Episode 95 LIVE： Military Misadventures (feat. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
Summary
The United States Air Force released information regarding Republican congressmen and women running for re-election to an opposition research firm linked to the Democratic Party. Did the Air Force collude with the Deep State to get access to the information or was it done by mistake?
Transcript
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I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
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Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
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welcome back to firebrand we are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office
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building on the capitol complex in washington dc and what you just saw there scenes from the
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tennessee legislature insurrection where leftists are threatening to take over the tennessee capital
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demanding gun control as if somehow gun control is the answer to violence law-abiding gun owners
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don't make our communities less safe they make them more safe and i believe that what you just
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saw in tennessee very well may have been inspired by a member of the united states congress who was
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acting a fool yesterday we're going to have that video for you later in the show we've got
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congresswoman anna paulina luna coming up with a big announcement regarding what she is going to do
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to check military leadership that may have been engaged in partisan politics and election interference
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you don't want to miss that updates regarding the vaccine mandate regarding some of the
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weird woke stuff that we've seen on our military bases even drag queen shows if you can believe that
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and we've also got news regarding the 2002 authorization to use military force to take
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out saddam hussein it seems as though congress and military leaders may finally be on the same page
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that we can repeal that saddam's body has been cold for a while we've got some feedback on the
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live stream already on instagram granite state kid says term limits i fully agree with that and
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passionately patriotic says to me do not take my foot off their chest and i do not intend to so the
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first thing i want to talk about on the show today is a really big scandal for the united states air force
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where they were releasing information regarding republicans running for congress they were doing
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so illegally here's an update on where that news story stood take a listen
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during the last midterm campaign the air force released the service records of two republican
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members of congress to a research firm linked to the democratic party the air force did that
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apparently the research firm lied and claimed to be conducting an employment background check on the
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members of congress records belonging to several other people were also compromised what kind of
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clarity are you getting from the pentagon on this story well i talked to the secretary of the air force
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and he said it was done by accident that that they were deceived that this company acted like
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they were doing this on our behalf had her social security number illegally other personal
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identifying information and so the air force mid-level manager that got this thought they were doing
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on my behalf and there was a total tucker of 11 air force folks are either in congress or candidates
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that this happened to and so we were assured by the secretary of the air force that they figured out
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what happened they put fixes in place they apologized they took responsibility the real culprit though is the
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democrat campaign arm of the congressional campaign committee who paid 105 000 to a democrat firm to
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get uh to get uh our to do opposition research and where they used our information illegally and i and i think
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this you know this is dirty politics for sure but could be i think it very much very likely this illegal and all
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this data and all the evidence has been given now to the attorney general
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that's congressman don bacon of nebraska and he's right to place a considerable amount of blame on the democrat
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congressional campaign committee it seems as though the democrat arm of their senate operation was also
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involved in paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to this opposition research firm called due diligence
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that then got this information from the united states air force but it was concerning to me that it's
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predominantly republicans who had their information released and so i'm not as sure as general bacon
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that there wasn't a collusion here there wasn't an effort by some in senior leadership at dod to try
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to scuttle republican campaigns i had the chance to ask the lead general in charge of personnel for the
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united states air force these questions at a hearing yesterday of the military personnel subcommittee
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how many republicans running for congress had their personnel records unlawfully compromised by the
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united states air force uh thank you for that question so we did have a pii breach um 11 individuals
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overall uh their data was um released um well you say breach when i hear breach what i hear is that like
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someone hacked or broke in or got the information you gave this information yes we did no
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right it wasn't a breach it was an illegal release it was a yes it was right right we take full
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responsibility for that 11 11 yes and all republicans right um i don't know the answer to that i know
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some of them were but i think but if i represent to you that that that it's all or almost all
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republicans almost all republicans that's correct yes and this information was given to the due
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diligence entity right there was uh there were there was an entity yes it was yeah and it's an opposition
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research entity that gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from the democratic congressional campaign
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committee and the democratic senatorial uh campaign apparatus right um i don't know that much about
