Four men who served with Governor Tim Walz when he was in the National Guard have come forward to accuse him of falsely inflating his military rank and abandoning his men when they were deployed to Iraq. They speak to The Megynkelly show for the first time about this controversy.
00:02:57.480And you will also meet today Tom Schilling, who's a retired sergeant first class.
00:03:02.180He did deploy to Iraq the same deployment that Tim Walz abandoned.
00:03:07.200And he will share with us for the first time his thoughts on this controversy.
00:03:12.740We are grateful to all of them for their honesty, for their candor, and for their courage, not only in servicing us all on the battlefield,
00:03:19.020but in coming forward, which has created a national firestorm around Tim Walz.
00:03:23.400Yes, but he's put himself out there as a public figure, but also around them and for just telling the truth.
00:03:30.560In a firestorm, they didn't want to create.
00:03:33.220They tried to handle it privately without ever publicly embarrassing him, but he refused to do the right thing.
00:05:40.620So there's so much going on with this issue, and we're being told by Tim Walz, by Kamala Harris, and by their supporters that this is a nothing burger.
00:05:48.780There's no there there, and I'm just going to tee up some of the reaction for you with this congressman, Adam Smith, who came on my program last week.
00:05:57.500He's a Democrat from California, and he defended Tim Walz very strongly and basically told us there's no there there, that we're making much ado about nothing, and I'll give you my first soundbite, 11, here with him.
00:06:54.260I don't know what their motivations are.
00:06:55.660I don't know who they are who are saying this.
00:06:57.920But, again, let's just take a step back for one second.
00:07:00.860The accusation that Tim Walz didn't want to deploy with his unit, and that's why he got out, that is simply not what the facts show.
00:07:10.820And if you are a veteran and you are saying publicly that Tim Walz decided to get out because he didn't want to go to Iraq, then you are saying something that you cannot possibly know to be true.
00:07:28.040Tim Walz said himself in March of 2005, through his campaign, a statement that was put out, that he was going to run for Congress, but the unit had been notified that they're going to be going to Iraq in the near future, sometime in the future.
00:07:47.100He said, that's all I'm going to say about it.
00:07:48.560But I have a great support team and a great wife, and they're going to support me whether I campaign in Minnesota or Iraq.
00:08:26.020You know, it's classified, and it's read to the soldiers, and that's probably destroyed.
00:08:30.260I tried to get a copy of it, and it probably exists somewhere out there, but it's not something that's public that you can find right now.
00:08:38.280So your point is he knew before February of 2005 when he said he was retiring?
00:08:42.300Absolutely. I mean, from what I'm hearing, the leadership of the state pretty much knew something was going to be going on in the summer of 2004.
00:08:50.600And in the fall of 2004, you know, brigade and division and battalion leadership, you know, there's no evidence for sure that we know that they knew.
00:08:58.020But if that's how it usually works is that, you know, the senior leadership knows ahead of time in a meeting that's classified.
00:09:05.080They don't find out at the same time the rest of you guys find out.
00:09:07.240Yeah, they always know that. I mean, it doesn't just all get dropped.
00:09:10.140The bomb gets dropped on the whole dang unit out there in the leadership and the soldiers all at once.
00:09:14.480And he was in leadership. He had the same position to you.
00:09:19.060So do you agree with that, that he would have told, because Doug Juleen, he's out there saying, and he also served.
00:09:23.760I'll get his title. He also says that they were actually told in the fall of 2004, he said, that's when we received my commander, myself of the 1st Brigade, 34th Infantry Division Brigade Combat Team,
00:09:38.220what's called a notification of sourcing, which is a NAS, he described it, informing us that we would be alerted to go to Iraq within the upcoming year.
00:11:05.400Do you think their parents didn't want their soldiers to take a pass, take a knee, and maybe go on the next one or go on something that maybe isn't so dangerous?
00:11:16.560He came out and said he was going to go.
00:11:18.620All the time working behind Doug Juleen's back, going behind the chain of command's back to secure his retirement.
00:11:27.700I mean, I still don't know who signed the 4187 to allow him to get out.
00:11:32.380He would have got caught up in stop loss for sure, and he wouldn't have gone anywhere.
00:11:36.840He already claimed that he wasn't going to go out.
00:11:40.000He was going to deploy forward with his unit.
00:11:42.040So you're saying whenever he found out that he was deploying, and you're saying he found out before he's saying he found out, but whenever he found out, prior to his official leaving of the National Guard, he knew Iraq was coming, and he was telling you, I'll deploy, I'll deploy.
