Recruiting for the military is at record levels, and so is the number of Americans enlisting to serve. President Trump is right about one thing: The military is not a humanitarian organization. The point of the Military is to perform military operations. And military operations are those sorts of operations where, yes, bad guys get hurt.
00:01:12.180I think the warfighters are happy to have a warfighter up top.
00:01:15.660Those numbers are a reflection of why we're here.
00:01:17.800When warfighting and lethality is brought back, and it's serious, what we're doing here is serious about getting after soldiering and warfighting, American people want to come back in.
00:03:51.260Are you actually able to be there and be someone who's part of an organization whose job it is, yes, to defend the homeland by hurting people and breaking stuff?
00:04:02.520That is what the point of the military is.
00:04:05.320The military is not a humanitarian organization.
00:04:08.500The point of the military is to perform military operations.
00:04:12.820And military operations are those sorts of operations where, yes, bad guys get hurt and their stuff gets broken.
00:04:52.620Well, we also saw the U.S. military being used for social engineering, for pushing trans programs, for pushing all sorts of just, I'm going to say it, abject insanity.
00:05:02.880Pushing experimental vaccines, pushing all of this nonsense.
00:05:07.940And look, I got out right before, I want to say right before the, you know, this all really hit.
00:05:17.320I did actually, I had to sit, when I was still in the military, I had to sit through one, just one, actual transgender training for a sensitivity class.
00:05:28.920To have it explained to me, as a Navy officer, what it would be like, if I, and the way that I would be expected to treat a fellow member who was trans.
00:05:42.320Now, what's interesting is, I never had to do that with, you know, serving with anyone in the military.
00:05:49.260And I, believe me, I served with everyone.
00:05:51.060I served with, I served with white people.
00:06:45.760That is basically the way the military used to work.
00:06:50.280And that is the way that now, finally, thank God, the Department of War is returning the United States military to military operational readiness.
00:07:00.100So join with us today as we embark on the Human Events Department of War special.
00:07:06.440Stay tuned with the special interviews of various officials from the department filmed right inside the Department of War, the Pentagon itself.
00:07:58.400So, but no, I, you know, just very appreciative of the department and the secretary for allowing us to have the space here and, you know, to be able to do the show, do these, this series of interviews.
00:08:09.160Because I do think that that level of transparency is something that we haven't seen before, quite frankly.
00:08:16.260Well, we're excited to have fresh journalists here who care about reporting the truth and the good work we're doing here.
00:08:22.520Well, look, our job is to get the story out.
00:08:24.600Whatever the story is, whatever the truth is, we're going to get that out.
00:08:27.820And so, you know, if, if something comes up and, you know, we saw that, you know, the whole mainstream media was going off about these, you know, this, this drone strike off of Venezuela.
00:08:37.180And, you know, I remember just with my own background as, you know, prior Navy intelligence, that's, that's kind of SOP actually.
00:08:45.100And, you know, Admiral Bradley having been a Def Group commander at Team 6, you know, he's, he's following SOP.
00:08:51.160That's always been that way for, for the background of, of his entire time in the Navy.
00:08:56.120So, you know, it was really something where, even with my own background knowledge, having been in the military, just, I knew their story didn't make any sense.
00:09:06.180And, but look, you know, I, I thought that the answers that we received, we had a, you know, briefing yesterday on that.
00:09:10.980It was, I thought it was fantastic to be able to just sit here and ask basic questions and then hear the direct answers.
00:09:17.320Exactly. And the left and the fake news have made it clear from day one that they do not support our mission with stopping the cartels and the drug flow to the United States.
00:09:28.500And when the president, president designated these as foreign terrorist organizations, he unleashed a whole new level of authorities for us to stop the drug flow into the United States.
00:09:40.840Well, and I think that's actually been something that a lot of the media in this town doesn't quite understand is that these are the very same authorities that would be used in CENTCOM, occasionally in Indo-PACOM.
00:09:53.820It's just, and by the way, in the past certainly have been used for a whole variety of hostile actors in the Western Hemisphere, in Northcom-PACOM.
00:10:04.280It's just, that hasn't been the focus recently.
00:10:07.660Absolutely. And as you know, and all of Trump's supporters know, when the president campaigned, he made promises to secure our homeland.
00:10:16.440And that's exactly what we're doing through the border and all our operations with Northcom currently.
00:10:21.440So on the Northcom front, obviously, you know, we're sitting here a couple of days ago, we saw the, you know, the horrific situation outside of the White House with the West Virginia National Guardsmen, two of them being shot, one killed, one, as we talk, currently in critical condition.
00:10:39.680But when we look at those operations throughout Northcom, what is the secretary's position on, I guess, obviously force protection for those operations, but the continuance of these operations and the priority that it really seems that the administration is making on it?
