The Great America Show - September 18, 2023


AMERICANS VS ANTI-AMERICANS


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

166.74039

Word Count

4,775

Sentence Count

363

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Trump hits a new record high in the polls. Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Mark Milley steps down at the end of the month. President Trump was asked a question he has never been asked before. Did he give himself a pardon before leaving the White House?


Transcript

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00:01:15.040 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs.
00:01:25.300 Welcome to The Great America Show.
00:01:27.060 Great to have you with us.
00:01:28.960 President Trump has hit another new record high in the polls.
00:01:33.180 In the most recent Fox News poll conducted three weeks after the first presidential debate,
00:01:38.960 President Trump maintains what is a commanding lead.
00:01:42.280 This poll has President Trump at 60% approval.
00:01:46.680 That's up seven points from their last poll just a month ago.
00:01:50.520 Governor Ron DeSantis still struggling to garner any support whatsoever.
00:01:55.300 His numbers at just 13%.
00:01:57.380 That's only two points ahead of a third place Ramaswamy.
00:02:01.200 President Trump threw all of these investigations and indictments and impeachments and special
00:02:07.920 counsels and the non-stop hit jobs by the fake news media for now what is eight years.
00:02:15.840 He's not only standing strong, but his numbers keep rising and he's well on his way to the
00:02:21.280 2024 nomination and back to the White House.
00:02:25.180 President Trump recently did an interview with Meet the Press.
00:02:28.180 Don't ask me why he still talks to these people, but he does.
00:02:32.120 And he was asked a question he was never asked before.
00:02:35.960 Did President Trump give himself a pocket pardon before leaving the White House in anticipation
00:02:42.020 of what the Marxist Dems were going to do to him once he was out of office?
00:02:48.540 Take a listen to President Trump's very interesting response.
00:02:53.040 I was given the option.
00:02:54.400 I could have done a pardon of myself.
00:02:56.800 You know what I said?
00:02:58.180 I have no interest in even thinking about it.
00:03:00.680 I never even wanted to think about it.
00:03:03.100 And I could have done it.
00:03:04.340 And all of these questions you're asking me about the fake charges, you wouldn't be asking
00:03:08.800 me because it's a very powerful, it's a very powerful thing for a president.
00:03:14.040 I was told by some people that these are sick lunatics that I'm dealing with.
00:03:19.380 Give yourself a pardon.
00:03:20.300 Your life will be a lot easier.
00:03:21.600 I said I would never give myself a pardon.
00:03:23.460 And there he is, an innocent man under attack as always by the Marxist Dems and the deep
00:03:30.280 state.
00:03:31.720 Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Mark Milley set to retire at the end of the month.
00:03:36.160 That's a hallelujah moment for the country.
00:03:39.020 And thank God he's finally going to be gone.
00:03:42.300 Milley recently sat down with ABC News and reflected on one of his most recent ill-advised
00:03:48.660 decisions, his role in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:03:53.500 General Milley says the way the Biden regime waited to evacuate American citizens, in his
00:03:59.040 opinion, was a huge mistake.
00:04:02.340 Here he is.
00:04:03.480 It didn't end the way I wanted it.
00:04:05.200 It didn't end the way any of us wanted it.
00:04:07.880 Look at when the enemy is occupying your capital, the capital of the country that you supported,
00:04:14.160 that's a strategic setback, strategic failure.
00:04:17.960 That's what I testified to in public.
00:04:20.040 And there's no way you can describe that as a strategic success.
00:04:25.800 And certainly taking 124,000 people out is an amazing logistical feat.
00:04:31.420 That's true.
00:04:32.200 And it exceeds that which came out of Vietnam during Operation Whirlwind.
00:04:35.560 And those people are free today because of the courage and the bravery of all of those
00:04:40.900 that were on the ground at the airport.
00:04:43.620 But in the broader sense, the war was lost.
00:04:47.240 We were fighting the Taliban and their allies, you know, for 20-plus years.
