Episode 4815： Trump Addresses Military Officers
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Learn English with Donald Trump. President Trump speaks to the Flag Officers of the United States Military at Quantico, Virginia, on his visit to the Marine Corps' Quantico base. Trump also speaks about his experience as a military man and talks about the impact of the B-25 strike on targets in Afghanistan.
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They have some scammer reporter who started saying, without any knowledge, that he may not have hit the targets as well as they thought.
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The Atomic Energy Commission said it was obliteration.
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You're watching President Trump address all the flag officers of the United States military at Quantico, the Marine base down there.
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We're going to cover this and to its conclusion.
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But they had, I guess, a beam going right into these chutes.
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Every single one of those bombs went right down those chutes into a granite mountain.
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I think it's the last time they're going to build air chutes.
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They had these air chutes that were nice, beautiful.
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I tell you, for the Air Force people here, you can be very proud.
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Let me tell you, they couldn't have worked any better.
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So they flew for 37 hours total, back and forth.
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And that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much.
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Flying a tanker loaded up with hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.
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I asked the question, what happens if it gets hit?
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We had the B-2 pilots and a lot of the people, even the people that took care of them, the
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But on top of all this, we'll deliver a hard-earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier, sailor,
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airman, coast guardsman, space guard, and marines.
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It's something you weren't getting from the past administration.
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Not only are we rebuilding our great strength, but for the first time in years, my administration
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is actually using that strength to defend the core and vital interests of America.
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My campaign was run on common sense, and we did great.
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In terms of districts, you know, they have it broken up.
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It's almost entirely red, except there's a little blue line on each coast.
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And part of it is because of our success with the military, the rebuilding of the military,
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And they were the vicious people, you know, that we have to fight, just like you have to
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Mine are different, a different kind of vicious.
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But they spread all these horrible, you know, they made up statements and said what I said
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But fortunately, the military didn't believe it.
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You know, they make up a statement and they said, you say, we had 25 people that said
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And they said, well, we're going with it anyway.
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And it's why the press is really losing all power, because people aren't believing it.
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You have to go on television a lot, because you can't get a fair shake if you're going to
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The image of media now is at the lowest point it's ever been.
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But together with many of you in the room, we've brought back the fundamental principle
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that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority.
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Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the
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far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within.
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No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don't wear
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At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.
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After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help,
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we're defending the borders of our country from now on.
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Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.
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You know, we had 11,488 murders allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue.
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He shouldn't have been there in the first place, but he had no clue.
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The people that ran the office, the White House, were people that surrounded him, radical left
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lunatics that are brilliant people, but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense.
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And they allowed people from all over the world, from the Congo.
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They came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked.
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And from all over South America, not just South America.
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Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country.
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That's why they have Trin de Uruguay, one of the worst gangs ever.
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And I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
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But Washington, D.C. was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America.
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And beyond that, you go to some, you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that.
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You go to countries that you would think there's problems, they didn't have that.
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And now Washington, D.C., after 12 days of serious, serious intensity, we took out 1,700 career criminals.
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If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because they'll commit many crimes a day.
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People are walking down the street holding hands.
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Washington, D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period
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And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the Democrats run
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We have many cities in great shape, too, by the way.
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But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done
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to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places.
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And we're going to straighten them out one by one.
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And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.
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Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security.
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You know, we had no people enter in the last four months.
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You know, we had millions coming in, pouring in.
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And of those 25 million, many of them should never be in our country.
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They would take their worst people and their people from prisons and jail, and they'd put
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I said, you were in for, you had to see this anchor, a young woman.
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She's like, I couldn't believe she'll probably lose her job.
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But because the left doesn't want to hear that.
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But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country.
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But I want to salute every service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission.
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And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our
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military, National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago version.
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That's a big city with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid.
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And last week, they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot.
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The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people shot.
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If they lose five, they're considering a great week.
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And he's always up there saying, we're in very good shape.
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Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone.
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I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II.
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I said, you don't have it under control, governor.
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Probably, it's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.