00:10:56.380If I can take it a step back, if you remember in L.A. when the president deployed the guard there in a federalized status,
00:11:03.840it was clear that the president and Secretary Hegseth wanted to use soldiers to protect federal law enforcement agents who are out there arresting illegal migrants and keeping law and order in this country.
00:11:18.440It will not change this administration.
00:11:20.600We have the backs of the law enforcement officers who are out there keeping Americans safe.
00:11:25.420And then with D.C. specifically, from day one, Secretary Hegseth authorized the soldiers to carry sidearms, and he continues to have that policy where our soldiers will have their weapons with them.
00:11:42.860Now, each individual commander can make different decisions on that.
00:11:45.980I know this has come up, and there's still more reporting, I think, to come out on exactly the status of this.
00:11:51.380But I do understand and believe yesterday, Press Secretary Wilson had said that they're looking to do, specifically in D.C. and probably others,
00:12:00.820more direct patrols with local law enforcement and the guardsmen together to help that, you know, watch each other's backs, basically.
00:12:21.980And so the whole idea being that when they're deployed in a title – obviously, D.C. is a little bit different.
00:12:26.820But when they're deployed in a title tank capacity, that's always to support state law enforcement and – or excuse me, state law enforcement and federal law enforcement.
00:12:35.060Because you talk about L.A., for example, these ICE agents were facing threats.
00:13:28.480You know, you look at the lawlessness, and, you know, just to take a step back, I think the administration's only been in, you know, 10 months, 10 months into this, and it seems like an entire policy change from the previous administration to now.
00:13:44.060How do you view, you know, the interagency and the way that they've sort of dealt with this big sea change?
00:13:52.340Because I seem to get a sense, certainly from the media side, there's a lot of whiplash, but how has it been actually inside the admin, inside the government?
00:14:00.260Yeah, I will say as someone who was sworn in as a political on January 20th, we got to work that same day with the interagency, specifically on border at the time.
00:14:12.300But to this day, we talk daily about operations, whether it's law enforcement and our support to them, border operations or Western Hemisphere operations.
00:14:23.320So all that to say, I've never seen government agencies work like this together.
00:14:29.420And when the president signed his executive order clarifying the military's role with the border, that brought the Department of War up to be an equal player on the border operations instead of supporting DHS in a support role.
00:14:43.080Well, and as it turns out, that the porous border, the massive level of crossings that we saw over the previous four years, 20 million perhaps, it's a choice, isn't it?
00:14:56.560It actually is something that can be solved by policy.
00:16:06.460So they've switched to the boats, but they're increasingly dangerous because they're trying to find ways to make money because they're hurting for funds.
00:16:15.340Well, drones, we've seen them weaponize drones and start testing them.
00:16:20.400So getting our counter-UAS systems up on the border to protect our soldiers and the federal agents on the border, that's huge.
00:16:29.200And then just continuing to adapt to the illegal aliens who are in our homeland that the Biden administration allowed into our country.
00:16:38.440And specifically on those illegal aliens, are you tracking or do you ever see occasionally, because there's questions, obviously this Afghan migrant guy was a different capacity, but do you ever see opportunities or potential threats, indications and warnings of perhaps plots or operations that they're trying to use to go after Americans or to go after law enforcement or military?
00:17:05.040Yeah, I would say that's probably a better question for federal law enforcement partners and their authorities.
00:17:11.560But one thing that's unique that we created in this administration is the Homeland Security Task Force, which combines all the federal law enforcement agencies, the NCTC, which is headed by Joe Kent, and then the Department of War to target those criminals and foreign terrorist organizations now in the homeland.
00:17:31.980So probably a better question for Joe Kent and federal law enforcement, but we're excited about this opportunity to find these illegals who are here to harm our citizens.
00:17:42.180Well, that's great, because I remember, of course, I served at DIA for part of my time when I was in, and so they had DCTC, which would work with NCTC.
00:17:51.880But, boy, sometimes it was like herding cats between the two of those two.
00:18:05.200When you look out at the status of these operations, particularly in NORTHCOM, looking at the cities, do you see, and I've got to ask, you know, are there any cities where you're looking to expand to?
00:18:17.900Yeah, I would say when it comes to federal law enforcement, if the president asks us to protect his agents, we will do that.
00:18:26.700We have some ongoing litigation in Chicago and Portland, so we're kind of waiting to see how the Supreme Court rules on that.
00:18:34.120But the president, again, has made it clear that he's a president of law and order, and we're ready to support however he needs.
00:18:40.780Okay, so it's almost like wait and see how the Supreme Court cases go, and then depending on the ruling, future operations will work to comply with that.
00:18:50.100And if protesters and rioters are attacking agents, the president hates to see that, rightfully so, and we're ready to support him.
00:18:58.640And some of the left attacks me for being one of the youngest advisors to the secretary, and I'm excited to work on these issues because I know a lot of young people across America care about these issues, too, and protecting our homeland.