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due diligence but there's i know that we um release the information inappropriately why did you do that
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um it was a you know it was an error we did a investigation as soon as we found out we notified all
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the members um in which their data was um released uh we have put in place uh multiple layers of uh
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checks and balances we did a retraining who's been fired for doing this um we have taken the
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appropriate action okay who's been fired we we've taken the appropriate action it's a fascinating
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answer just not to my question who's been fired i i can't answer that has a single person been fired
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i do not know the answer to that shouldn't you though i mean here we are having recruiting
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challenges you guys are releasing personnel information of predominantly republicans to a
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democrat opposition research firm you run personnel for the united states air force and you can't tell
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me whether anyone has been fired for this unauthorized release congressman i can tell you that we have
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taken the appropriate action but you deem it appropriate but what if we don't because because we have
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civilian control of the military we may have to change our laws to hold people accountable and
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pardon me for not trusting your vague reference to the layers that you've put on but mr chairman i
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request that this committee get specific answers for what the accountability regime was for this
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unlawful action by the united states air force and that we not take as an article of faith the
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representation that they think they've taken the appropriate action they've taken the illegal
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inappropriate action to compromise these records and i think we should hold them accountable for it
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we are back live and it is amazing to me that these generals with all of the stars on their lapels can
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come in and suggest to us after they break the law after they do something wrong that because they
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self-assess that they're taking appropriate action oh well you broke the law and now you say you're
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taking appropriate action case closed here what kind of clowns would believe that crap we need specific
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answers and i'm glad that congressman jim banks who chairs the military personnel subcommittee very
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effectively will be on the case in that matter now one of the members of congress who was a republican
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candidate who was victimized by this leak congresswoman anna paulina luna florida woman prior guest on firebrand
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and we had a chance to talk not only about how that leak came to fruition but what she plans to do about it
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take a listen we are joined now by congresswoman anna paulina luna welcome back to firebrand
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when did you first learn that your records were among those that the air force had released to a
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democrat political opposition research firm so right after the speakers fight we basically had
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started getting inquiry from actually my friend started writing me so my old supervisor from about 12 years ago
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just hit me up randomly one day and sent me a screenshot of a number and it was a reporter from the new york times
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that said hi my name is so and so from the new york times i heard that you were or we know that you were
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representative luna's old rating supervisor we have some questions about her for you and so when i saw that i just
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i immediately knew i was like look your service records whatever is public they're never going to know who your rating
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supervisor is unless they saw my epr and so immediately on seeing that i was like they somehow
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obtained my records now initially when i brought this forward to certain people they're like there's
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no way that they had obtained it and then about two and a half weeks after that then we found out
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so you found out that your records had been illegally released by the air force because you were able to
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trace the breadcrumbs of where people were going to evaluate your service record you served in the air
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force right served in the air force what bases did you serve at i was at whiteman air force base which
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is where this super uh supervisor was i was at herbert field i was at keesler air force base and
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then portland air national guard unit so i was all around but i knew because the fact that they had
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actually written a rating supervisor which is not public access to just any random person that does a
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records request you weren't the only one 11 candidates for a federal office had their records
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released have you talked to some of the others about how they feel about this yeah there's actually
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been more than that now so they're now saying there's a senate candidate who had their records
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released and then jr majuski i reached out to early on he had never received a letter from the air force
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and it actually wasn't until after our inquiry from both house armed services and oversight that then he
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received a letter from the air force and that was maybe about last week jr majuski was a republican
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candidate for congress in ohio lost a very close race and these issues that were illegally released
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by the military seemed to have been really utilized by his political opponents in your case it seems
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it was the media trying to smear you with this illegal release right 100 and it what's unique
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about my case with j uh my case jr majuski and then jennifer ruth green is all of our records were sent to
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media companies so jr majuski i believe his was sent to politico i think it was jennifer ruth green that
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had her records sent to axios and then mine were somehow obtained by the new york times and so what
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they did was is they basically obtained these and then they leak it in the media that way or they try
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to go to people that you might have worked with to have them say something bad about you and then
