Michael Moynihan
speaker
842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Michael Moynihan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, he's sort of like out of central casting from, you know, the 1950s through 70s and knows where the bodies are buried. He could be very effective, whereas people may think Pete Hegseth, you know, is not totally in the camp of the Restrainers and not totally in the camp of the Hawks, but, you know, wants to serve his president. And, you know, the president himself is not...
um, hyper ideological on these questions. You know, the, the president is willing to strike Iran is willing, you know, to take out Soleimani is willing to, uh, bomb them and has said that Iran can't have a new. Yeah. Iran can't have a nuclear weapon and he's willing to, uh, you know, make the ground shake in order to bring that up, uh, you know, bring that fact into existence.
So, you know, it's very consequential. The person who leads the Department of Defense is extremely consequential. And so it's not a surprise that there's intense rivalry. I mean, this is the biggest human organization on the planet. You know, what you'd like to see is for...
For Hegseth to succeed, and Dan Caldwell said he wants Hegseth to succeed on the Tucker Carlson show, I think Hegseth has to assert... you know, a very firm chain of command at which he's at the top. There are no more rivalrous factions below him that any rivalries that exist, exist to serve him and to serve the president, right.
To, to get the best advice, to get the best diversity of perspectives ahead of a major decision and not to have this kind of knife fighting, because I mean, it seems to me like a lot of people have been fired that can make a good contribution to, um, to our national security. And I think, I think it's a shame.
No, and not only that, her close aide was also responsible for guarding the president from staff and from other cabinet members from the reporting we've seen. We saw that after the debate, Hunter Biden then came in and started performing that role. And there was no, there was no, you know, sign of outrage. This was just a family coming together to help, you know, help their man in distress.
He loves his son. He loves his son. You know. You know, one interesting possibility brought up, you know, one thing I think people could look out for in the following days is, are the leaks still coming? And are they coming from within the Pentagon? They're going to. Right. OK, so if they're not done, if they are, if they are, could it be really be these three guys?
I mean, if stuff that's actively in the Pentagon. And secondly, Caldwell pointed to the Defense Policy Board, which is not really a well-known institution. But it's this is something that is filled with Biden era appointments like Susan Rice, Michelle Flournoy, Michael Hanlon of Brookings. Lots of Biden era people are still on it.
They haven't met since the Trump administration has taken office, but they all have security clearances. They all have access to career employees. in the Department of Defense. And, you know, that is not an unreasonable place to look for leaks when you're talking when the news outlets are NBC and Politico.
I mean, I have to say I'm surprised. Larry David has appeared on Saturday Night Live with Trump and like making a joke like where he shouts, Trump's a racist and like an annoying liberal lefty from Hollywood would. And it seemed to be he was self-deprecating Trump. On this point.
And in fact, one of his... There's a very funny episode of his show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he decides that wearing a MAGA hat is a perfect way of getting out of awkward social obligations in Hollywood.
Very irreverent and irreverent, too. I mean, you know, arguably like there was an there was an episode of a show where he came to discover that his, you know, descendants were not C-O-H-E-N Cone, but C-O-N-E Cone. And like the episode was basically like an anti-Semitic tract of him discovering that he was like a Christian parentage.
And then he became like a nicer, kinder, gentler, braver, more voluntaristic person. I mean, so I always thought of Larry David as someone who, you know, stood aside from liberal pieties in Hollywood and in fact made fun of them. And then I, so I was actually just shocked that, Didn't you hear about his fight with Alan Dershowitz?
Well... At first, I mean, the first move of Democrats, right, was to deny that he was part of MS-13 and try to make him into Father of the Year. I mean, it was... I mean, it's pathetic. I do think... I actually disagree with Rich a little bit. I actually think this is... giving Democrats a little bit of juice, at least among their base.
I mean, I'm seeing all over social media, like hysterical conspiracy theories that like, this is a test run, they're going to do this to, you know, a deportable alien first, and then they're going to start doing it to Rachel Maddow will be next.
Right, exactly. And so I do think it is, I think it's actually the first time since Trump has been inaugurated that Democrats have been able to focus on one story and bring sustained attention to it.
Again, I agree with Richard, it probably doesn't work with independents and it certainly doesn't work with Republicans, but motivating the base is what Democrats have to do to start rebuilding their party, getting fundraising up. And I think that's what they're doing.
And, you know, El Salvador officials are very cagey in getting Abrego Garcia to be dressed up in, you know, civilian clothes, not looking like, you know, like he's coming out of Dachau or something like that. He looks like, he almost looked like he was at a resort with the... With the cup in front of him, it was a little bit of... Yeah, with the plaid summer colors, the button-down shirt.
It is preposterous. The idea that you're going to have ICE roll up and give this 21-day notice, which is like, you have three weeks to disappear from here and find a cousin in another state to stay with until we lose you again. It's utterly ridiculous. It's basically lawless. I understand some...
I understand a little bit why some Democrats and some judges are alarmed by the use of this act, whether it's really proper to consider illegal immigrants part of a hostile invasion in the laws of war. I understand that reticence, but you can't just make up law out of nowhere and invent judicial process from nothing.
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