Pete Hegseth

It was about, I don't know, was it I'm too conservative?

Is it because I'm a Trump supporter?

Is it because I was a reporter on January 6th?

Maybe I worked at Fox.

Maybe that's what it was.

They had decided Pete Hegseth is not qualified to guard the inauguration of a Democrat president.

which is ridiculous because I volunteered to go to Afghanistan under Barack Obama.

I'm no Democrat, but I believed, I was hopeful the surge in Afghanistan might work, and I volunteered to go in 2011, 2012.

So it's never been about, for guys like you and me, it's never been about Republicans and Democrats.

It's been about the Republic.

And that's all been...

all been put into question in everyone's mind.

So there's a chance to course correct it, but it would take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.

How would they correct it?

Well, first of all, you got to fire, you know, you got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and you got to fire this, I mean, obviously you're going to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke shit has got to go.

Either you're in for war fighting and that's it, and that's the only litmus test we care about.

You got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking.

And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards.

And as far as recruiting, to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people to want to serve.

And there's lots of other ways in which you could identify who gets promoted and what, but there's an ethos change.