00:04:53.200 And they prevailed in that capital for a lot of reasons that we don't have time to go
00:04:58.920 over today.
00:04:59.440 But sure, lots of regrets by a lot of us from 9-1-1 on.
00:05:04.520 General Milley forgets to mention that it was a fight lost to the Taliban under his
00:05:10.000 leadership, under his counsel to the President of the United States, and under his watch.
00:05:16.600 Our guest today has been in a nine-month standoff with the Pentagon.
00:05:21.280 Our guest has been blocking the promotions for more than 300 senior Pentagon officers over
00:05:26.920 the military's woke policies on abortion.
00:05:30.000 And the policy he has challenged is one that allows military members paid time off and
00:05:36.600 expenses paid for travel to other states for abortions.
00:05:41.480 He says the Pentagon woke leaders are injecting their left-wing policies into our most sacred
00:05:47.720 institutions, and he will not stand for it.
00:05:51.860 Joining us now is the man himself, Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:05:55.600 Senator, you are raising all sorts of a ruckus in the U.S. military and also on the other
00:06:01.700 side of the aisle.
00:06:03.320 And I have to say this to you, millions of Americans, in my judgment, are saluting you
00:06:08.620 at this very moment for everything that you've done for the past nine months.
00:06:12.660 Thank you.
00:06:13.320 And I have to say, I applaud you for your courage and your principle.
00:06:18.000 Well, thank you, Lou.
00:06:19.020 I didn't come up here to sit on the back row.
00:06:21.140 If I was going to do that, I would go and play golf and not worry about our country.
00:06:25.840 But I am so concerned about the United States of America that you and I had the great opportunity
00:06:31.360 to grow up in.
00:06:32.540 I'm concerned about our Constitution.
00:06:35.580 I'm concerned about the direction our country is going in.
00:06:38.880 And I have decided I am going to speak up, stand up, and not take anything from these
00:06:44.020 Democrats.
00:06:44.400 Because I swear, I've been up here now, going on three years, and not one thing has this
00:06:49.760 administration, nor the Democrats, not one thing have they done to make our country better.
00:06:54.440 Now, you talk about other countries.
00:06:56.740 We can talk a long time.
00:06:58.040 But our country has taken way big steps backwards.
00:07:02.940 Everybody else is going forward.
00:07:04.860 I hope that's not the agenda of this administration.
00:07:07.620 But I'm going to tell you, I don't see anything other than what I'm seeing today.
00:07:11.060 Well, I was going to say, if you see anything, if you see a single policy, and I mean a single
00:07:16.180 policy in this country, and I'm talking to the audience now, if you see one thing that
00:07:21.760 this administration, this Biden regime has done in the interest of the United States,
00:07:26.440 to the senator's point, I mean, what has he done for America?
00:07:32.340 It's just whether it's border policy, border security, immigration policy, whether it's fiscal
00:07:36.980 policy, monetary policy, foreign policy, it's just out of control.
00:07:43.080 And I have to compliment you and thank you profoundly for what you are doing in putting
00:07:49.480 a block on military promotions.
00:07:52.140 And you have raised the hackles of every, well, certainly every two and three star general I
00:08:01.680 know, and as I read about the three and four stars, they must all be on a campaign bus
00:08:07.260 because they're going after you left and right.
00:08:10.640 Personally, I would demote anyone that started talking this nonsense about a U.S.
00:08:15.700 senator.
00:08:16.480 Your reaction to these people?
00:08:18.980 Well, I was called by the Secretary of Navy, Army, and I think Air Force, somebody working
00:08:27.160 with the communists and the terrorists, you know, I'm thinking, my gosh, I've been a citizen
00:08:32.580 of this country.
00:08:33.500 I've done everything I possibly do, could educate kids to our constitution and good moral values
00:08:39.100 and all my dealings with athletics over the years.
00:08:42.180 My dad was career military.
00:08:44.540 My family's fought in the military.