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They go after our ICE people, who are great patriots and tough job, too.
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They love it because they're cleaning up our country.
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And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle.
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They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle.
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As soon as I sent them in, oh, when we sent in the troops, if you have a real leader that
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says, you've got to do what you have to do, I put that out the other day.
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Because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by.
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They had troops standing up like this, brave, standing up in tension, the way I should stand
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And they're spitting at them, and they're screaming at them.
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He wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything.
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And a woman was this far away from his face, and she starts spitting in his face, and he's
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If it's okay with you, generals and admirals, I've taken that off.
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How about the cars where the cars are coming out?
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They get brand new cars, Border Patrol, ice, beautiful, nice new cars.
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And they're driving along, and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown
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These guys have pretty good arms, some of them.
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And they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car.
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From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car, and you
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Because those people are, you know, you can die from the, those bricks go through the windows.
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They just kept driving, and bricks are hitting the car.
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Because they were under orders from the past administration, never stop.
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And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem.
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They have fentanyl, mostly, and a lot of other drugs.
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You know, you see these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder.
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General Cain says, sir, there are no boats out there.
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Because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country.
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Everybody knows, friends, many friends probably, that you lost a child.
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But you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border.
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Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances.
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This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within.
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And we have to handle it before it gets out of control.
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We had gangs of Trendy Arag with 10, 12, 15 kids.
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Then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country.
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Some are so dangerous, we don't want to even do that because we don't want to.
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Even though they're not coming back very easily, we don't have the confidence.
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But these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits in the Wild West.
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And our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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That's what the oath says, foreign and domestic.
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George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace.
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Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace.
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Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military.
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The people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up.
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You ever see where they interview the people on the street?
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I've never seen somebody say they don't unless they're radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by, whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left.
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So today I want to thank every service member from general to private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people.
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Everybody in the White House, they come up to me, young women, sir, thank you.
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We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long because we got the careers.
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We got these lunatics out and they'll never be any good.
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You know, I hate to tell this to the liberal media.
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You could send them to the finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway, mentally.
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But no matter what you do, they'll never be good.
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Some people don't like me to say that, but maybe they were.
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Together with the leaders here today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating threats in the Western Hemisphere.
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Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our country,
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And we did a great job with it first term, but this is something else what we're doing now.
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We're taking it to the next level, probably next level times three.
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But we had COVID come up, and we had to take care of that.
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But we had to focus on that, and every other country in the world was being decimated by COVID.
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So we had to change gear a little bit to take care of that.
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But under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge in combating this sinister enemy.
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We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that.
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We've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do.
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And nobody's done it, but I've done it with a lot of them.
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If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence,
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because that's the only language they really understand.
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That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean.
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As president, I will never hesitate to defend our people from threats of violence,
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from the horrible plague that's taking place from within the Iran nuclear power,
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the Iran, all of the great power that we thought existed.
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We took advantage of it, and we just really took advantage of it.
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It was a beautiful thing to see, and that's what military power can achieve.
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If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand?
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That means that he's okay now, but I saw his results.
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I went to see him, and he took him out in four weeks, knocked him out, knocked him to hell.
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And I was told by military people it was going to take four to five years to do it.
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And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir.
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But Raisin Cain did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
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And as a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the
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And they looked at him falling downstairs every day.
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You know, when I walk downstairs, like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very, I walk very slowly.
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Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well.
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A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.
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You're not having, you don't have to set any record.
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Be cool when you walk down, but don't, don't bop down the stairs.
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So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs.
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I've never said, da-da, da-da, da-da, ba-ba-ba.
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But eventually, bad things are going to happen.
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We were dead in every way from immigration to military.
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We were given everything to, we were given everything to Ukraine.
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And by the way, I have to tell you, now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO,
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and NATO raised from two to five, which everyone said five percent of GDP.
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Millions and now trillions of dollars are pouring in.
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They didn't pay the two percent because they know we were there to pay it.
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And we're not spending any money on that war, not ten cents.
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NATO pays us for the equipment, and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to.
