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'Clown' Hegseth makes a fool of himself with fixation on superficial priorities · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Okay, friends, just a quick warning. In the clip I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to show you, former Fox News host and current
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, Pete Hexeth uses a slur to describe
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  Speaker 1: transgender Americans, American service members.
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  Speaker 2: We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.
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  Speaker 2: Simple translation of that. No fatties, no trannies, no beardos,
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  Speaker 2: no weirdos, no wimps. No radicals, just warriors. The ideological
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  Speaker 2: clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone
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  Speaker 2: testing on top. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is
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  Speaker 2: our strength.
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  Speaker 1: As disgusting and offensive as this clown might be, what
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  Speaker 1: you just heard is right in line with what Hegseth
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  Speaker 1: has signaled he wants to accomplish in his role as
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense. He wants to reshape the U.S. military
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  Speaker 1: under his right-wing ideology for years to come.
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  Speaker 2: From the Ivy Leagues to most liberal arts colleges, our
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  Speaker 2: colleges and universities have become anti-American, DEI-worshipping, woke factories. We
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  Speaker 2: need students of Western civilization in the pillars of our republic.
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  Speaker 2: Leaders who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens,
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  Speaker 2: the power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia, circa 1776.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell is.
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  Speaker 1: He talking about? Just so you know, this guy is
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  Speaker 1: a graduate of both Harvard and Princeton. I'm sure they're proud.
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  Speaker 1: That aside, Hexeth is already doing everything in his power
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  Speaker 1: to institute these new ideological changes. He barred military academies
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  Speaker 1: from hiring civilians as tenured professors because he thinks they're woke.
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  Speaker 1: His underlings at the Pentagon have also pushed to remake
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  Speaker 1: lesson plans and ban books that explore issues like race
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  Speaker 1: and sexism in Department of Defense schools around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Hexeth and his allies want to eradicate woke wherever they can.
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  Speaker 1: So what do they want to replace it with? Well,
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  Speaker 1: look at what they openly expose or at least espouse.
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  Speaker 1: Take for example, a former social media influencer who's now
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  Speaker 1: working on a task force to root out woke ideologies
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  Speaker 1: at military war colleges. He has openly called liberal women
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  Speaker 1: a pestilence who will end Western civilization He has also
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  Speaker 1: praised authoritarian and fascist dictators and has suggested that only
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  Speaker 1: people with children should be allowed to vote. The Pentagon's
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  Speaker 1: press secretary said that the department was proud to have
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  Speaker 1: this individual on board. By the way, that press secretary
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  Speaker 1: has their own history with racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,
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  Speaker 1: so there is that. Folks, that's just a taste, a
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  Speaker 1: small taste of the kind of ideology that Pete Hexeth values.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he wants to instill at the Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: for generations to come. Joining me now are Democratic Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Pat Ryan and Chris Deluzio. Both are veterans of the
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  Speaker 1: Iraq War and both serve on the House Armed Services Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you both, gentlemen. It's good to have you here.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Ryan, let's start with you, my friend. What were
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  Speaker 1: your reactions to this sort of bro-man kind of military testosterone-laden.
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  Speaker 2: Speech?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know he's been about culture war BS
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  Speaker 3: rather than actually fighting and winning wars from the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: But each time he does this performative stuff, it gets worse.
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  Speaker 3: There is now generational damage to our military. One of
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  Speaker 3: the most and last remaining revered apolitical institutions, they're just
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  Speaker 3: bringing a wrecking ball to it. And let's not forget,
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  Speaker 3: this is happening in the middle of essentially the most
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  Speaker 3: unpopular war in American history. So rather than focusing on
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  Speaker 3: the strategy, the resources, taking care of our troops, thinking
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  Speaker 3: about the eight sailors who attempted suicide on the most
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  Speaker 3: recent extended deployment, he's doing this stuff. It is pathetic.
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  Speaker 3: And it is infuriating to all of us who served,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of our party affiliation. It's just beneath the dignity
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  Speaker 3: of this office.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman DeLucia, I like your reaction as well, because I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate what Congressman Ryan noted there about the impact
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  Speaker 1: of this, particularly when you consider the stories that have
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  Speaker 1: emerged from families and from official records about violence. service
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  Speaker 1: members who have tried to commit suicide. There's been, as
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  Speaker 1: far as I know, no real attention to that. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they'll get a testosterone shot and they'll feel better.