00:08:46.780 And I'm letting some buffoon call me a communist terrorist.
00:08:51.100 Are you kidding me, Lou?
00:08:52.520 That is the direction that we're going.
00:08:54.460 And again, as I said earlier, they have not been told no in three years.
00:08:59.920 Now, all of a sudden, an ex-football coach who happened to win to be a senator stood up
00:09:06.200 and says, we're not going to do that anymore.
00:09:08.620 They have hit the ceiling.
00:09:10.600 Chuck Schumer doesn't know what to do.
00:09:12.720 Elizabeth Warren and Mark Kelly and all these so-called Americans have ripped me apart.
00:09:19.880 But you know what?
00:09:20.680 It doesn't bother me one bit because I'm standing up for God, country and family and our constitution.
00:09:27.300 And if other people don't start doing that, Lou, we are going to have huge or we've already got huge problems.
00:09:32.360 But we've got to get this train back on the right track.
00:09:35.520 Without question.
00:09:36.340 And I just want to share with the audience a couple of statements that were made.
00:09:41.700 And if I can just pull this thing up here, I've got his name sitting here somewhere on a pile of papers.
00:09:50.400 But anyway, he is a he's a four star general in the United States Air Force.
00:09:53.940 And he was asked about whether or not the blocks that you put on about, what is it, 300 basic promotions there.
00:10:02.160 That number is growing, of course.
00:10:04.340 He responded by saying it did, in fact, affect recruiting that you are to blame for the recruiting shortfalls of the United States military.
00:10:14.780 Now, that's a four star general speaking, and I won't use his name because I can't find it.
00:10:20.260 I would use it and shout it from the rooftops.
00:10:22.420 That's a kind of idiot logic that I think should be the basis for an immediate demotion from anyone on a general staff, because if his mind does not function better than that, what is he doing in a command position?
00:10:34.680 Your reaction.
00:10:35.560 Well, it's all about leadership.
00:10:38.140 We have zero leadership in the Pentagon.
00:10:41.000 Now, I won't say zero in the Pentagon.
00:10:42.880 We've probably got some good people.
00:10:44.680 But I know for a fact in the White House there's zero leadership, and they all work hand in hand.
00:10:49.320 Lou, you can't find a parking spot to park any kind of car at the Pentagon right now because they all got two or three black SUVs, all these generals and admirals with their entourages.
00:11:00.260 Now, I want you to think about this, a four star, a four star has a budget of around $300 or $400 million and a staff of $1,000 to $2,000.
00:11:10.940 Yeah, you heard me right, each one of them.
00:11:13.000 Now, we've got 44 four stars in the United States military as we speak, 44.
00:11:18.040 We had seven during World War II.
00:11:19.900 You don't think we're not top heavy, and they're worried about we don't have enough people to make decisions?
00:11:24.780 My God, the decisions that they made with Afghanistan, they should have cleaned the house over there.
00:11:30.260 But the people that let this go on.
00:11:32.080 So, hey, they don't need to talk to me about readiness or recruitment.
00:11:35.640 Their recruitment started when they cut out 8,000 true Americans from the military for not taking a damn vaccine.
00:11:42.860 Now, that is ridiculous.
00:11:44.320 And we're finding out now it didn't work.
00:11:47.000 I mean, it actually hurt people.
00:11:48.520 They made the right decision.
00:11:49.860 But this government, this administration we have now, Lou, they're off the tracks.
00:11:55.420 They're not, I don't call it Republican and Democrat anymore.
00:11:58.280 I call it Americans versus anti-Americans because it's exactly what it is.
00:12:02.700 Well, it's a Marxist-dim philosophy that has overtaken the Democrat Party.
00:12:07.560 And when I hear you speak, it just, you confirm what has been, I think, the American people understand,
00:12:14.600 is that the military has been just indoctrinated.
00:12:19.560 And I'm talking about the leadership.
00:12:20.960 They've taken over the military.
