00:00:00.000Communities is hypocritical or morally corrupt. You doubled down again and said it. Words matter. Words matter. What you choose to say, how we choose to say it. How do you justify using this language as Secretary of Defense? Words matter. It's a hurt, historically hurtful term. Why do you continue to use it? And what actions are you taking to prevent rhetoric like this from permeating throughout the department that is going to target specific groups or individuals of people
00:00:57.260And I expect anyone who is in leadership in our country to be respectful and use respectful terms and not be an anti-Semite.
00:01:10.260Well, Pete Hexas is an incompetent fool.
00:01:13.620He is a misogynist and he's been trying to get rid of women's role in our military.
00:01:19.660He obviously must have lost out a promotion to a female service members at some point and is, you know, on a personal vendetta.
00:01:26.860But bottom line, in the testimony, he said, we are doing this to the highest male standard, as if there were only two standards in the military.
00:01:35.220And in fact, the physical fitness standards are actually graduated based on age as well.
00:01:42.180So a 40-year-old serviceman does not have to run the two miles as fast as an 18-year-old serviceman.
00:01:51.480So it is also differentiated by age as well as by gender.
00:01:55.160And frankly, you know, as someone who served in a combat arms branch, and I volunteered to serve in the first combat arms branch that actually accepted women into combat roles, which is as a helicopter pilot, you know, I know what the experience is.
00:02:10.480I know that our women who have met those standards have met the standards.
00:02:16.300They are actually out there participating and taking care of the business at hand.
00:02:21.200And frankly, our nation's military could not go to war without its female service members.
00:02:25.860And yet, Pete Husseth is on this personal vendetta.
00:02:28.860In fact, he's fired every female four-star general and tried to stop the additional promotion of two African-American women generals from getting additional stars.
00:02:40.520And that's why, you know, the former Army Chief of Staff quit.
00:02:44.300brain. Axios is reporting that the CENTCOM commander, Admiral Bradley Cooper, is briefing
00:02:51.280Trump on Iran options right now. These are two sources who spoke with Axios. A short and powerful
00:02:56.320wave of strikes on Iran to break the negotiating deadlock, taking over part of the Strait of
00:03:01.440Hormuz to reopen it to commercial shipping that would include ground operations. And the third
00:03:08.320option, special forces operation to secure Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium. So,
00:03:15.640Secretary, do you think any of those right now, given the stalemate that we are in, are wise
00:03:21.900options? Well, I think that the White House and certainly the military leaders understand
00:03:36.060that putting any boots on the ground or continuing any military action
00:03:42.280is not going to be supported by the American people.
00:03:45.820It's not going to be supported by the Congress.
00:03:48.780And so the idea that suddenly we're going to go back to war
00:03:52.560in order to ultimately arrive at some kind of solution here is crazy.
00:03:58.620So the issue is going to be, what is it going to take?
00:04:02.220I mean, the president himself has said so often within a couple of days, we'll end this war.
00:04:07.200Within a couple of days, we'll end this war.
00:04:09.400You can't end the war unless you're negotiating.
00:04:13.520And right now, each side has decided they're waiting for the other side to blink.
00:06:41.700It's my understanding that the definition of no quarter is that legitimate offers of surrender will be refused or that detainees will be executed.
00:06:57.680Is that your understanding of the definition?
00:07:01.880The only entity that would kill detainees or target civilians is the Iranians, and they're the ones being crushed.
00:07:08.040It's the Iranian military and their military capabilities.
00:07:11.520The question is, do you understand the definition that I just read you?
00:07:17.480Because that's the definition from your department's law of war manual.
00:10:25.540I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary, but broadcasting before the national religious broadcasters, stressing the need for more Christianity in the military forces, doesn't seem like a neutral position in which you tolerate and accept all religions.
00:10:47.300Jack Reed, I mean, I thought you were educated at West Point, brother.
00:10:51.500it is thursday 30 april year of our lord 2026 you saw the circus and clown show was it jackie
00:11:01.900rosen that opened that with what did she she was getting on pete for using pharisees i i we're
00:11:10.140going to go back and play that clip again uh they are correct that the president did get briefed on
00:11:17.340a range of options today. Sam Fadis can join us in a second. Let's go to the White House. Neil
00:11:21.900McCabe, you were there. Put us in the room. It seemed like it was even hotter than yesterday, sir.
00:11:29.640Yeah, really the same themes that we talked about at the House Armed Services Committee.