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Biden gave $350 billion, not sustainable, $350 billion.
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And we have a war that should have never started.
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So I just want you to know we're selling equipment.
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They're buying, they are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price.
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So I don't want to say we're making money because I don't want to say, I don't want to be making money on a war.
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But between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way, sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people.
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And, you know, they're not, they're not American.
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And then two days later, they're blown up so unnecessarily.
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And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done.
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That's the worst war that there's been since World War II.
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The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy.
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And I said to him, you know, you don't look good.
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You're four years fighting a war that should have taken a week.
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But I think eventually we'll get that one done just like we, in theory, I want to knock on wood because you never know.
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It's like we're going to have the Middle East done, which is actually a much harder thing to do.
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So now we're, just think of it, we're a dead country.
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I was with the king of Saudi Arabia, a great guy.
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They ordered 200 planes, Boeing, they ordered so much, and they were great.
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They said, one year ago, you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
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We're the hottest country in the world right now.
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Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev.
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But we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
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And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a husband at home, and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.
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You must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants.
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Well, now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it.
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And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice.
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And we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we don't need them at this moment.
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What a difference that is from, I could just imagine two years ago, you're reading front page articles in the New York Times, of course, and Wall Street Journal.
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They always give us unfair stories, but they played it so big.
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Nobody wants to join the Army, the Marines, the Air Force.
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They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all.
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And I used to say, boy, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want.
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It's one of the reasons I love being here today because I wanted to say that.
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I have to say that everybody wants to be in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines.
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If you think the Coast Guard and Space Force are beautiful Space Force.
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And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously, big numbers for the police.
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But that's the paving the way for progress once thought almost impossible.
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I mean, a year ago, you wouldn't have thought that was possible.
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A year ago, they were talking about making the military smaller because they can't get the people to join.
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We're thinking about making it larger because we have so many people.
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And it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit that aren't really qualified for any reason, a physical reason, a mental reason.
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You don't have to take them anymore because you have the pick of the litter.
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But everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now.
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When I speak to you, and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get them.
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What a difference a presidential election can make.
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Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza.
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We announced it and we're going to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately I got drafted.
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It's going to be called the Board of Peace and it's going to reign over that territory and we're going to get that done.
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And they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace.
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And I guess because of that, every leader, everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace.
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And we're going to watch over that very volatile part of the world and keep it non-volatile so you don't have to get involved.
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We want to save you for other things or save you for nothing from that standpoint.
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We don't want you fighting wars, but if you have to, you're going to be the most lethal fighting force in the world.
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And I would say that even two, three years ago, but now I say it with great enthusiasm.
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And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine.
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And as you know, we're also working hard to get the allies to share more of the burden of our defense.
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But all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about.
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And they're spending a lot of, they're spending a lot of money and a lot of money that they should have been spending in the past.
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But I think Putin was a wake-up call for them, really.
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We're now selling large quantities of American-made weapons to NATO.
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It's my hope that from Europe to Asia to the Middle East, our allies will make similar commitments to increase their military capabilities.
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And this will greatly strengthen our alliances.
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You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong presence like we are, we are such a strong presence.
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I said, we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
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Did you ever hear him say, we have the strongest military?
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We have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
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And I'll tell you, Pete and General Cain, all of the people that I've met that have been lifted up in rank.
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But we got many of you out of here because we weren't satisfied.
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It will also help the United States rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base.
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Each of you can play an important part in getting allies to do their part.
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So to that end, Secretary Hagstaff will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales.
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We have tremendous numbers of countries that want to buy our equipment.
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And, you know, in many cases, it takes too long to have backlogged.
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We're backlogged on all the equipment, which is something that's new to us a little bit.
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And I told those companies, you better get your ass going because, you know, we're buying, we're selling you a lot of equipment.
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Some of the countries, I'm not going to mention, but some of the countries are buying a lot.
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I'll never say 100% because it can always turn, right?
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The problem is we have to get the companies that make this equipment.
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And we make the best equipment in the world, but they've got to make it faster.