00:12:23.240 They are more, it appears to be, more emphasis on gender affirmation policies and rules and regulations and protocols
00:12:33.160 than there are on basic readiness and developing a combat-ready military.
00:12:41.520 I don't even hear them talk about it.
00:12:44.520 It's ridiculous.
00:12:45.920 And I, again, I want to just say thank you, Senator, for all that you're doing.
00:12:50.260 We're going to take a quick pause here.
00:12:52.440 We're going to come right back.
00:12:53.520 We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:12:55.660 He is a great American hero.
00:12:58.700 We're back.
00:13:05.380 We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:13:07.560 And, Senator, I have to ask, what is the reaction in the Senate?
00:13:11.520 Because Mitch McConnell is not known to be a particularly solid, rock-solid leader.
00:13:19.000 Have you been getting a lot of flack and grief from the leadership team over there?
00:13:24.160 Oh, no.
00:13:24.620 No, I haven't got a lot of flack, but I haven't got a lot of support either.
00:13:27.260 And Senator McConnell has come out a couple of times and, listen, Luke, we all got our opinion up here.
00:13:32.780 Okay?
00:13:33.140 I represent the people of Alabama and the citizens all over across this country that love our country.
00:13:39.220 He thinks I'm doing – I shouldn't be doing this.
00:13:42.620 Now, I've got my reasons.
00:13:44.900 I'm out there looking at – I've got seven military bases in Alabama.
00:13:48.920 We have a lot of defense contractors.
00:13:50.760 I've traveled all over the world, around the world two times just last year going to bases
00:13:55.140 and talking to generals and admirals and enlisted personnel.
00:14:01.340 Our military needs help.
00:14:02.740 Now, one thing I want to say, we've got a strong military in some areas,
00:14:07.020 but we have to have 100% military, everybody on the same page,
00:14:10.780 because if we don't have a strong military in the most dangerous time in you in my lifetime,
00:14:15.540 and me and you've been around for a while, if we don't have the strongest military that we can build as we speak
00:14:21.600 to protect us and our allies, we have nothing.
00:14:25.720 We have nothing in this country.
00:14:27.460 You can talk about everything else you want, but our military is the most important thing that we do,
00:14:31.960 and I'm doing the best I possibly can to keep dang politics out of it.
00:14:35.380 But I'll tell you, this group in the White House and Pentagon, they don't know anything but politics.
00:14:40.120 They don't know leadership.
00:14:41.540 They know the direction they want to send this country,
00:14:44.140 and it's not anything that our parents or great-grandparents understood or would understand today.
00:14:50.380 Well, you don't have to comment on what I'm about to say,
00:14:53.100 but comment, please, if you do want to say something, including argue with me.
00:15:00.580 We won't argue rigorously.
00:15:02.300 I don't want to get into an arm wrestling match with you.
00:15:06.740 But the fact is, this military has become part of the fifth column that has grown up in this country.
00:15:13.000 We have more to fear right now, in my judgment, from what we have done internally in this country,
00:15:18.840 what we have allowed from the Black Lives Matter movement, from Antifa,
00:15:23.060 from the Marxist Dems who control this puppet president who is impaired and compromised
00:15:27.620 and who will never stand against the Communist Chinese Party ever.
00:15:32.640 He is scared to death of them, and he is aligned with them.
00:15:37.660 And it's so clear that all of Wall Street and corporate America,
00:15:42.240 it's not corporate America anymore, it's corporate global.
00:15:45.180 They may be founded and registered in Delaware, but they're global.
00:15:54.220 We are looking at a situation in this country we've never faced.
00:15:58.460 Remember the Red Square in the late 40s and 50s?
00:16:02.240 This is the Red Square, only there are true Reds, and most of them are American.
00:16:07.800 Your thoughts?
00:16:09.080 Well, you're exactly right.
00:16:10.360 And, again, we've got huge threats all over the world, and we all know about China.
00:16:14.080 And, you know, the media tries to scare us about them.
