
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and we know that there has been some open source reporting that says that
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individuals within that division have been removed
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or been moved not necessarily fired but moved um do you know if that is correct
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i don't have any personal information on that but people within the ctd component which is a large
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component the fbi move all the time um and have they been moved is are you able to get that
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information to us whether they have or have not been moved i'll go back to my team and see who has
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been moved if you have a particular interest um we'll share with you of course we have an interest
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in counterterrorism division and movement of individuals within that um because one of the
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other things i'm concerned about is you have stated i believe in other areas that the disbandment of
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certain sections of the fbi related to intel and breaking up components can you explain to us how
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you intend to do that or what you would like to do and why my intention is to reprioritize
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counterintelligence authorities and cyber capabilities to focus on violent crime and
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national security and that's what i'm doing the gentleman's time has expired thank you the
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gentleman from missouri madam ambassador uh miss wagner i uh thank you mr chairman i thank
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all of you for being here and for your continued service to our country let's go back to let's go
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back to the uh pbs uh we got a minute we got tim birchett let's hear birchett
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to uh the gentleman from california mr kana for five minutes thank you madam chair and thank you
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for allowing me to wave on to the committee mr uh gonzalez i read with interest your testimony it was
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so angry so i thought i'd try to lighten things up a little bit uh who are three of your favorite
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characters on daniel tiger or what episodes do you are your favorites um representing kana thank you very
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much for uh the opportunity to lighten up um i again i think i'm taking a time machine here
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sesame street went to daniel tiger do you have some favorite characters all the owls
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bro kana our favorite democrat populist though trying to lighten up we're not looking to lighten
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up today uh let's go back to this i tell you what we've got to take a break we are going to take a
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break here um right there you just saw it once again that's the non uh voting member from the
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virgin islands very smart she's on msnbc a lot she does not actually get a vote on the committee
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she so she's a non-voting uh member of congress from the virgin islands even she's thrown in with
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she is a democrat but she's throwing in you see the targeting of pete hexeth let this be a lesson for
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the rest of the day pete hexeth by the way has put out a both uh pete and a waltz have both put out
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uh tweets and uh they're hunkering down no war plans no classified information no locations no
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names of everything we'll put them up after we come back from a break want to thank real america's
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get a full flavor of particularly house intel as they come in for a kill shot on uh on director
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ratcliffe of the cia and tulsi gabbard uh dni uh they're trying to take this uh situation of this
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reporter goldberg who released this right before the committee started as you can tell this whole
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thing's a setup honestly i think it would have been smart to just cancel these hearings and say
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we're going to have them in 30 days the threats are the major threats are not going to go away the
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report uh to take some of the steam off of this uh it's a setup an ambush complete total ambush
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total ambush and you've seen it live for the last two days so you see it with your
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own eyes and you see how the democrats come in the white house is hunkered down waltz is hunkered down
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pete hexeth who's in the pacific talking to the indo-pacific command is hunkered down we're gonna
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take a short commercial break we'll return in the war room in just a moment
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and i as i said earlier i was not involved with that part that portion uh of the chat so it did not
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come to my recollection yesterday thank you um so i take that as you stand by your uh do not recall yesterday
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um stance when it was at you're asked those questions you've been in office 43 days um radcliffe uh
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director radcliffe has been in office 62 days this was considered the first major military operation
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using lethal force of the trump administration was this the first uh this was probably the first time
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that you've been involved with a discussion like this on a thread it was not discussing you were not on a
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group chat discussing where we're going to go for lunch you're discussing putting men and women of the
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armed services and harms away that's a major decision so and when did that happen 10 days ago
00:34:08.780
okay okay i'll answer that it happened 10 days ago here's the point like something of this
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magnitude it's something that you would not forget it's something that most people if you're taking
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this job so seriously that you would not forget i mean since i've been on this committee there's been
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days that i have woken up in the middle of the night from the things i've learned in skiff
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so deciding to use military force is something hard to imagine so the do not recall
00:34:45.820
doesn't pass the smell test it makes it makes it it's unbelievable that was the case so that's
