Pete Hegseth
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I don't know exactly what he does exactly, but those folks that specialize and do it best,
they're the ones that should be the focus.
And then on the general healthcare side, that can be done other ways.
Well, first of all, I would... That's a great question.
And we wrote a whole report on it.
I guess in a perfect world, I would have, like I just said, I would have it focus on its core mission.
And then I would... Critics would say, oh, you want to privatize the VA.
That's not the idea.
The idea is to effectively let the dollars follow the veteran.
And the Mission Act did that, that Trump passed, which the VA is trying to squelch.
Big surprise.
The government is not here to help.
Let me tell you this.
That's exactly right.
Nothing you said is wrong.
I was...
In 2016, I was under consideration by Trump to be his VA secretary.
Nice.
I was interviewed multiple times.
In fact, I was down to the final two.