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In the coming months, we'll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War.
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If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future.
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We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very smart, but they can't match us.
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Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we have the greatest military in the world, but we make the best equipment in the world.
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It's like a needle hitting another needle on the stage.
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There's a needle up there, and you send another needle up, and it hits it every time.
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All 14 were knocked out of the sky, every one of them.
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We make the best equipment, from Sparta to Rome, to the British Empire, to the United States of America.
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History has shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter of money or manpower.
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At the end of the day, it is the culture, spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from any other nation.
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Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people, the most brilliant people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth.
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Remember, we never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability, and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country.
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The men and women in this room inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant and Pershing, Eisenhower and Patton, Nimitz and LeMay.
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We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of warriors to the next.
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From Concord Bridge to Fort McHenry, from Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of Baghdad, America's military has charged into hellfire, climbed up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans,
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and thundered across open deserts, and thundered across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom, and our homeland.
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Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American might, and beginning the next story chapter in American military legends and lore.
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When it comes to defending our way of life, nothing will slow us.
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We don't want to even put them in that position, but they're not going to stand in our way ever again.
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You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there.
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Because we are the United States military, the best, the boldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known.
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And with leaders like we have right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom in every generation to come.
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Because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.
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I want to just thank you once again and God bless the United States military and God bless America.
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Trump's trying to put them out. Russia won't cooperate. Israel looks like we've got a chance
00:39:58.840
there, but it better be about us. We've got to get our team going. We've got to get our military
00:40:03.360
going. We've got to put a foot down and we've got to start training more and not worrying about all
00:40:08.420
the things that go along with this woke establishment. One of the things that Pete,
00:40:15.060
that Secretary of Warwick hit him with, not just the woke and Webb and I were getting rid of DEI,
00:40:19.640
all this, no more guys walking around in dresses. That's all going away. But he also directly
00:40:24.520
addressed them about basically coming across as warriors, not just in the way they carry
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themselves, but also their physical fitness. And he kind of left it out there that there may be
00:40:35.820
some folks in that room and not making the traveling squad. Any thoughts on that?
00:40:41.380
Yeah, exactly right. I mean, you got to be in shape. Now he's breaking down to where everybody's
00:40:48.200
going to have the same physical requirements. Uh, he's going to put a discipline back into the
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area of, Hey, you just can't turn into a slob, you know, just because you're a, even a three or
00:40:59.360
four star general, you you've, you've got to go by the rules or regulations. You've got to, we got to
00:41:04.380
put together a military that's capable of fighting. Uh, Steve, just, just in the, the hearings I've been
00:41:12.200
in the last few weeks, it's getting more and more volatile across this, across the world. Number one,
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we've got to protect ourself here at Homeland, but we also got to help, help our allies to some
00:41:22.900
degree. But number one is America first. And president Trump continues to say that, and we
00:41:28.500
can't fight unless we're in good shape, good physical shape and understand that the young men
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and women that come out of high school or college, uh, you're here to represent the United States of
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America, but you have to be able to do the job and, and be able to pass all the physical requirements.
