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Tom Bowman

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208 total appearances

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The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

I just got back from skiing in Montana. It was awesome.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

That's right.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

That's right.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

That's right.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

It's a very big deal. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the top military advisor to the president. They usually stay in office four years. He was in there for about 16 months. They also fired the top Navy officer, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to hold a job. And they threw over the side the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife. This is unprecedented.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

It's a very big deal. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the top military advisor to the president. They usually stay in office four years. He was in there for about 16 months. They also fired the top Navy officer, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to hold a job. And they threw over the side the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife. This is unprecedented.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

It's a very big deal. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the top military advisor to the president. They usually stay in office four years. He was in there for about 16 months. They also fired the top Navy officer, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to hold a job. And they threw over the side the number two Air Force officer, General Jim Slife. This is unprecedented.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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.

The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump Administration Fires Top Pentagon Officials, Military Lawyers

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