The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out
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What kitchen item should you toss out immediately?
Good morning. It's Thursday, November 21st. I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, the kitchen item you should toss out immediately, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for top Israeli leaders, and the last episode for an iconic voice actor. But first, a look at how the military could change under President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has selected Pete Hegseth as his nominee for defense secretary. Hegseth is a veteran and most recently a Fox News host, but he doesn't have military leadership experience. In fact, NPR reports that if Hegseth is confirmed, he would be the least experienced defense secretary in American history. And he would come into the role with some big criticisms of the military, characterizing it as ineffective, quote-unquote woke, and saying that some of the top brass should be fired. Here's Hegseth on the podcast The Sean Ryan Show, just before he was officially tapped to head up defense.
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, it's got to go.
Hegseth has also been critical of women serving in combat roles, saying that it's made our military less lethal and effective. Here he is again on The Sean Ryan Show.
How could the military change under Trump?
You don't like women in combat? No. Why not? I love women service members who contribute amazingly because everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated.
According to a Pentagon report from a year ago, women made up roughly 20 percent of the U.S. military's active duty force and selected reserve in 2022. And outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently told NBC News how vital women are to our military.
They make us better. They make us stronger. And again, what I've seen from our women is quite incredible. This is not hyperbole. This is fact. I'm just telling you what I've seen.
Dan Lamothe is a Washington Post reporter who covers the Pentagon. He told us how Hegseth's nomination is resonating with people who work there.
We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.
While we've heard a lot of rhetoric from Trump and Hegseth about their goals, we know very little about the details so far. For example, what would it mean to end diversity programs in the military or to fire quote-unquote woke generals?
And depending on where you fall on that issue, you know, you could be doing an awful lot of housecleaning or more something that's very, you know, targeted.
Lamothe also told us there's a lot of concern about Trump's vows to go after the generals involved with the decision to leave Afghanistan and the chaotic withdrawal.
I think one thing that here that I'm watching for and I'm concerned about just as an American citizen is how do we define who's, quote unquote, to blame for the fall of Afghanistan? knowing a lot of these senior officers, knowing that they spent years there themselves, and in a lot of cases, managed the operations, tried to take care of their people the best they could, but also had orders to follow. And in many cases, particularly when it came to the end in Afghanistan, often gritted their teeth and followed the rules and followed the laws, it's got to hit some kind of way for these senior officers, for their families, for Pentagon employees in general who are watching this all play out and kind of feel like they're being scapegoated after the fact.
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