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they print it what do you make of the fact that all or almost all of the records released were of
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republican candidates for federal office i think it was absolutely inside hack job by the air force and it
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was interesting because when my office separately reached out from house oversight and house armed
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services mind you i'm a member of house oversight and did an inquiry to expand the net because i ran
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in 2020 not just in the 2022 election cycle and then also to to see if it wasn't just due diligence
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llc if it was to any opposition research firm or an illegal leak their force basically told me to go
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pound sand and so when i got that message back i realized that one if they're going to admit to
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something they should have done it right then and there i knew that they're going to play hardball so i
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actually ended up working with judicial watch and i foiled the record so i talked to jennifer ruth green
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i figured out how she had obtained information that her records are released and what's interestingly
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enough is that the air force actually told the press that it was a low-ranking service member
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and it ended up being from what we're hearing a gs-12 ah well i am frustrated that senior leadership
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at the air force can't seem to give a straight answer regarding whether or not anyone has been fired
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for this and if they're able to just say oh gosh it was a mistake that just happened to overwhelmingly
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target republicans that it might happen again if there's no accountability do you worry that this
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will occur in future election cycles where it's election interference by our own government a hundred
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percent and i think the really disturbing thing is that we're talking about democrats democrats are
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supposed to champion women's causes remember the whole me too movement democrats were the first one
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on board with that but yet you had a female service member jennifer ruth green who's an officer
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and they used her sexual assault against her wow and that was sold to due diligence llc via litter or
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given to due diligence llc via the d triple c which is the democrat congressional elections commission
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and so ultimately what i'm finding is that these people if they're not held accountable which they
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haven't no one's been fired they're going to continue to do it again and so we're going to make an
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example one thing i know about you is you don't let this stuff go by so walk everyone through your
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plans to specifically use some of the rules that we fought for during the speaker contest to hold
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them accountable and to highlight their misdeeds so we ultimately had negotiated during the speaker's
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fight for something called the holman rule which allows us to defund any federally appointed position
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and so i worked with my team and we actually filed the paperwork two days ago 6 p.m we made the deadline
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and we're ultimately going to go after the general who's in charge of records and personnel management
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because in the military especially your wins and your losses are both a responsibility and accepted
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by leadership and if that general wants to play games and they think this is a joke that they are not
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held accountable then we're going to come for their commission well the general in charge of personnel
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for the air force looked like a fool when i asked her questions about this recently and so what
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you're saying is that you are going to make these personnel officials at the air force quite famous
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because you're going to put up for a vote in the house of representatives whether or not to specifically
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zero out their salaries yes and i actually spoke with the um cardinal for appropriations on defense
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and i asked his um basically input and to see what he had to say and he absolutely said you know these
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people need to be held accountable so we have support on this this is not going to just not go anywhere
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and it is important to note though that and you know this firsthand based on what we saw during our
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trip to a base but the military seems to think right now that they're not held accountable to
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the civilian sector and that's the american people and that's congress and so when they treat this like
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it's a joke and these are people's social security numbers this is their health care information
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they need to be held accountable and so we're going to make sure that they know that
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if you come for luna she comes for you that's the message coming for their salary for their
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authorities and this should never happen again i worry that in part this was an operation to deter
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future republican veterans from seeking office in the congress what would be your message to the
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folks out there who have fought in some of these forever wars who love our country they've left the
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military and now they're eager to continue a patriotic commitment they're thinking about campaigning for a
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public position whether or not you are a veteran or not i think just in general just understand that
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if they can't find something on you they'll make it up you know this better than anyone else i do but
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they will make it up and ultimately what you have to understand is that this is literally one of the
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last known blood sports you have to be able to defend yourself but understand that a service record
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especially is so incredibly important and here's a few things one voters are going to trust you more
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and two you have the ability from personal experience to speak on withdrawing and not
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engaging in these forever wars in my entire lifetime president trump was the only president that ever got
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us involved in another foreign conflict and that's why i love president trump but when you hear the