00:20:03.940I've got 160 DoDEA schools, or DOEA now, Department of War Education Activity schools.
00:20:10.420Globally, Europe, Asia, here in the United States, have over 600 child development centers, have over 300 youth activity centers.
00:20:21.380We've got, we're in charge of recruiting, retention, and transition into civilian life after you've been a soldier, sailor, airman, marine, guardian individual.
00:20:30.780And so, the broad responsibilities here.
00:20:35.040I've got 955 military hospitals and clinics and 40,000 health care providers.
00:24:55.980The comptroller would go to the secretary, say, here's how we can do it.
00:24:59.160We checked with Earl Matthews, general counsel.
00:25:01.380We made sure the troops got all their pay, as they should have.
00:25:05.460They should not be caught in the political crosswinds that are happening whenever there's a continuing resolution or a shutdown or, you know, whatever.
00:25:16.400And I appreciate the fact that they were able to resolve that and allow us to move forward with, you know, full department pay and benefits.
00:25:27.140What would you say just on that point and final question, because I know we're pulling you out and we've got a lot to go on.
00:25:34.240What would you say your general message is as when you, you know, focus on these issues for the troops?
00:25:40.620So my message is for the troops is that you have a secretary and you have a president that are focused on your health and welfare so that you can be the most lethal fighting individual in force in the world
00:25:57.360and that we are going to create this cohesive, focused force to deter our enemies so we never have to go to war.
00:27:15.540You're now working at this level of strategy.
00:27:17.600How would you say your experiences and his experiences, having gone to war together, have shaped what you do now in terms of the office?
00:27:28.120Those experiences that we shared in combat, they shape you for the rest of your life.
00:27:35.260You learn different things in combat that allow you.
00:27:40.120We're a little different than some of the folks that haven't been yet.
00:27:43.420But some of the things is your priorities are forever changed on focusing on what you need to do to train your soldiers, prepare them for war, lead them for combat, and bring them back home.
00:27:57.580In combat, you see the thing you make it's – you narrow your focus.
00:28:03.060Like we're totally focused, you know, battle drills, medical training, physical fitness, marksmanship.
00:28:09.620Your units can do that to the highest of standards.
00:28:13.420They're able to do everything our country asked them to do, which is to go fight and win our nation's wars.
00:28:19.880And so having that experience, especially serving together, really, that's what we're focused on.
00:28:26.700And as you can see, a lot of the things the secretary has completely driven the whole department to – we want higher standards.
00:28:35.800We want the soldiers to raise the level of their physical fitness.
00:28:39.260We want the soldiers, all the service members to be experts in whatever their field is, their assigned weapon, because we want them – when we assign them a mission, when the president gives us the priorities, this is what we need to do, we've created those options for the president.
00:28:57.560And they're trained and ready, as we can make them.
00:29:01.580And the whole goal is get them to get out there, complete the mission, and bring them all home.
00:29:06.980Well, it really seems that you – certainly in the prior administration, even before then, to an extent, that the focus was elsewhere, shall we say.
00:29:15.740Over the past – it goes back quite – I served for 26 years in uniform, then I was a Department of Defense contractor, then I was a Department of Defense civilian.
00:29:26.680We've gotten to where the military was focused on a lot of non-war fighting tasks.
00:29:35.380And as a unit, especially for a small unit leader, you don't have a whole lot of time because you don't know, especially in some units like the 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, 75th Ranger, you don't know when it is you're going to be called out to conduct an operation for real.
00:29:53.140So you only have so much time to prepare your troops.
00:29:56.500And when the units are bogged down with all these non-war fighting tasks, some of these things that should absolutely have nothing to do with the military, some of those that look like social experiments, we don't have time for it.
00:30:10.660We have a duty as leaders to make sure these soldiers, these service members, are trained and ready.
00:30:16.460And when we pile on things that have nothing to do with that, we shouldn't be focused on that at all.
00:30:21.880What the secretary has done, and because of President Trump and his leadership, is allowed to get the military to be focused on what the country needs the military to be.
00:30:32.860And that's trained and ready, once again, to fight and win our nation's wars.
00:30:37.080Well, not only that, but it's the relaxing of standards that you can just see it.
00:30:43.320You can see it when you're in the area and you're around some of the various military installations that are all throughout D.C.
00:30:51.740And you can just see the standards have become relaxed.
00:30:55.180When you see, you know, I'm always looking at sailors as prior Navy, but, you know, I said, how is this person just walking around like that in uniform?
00:31:04.620If I was, you know, in this guy's unit, I'd say I would have pulled him aside and said, what are you doing?
00:31:08.660And you just see it all over and over.
00:31:11.460And people think that's something small, but it's not actually.
00:31:14.340It's something very important, isn't it?