00:11:59.900Notwithstanding the fact that he had said already, I'm going to run for Congress, he's saying, I'll go with my unit.
00:12:10.820Because, you know, his defenders say, hey, he was allowed to retire, so.
00:12:15.220And I will say, this is another thing, and I put it out there.
00:12:20.160I spent 34 years in the Army, almost 13 of those as a sergeant major.
00:12:28.760The preponderance of my career, and us as non-commissioned officers, people, I don't think people understand, or they don't have a good,
00:12:40.820understanding of our role in the military, when push comes to shove, we have officers that are appointed over us.
00:12:49.560And our job is to make sure that those soldiers are motivated and educated and trained to the best of their ability, with all the assets at hand, to carry out the orders of the President of the United States and the officers appointed over them.
00:13:08.440Back in World War I, when we were doing trench warfare, the officer would blow the whistle to leave the trenches and charge the enemy across the line.
00:13:17.860The non-commissioned officers' job is to make sure that they're motivated to the hilt to come out of those trenches.
00:13:25.120And I'm going to be the point of the spear.
00:13:29.640I was out there in harm's way just as much as anybody else.
00:13:33.200And my job is to make sure that those soldiers have the utmost confidence in their leadership.
00:13:47.020If the powers that be, if the officer blows the whistle to leave the trenches, and I'm the guy who's motivating everybody to leave, and I go, nah, not today.
00:14:58.940You know, his comments offhand that I had heard at some of those meetings were, you know, and I didn't put two and two together, but he was talking to another sergeant major, who will not be named, and you know who you are, that, you know, thanks.
00:15:12.040You know, I have a good chance to win this election this November.
00:15:14.920So I didn't put any of that together until he didn't show up and Tom was tasked with, you know, being the CSM for one of the 125s.
00:15:25.600Because you took over the position he should have had on the deployment.
00:15:28.680When he quit in May, it was like the rumor went across the state that he had quit.
00:15:34.360And it was like, who the hell does that?
00:15:36.040I mean, it was just unbelievable that a CSM abandoned his troops, you know, 500 soldiers, basically.
00:15:43.000But beyond that, there's a thousand parents out there that expect that person to lead those people into combat and to train them and to do everything they can to equip them properly and, you know, try to get them all home alive if possible.
00:15:57.000And besides those thousand parents, there's all the sisters and brothers out there and everybody in the small hometowns in the National Guard.
00:16:04.220I mean, there's thousands of towns across Minnesota that have guard people in them.
00:16:09.900And it's not just where the unit's at.
00:16:11.320I mean, all those little small towns come together.
00:16:13.380Well, all this great community is behind all those soldiers there.
00:16:17.880And for that sergeant major or a first sergeant or an E7 or anybody in an NCO position to quit like that, it's like losing the patriarch of the family, you know, the quarterback of a football team.
00:16:32.480I mean, literally what this guy did is he was like Tom Brady training until the Super Bowl, you know, getting to that point.
00:16:39.160And then the Super Bowl comes up and he says, you know, you second stringer, get out there and play because I might get hurt.
00:16:44.340And I don't, you know, I want to keep myself well for when I retire now and carry on.
00:16:49.360And the Super Bowl is out there and you're not playing in it.
00:16:52.660Except in Iraq, you're actually risking your life.
00:16:56.020I mean, that's the big thing that you train for.
00:16:59.020You train for 24 years to get to that position.
00:17:01.300When you go to basic training, you're training to go to war, you're training to go to combat, you're training to kill people, basically, or, you know, hopefully not get killed yourself.
00:17:14.820And as you go up the rank, once you get to 24 years of that, I mean, the next step is, is, okay, if I can go to combat, that's what I've trained for 24 years for.
00:20:19.520So, he's so into himself that, well, I'm going to run for Congress, and then when I get in there, I'm going to do other things.
00:20:24.560It's like, what would he have done if he had lost, and then had abandoned his soldiers then, too?
00:20:29.020I mean, that could have happened very easily.
00:20:30.860It wasn't like he was a sitting congressman in the House of Representatives, and he was just going to quit and spend more time in Washington.
00:20:36.720I mean, he literally had to win the election when he had, you know, in 06, I believe, which was a whole other year out of campaigning.
00:20:44.040So, for him to say that, well, I just quit because I wanted to serve my country in a different way, well, you have no speculation whether he's even going to win or not.
00:20:51.780So, you know, for him to say that, that's kind of a, you know, looking back on it, you can all lay it out and say, this is why I got out, because I was going to win, because I'm the greatest politician in the world.