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rhetoric that goes around and people say well if we don't fight them there it'll come here talking
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about terrorism that and then you look at you know who's they're funded by raytheon boeing whatever it
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might be the military industrial complex that is why we are in the deficit that we're in that is why
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we have the health care crisis that we have in our country with mental health in regards to ptsd
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and that is exactly why they don't want anti-war veterans in office and so just understand that if you're
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going to take that position which is my position which is your position um they're going to come for
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you but you can hit them right back they always tell us that if we don't fight them over there we're
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going to have to fight them at home and so then we deploy all of these capabilities abroad and
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increasingly in the information domain we are training military officials how to do information
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operations and my worry is that after that's done abroad that's what comes home and now you have a
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government enterprise-wide that is literally trying to shape the nature of truth for people in our
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country and if the department of defense is involved in that and if one of the features of that
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operation is to try to discredit veterans who are running for office who may not always comport
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with the military narrative then that's something that should concern all americans but one thing i'm
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so grateful for this isn't just talk anymore we are taking concrete actions to hold these people
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accountable and to limit their ability to do this harm going forward and if they're not defunded they
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should absolutely be fired thanks for joining me on thanks for running for congress and being a great fighter
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so just so you know you are probably the reason why i'm here so glad to be back well thank you so much
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that was congresswoman anna polina luna one of florida's best certainly one of america's best make
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sure to give her a follow at rep luna on rumble dixie sam is sure glad that congresswoman luna spent
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some time in biloxi at keesler air force base and d on rumble says the military has no problem lying
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because there are no consequences well i think you heard from congresswoman luna there there are
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going to be consequences in the pocketbook and with the authorities that some of these people have
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who cannot give us straight answers and one area where we have consistently failed to get straight
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answers has been the military vaccine mandate i have opposed the military covid vaccine mandate
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from the beginning i'm glad more republicans have come to our side we had to shut down that
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mandate by force of law but what moved me were the experiences of our service members experiences
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that were shared on firebrand last year take a listen to some of those concerns
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master sergeant one of the things that concerned me in an investigation that my office ran into the
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united states navy is that when people submitted requests for religious accommodations they were often
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met in response by a form letter which to me indicated that an individual review of people's claim how
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this decision was grounded in faith or scripture wasn't really made do you have any observations
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about the process of requesting a religious accommodation and how the air force looks at those
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requests yes congressman thank you i've seen hundreds of denied religious accommodation requests to
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include denied appeal requests i've seen a handful of the approved ones and all of them start with
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the premise that the government has such a strong interest in vaccinating us that while they they
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determine all of our religious beliefs are to be sincerely held they determine that even as strongly as our
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beliefs are they're not as strong as the government's desire and need to vaccinate all of us even in
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situations such as my own where i currently have no restrictions on me as an unvaccinated member at my
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location i don't have to wear a mask i don't have to weekly test i don't have to do any social
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distancing my life at my job is the exact same as any vaccinated members and i'm not unique in that
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scenario right now but the only approvals they've been doing that i've been able to see and that court
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documents have shown are for people who are already on terminal leave already in their final months
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where they won't return to a base and the fact the approval specifically says that they are only
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approving it because they will not return to a base if the member's not returning to their duty station
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ever that's not an accommodation they're accommodating nothing
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that was nick cupper interviewed on firebrand really about this time last year and everything
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he said ended up getting verified by an inspector general's report conducted by the department of
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defense inspector general i confronted our senior military leadership with those findings yesterday
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take a listen mr secretary you told senator schmidt yesterday that if the 8 000 plus service members
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who've been separated from the military due to the vaccine mandate want to reapply that they're welcome
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to do so but that you would do nothing to solicit their reapplication or to incentivize it why is that
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i think it's incumbent upon the individual to to make that decision and reapply that the mechanisms are
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yeah but why don't i mean you're overseeing a recruiting nightmare in our military right now
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these are 8 000 patriots and by the way your department broke the law in administering the
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vaccine mandate and that's not me saying so that's the inspector general for the department of defense
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who wrote in on june 2nd of 2022 we found a trend of generalized assessments rather than the
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individualized assessment that is required by federal law department did not break the law