00:41:45.240
Let's talk about the, uh, uh, our strategy here. Uh, there's a bunch of articles today that talk
00:41:54.420
about the national defense plan or the national defense policies, which is an annual, uh, when,
00:42:00.540
uh, we got to the white house in 17, we shifted from the war on terror to talk about great power
00:42:06.440
struggle. Of course, I pushed that the Chinese communist party is the focus that they also put
00:42:11.720
where they forced, uh, some of the, uh, neocons forced the Russia situation in there too. That
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was fine. But there's now reports coming out that this new plan that you guys are going to take a
00:42:22.120
look at. It's come out of the white house has really focused on hemispheric defense, which we
00:42:26.300
think is great, but at the same time has even downplayed the situation in, in China and look at
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China just as a potential Pacific threat and not a global threat. Your, your, your thoughts on it,
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you've been as close to this as anybody, particularly about defending the homeland,
00:42:42.180
but are you concerned that maybe we're, we're de-emphasizing the Chinese communist party too
00:42:46.880
much? Steve, at the end of the day, you're exactly right. China, China, China. You can talk
00:42:51.560
about Russia all you want. Uh, Russia's economy is the size of California's. Uh, they can't, uh,
00:42:58.120
they can't function. Russia can't function unless China helps them. And that's the reason
00:43:02.560
president Trump's going after NATO saying, listen, quit buying Russian oil. You're funding, uh,
00:43:08.400
the Ukraine war. Uh, we're pumping money in and, but, uh, so as Europeans, but they're pumping money
00:43:14.640
to Russia because they, they're hardheaded and trying to buy all this oil from Russia. But China
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is the problem. We got to get over all that and start understanding China has an economy that's not
00:43:26.000
very good, but whatever it is, they're taking almost 90 cents out of every dollar and putting
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it towards their military. They are building for a war. They are building to take over, uh,
00:43:37.200
the free world. Uh, this president has made himself president of lifetimes as Xi Ping. And, uh, he means
00:43:44.320
business. And the only way he can stay in that power is continue to build that military and show that
00:43:50.000
he's somebody that means business. So, uh, we can worry about Russia. We can worry about the Middle East,
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but at the end of the day, the people that can really do damage to us in a, in a way that, uh,
00:44:01.440
would be very harmful to the United States of America and the free world is China.
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You know, there's, uh, some rumors coming out of Capitol Hill that the arms packages for Ukraine
00:44:12.800
are going through or at least being put together. There's another arms package for Israel, but there's
00:44:18.240
a potential hangup on a, uh, arms package for Taiwan. Uh, now I'm not actually to disclose any
00:44:24.480
confidential, but is, is that smart actually in the world we live in today? Isn't shouldn't the Taiwan
00:44:30.400
arms package take priority over Israel or Ukraine?
00:44:35.360
Well, Taiwan has paid a lot of money to us for weapons. Uh, we have been slow go on delivering
00:44:42.480
weapons to Taiwan. Uh, and that's happened ever since I've been here for the last four or five years.
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Uh, I don't know why that's happened, but that just, it was caused by the Biden administration.
00:44:51.920
They just drug their feet on it. I think president Trump is up that he understands the significance of
00:44:57.520
what would happen if China went into Taiwan. Uh, but at the end of the day, I have not voted for a dime
00:45:03.200
to go to Ukraine. And I know that Russia is trying to push the narrative here of, of flying these drones
00:45:08.880
over Poland and some of these other countries. But again, I'm gonna go back to my, uh, original thought
00:45:15.120
here. It's, it's about China. It's about China. We can not get our eye off the ball. Uh, that's what
00:45:21.840
Russia is doing. They're trying to get us to take our off the ball, knowing that China is building up
00:45:26.080
and we're not going to be able to stay up with them. If we continue to flush money, uh, to Ukraine.
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I don't think the president's going to give money. I think he went to Europe a couple of weeks ago and
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said, listen, y'all gonna, y'all gonna have to step up to the plate here and start paying your own
00:45:40.400
way. We can't do it anymore. We've got to build a golden dome. We've got to help, uh, build up our
00:45:45.680
military because we are not near where we used to be. And we've got to make sure that we put America
00:45:50.880
first, especially the American military. Senator, can you hang on for one second?
00:45:56.560
I want to hold you through the break. Uh, got a couple more questions. I particularly want to
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ask you about the government shutdown and maybe some activity down in the great state of Alabama.
00:46:04.560
Real quickly, have you, with the, with the Alabama being one of the most MAGA states with
00:46:08.880
great Patriots, have you ever gotten any blowback from folks down there about Europe sitting there
00:46:13.760
going, I'm not voting for any of this Ukraine stuff. We've got about 30 seconds.
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Not one time. Well, not one part of I've been able to been pushed back on him. We've got
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what six military bases. We've got defense contractors. We have, uh, now we have space command coming back.