00:16:16.900 And they're a problem, but that guy wakes up every day, Lou,
00:16:19.320 trying to find a way to feed 1.4 billion people.
00:16:22.740 So he's got a lot on his plate.
00:16:25.720 Ukraine and Russia, you know, I'm for Ukraine, but I haven't voted for any money to go to them
00:16:30.340 because it's like a junior high playing a college football team.
00:16:33.700 They've got no chance.
00:16:35.120 We're throwing the taxpayers' money in something.
00:16:37.300 Nobody up here has any diplomacy skills or secretary of state or secretary of defense
00:16:43.540 or president or vice president.
00:16:45.400 Nobody could have been on the phone calling Putin like President Trump would say,
00:16:50.300 listen, we're shutting this thing down over here.
00:16:52.020 You shut it down, and let's work out a deal.
00:16:54.180 We have nobody that wants to talk about it.
00:16:56.240 It just turns my skin to know that a lot of this money we're sending to Ukraine is not accountable for.
00:17:02.920 It's going to places that probably the American taxpayer would say, what's that money going there for?
00:17:08.240 I thought we were trying to help Ukrainians.
00:17:09.980 But what scares me, Lou, today, I think the biggest threat is what we just did in Iran.
00:17:16.120 I've given them $6 billion to free hostage, which we don't pay ransom in this country until this administration.
00:17:24.060 We gave them money to continue to build on a nuclear weapon.
00:17:28.800 And don't think these people won't use it.
00:17:30.920 And our ally Israel is sitting there going, you know, we've got to decide if we're going to attack before they get it made.
00:17:38.320 And when that happens, all heck's going to break loose.
00:17:41.160 So we live, Lou, in a world that is really, really shaky.
00:17:44.700 And this administration here, I don't think they have a clue, to be honest with you.
00:17:48.580 They just put gas on the fire over there, and it's going to get worse and worse.
00:17:54.380 And I can't wait to get these people out of that White House if we can make it that long.
00:17:57.980 I'm very honest.
00:17:58.820 It scares me every day to see what's going on across not just our country, which, you know, we're our worst enemy right now within our borders.
00:18:06.320 But there's a lot of problems outside our borders.
00:18:09.520 That's absolutely right.
00:18:10.640 And this administration knows exactly what they're doing.
00:18:13.100 Tony Blinken is not a smart man, but he is smarter than what he has pretended to be.
00:18:19.340 This is a man who should have been stopping this.
00:18:23.160 The U.S. intelligence knew what Putin was going to do six months before February 24th and let him do it.
00:18:30.160 They encourage it in point of fact.
00:18:31.880 President Biden saying, well, you know, if it's just a minor occursion, I guess we could basically, effectively, he said this.
00:18:38.360 A minor occursion is the way to express it.
00:18:40.700 We could probably handle that, but not a major incursion.
00:18:44.060 I mean, these idiots, I don't know why people don't talk straight about it.
00:18:47.840 The man is demented.
00:18:49.500 He is absolutely unfit for that office.
00:18:52.240 He is an embarrassment.
00:18:53.480 He's a G20.
00:18:54.440 He can't even function.
00:18:55.480 And his, for some reason, Dr. Jill is in a cabinet meeting and had to take over for him because he was incapable of going on with the meeting.
00:19:07.720 I mean, this, on its face, you would think that the national corporate media would be dealing with this honestly, forthrightly, and bringing us all into question.
00:19:19.400 But instead, they are mouthpieces for the Marxist Dems.
00:19:23.200 It's just that simple.
00:19:24.580 I want to ask you, what is it going to take to get the military to listen up and get straightened out so they can resume their recruiting, as they put it?
00:19:36.340 Well, we've got an all-volunteer military, and that ain't working with what's going on right now.
00:19:40.840 Because if you look at the stats, Lou, and again, being on the Armed Services Committee, I see the recruitment, and we're way behind.
00:19:46.560 The Marines are going to make their recruiting this year.
00:19:48.340 Last year, we were 15,000 short in the Army.