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uh the vaccine so the do so wait you mean the ig is wrong you think the ig is wrong he says he broke
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the law lives of a number of uh well it ruined the lives of a number of people too and it ruined the
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lives of people who love our country and want to re-enlist let me ask you this question if we direct
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you by force of law to re-engage and incentivize the re-enlistment of these folks with full back pay
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and rank do you have the capability to follow that instruction you put uh provisions in the law
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uh to enable those uh those people to to uh those former service members to reapply in accordance with
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the service men service good well we will do that just like we had to put the repeal of the vax mandate
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in the law and i get the sense that the only reason you're not reaching out to these folks
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is pride because otherwise they would be totally able to serve and it seems that your personal pride
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is getting in the way pride is one of the seven deadly sins and it's clear that it is inhibiting
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secretary austin from full service to our country and the patriots who are willing to put on the
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uniform to defend her and when you look at a military suffering these recruiting challenges
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and then you've got 8 000 people who volunteered who would be in uniform today but for this illegal
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vaccine mandate that was administered outside of federal law it's just crazy to think we wouldn't
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be a stronger country if these folks were re-engaged in the preservation of our nation and in the defense
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of our nation but nonetheless that's the position of secretary austin so while they're not focused
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on re-enlisting people to keep us safe and secure they do seem to be focused at the department
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of defense on the woke and the weird you're not going to believe this watch secretary austin's face
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as i ask him direct questions that he is unable to answer this from yesterday i guess my question is
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how much taxpayer money should go to fund drag queen story hours on military bases
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you know drag drag queen story hours is not something that the department funds wait a second
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that's actually not what the record seems to suggest you were going to fund one at ramstein air force
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base that one got canceled but that's dod insignia that's a drag queen story hour for children then also
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at uh maelstrom air force base outside of great falls montana you had a drag queen story hour for
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kids at the joint base langley eustis you put on a drag queen story hour on a saturday for the first
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ever kid-friendly diversity equity inclusion summer festival and at nellis air force base you had the
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drag you nellis on june 17th who funded these things mr secretary listen uh drag shows
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uh are not something that the department of defense supports or funds well why are they
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happening on military bases i just i just showed you the evidence why are they happening
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i will say again this is not something that we support or fund well you so you think hosting a
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drag queen story hour on a military base isn't supporting the drag queen story hour i stand by what
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i just said but but you may stand by it but it's belied by the evidence over and over again i mean
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are you are are you aware of the uh peace uh biden's military air force base in montana holds drag show
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drag queen story hour for kids in the western journal are you aware of that
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again i will say what i've said you're saying what you're saying but i guess it just doesn't comport
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the facts bruce on facebook you are cracking me up military leaders are a real drag who else could
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make a dad joke out of military bases hosting drag queen story hour and it is a bit odd to see the
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secretary of defense just repeatedly say things that are either wildly naive and uninformed or factually
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untrue go ahead and put up the headlines whether it's the american military news giving us a report
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on what was going on at langley newsweek talking about what was going on at nellis a breitbart did
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reporting on this and we even have the air force advertisement go ahead and put it on the screen the
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air force advertisement created by the united states air force with taxpayer dollars who do they think
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pays the light bill at these military facilities when they've got drag queen story hour obviously
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the military was funding it and they shouldn't ultimately general milley agreed that this was
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something if it was going on that they wanted to know more about and i had some questions for
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general milley because as you'll recall years ago he said that his real focus was getting in
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touch with his white rage so i had some follow-up questions take a listen
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on the issue of critical race theory etc i'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever
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the theory is but i do think it's important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded
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and be widely read and the united states military academy is a university and it is important that
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we train and we understand and i i want to understand white rage and i'm white and i want to
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understand it so that was two years ago and i couldn't resist this in my last opportunity
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questioning general milley to find out what he's learned about his white rage and how well read he
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indeed is this is yesterday general milley this will be my last time to question you you mentioned two
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years ago that you wanted to better understand white rage and so my question is this did you read this book
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no not at all well it is what is white privilege is the book and it's actually written by a dod official
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a senior official in diversity equity and inclusion and there are now hundreds of these books in dozens