00:46:29.600
Uh, I think people understand it. I think people in Alabama understand it more than a lot of people,
00:46:33.920
because we are a military state that, uh, China is the one that we got to, uh,
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push back on. And we just waste money, Steve. We waste, waste, waste more money.
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And we can't continue to do that and be the world power that we need to be.
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and the team. Senator, midnight tonight, government shut down. The great Russ vote, one of our
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contributors here for years, has got a plan to say, hey, essential, non-essential, and non-essential,
00:51:51.320
you know, maybe we start having some reductions in forces. Maybe we have mass layoffs. Reuters is
00:51:56.860
reporting and verifying this rumor is going around. I think up to 100,000 federal employees,
00:52:02.120
it looks like according to Reuters, have tendered their resignations because they want to get out
00:52:06.560
on this fiscal year and not wait around until any kind of challenges to whatever they're doing next
00:52:11.500
fiscal year. Your sense of how President Trump has played this, and tell me, do you support Russ
00:52:16.800
votes plan? Oh, 100%. This is a bloated government, Steve. We cannot continue down this same path.
00:52:24.380
We've got way too many people that are in position that have been here too long, and you can't fire
00:52:29.220
them. You know, I don't know how they get in a position where if you don't do your job or you're
00:52:34.200
not adequate or you're not needed anymore, you can just sit there and remain in a role and take the
00:52:41.540
taxpayers' money. You know, I just, I don't believe in that. So this would be a great opportunity if
00:52:47.680
they did shut it down. And again, I'm not for shutting it down. Just to be shutting it down,
00:52:52.420
I think the really big shutdown is going to be the next one. But if they want to shut it down now,
00:52:58.060
they give Russ an opportunity to start combining agencies. Let's put energy with the EPA.
00:53:05.200
Let's do all kinds of things where we can cut back on this bloated government. The American
00:53:09.660
taxpayers can't afford this nonsense. And this would be a great time. So please, Chuck Schumer,
00:53:14.960
talk your folks into shutting it down. And let's shut this thing down and start cutting people and
00:53:19.680
sending them and doing other jobs. There's a lot of jobs out there. And so, yeah, again, I think the
00:53:26.640
best time to shut it down would be the next vote, which would be in what, a month, month and a half.
00:53:32.020
But if they want to shut it down now, let's, so be it. You're giving folks inside baseball. I want
00:53:38.160
to just explore for a second. You're saying, Hey, look, this was a CR that goes to the 21st of
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November, clean CR. And we hate CRs, but clean CR to 21st of November. These guys want to continue
00:53:47.140
to fund illegal alien healthcare and other craziness. So that's not going to happen. But your point is the
00:53:51.780
next one, when you got to look at, they're going to try to jam an omnibus, your colleagues up there in
00:53:56.420
the Senate. One of the reasons you're leaving and going to run, you're running for governor of
00:54:00.760
Alabama is that you've, you've had enough of the madness up there, but that's going to be the big
00:54:05.260
one, right? When we have to face, because they refuse the legislature up there, the house and
00:54:10.700
the Senate to refuse to make any significant cuts and Russ and the president had to depend upon
00:54:15.540
rescissions and pocket rescissions, but these are symbolically important, but they're kind of on
00:54:20.060
the margin. So that's what you're saying next time in mid November, if we, if we go with this today
00:54:25.480
by 21st of November is going to be the, uh, that's going to be the big fight. Oh, that's going to be
00:54:31.160
the showdown, uh, because they want another trillion dollars there for illegals getting all
00:54:35.620
kind of, uh, welfare and insurance. And, uh, again, they want to cut back on, on one of the few good
00:54:43.100
things, um, that they even looked at is, is the money now for rural healthcare. But at the end of the
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day, Steve, they, they want a bloated government. They don't want to do a budget. The American
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taxpayers deserve a budget. We haven't done one since I've been here in five years. Chuck Schumer,
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all he wanted to do was these bloated omnibus bills where you put all this stuff in there
00:55:02.860
and we can't afford it. We don't have any money. I don't know where they think they're going to get
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money. Uh, but this, this place lives on in a, in a, in a, in a fairy fairyland world up here.