00:31:17.900Like if these service members are not physically fit, they're not going to be able to do what we're asking them to do.
00:31:23.460And they shouldn't find this out when it's too late, when we put them somewhere in harm's way.
00:31:29.380You can go like when we started going back and look at this, there was like a whole bunch of people and some senior folks retired in uniform were really gouging into the secretary about some of the decisions and some of the focus.
00:31:42.980I don't know how anybody can go back and say, hey, we don't want higher standards.
00:31:48.620We don't want our service members to be in better shape.
00:31:51.740We don't want them to be experts in their occupational field.
00:31:55.380I don't know how anybody could go back and say that.
00:31:59.180There's nothing because the enemy doesn't look at us of you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're this ethnicity.
00:32:07.380All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.
00:32:08.880And it's our duty as leaders, especially for combat organizations, hence the Department of War, to make sure they have the best equipment, they're trained to the highest standards, that they're able to go accomplish the mission, get the job done, and come home safely.
00:32:26.240And that's what the secretary's whole focus is.
00:32:28.980And thank God we have President Trump that has paved the way to allow us to focus on this stuff.
00:32:34.080Well, and it's been something where, you know, I remember during, you know, even Pete's confirmation, the secretary, and then when he became secretary, some of the speeches he's given.
00:32:42.680And they try to twist his words to make it out as if he's saying something political, but he's not.
00:32:47.480Having standards in the military goes all the way back.
00:32:49.580We were just, this past weekend, I'm from the Philadelphia area, and I took my kids out to Valley Forge.
00:32:54.960And I said, I was teaching them, I said, kids, this is the, this is where the first veterans came from.
00:33:00.200This was the first military of the United States.
00:33:02.200This was the first United States Army.
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00:38:26.880So there was a new poll, by the way, that I didn't really get a chance to talk about on the situation regarding, listen to this, the drone strikes.
00:38:40.980Yes, the drone strikes in a poll that was done from the Harvard-Harris team, again, Harvard University, regarding the drone strikes in the Caribbean.
00:38:53.900And this is really interesting because I want people to dig into this.
00:38:58.380I certainly am going to dig into this and have dug into this, but people don't realize that there is massive support for these drone strikes.
00:39:06.360Harvard-Harris found, you got to love this, Harvard-Harris found that most support the drone strikes.
00:39:13.520And, of course, this is the way you have to be very careful with the way that you, you know, you word this because they'll think, oh, well, the second one is worse.
00:40:05.900Americans want their military actually defending America.
00:40:09.780And, look, you know, we're going to be doing this series on regime change coming up around Christmas time.
00:40:16.840And I want people to dig into that because for so long we've been using the U.S. military overseas.
00:40:23.420And they paint it with these romantic images and use this romantic flowery language of, oh, we're fighting them over there, so we have to fight them over here.
00:40:34.520Whoever, you know, whoever we're fighting, et cetera, et cetera, the terrorists.
00:40:38.380But at the end of the day, we don't actually use the U.S. military, or we hadn't up until this point, for direct threats against the homeland.
00:41:13.700When I debated the libertarian candidate for president last year, Chase Oliver, and Ryan Grimm was the host, I said specifically, I said, well, I do actually disagree with the idea of legalizing drugs in the United States.
00:41:26.540And they said, well, the war on drugs has been a failure.
00:44:04.500So when you look at the situation, it's very simple.
00:44:07.100If these guys were left in the water, they would be picked up by their gun running buddies or their cartel buddies, and they would then be shot by the cartel buddies for abandoning their cargo.
00:44:24.580Do you understand how cartels operate?
00:44:26.900Do you have any inkling of how that world operates?
00:44:59.020When it comes to defending my family, and this is the way you have to think about this, is there an amount of violence that you would not cross?
00:45:13.260Is there a line that you would not cross when it comes to defending your family?
00:45:18.720Because for me, there is an unlimited amount of violence that I would be willing to employ in the defense of my wife and in the defense of my children.
00:45:43.620I was talking about leftist violence at the time and these leftist killer networks, the Marxist killers, like the ones who killed Charlie.
00:45:50.600And I said, Megyn, no offense, but it's time to let the man handle things.
00:45:56.300It's time to let the men handle things.
00:45:59.600And when it comes to the military, that's what I mean.
00:46:01.860People are going to say, oh, no, you're going to, what about women in the military?
00:46:05.140Guys, guys, you know what I'm talking about.
00:46:07.320When I say men in this sense, I mean real men making real decisions to provide real defense for our families, our cities, and our homeland.
00:46:18.680And thank you to Secretary Hegseth and to President Trump for working to do that.
00:46:25.020Because I've been down there and I've seen the type of operations, the type of work they're putting in, and that is their only concern at all.
00:46:33.440They are mission-focused, and they're focused on protecting the United States of America and the people who dwell within it.
00:46:41.500Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.