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of schools and i wonder if you guys connect this to your problems with recruiting i've never read it never
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seen it um frankly i don't even think about that stuff i think about what up the next go ahead and
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put up the next slide about the variance of the force go ahead and put up the next slide please
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okay well in in the next slide this is a tweet by one of your employees in charge of diversity equity and
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inclusion and it's it's patently racist they say that uh she had to give karen the business that she talks about
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caudacity presumably of caucasian people so i guess why does the look at that well why is that
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you're not getting an argument for me that's terrible it's wrong she shouldn't be doing that
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period should she be fired i don't that's a dod employee not u.s military uniform do i should
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they be fired austin uh again as you heard in your subcommittee here this this incident was investigated
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and uh and they're still employed i would like to point out uh chairman that uh our our students
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in dodea schools scored the highest on the eighth graders and fourth graders scored the highest in
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math and reading in the country so i want to thank all of the all of our dodea professionals who made
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that possible and i encourage them to keep it up i hope you're not thanking that one yeah gentleman time's
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expired we will call these instances out wherever we find them if you are aware of wokeness raising its
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ugly head on our military bases go to gates.house.gov get us a message help us so that we can confront
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the people who are supposed to be in charge with the misdeeds that they pretend that they do not
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know about the united states military is engaged in misadventures all around the world oftentimes we
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think we can topple some secular dictator and we're going to get the emergence of a jeffersonian
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democracy afterwards but too often it is more chaos more terrorism more bloodshed and more despair
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the 2002 AUMF authorization to use military force is directed at saddam hussein's government and it has
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remained in effect as a permission slip to engage in more middle eastern adventurism despite saddam being
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dead i asked general austin whether or not we should repeal the AUMF as the united states senate has
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secretary austin is it the position of the department of defense that we need to keep the 2002 AUMF
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you're asking me if that's a decision by the department is your position that's uh that's
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something that congress will decide so if we appeal the 2002 AUMF will it what i ask for is that we
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have the relevant uh authorities uh to do the work that we need to do against transnational terrorist
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organizations but the 2002 AUMF was about saddam right it was and 2001 AUMF provides us what we need
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still we still need the 2002 AUMF you think 2001 AUMF provides us what we need in terms of authorities so
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in your mind we could repeal 2002 then that's up to congress but if they if congress does that then we
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still have the ability to um uh do what we need to do based upon the 2001.
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there you have it finally years after saddam's death we are able to repeal the 2002 AUMF and the
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house of representatives should get to the business of doing precisely that we started the show today with
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images from the tennessee legislature where leftists appear to be engaged in some level of
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physical altercation with lawmakers because they want gun control to deprive law-abiding citizens
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of their rights somehow they think that will make them safer i believe what you're seeing in tennessee
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right now was directly animated by the spectacle from the house of representatives yesterday what
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you're about to hear is from representative jamal bowman a democrat from new york chastising
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second amendment champion from kentucky thomas massey take a listen
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they're freaking cowards they're gutless we're not here i'm talking about gun violence you know
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there's never been a school in the school that allows teachers to carry
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carry guns would you more guns lead to more debt more guns lead to more debt look at the data you're not
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looking at any data you're not looking at any data you're in the water for the gun lobby
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look at the data all right folks i've got a bill to repeal
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i worked in the school for 20 years you're just screaming i was a teacher i was screaming before
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you came and interrupted me every every i worked in the school for 20 years i worked in the school
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20 years in every school i was a teacher i was a school counselor i was a middle school principal
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i was in cafeterias every school that allows every day of my career there's never been a shooting
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never been a shooting it's time we've got guns here to protect us and he doesn't believe the kids
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should have somebody to protect them every school that's allowed it has never had a shooting not even
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an accidental discharge at any of the schools the grace and patience and intelligence of thomas
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massey was on full display there while jamal bowman lacked logic or reason or decorum thomas
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massey explained that if you create hard targets out of schools you deter this type of violence against
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the vulnerable but now we've created a society where everyone knows that you may have a school resource
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officer or two but there is not an armed citizenry ready and able and capable to protect themselves
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in far too many cases at school settings and we hope that changes and we encourage thomas massey
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in his support of the second amendment and we certainly hope that folks aren't violent and crazy and weird
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in their desire to stop violence it's a special message for those of you causing a ruckus in tennessee
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