Pete Hegseth

Why did we do that?

Why wouldn't we back these guys up, even if they weren't perfect?

And, you know, he'd call me and be like, you know, they did some nasty, did some tough things.

He's a rough guy.

But he respects people that were willing to do it on behalf of the rest of us, and he's not going to throw them under the bus.

So once he gets the information and you're able to say, here's what happened, or here's what happened in Eddie Gallagher's trial.

I mean, that went all the way to the Secretary of the Navy, if you remember that.

I mean, the guy got, Spencer got canned for misrepresenting how that entire case went out.

That's what you need leaders for.

They get it, and that was Donald Trump.

Yeah, you have to start with people who can say, okay, I know who the political animals were in those places.

Yeah.

Because that's the challenge of a new administration.

Everyone's going to jump up and down and say, I was this, or I was never really for that, or I was blah, blah, blah.

Because they want to preserve their careers, and you're going to have to have somebody that's able to call balls and strikes.

Well, you'd have to change the academies too, right?

So that's where you have to change both sides of that squeeze.

You have to, I mean...

admission standards, overall standards.

I think a huge one is women in combat in quotas.