00:21:03.100And I can be a chameleon to the 1st District and BS them all and act like I'm going to do this to the farmers and this to the hunters and this to the people in Rochester.
00:21:13.160And wherever I go, I wear a different T-shirt that says I'm all for the farmers and whatever, and, you know, does his little dance and everything.
00:21:21.140And pretty soon, everybody, you know, they get buffaloed for a while.
00:21:24.700But 1st District woke up to him, I think, in 2016, too.
00:21:28.480This is where he served as a congressman that wound up voting against him when he ran for governor.
00:22:38.000For instance, I'm more of a, what happens in the community, like the regular army, they stay on their bases and what happens can stay on the bases.
00:22:50.840But Walsh did, we live in the communities and we hear all this stuff.
00:24:23.020And he takes stolen valor to run against another civilian for a United States representative.
00:24:29.120That was really terrible on my part of helping you do that.
00:24:31.480The sins are multiple, the alleged sins.
00:24:37.440Not only did he not go to Iraq, and I guess I should just ask you, raise your hand if you think Tim Walsh is guilty of cutting and running as opposed to serving in Iraq.
00:24:48.340And to those like Adam Smith who suggest maybe there's a political motive here, we've seen some guys come out and say, oh, these are conservative guys.
00:25:05.040I would say that, you know, looking back on what has been dug up on him ever since 2005, August, when he was holding an Enduring Freedom Veterans for Care sign.
00:27:15.560But if the if the order would have said Operation Enduring Freedom to Afghanistan, would you have stayed in then because you felt that was a just war?
00:27:24.260You know, and if that's the case, you know, then that's more dirt on him, too, because it's like you don't get to pick which war to go with.
00:31:48.180I've got to I've got to go through all this.
00:31:49.980So when you see somebody saying they are one when you know they're not one, they didn't do all the sacrifice from the family and the personal time.
00:32:27.640But then he still walks through the halls and says he's a doctor.
00:32:29.980I mean, if a civilian saw that, they'd take that he'd get thrown in jail.
00:32:33.740And, you know, this guy, he's a military impersonator with that.
00:32:37.240It's like I'm using, you know, like you said, he's a retired command sergeant major.
00:32:40.960He's said it so many times that it just makes a person sick here.
00:32:45.600Yeah, the state of Minnesota said that he can say he's, you know, he served as a command sergeant major, which he's never said I served as a command sergeant major.
00:32:57.080And that's where, you know, this originally came out with me like in 2015 and 16 because we had a veterans memorial that was getting dedicated.
00:33:04.960And he came down as the congressman, spoke to the small town.
00:33:32.680And I said, well, I figured somebody above me, whether, you know, whether at state level or, you know, somebody would have corrected him and told him, you know, cease and desist from what you're doing.
00:33:54.680Here's back to your friend, Adam Smith.
00:33:57.300And by the way, I mean, this guy's the ranking member, meaning the most senior member there is on the Democrat side because they're not the party in power in the House right now.
00:34:04.880So he's the ranking member on the Armed Services Committee speaking to this issue of Walsh calling himself a retired command sergeant major.
00:34:14.420He was promoted to be a command sergeant major.
00:34:19.240So at one point, he served in that rank.
00:34:21.480Now, the way it works, which is not something that people who aren't familiar with the military would be aware of, you have to do a little bit more to be able to retire at that rank.
00:34:31.360OK, so it is not wrong to say that Tim Walsh was a command sergeant major.
00:35:59.500What what even Van Jones, I think, is the guy's name on CNN, said, you know, just come out and have a news conference and come clean so we can get over this.
00:36:18.860Well, I I sent the letter to the Armed Services Committee then after I never heard nothing back from Jim Walz and the Ag Committee and every everyone he was on.
00:36:27.420It was like, you know, this guy is lying about his rank.
00:38:55.580You were an assistant coach, and you were fired because of a DUI that you lied about via def on.
00:39:00.920Okay, to try and get out of whatever you were trying to get out of there.
00:39:06.120I mean, it's just, it's just one habitual lie after another, and they keep piling up.
00:39:12.340And eventually you can't, there's not enough blankets to cover it up.
00:39:16.340You heard Adam Smith suggest, there's a couple of times, you know, a couple of times he mistakenly said he was a retired command sergeant major.
00:39:23.600We put together just our own list that we could put, that we could find of him saying that he was a retired command sergeant major.
00:41:00.760He knew that he had been demoted and he continued to say it over and over.
