Buck Sexton

discombobulator i think he called it which was used in venezuela my guess is that that's not the technical term for it but trump mentioned something about this publicly which is unusual for a weapon system that people are not familiar with but now the venezuelans are familiar with it so guess what people are going to figure this out uh but the truth is the

Wars of the future and just the national security needs of the United States going into the future are going to be increasingly reliant upon two things that intersect very powerfully, really two things that are complementary, technology and manufacturing.

and you have to be able to make the most advanced stuff, but you're going to have to be able to make it at scale and quickly because when you're talking about drones and AI and hypersonics and just go through the list of all these things that are either in use and iterating, coming up with new versions of right now, or just over the horizon and going to become available,

much more a part of what we see in the national security sphere.

You have to be nimble.

You have to be fast.

And this is what Clay, the speech yesterday that Secretary of War Hegg said.

It was great to see him.

We got to catch up a little bit.

I mean, he was busy with like the second richest man in the world and taking around a bunch of very senior military folks.

But we talked a little bit.

and I was glad to meet his staff and see how they're doing this Arsenal of Freedom tour, which is what it was, the Arsenal of Freedom.

And they're going around to a lot of the biggest, not just, there's the defense primes, Boeing, Lockheed.

I mean, these are the companies that you think of when you think of the military-industrial complex.

They've consolidated, and this has happened really, again, I'm not an expert on all this, but the last 40 years or so, there's been a huge consolidation of this stuff.

And now there's these companies, there's these upstarts, these startups, I guess maybe both upstarts and startups, like Andral, based out of California, Palmer Luckey's Outfit, and others that are making really incredible defense tech

And Clay, before I get into the space side, I was going to say, this is one of the one of the incredible things that Trump and the whole MAGA movement has accomplished that I think people don't have enough appreciation of.

A decade or so ago, Google and its employees and from the top down refused.

refused to do anything that could even have military use or any military projects whatsoever with the Pentagon.

And that was considered just, oh, okay, it's a private company.