00:19:50.840 You look at what's going on.
00:19:53.460 In the past, our military has been made up of about 45% of military families, kids passed down generation to generation, of wanting to get in the military.
00:20:03.700 That's down to about 18%.
00:20:05.520 Hello?
00:20:06.900 Something's wrong.
00:20:08.120 And when that happens, why is it happening?
00:20:10.760 It's because these people that are in the military, the fathers and the mothers in the military, said, no, no, no.
00:20:15.320 My kid's not getting in this mess.
00:20:17.140 That's exactly what's happening.
00:20:18.620 I don't care how much money you put in recruiting or what you throw out there in terms of inducements to get these young men and women into what used to be the greatest military ever.
00:20:29.180 I don't care what you do.
00:20:30.220 It ain't going to work because they don't want to get involved in all this social justice, this DEI.
00:20:36.260 I mean, it is absolutely a disaster, and it's going to get worse.
00:20:40.220 I don't know how we fix it because we have got a lot of woke people in there, and of these 300 I'm holding as we speak, they've given me time to vet all of them through different organizations.
00:20:51.680 And, Lou, we've got some winners, or non-winners, as I'd call them, that want promotions to two-, three-, and four-star.
00:20:58.920 Our country deserves better than that.
00:21:00.860 Our men and women in uniform deserve better than that.
00:21:03.780 Or the people that actually do the fighting, the colonels, the majors, the lieutenants, the sergeants, the privates, they deserve better than that.
00:21:10.720 It's a shame we've gotten to this point with politics.
00:21:14.600 We've got to get politics out of the military.
00:21:17.800 Well, you and I were talking about the carrier, the Gerald Ford.
00:21:21.580 I want to, right after, we're going to take a quick break here, just to pause.
00:21:25.400 And I'd like to get some more information about what is going on, what is working in this military, because we've got something, what is that, is the Gerald Ford up to about $25 billion in costs right now?
00:21:38.980 We're going to find out.
00:21:40.860 We're talking with Senator Tommy Tuberville, a great American.
00:21:44.940 Stay with us.
00:21:45.720 We'll be right back.
00:21:46.380 We're back with Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:21:54.560 And, Senator, I just was talking about the Gerald Ford.
00:21:58.160 That is one of the biggest disasters in the history of the United States fleet, United States Navy fleet.
00:22:05.600 It took, I think, 15 years to actually build that aircraft, as I recall.
00:22:10.820 Give us your sense of the quality of the decision-making going on just in the U.S. Navy now.
00:22:18.140 Well, we've had people with oversight of that thing, Lou, that was absolutely either not qualified, turning their head, or just absolutely didn't know what they're doing.
00:22:29.220 And, you know, that happens a lot up here, especially in the oversight of the money being spent.
00:22:35.540 But the Gerald Ford took forever.
00:22:37.140 He went out on his maiden voyage not too long ago.
00:22:40.240 But they have about 8,000 to 10,000 people on board.
00:22:42.620 And, of course, I raised Cain about the maiden voyage.
00:22:45.380 They allowed a young lady to get on there to read poems to everybody on the ship over the loudspeaker on the maiden voyage.
00:22:53.640 And, you know, I asked Admiral Gilday, who is the chief of the Navy, what in the world?
00:22:58.760 I said, this is the maiden voyage of a multi-billion-dollar ship, supposedly the best ever.
00:23:05.580 And you're making people listen to poems over the loudspeaker.
00:23:10.500 What is our military coming to?
00:23:11.980 My dad would, if he was still alive, he would just be shaking his head about the direction our military has gone.
00:23:19.720 But, as I said earlier, we were talking about there's one gentleman that wants a promotion.
00:23:27.040 But he was oversight on the Gerald Ford, and it was an absolute disaster.
00:23:32.280 And they want to give him another star just because he shows up for work, I guess.
00:23:36.520 And if it's their narrative, it's not something that we can be proud of right now, the direction that we're going.
