Tom Bowman

Well, no, the important word here is cause. Why are you being relieved? None of these people, not one of them was given a cause why they've been relieved. The thread with all of them is. is the perception of they got the jobs because of race or gender or because this sense of woke.

Well, no, the important word here is cause. Why are you being relieved? None of these people, not one of them was given a cause why they've been relieved. The thread with all of them is. is the perception of they got the jobs because of race or gender or because this sense of woke.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, wrote in his book, The War on Warriors, that came out, I think, last year, that basically he questioned whether C.Q. Brown, African-American, got the job because of his race or because of his skill. He's an F-16 pilot with, you know, more than a thousand hours in the cockpit. And then Lisa Franchetti, he also questioned her.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, wrote in his book, The War on Warriors, that came out, I think, last year, that basically he questioned whether C.Q. Brown, African-American, got the job because of his race or because of his skill. He's an F-16 pilot with, you know, more than a thousand hours in the cockpit. And then Lisa Franchetti, he also questioned her.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, wrote in his book, The War on Warriors, that came out, I think, last year, that basically he questioned whether C.Q. Brown, African-American, got the job because of his race or because of his skill. He's an F-16 pilot with, you know, more than a thousand hours in the cockpit. And then Lisa Franchetti, he also questioned her.

Did she get it because of her gender? And finally, the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife, after the George Floyd murder, he basically said, listen, you know, We may have a problem with institutional racism in the Air Force. We have to deal with it head on. That's the thread with all of them.

Did she get it because of her gender? And finally, the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife, after the George Floyd murder, he basically said, listen, you know, We may have a problem with institutional racism in the Air Force. We have to deal with it head on. That's the thread with all of them.

Did she get it because of her gender? And finally, the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife, after the George Floyd murder, he basically said, listen, you know, We may have a problem with institutional racism in the Air Force. We have to deal with it head on. That's the thread with all of them.

Exactly right. A very emotional video after George Floyd was killed. He talked about the discrimination he felt rising up the ranks of the Air Force. And again, Hegseth in his book said C.Q. Brown with that was playing the race card.

Exactly right. A very emotional video after George Floyd was killed. He talked about the discrimination he felt rising up the ranks of the Air Force. And again, Hegseth in his book said C.Q. Brown with that was playing the race card.

Exactly right. A very emotional video after George Floyd was killed. He talked about the discrimination he felt rising up the ranks of the Air Force. And again, Hegseth in his book said C.Q. Brown with that was playing the race card.

Well, he nominated him to be the chief of staff of the Air Force and was effusive about him back at that time.

Well, he nominated him to be the chief of staff of the Air Force and was effusive about him back at that time.

Well, he nominated him to be the chief of staff of the Air Force and was effusive about him back at that time.

He is a lieutenant general, spent a lot of his time in the special operations community and also at the CIA. People I talk with that have known him for years say he's very well regarded. He's a great officer. The problem is he's never held a combatant command like, you know, Central Command, which covers the Middle East or Southern Command for Central and South America.

He is a lieutenant general, spent a lot of his time in the special operations community and also at the CIA. People I talk with that have known him for years say he's very well regarded. He's a great officer. The problem is he's never held a combatant command like, you know, Central Command, which covers the Middle East or Southern Command for Central and South America.

He is a lieutenant general, spent a lot of his time in the special operations community and also at the CIA. People I talk with that have known him for years say he's very well regarded. He's a great officer. The problem is he's never held a combatant command like, you know, Central Command, which covers the Middle East or Southern Command for Central and South America.

And he also was never a service chief, you know, chief of staff of the Air Force, let's say. That is highly unusual. And actually by statute, the person coming in as chairman has to have one of those jobs. He's never run a large organization, but again, he's held in pretty high regard. But he's going to have a really tough time running the Pentagon as a chairman.

And he also was never a service chief, you know, chief of staff of the Air Force, let's say. That is highly unusual. And actually by statute, the person coming in as chairman has to have one of those jobs. He's never run a large organization, but again, he's held in pretty high regard. But he's going to have a really tough time running the Pentagon as a chairman.

And he also was never a service chief, you know, chief of staff of the Air Force, let's say. That is highly unusual. And actually by statute, the person coming in as chairman has to have one of those jobs. He's never run a large organization, but again, he's held in pretty high regard. But he's going to have a really tough time running the Pentagon as a chairman.