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what the american people don't understand and i know a lot of folks in this administration were
00:35:00.020
saying that they're going to take on the establishment and drain the swamp but you have become that
00:35:04.420
swamp in a matter of days not weeks or months days so one of the things we're going to look into
00:35:11.880
is if what actually occurred because the american people deserve a full accounting additionally the
00:35:21.180
main person who was involved in this thread that a lot of people want to talk to is uh secretary of
00:35:26.400
defense hegseth and a lot of questions were brought up regarding his his uh drinking habits and his
00:35:33.940
confirmation hearing to your knowledge do you know whether pete hegseth had been drinking
00:35:39.000
before he leaked classified information i don't have any knowledge of secretary hegseth's personal
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habits uh director radcliffe same question yes or no you know uh no i'm going to answer that i think
00:35:57.480
that's an offensive line of questioning the answer is no i i find it interesting that you want to no i
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no i'm going to answer you you asked me a question you want an answer no listen you don't want to focus
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on the good work that the cia is doing that the intelligence community director i reclaim my time
00:36:13.280
director i reclaim my time here i have huge respect for the cia huge respect for our men and women in
00:36:21.280
uniform but this was a question that's on the top of minds of every american right he stood in front of
00:36:29.140
a podium in uh europe holding a drink so of course we want to know if his uh performance is compromised
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if you or people were asking if the uh general austin was compromised because of a heart issue
00:36:45.980
was his performance compromised because of a successful strike mr i bring my um you want to
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know you want to talk about accepting responsibility do you think i reclaim my time responsibility for a
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successful strike to make americans safer i want to focus on i reclaim my time so here's the thing
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this is serious as somebody we've been briefed in this committee about using signal one of the
00:37:12.020
things they basically said the most secure phone call the least secure text messaging and we know
00:37:19.620
that your people are russians chinese are on your phone his time's expired gentleman from virginia mr
00:37:26.740
klein thank you mr chairman i'm going to give the director the ability to respond without being
00:37:32.700
interrupted by his question i appreciate that congressman i i guess um you know just a general
00:37:39.880
reflection here again that um for the last two days members of the intelligence community have been
00:37:46.940
asking questions uh about a signal messaging group um and uh not asking questions from democrats either in
00:37:58.100
the senate or the house on china russia iran and the real threats uh that are going on to the united
00:38:05.660
states and you can say that you care about the good work that agencies are doing like the cia and that
00:38:11.380
you care about 140 stars on the wall but no one's asked me about my second day on the job here where i lit the
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that led to uh a foreign government participating with us to capture one of the senior planners of the abbey
00:38:30.580
gate bombing that killed 13 americans and in the process we worked with a government that previously
00:38:36.180
hadn't so it that hadn't cooperated with us on counterterrorism matters or the fact no one has focused
00:38:44.100
on that within an hour of that taking place i was on the phone with director patel and a few hours later
00:38:50.100
with uh attorney general bondi working together the ic and the fbi working together um to bring this
00:38:58.340
person home in less than a week unprecedented success for the intelligence community and the law
00:39:04.660
enforcement community exactly representative of the kind of work that we should be doing and the kind of
00:39:10.580
work that an oversight committee should be asking about but instead we're getting questions about
00:39:16.420
whether or not someone has drinking habits uh and you know i i just wish in an annual threats hearing
00:39:22.980
where the american people want to hear about threats that that's what we would be talking about thanks for
00:39:28.020
the opportunity to clarify absolutely director i want to thank you and all the people who work with
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you and all the witnesses and the men and women the brave men and women who are putting their lives
00:39:39.940
on the line each and every day for this country and uh to the military let me have it because we're
00:39:44.740
going to run out of time here that's ben klein that we had on the on tv uh on the show yesterday to
00:39:49.620
highlight this right there uh that is congressman jimmy gonzalez previously from um he's from chinatown
00:39:56.260
and boil heights as folks in la know that's the uh kind of i guess i'm not inner city la but the the
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famous uh boil heights and chinatown uh jimmy gonzalez and i told you they're targeting pete
00:40:09.540
hexes what congressman gonzalez asked had pete hexes been drinking while he was on that text
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chamber which means that pete hexes was drinking on the job because that was during a strike
00:40:19.780
and you saw finally with ratcliffe and i really appreciate the director of the cia finally had enough
00:40:24.820
that hit ratcliffe's tripwire after two days he fired back hard uh i think the administration
00:40:32.020
should understand this afternoon i don't think mike waltz is the target it's clearly pete hexes this
00:40:36.580
audience doesn't need to be reminded of the effort this audience put in on that fixed band it's fixed
00:40:43.540
ban that's thursday when uh everybody had to get up on it to save pete hexes nomination when they were
00:40:49.700
trying to run pete hexes out of town for these allegations that came from i don't know
00:40:54.660
various women about drinking and other issues pete hexes has done a terrific job so far as secretary
00:41:00.980
of defense he's at in the indo-pacific command right now gave an amazing talk yesterday to
00:41:06.580
everybody get him motivated about the threat of the chinese communist party as captain finnell
00:41:11.460
tells us and he's correct keep the main thing the main thing and pete hexes is doing this okay
00:41:18.180
we're going to turn over to charlie kirk show now on real america's voice charlie is going to pick up
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with his coverage we're going to be back at five to seven we've got a lot more that you didn't hear
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in the pbs they're trying to defund npr and pbs outrageous responses i think from pbs's management
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today trying to essentially just kick the can down the road we'll get more of that also much more coming
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out of intel pete hexes just put up a tweet he's hunkering down mike waltz put up a tweet he's hunkering
00:41:47.300
down the going to the mattresses on this are just not going to sit there and be punching bags for these
00:41:52.660
radical democrats the courts are also involved we told you that's going to happen so so much going
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