Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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somebody's got to make the government work while Pete Hegseth is putting up signs.
But it's, it shows again, there is no safe zone in this administration.
They take care of their own, this, this cabal, this clack of grifters, they take care of their own and anybody else that gets in their way, they go under the bus.
At the least, I think I'm behind on owning him a drink, so we're overdue, Mark.
Tom?
Yeah, you know, the minute they say, listen, I'm 100% behind this guy, all I could think of was the scene in Goodfellas, you know?
They come as your friends.
And it seems they come when you need them the most, right?
The minute somebody says, I'm 100% behind this guy, that's when you can hear the bus kind of revving up.
Because, you know, I can't speak to the military side of this.
I worked on the Hill, and I'm
You know, the civil military equation has two sides of it.
So on the civil side, I'll say this.
A secretary of defense who was a real man and a leader and who thought that what he did was right would step forward and say, it doesn't matter who issued the order.
As far as you're concerned, I did.
Because I'm the Secretary of Defense and it stops with me and the President of the United States.
And who actually, you know, pointed and gave the operational order is not the point.
It's legal.
We have the right to do it.
I approve the mission.
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