00:11:35.120Rick Scott asked Hank Seth, sir, what are you most proud of? Senator Sullivan from Alaska
00:11:40.820talked about the battle for the American Arctic. Senator Sheehy was saying, hey,
00:11:45.520what about more funding for Special Operations Command? Meanwhile, Jackie Rosen is saying you're
00:11:50.860an anti-Semite. Elizabeth Warren said you're guilty of insider trading. Reid said you're
00:11:56.720a Christian nationalist. Slotkin said you're going to send troops to voting stations because you and
00:12:02.780your president want a dictatorship. And it was much more personal, I thought, than yesterday.
00:12:09.840and these guys came loaded for bear uh it was it was really something to behold and but again like
00:12:16.260we said yesterday Hank Seth just took it right and uh he fought back uh he he was very I thought
00:12:23.680he was very effective in his uh rebukes uh I was a little disappointed that Roger Wicker the chairman
00:12:30.080of the of the committee he's supposed to be there to sort of like call I don't want to say civility
00:12:35.940But I have seen chairman before sort of step in.
00:12:48.200And you're being a real gentleman there.
00:12:50.040The purpose of the majority, particularly when they have the executive branch, is that the chairman is supposed to step in and provide air cover.
00:12:56.960So you're not supposed to let his people be personally attacked.
00:19:59.360So let's hold that for a second, and we're going to get to the president.
00:20:03.660But, Sam, you heard also the senator sitting there just accusing, or it was the former Secretary of Defense, Panetta, who was saying,
00:20:15.020you have to get to the negotiating table, you have to have diplomacy, you have to have negotiation.
00:20:20.460Well, if the other side is not prepared to negotiate, it's a little bit like Vietnam there for a while.
00:20:25.680You're going to have to come along and get them focused.
00:20:29.060No one wants to go back to the kinetic side of this, but right now they're not prepared to negotiate.
00:20:35.060They're not prepared to clean up the situation around their nuclear weapons or make a commitment.
00:20:39.400They're not. The pirates down in Hormuz got a pretty good gig going.
00:20:43.140They're getting a main or two for the first time.
00:20:46.220Hey, and they're not even having to take it in crypto or in Chinese yuan anymore.
00:20:50.300It's good old U.S. dollars, and people are lined up to pay it.
00:20:53.920So President Trump is going to have a range of alternatives.
00:20:57.120Some of those alternatives are going to be kinetic, and none of us, particularly guys like you that spent a big part of your life there, and myself that was over there, none of us are enthusiastic about being over there and having the troops over there, but we are where we are, Brother Faddis.
00:21:15.200Yeah, look, as I've been saying for some time, there's really nothing to talk about with these guys right now because they're not prepared to discuss the things that we need them to discuss.
00:21:25.600They don't think they're losing. They think time is on their side.
00:21:29.860We are turning the screws now on them by blockading and taking other measures.
00:21:35.700As you know, we're going to, in my firm belief, you're going to have to turn those screws a lot more before you get to the table.
00:21:44.240Sitting down right now with them is not just a waste of time. It's a sign of weakness.
00:21:49.760It's a sign that we want it more than they do.
00:21:52.200Yes, exactly. They're not prepared to listen.
00:21:55.280If you follow Panetta's recommendation, nothing's going to happen,
00:22:03.640and anything that does happen is going to be pro and unfavorable to them
00:22:07.060because they're not listening right now.
00:22:14.140The Democrats have nothing but Loserville as far as alternatives go.
00:22:20.400Neil McCabe, your thoughts on Admiral Cooper gave the range of alternatives today
00:22:25.020to the president. I noticed that it was leaked, that it was definitely Cooper. The president seems
00:22:30.880to, he's really risen ever since, for the whole operation. But CENCOM, I think the way the Navy
00:22:37.260under CENCOM as a combatant commander has pulled off this blockade, really has the president
00:22:43.680pretty excited. Your thoughts on the range of alternatives, Neil McKay.
00:22:47.600yes steve i think that you have uh the oil facilities at kurag island you have all the
00:22:55.560smaller islands around the strait of hermos which would be where the mosquito boats and the drones
00:23:01.540are coming from and so those are your two sort of military targets unless you go after tehran itself
00:23:07.540i did notice that uss boxer was hanging out in guam in the sulu sea but uh today on divids
00:23:15.640They posted that Boxer is now underway again, and so I'm just waiting to see when Boxer chops into the Fifth Fleet because Boxer has the amphibious, those hovercraft, landing crafts, and that's really its stock and trade, whereas Tripoli has the Marine F-35s, it has the attack helicopters, and they're the ones who are actually going after the boats and boarding the boats.