00:23:42.760 Yeah, I think a lot of people don't realize that that ship was supposed to have been seaworthy 20 years ago, almost 20 years ago.
00:23:54.020 The elevators that bring the aircraft up to the flight deck didn't work.
00:23:58.820 They couldn't make them work for years.
00:24:00.660 I mean, we're not talking about this was like a six-week delay.
00:24:04.360 The design of the ship was completely screwed up.
00:24:08.720 The manufacturing in the ship was screwed up.
00:24:11.380 And I don't know of anything about the ship other than the fact that its hull apparently worked pretty well.
00:24:18.700 That was correct.
00:24:20.160 It's just an astonishing tale.
00:24:22.260 And people, it took forever for that maiden voyage, as you call it, for them to put to sea and to be actually, I think they are now actually in the fleet.
00:24:32.400 But, my Lord, what a story it is.
00:24:34.660 And, unfortunately, it's been replicated in aircraft and the Air Force and across all of the branches.
00:24:40.260 So, you mentioned the volunteer military.
00:24:44.760 Why don't we go back to what worked for this country for a very long time?
00:24:48.780 And that was a draft.
00:24:50.520 Your thoughts?
00:24:51.940 Oh, my goodness.
00:24:52.840 If you said that up here, you'd have people running for cover, Lou.
00:24:56.580 And I've always been for men and women to have maybe a 13th year of high school or maybe just use their senior year of training them in certain areas, in some facet of the military, kind of like Israel does and a couple other countries.
00:25:15.200 But, I mean, you wouldn't get that to fly up here.
00:25:18.900 I mean, these people, they, again, being so woke, they couldn't control them.
00:25:24.020 And, again, all this group in the Democratic Party, the activists, they look for some kind of control.
00:25:31.980 And, Lord, help us all if we actually taught discipline again and values and a situation where people had to go by orders every day to get up at 5 in the morning and make their bed.
00:25:45.320 I mean, that would be asking way too much of a lot.
00:25:50.680 Now, a lot of our young people would be great at it because I made them do that.
00:25:53.900 My kids, when I coach them, hey, we all got up at 5 in the morning.
00:25:56.980 And some of them had never seen the sunrise, but I got great comments from them after they'd graduate.
00:26:03.140 But, you know, I know where you're coming from, and I would love to see some kind of training that we could do.
00:26:11.820 We could be money well spent.
00:26:14.340 You know, hell, Lou, we're $33 trillion in debt.
00:26:17.820 And I wanted to say something.
00:26:19.400 Where is this great infrastructure, military, all these things?
00:26:23.240 We ought to have streets of gold, all of our plumbing, our pipes, our water, our dams, our airports, our trains.
00:26:30.720 They should be immaculate.
00:26:32.020 Where is that $33 trillion that we spent?
00:26:35.080 And it's gone.
00:26:36.540 It's either stolen or misappropriated or misused.
00:26:39.880 It has been a disaster, you know, with this federal government for many, many years, not just with Biden.
00:26:46.040 We have gone awry somewhere that nobody's kept their eye on the cookie jar.
00:26:50.380 And, again, we should be the shining example on the Hill.
00:26:55.740 And we are struggling to make ends meet.
00:26:58.700 Senator, we appreciate you being with us today.
00:27:02.320 We thank you so much.
00:27:03.820 You're an inspiration to us all.
00:27:06.080 And I assure you, I can't speak for all of those folks in the military.
00:27:10.880 But I'll make you a bet that 90% of them are deeply, deeply appreciative for all that you're doing to bring focus to all that is wrong with the leadership of the United States military right now.
00:27:24.820 Coach, we really appreciate you.
00:27:28.280 And we thank you very much for all that you're doing for America.
00:27:32.020 Senator Tommy Coverville, thanks for being with us.
00:27:35.260 Thank you.
00:27:35.600 God bless.
00:27:36.580 Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today.
00:27:38.740 Tomorrow, please be with us.
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00:28:06.560 God bless you.
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