John Kirby
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187 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Aug
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You're going to start to wonder just how much of a ground incursion they really want to try to employ here.
So I'll caveat this by saying I'm glad they're doing briefings.
I wish they were doing them more often.
And I wish that in the briefing room there were more traditional, conventional media who would really, you know, bring with them the kinds of tough questions that any policy needs to be scrutinized over rather than outlets that are decidedly of one ilk and not necessarily conventional press.
That said...
And I feel like—well, I don't feel like.
I know.
It's self-defeating.
And I really hope that Mr. Hegseth and the Pentagon leadership will come to think about their obligations to the American people and to the press corps in a different way.
Now, I recognize they probably won't, and I understand that.
I think it's actually doing a disservice to themselves, to their ability to convince the American people to have a narrative and to hold their policies up to the scrutiny of an independent press.
I always thought—I took that podium for three different secretaries of defense, and I always felt like those briefings and that access, the constant interaction with the press corps in the building every day, really made for better policymaking, because
You know how these things are going to be viewed and aired in the media.
You know what the headlines are going to be.
If you're talking to reporters, you know the angle they're going to approach that kind of policy with.
And it really does help inform the process itself.
I think it makes it better and it's certainly more healthy.
And again, I think if you're going to be spending this much money and you're going to be putting this many lives at risk, and I'm not saying, you know, that that happens in war.
I understand that.
But if you're going to do it, you have an obligation.
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