00:41:06.040And then there were some vets who went to his office in 2009 to say, stop saying that and stop saying what you heard somebody else say in there,
00:41:15.660which he has also said with his sign, that you are a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom.
00:41:21.940Which is saying, if you were a vet of Operation Enduring Freedom, what are you saying?
00:42:23.500I'd get him in the mail, and I'd look at it, and I'd just be like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:42:26.920I mean, can the guy just have some loyalty and some integrity and do the right thing when nobody's looking?
00:42:32.980I mean, that's the thing that I've always...
00:42:34.740You know, integrity is being on a deserted island as a soldier and shaving your face with a seashell if you got one.
00:42:40.860So that if you get rescued, you look like a soldier.
00:42:43.520I mean, that's doing the right thing when nobody's watching.
00:42:46.800And he does the wrong thing when everybody's watching, trying to get away with it and putting a spin on it so we can get another vote and hopefully get in the next level of office.
00:42:55.140And that's what's just sad about this situation.
00:42:58.040And, you know, the whole point of us coming forward is it's not just...
00:43:08.980It's not just that he misspoke about being a command sergeant major.
00:43:13.600It's not just that he lied directly to my face and other sergeant majors and officers' faces about his commitment to going to war with his unit.
00:43:26.580And also the confidence that that brings to soldiers that are going to be in the trenches with you.
00:46:27.220It's it's it's people understand it's not just we don't want to overstate our importance or are the commitment that we made to the country or the things that we did for the country and ourselves and the fam and our families.
00:46:42.440But for what I don't understand, when you say that you served in a function that you didn't if you served in combat, let's just go there.
00:46:57.160I served in combat here or I did this there.
00:47:01.940You are robbing that suffering and that commitment and trifling it down for all the men and women that we have sent in harm's way and have not come back or have come back less than the people that have their tortured memories.
00:47:17.920OK, and and and everybody that did that commitment, you belittle it, you're taking a piece of their thunder and you're trying to capture it and put it in a bottle for yourself and use that for your own benefit.
00:47:28.840That's why I told these guys he is a self-licking ice cream cone.
00:47:32.440If anything he says can come back to him, he will do it in a heartbeat.
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00:49:22.020We're going to have massively trained troops.
00:49:23.880No, you're going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks.
00:49:25.700That proves, that statement right there proves how much incompetence.
00:49:33.000How incompetent he is, okay, because he didn't even evidently know that he's got a battalion of MPs.
00:49:40.620He evidently didn't know that he's got, at any given time, there's 300 personnel that are trained, rotated through, because I was on it.
00:49:49.340You have 300 people that are trained, and this all came out into the report, right, that rotates throughout for 300 people that are trained for civil disruptions and natural disaster.
00:50:22.320When you look at the statue of the Minuteman, I think it's in Lexington, Kentucky, where they have the bronze, and he's the Minuteman.
00:50:28.920And the reason they're the Minuteman, the statue's got one hand on the plow and the other one on the rifle, and that's why they're called the Minutemen,
00:50:37.280because when the call goes out, you've got one minute to drop your plow, grab your rifle, and go fight.
00:50:42.220And what he's saying right there is the absolute truth.
00:50:44.800I mean, those people would have been on the ground.
00:50:46.340There would have been a contingent of them there in hours.
00:50:49.640And once that was done, the warning order would have went out to the rest of them that, hey, if this goes south, you guys need to be ready.
00:50:56.600And we would have swarmed the cities from all corners of Minnesota, and the whole damn division would have been there within two days if that would have been called up.
00:51:06.280And we would have sent all of them people packing.
00:51:08.720The cities wouldn't have burned down, and it would have solved a lot of civil violence.
00:51:11.740What about it, Rodney, because you were part of the unit that did deploy to Iraq with a bunch of 19-year-old cooks?
00:51:55.540I mean, some of the most skilled soldiers that are in the service, because you can't just take a 19-year-old cook and have him try and repair a Humvee.
00:52:04.980You know, and you can't, it's, my soldiers were so professional, so proud of them, both men and women.
00:52:17.960But the 19-year-old cooks all know how to shoot a weapon.
00:52:23.180I mean, all the training, we went through everything, they did exactly like any other person on the ground did.
00:52:28.620I mean, Tom, the bottom line is, those 19-year-old cooks, they went, they deployed, and your unit lost some men on the deployment he skipped.
00:52:39.380Like what he was saying about the Gold Star families, and Kathy Miller, you know, she's the Gold Star mom of Kyle, and we made a bronze of him, likeness of him in our memorial.
