Ben Rhodes

Brown.

He fired Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to be the chief of naval operations there.

Now he has reportedly personally intervened to stop the promotions of four Army officers who were on track to become one-star generals.

It just so happens that they were two women and two black men.

And then NPR reported that a black colonel and a female colonel were both taken off of a promotion list as well.

You know, Pete Hegseth, of course, former Fox News weekend host, knows a thing or two about being promoted to powerful positions without being qualified, I think.

Yes.

But what I think is really worth bringing up here, Ben, is that, you know, not only is it unprecedented for the secretary of war to personally intervene.

These people were on these promotion lists because they've been selected by the people that actually work with them.

You know, like you're selected by your peers based on your performance and all of that to be promoted.

So.

You know, it's just mind blowing to me.

And what unnamed officials keep telling the press, because now I think that there's just environment of fear among the Pentagon based on just all of the unnamed anonymous sources that are talking to all the different media organizations, is that, you know, they're saying it's just weeding out the people who aren't ideologically compatible.

Of course, they're just straight up discriminating.

Well, not to mention it just goes against everything that we think the military is supposed to represent, too, right?

It's meant to represent all of us and all Americans and defend all Americans.

It's one of the things Americans admire about the military.

Yeah, exactly.

It's meant to be apolitical, which, I mean, that reminds me, too.

Like, I want to bring up another...