00:23:40.320but i would say that the boxer group is more a ground offensive or amphibious landing group
00:23:45.800and so we'll see how that happens it's interesting after all this talk of a ceasefire and sort of
00:23:51.680letting the block we were told a few days ago hey just prepare for this blockade to go for a while
00:23:56.760also we're coming up on the deadline of the war powers act not that anybody you know in the white
00:24:02.040house takes that seriously but they do sort of watch it and we're coming up on day 60 the president
00:24:07.500can make a statement to Congress to give himself another 30 days. But there's also talk,
00:24:13.140administration officials have been quoted. There are other people on Capitol Hill who say that the
00:24:18.280ceasefire itself stops the clock for the 60 days for the War Powers Act. So they actually are
00:24:26.560thinking that they have more time. And so we'll just see how it plays out. Steve.
00:24:30.900go back to that for a second neil just let people know um the war powers act by the way that i'm not
00:24:38.880sure i will say this i don't think 100 percent that president trump and people around certain
00:24:47.660people around president trump think the war powers act is in effect in this i happen to believe the
00:24:55.880War Powers Act is unconstitutional. It's never been challenged, right? But I think in this case,
00:25:03.360you might see a challenge to it. But in the War Powers Act, if you did believe in the War Powers
00:25:08.060Act as a framework, what happens in 60 days, you need to do what? In 60 days, you either pop smoke
00:25:16.900and bring the boys home, or you say, hey, this thing is a little hot right now. I'm going to
00:25:22.320need 30 more days so in effect everyone talks about 60 days in practical matter the war powers
00:25:28.480act is 90 days but then there's also this theory a legal theory that a ceasefire sort of pauses
00:25:34.660that clock and i don't mean to say that trump accepts that the war powers act is constitutional
00:25:40.020he no president has done it and in fact it was passed over nixon's veto however yes people in
00:25:46.480the administration including caroline levitt have meant to have they're aware of the clock that's
00:25:51.800all i wanted to say steve about that yeah no no that i think was great i think it's great that
00:25:56.160you that you did that sam uh neil mccay brings a good point the boxer looks like it's underway
00:26:02.500uh if the president want to have a wider range of military and paramilitary alternatives
00:26:08.680that include something more than strategic bombing that we tried the first time uh he would uh he
00:26:16.520would make sure he waited and got all those elements in place, sir? Yeah, 100%. But I'm
00:26:26.360presuming, based on what we see deployed, that anything that involves guys on the ground inside
00:26:34.600Iran will be very limited and very short duration. I mean, in the scheme of things on a strategic
00:26:42.720level we don't still we still have nowhere near the the actual troops in in the region to
00:26:51.100to do anything serious on the ground inside iran and i hope i was thinking i was thinking along
00:26:57.000along the lines of around the room i'm not advocating this but i'm saying if you had to have
00:27:02.260some elements available for the room around hormuz and maybe some oil facilities or do just
00:27:07.480to give yourself a range of alternatives
00:27:09.560like it looked like Guillermo Cooper talked today.
00:33:32.920I mean, look, they're professional cheats, and they're great at it.
00:33:37.660That's what they're best at, because you can't get elected with their policy.
00:33:40.520You can't get elected with men and women's sports, with transgender mutilization of our children, with open borders for jails to be dropped into our country, and mental institutions, and drug dealers, and murderers.
00:33:56.080Think of it, 11,888 murderers come into our country, nobody even talks to them about it, right?
00:34:01.560We got a lot of them out because of, you know what, because of ICE, which they don't want to fund.
00:34:09.180When they defund ICE and with Border Patrol and Secret Service, they're defunding our police.
00:34:15.520The same thing as they're doing with an officer on the street corner.
00:34:19.620So why the Republicans' Senate doesn't just sit in there and just do it and take a negative vote and do it again and again like the Democrats did?
00:34:31.080Because we want to get the nuclear dust.
00:40:48.200And you've got to regroup around, you have to make Thune the issue, because Thune is the issue.
00:40:54.060He's standing between the president and action, and the loss of the Senate is going to be on the senators themselves, Sam Faddis, because they refuse to act, sir.
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