00:52:48.500He was killed as part of your unit that deployed.
00:52:50.240On the 29th of June, a 19-year-old kid, 19-year-old kid, and he worked in the electronic side of it.
00:52:59.120They went on a mission, they had a mission planned to go get jamming equipment to put on our Humvees.
00:53:04.560And he had a dream that he was going to get wounded or die on this mission.
00:53:09.560And he, I mean, his dream literally was, it consumed him.
00:53:12.460He went to the chaplain, and the chaplain said, you know, if you feel this strongly about this mission, I can probably get you off of it.
00:53:19.360And you can, you know, you know, if it bothers you this much, I can get you off of it.
00:53:24.320And Kyle said, if you did that, and somebody else went to my place, and they got wounded or died, I'd never be able to live with myself.
00:56:44.920And I just think that he is an exact result in why we have Stolen Ballard.
00:56:52.740Where people make decisions that are cowardly and they come back or, and they try to lead vicariously by robbing other people's, you know, all the other soldiers and all the benefits that we did and all the sacrifices.
00:57:08.500They want a piece of that and that they feel slighted.
00:57:11.680And so, or they feel like they made a mistake and this is how they're making up for it.
00:57:44.260If you served in it and you did what he did for 24 years and all of a sudden said, you know, when I looked up the turncoat definition, you know,
00:57:51.820in the Revolutionary War also, it was like, no, that's what this guy did because he literally, and I just called him a deserter also because he left his post, he left his duty station, and he walked off into the sunset.
00:58:02.940I say slithered a lot of times, that he slithered out of the armory, but he walked into the sunset, never turned around, never had any intention of ever coming back to the military.
00:58:14.140And because I've got better things to do.
00:58:16.060So, he took his uniform, and he literally turned it inside out and went off into whatever other realm he did, which was vote against anything that went on in Iraq, vote against Gitmo, vote against wherever.
00:58:28.180And by the way, Gitmo would be a good place for him to end up at, I think.
00:58:48.000Here's what I'll tell you, is that, let's, well, one, you get apples and oranges, and then two, I'll say, well, President Donald Trump decided to do battle in a different form.
00:59:10.460He was in good, the enemy closed in and took action against a former president of this country and tried to kill him.
00:59:20.300And he got wounded in action, fighting for the rights and the constitution of this country.
00:59:29.220We all took an oath to defend the constitution of this country, right, and not walk away from it, not go get married in Tiananmen Square, not, you know, go around lying about carrying weapons in war and everything else.
00:59:49.480I mean, that he's lied about, I mean, there's morality decisions, there's ethical decisions, the army, you know, he's supposed to be the pinnacle of the army values at his position.
01:00:02.320Anybody that knew me, that served with me in the military, you know, even when I was a brigade sergeant major, and I had 5,000 soldiers, and everybody that knows me knows that I don't sugarcoat anything.
01:00:19.680If I don't like you, I'll tell you I don't like you.
01:00:21.980If you're terrible at your job, I'll tell you you're terrible at your job.
01:00:25.060If you're doing a great job, I'll tell you you're doing a great job at your job.
01:00:29.180But, you know, the army value, you know, honor, integrity, I mean, selfless service, where is all this, you know?
01:00:41.140I mean, to his soldiers and his country and the oath that he took, commitment, candor, all those in the non-commissioned officer corps.
01:00:53.100I mean, he doesn't support any of those values that we hold dear.
01:00:58.040And if you give him a pass, if you're in the military, you gave him a pass because he left in the middle of the night, went, left his troops, lied about everything.
01:03:38.080I think the big series that I'm in is the dishonor he has put on the rest of his soldiers as far as, like I say,
01:03:44.940the valor, using it against a civilian, like I was saying before, running Congress.
01:03:49.120And I'm kind of beat up or I'm kind of like he's going to possibly be the second in command in our country.
01:03:59.500And the leadership I've seen all the way through, I think that's really scary.
01:04:03.680If I could actually bring up something else that since this started, there's been all kinds of news stuff coming out of all the different people coming forward.
01:04:11.160And it's, some people say something about the kids he had to whatever, and then you got the help probably.
01:04:17.560But the thing that alarms me the most on this that I heard on the news was he's been to China 30 times.
01:04:25.160And he's a high-ranking person, and in Nebraska they had an artillery unit, and they were dealing with classified stuff that they were firing.
01:04:40.740I really like to know more about that before we've got enough problems with China with people buying off some of our congressmen that's all over the place.
