Pete Hegseth
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And so there's this fantastic team underneath the secretary that can enable him to be incredibly successful. He has to move past this. He has to get a solid team around him in the front office. And this isn't a plea to hire me back. I... I can't really just want to move on and go back to doing what I was doing before and being an advocate on the outside.
And so there's this fantastic team underneath the secretary that can enable him to be incredibly successful. He has to move past this. He has to get a solid team around him in the front office. And this isn't a plea to hire me back. I... I can't really just want to move on and go back to doing what I was doing before and being an advocate on the outside.
And so there's this fantastic team underneath the secretary that can enable him to be incredibly successful. He has to move past this. He has to get a solid team around him in the front office. And this isn't a plea to hire me back. I... I can't really just want to move on and go back to doing what I was doing before and being an advocate on the outside.
But, you know, without Darren and I and others, he needs to get a strong team in there. And there's some great people that I think could do that.
But, you know, without Darren and I and others, he needs to get a strong team in there. And there's some great people that I think could do that.
But, you know, without Darren and I and others, he needs to get a strong team in there. And there's some great people that I think could do that.
Oh, I have to say, this is interesting you bring him up. Chairman Dan Raisenkane.
Oh, I have to say, this is interesting you bring him up. Chairman Dan Raisenkane.
Oh, I have to say, this is interesting you bring him up. Chairman Dan Raisenkane.
Incredibly impressive and I actually think if I'm being honest one thing that is incited the building against President Trump and the secretary was a selection of him They want a lot of people wanted the secretary and the president to go the normal route including some people in the administration and pick a combatant commander, you know a General Carrillo or an Admiral Paparo actually like Admiral Paparo, but
Incredibly impressive and I actually think if I'm being honest one thing that is incited the building against President Trump and the secretary was a selection of him They want a lot of people wanted the secretary and the president to go the normal route including some people in the administration and pick a combatant commander, you know a General Carrillo or an Admiral Paparo actually like Admiral Paparo, but
Incredibly impressive and I actually think if I'm being honest one thing that is incited the building against President Trump and the secretary was a selection of him They want a lot of people wanted the secretary and the president to go the normal route including some people in the administration and pick a combatant commander, you know a General Carrillo or an Admiral Paparo actually like Admiral Paparo, but
They want him to go that route. No, instead, they did something that needed to happen, is they pulled a very accomplished guy out of retirement, somebody who didn't do all the right things and check all the right boxes in his career, but who's incredibly smart, who's incredibly... thoughtful about how he approaches problems to be the chairman. And that upset so many career paths.
They want him to go that route. No, instead, they did something that needed to happen, is they pulled a very accomplished guy out of retirement, somebody who didn't do all the right things and check all the right boxes in his career, but who's incredibly smart, who's incredibly... thoughtful about how he approaches problems to be the chairman. And that upset so many career paths.
They want him to go that route. No, instead, they did something that needed to happen, is they pulled a very accomplished guy out of retirement, somebody who didn't do all the right things and check all the right boxes in his career, but who's incredibly smart, who's incredibly... thoughtful about how he approaches problems to be the chairman. And that upset so many career paths.
Like if you look at these books where they kind of lay out like how you promote generals is they have like little maps about where people are going to go. And there's a lot of people that are going to go to, you This role in the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, the vice chairman, they're going to be the chief of staff of the Army. And by elevating King, they upset so many career paths.
Like if you look at these books where they kind of lay out like how you promote generals is they have like little maps about where people are going to go. And there's a lot of people that are going to go to, you This role in the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, the vice chairman, they're going to be the chief of staff of the Army. And by elevating King, they upset so many career paths.
Like if you look at these books where they kind of lay out like how you promote generals is they have like little maps about where people are going to go. And there's a lot of people that are going to go to, you This role in the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, the vice chairman, they're going to be the chief of staff of the Army. And by elevating King, they upset so many career paths.
And it's hard to overstate how much of a middle finger that was to a lot of the uniform leadership of the United States military. And I think that was one of the reasons why we started to see more leaks really starting around the middle of March.
And it's hard to overstate how much of a middle finger that was to a lot of the uniform leadership of the United States military. And I think that was one of the reasons why we started to see more leaks really starting around the middle of March.