00:55:13.000
And if we don't do something like combine agencies, cut people back, put them out in, in, uh, in public
00:55:20.380
life, uh, we're not going to have the world that, uh, or the country that you and I had an
00:55:24.940
opportunity to grow up in. No, you're not going to have the productivity before I let you go. Uh,
00:55:31.320
there's some discussion that, uh, Paul Feinbaum, the, uh, the amazing football analyst down in
00:55:37.520
Alabama that now is a national figures on ESPN. He has said that the Charlie Kirk assassination has
00:55:43.740
moved him so much in the response of the country and particularly the memorial service. He's actually
00:55:48.440
thinking of getting in and running for the United States Senate. Uh, your thoughts are.
00:55:53.540
Yeah, it'd be my seat. And we've had two or three people already running qualifying ends at the end
00:55:59.060
of January. So he's got time to get in. Then it's a five month race till May with where you have the
00:56:04.240
primary. I've known Paul a long time and Paul would is just a commentator that created a division
00:56:10.660
between, uh, uh, fans on both sides of whatever teams he wanted to talk about that day on the radio
00:56:16.660
or TV. And he, he had a dialogue. I'm going to tell you, Paul's smart. Uh, he loves the country.
00:56:22.220
Uh, again, I've been a friend of mine for a long time. I have not talked with him about it. I did
00:56:26.220
an interview with him about 30 minutes, about, uh, two months ago, uh, face to face and it went well,
00:56:32.020
but, uh, uh, you know, I tell you, he's got a hundred percent name ID in Alabama and he'd have a
00:56:37.600
lot of big people behind him. He would be a force in the race if he decided to get into it. But,
00:56:41.740
uh, again, I'm, I'm for people that comes up here that don't want to be in politics. They want to
00:56:46.640
come up and help. And so, uh, I don't support any of them. I don't, there's no reason for me to get
00:56:51.780
involved, but, uh, uh, Paul's a good guy, a good friend. Uh, but your experience was you came up
00:56:59.420
there. And I think the reason that you've been such a big hit here on the war room, you talk very
00:57:03.960
straight. You don't mince words. You're, you, you just tell it like it is. And you've been shocked
00:57:09.480
like this whole thing with the budget. You've been shocked that, that the democratic party and
00:57:13.580
even part of the, the Republican establishment will not address the fundamental needs of the
00:57:18.380
country. One is that we've got to stop printing money. If we don't do that, we're going to destroy
00:57:22.120
this country. And I think you've been shocked about that. Haven't you? Yeah. Quantitative easing,
00:57:26.400
you know, it was, it's been a disaster. Uh, the open borders, the law enforcement, there's no
00:57:31.660
democratic party anymore. It's all a bunch of communists and socialists and they can't tell the
00:57:35.920
truth. They will look you in the face and they'll lie when the truth, they know the truth,
00:57:39.460
who's better, uh, Steve. But, uh, you know, it's, uh, this place is a God awful mess. And that's
00:57:45.580
the reason that president Trump had to get elected. Uh, he had to come in and restore some order to it.
00:57:50.340
Now he's got people fighting him from both sides, from the Senate and Republicans and the house. I mean,
00:57:55.240
in the, in Democrats, uh, they want it their way. They come up here to get reelected instead of doing
00:58:00.280
what they should be doing is make a decision for their state and their country. Um, that's your job,
00:58:06.820
but we don't do that. We've got these people that know better than everybody else. And they fight
00:58:10.600
back against president Trump. And, and, uh, but again, uh, it's, uh, it's better since president
00:58:16.640
Trump's here, but now we've got a chance, please shut this government down and let's start cutting
00:58:21.160
folks. Midnight tonight, Senator Tuberville, social media. Where do people go to follow you,
00:58:29.700
Pretty simple. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming on. Thanks, Steve. Thank you.
00:58:39.980
Father was at D-Day. Man has a great love for his country and is a great patriot.
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Senator Josh Hawley is going to join us also next in the war room.
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