01:04:48.420Besides the line about the combat he was in, besides the stolen valor and all the stuff he did, now it's just not right, especially with China.
01:05:03.820James Comer is doing an investigation to make sure that everything's okay with the numerous contacts with China.
01:05:09.560He got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square for that reason.
01:05:13.020So he would always remember his wedding anniversary and said he was treated like a king over there, that they gave him all sorts of gifts, and that he was living a lot better than anybody else.
01:05:31.380I mean, he literally, like when the third precinct got burned down, I mean, the reporters overheard that being said that it was going to be a gift to the rioters.
01:05:40.300Let's just let them burn that down and abandon it, and then maybe they'll feel satisfied and go away.
01:05:47.720I mean, they just got emboldened and went and did further, and that's exactly what's going on with this situation.
01:05:53.060I mean, if you do this to a guard unit and you abandon them and you do all these pathological lying going on, I mean, what are you going to do at the national level?
01:06:04.020What kind of feedback have you guys gotten from guys, you know, enlisted guys since you came forward?
01:06:11.700Well, you know, it's just been amazing.
01:06:13.500I would have to say I've gotten to meet some of the greatest patriotic Americans I ever even knew existed out here.
01:06:19.820There was a Pakistani cab driver today that was just unbelievable story of coming here, immigrating here, and working to get citizenship and doing everything right,
01:06:31.880and how he was complaining about the migrant crisis and, you know, how everything is just given to him from schooling to housing to whatever,
01:06:39.120and all they do is stand around and smoke pot now.
01:06:41.000And, you know, and the soldiers that have come out, I mean, it's just unbelievable reconnecting with, you know, I haven't seen Paul in a long time or Rod for years,
01:06:49.920and, you know, you see all them and you hear a lot of good comments, and, yeah, there's a couple of people that are willing to fall on the sword for Tim Walz
01:06:58.480because, you know, everybody's got a friend somewhere, I think.
01:07:01.340You know, I was surprised Tim had any, but I guess that's another point.
01:07:05.800But, you know, that's the, there's, and I've gotten some harsh comments, but they make me smile because when I see them, I know I'm doing the right thing
01:07:15.600because when I'm getting under their skin, basically, and they're calling me a traitor for calling him a traitor, it's like, I'm not a traitor for doing that.
01:07:23.180I mean, I don't, I can sleep well at night knowing what I'm doing is the right thing.
01:07:26.620And I could go to, if the election goes, and he gets in on November 5th or whatever date it is, and he's in there, I can honestly say, well, I did all I could do to try to, to try to save this country from this traitor.
01:07:39.200I mean, that's, he's an evil man, and if nobody does anything to stop this evil, then it'll persist, and that's why we're all here.
01:07:47.380We're here because we want to stop this from going forward.
01:07:51.140But, yeah, I mean, we, I've gotten, I will say that I received my first piece of fan mail.
01:08:17.420And then conversely, you know, I get the pushback, I don't know that I get as much pushback as Tom gets, and then there's reasons for that.
01:08:28.360Some of it is because, one, the angrier.
01:08:32.660And I, but they, but I do, I have, I have gotten some shady emails, you know, basically that are, I wouldn't say out and out threatening, but the stuff that I just want to go, please, that I will say, I will tell you people that I do pray to the good Lord above every night that I really hope you show up.
01:08:59.460Oh, boy, I thought that was going a different way.
01:09:02.560So, you know, I don't know what tree you think you're barking up, but it's not the one you want.
01:09:20.840But I mean, yeah, I mean, overall, I'd say 98% positive, you know, a lot of, a lot of guys I don't know, a lot of, you know, special operations guys.
01:09:35.640I mean, just, just guys across the board that have just come out and said, thanks for bringing this to the forefront, because this really needs to be dealt with.
01:09:44.380That's, that's how our audience, our audience feels after Tom came on, we asked for a response, and it was overwhelming the number of military guys, gals, veterans, their families who wrote in 99.99% on your side.
01:10:01.120It was, I mean, they're not only very moved by the whole story, they're very angry that he's doing this, and they can't believe the media is dismissing it.
01:10:09.200And some Democrats, most Democrats are dismissing it as a nothing.
01:10:12.860The only thing that the Democrats will give on is, yeah, he shouldn't have said he carried that weapon in war, but he just misspoke.
01:10:18.900But it's part of a pattern, as you guys know.
01:10:21.020I mean, it's a pattern of, you know, once you misspoke enough times, you just, obviously, you're a lie.