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  Speaker 1: This is where this whole thing kind of comes down
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  Speaker 1: with this guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, he's spending all this time worried
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  Speaker 4: about testosterone levels for our troops. How about whether they
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  Speaker 4: were protected from drone and missile attacks when he started
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  Speaker 4: the Iran war? How about planning for how you're going
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  Speaker 4: to rotate out aircraft carrier strike groups and the conditions
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  Speaker 4: for those sailors and Marines on board? Why don't you
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  Speaker 4: worry about that? You know, this war is not being
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  Speaker 4: lost by Pete Hexeth and Donald Trump because the testosterone
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  Speaker 4: levels of our troops, Donald Trump and Pete Hexeth are
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  Speaker 4: doing that all on their own. They have failed this country.
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  Speaker 4: Pete Hexeth ought to be gone. Donald Trump ought to
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  Speaker 4: fire this guy. He should have fired him a long
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  Speaker 4: time ago. And to echo my friend Pat Ryan's points,
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  Speaker 4: he is doing real damage to the culture atop the military.
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  Speaker 4: He's pushed out so many qualified senior flag rank general
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  Speaker 4: admiral officers. it's really, really destabilized the military. A time
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  Speaker 4: when he has them recklessly at war doing what he's ordered,
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  Speaker 4: but it has cost tremendously in terms of lives, in
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  Speaker 4: terms of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Ryan, you know, the other aspect of this that
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  Speaker 1: I think is little noticed in conversations, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of folks, you know, may focus on the bigger military,
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  Speaker 1: you know, institutions like, you know, certainly in the education space, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, West Point and Annapolis, the Naval Academy, etc.
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  Speaker 1: But there are a number of other education related institutions
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  Speaker 1: for military. younger Americans who are in these military programs
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  Speaker 1: at various levels, where we're seeing this administration and this
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, wanting to inject his ideology into the
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  Speaker 1: educational institutions that the Pentagon oversees. How nervous or really
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  Speaker 1: worried should members of Congress be about that, particularly those
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  Speaker 1: who are, you know, have oversight responsibilities of these institutions
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  Speaker 1: on the various committees? And what can we do to
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  Speaker 1: begin to guard ourselves and our kids from this level
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  Speaker 1: of abuse and It's part of their educational learning and
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  Speaker 1: military training.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the hypocrisy of claiming you're getting rid of
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  Speaker 3: politics while you're just putting these poor, young, patriotic men
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  Speaker 3: and women that want to serve, that want to do
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  Speaker 3: right by their country, want to do right by their community,
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  Speaker 3: putting them right in the crossfire of all this culture
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  Speaker 3: war stuff. I represent... West Point, which I'll say in
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  Speaker 3: front of my colleague is the Better Service Academy. And
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  Speaker 3: I know he's on the board of visitors for Annapolis.
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  Speaker 3: And this is serious stuff. I talk to these cadets
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  Speaker 3: every day. They see what's happening. They are wrestling with this.
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  Speaker 3: And they know, by the way, we're headed into the
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  Speaker 3: most dangerous, volatile moment where war is rapidly changing. And
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  Speaker 3: that means we need critical thinking. We need soldiers that
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  Speaker 3: are not only physically tough and fit, but mentally tough
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  Speaker 3: and fit, able to wrestle with complex ideas, hear from
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  Speaker 3: people they disagree with. That makes them better leaders in
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  Speaker 3: combat should they, God forbid, have to fight in it.
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  Speaker 3: And it just makes us stronger as a military force.
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  Speaker 3: and a nation, and I think they are scared of free-thinking,
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  Speaker 3: independent leaders. That's why they fired folks like General Randy George,
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  Speaker 3: Chief of Staff of the Army, C.D. Donahue, one of
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  Speaker 3: the most revered, lethal warriors. So you're saying no beardos
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  Speaker 3: and weirdos, and then you're putting Elon Musk and Newt
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  Speaker 3: Gingrich in charge of the future of our military? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that does not pass the common sense test there.
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  Speaker 1: We got we got less than a minute left, Congressman Deluzio.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give the last word to you on this,
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  Speaker 1: because Hexeth today sent out and our service members, at
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  Speaker 1: least those attending, received a 144 page field manual, which
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  Speaker 1: included collections of Hexeth speeches and a pledge from Trump
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  Speaker 1: to avoid, quote, dumb wars. I won't even get into
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  Speaker 1: the self-promotion here, but to Congressman Ryan's point about who's
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  Speaker 1: in charge and the people and the men who are
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  Speaker 1: being put in place, what are your thoughts there? And
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  Speaker 1: how do service members receive this stuff where they pick
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  Speaker 1: up this thing and they look at it and they go,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell?
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  Speaker 4: Our service members are the smartest. They're the bravest. They're
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  Speaker 4: going to do their duty despite Pete Hegseth's incompetence.
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  Speaker 1: And it's that.
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  Speaker 4: He is incompetent. He's waging culture war with our military.
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  Speaker 4: He's destroying, I think, a longstanding deep respect that existed
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  Speaker 4: for civil and military relations. And look, our troops are
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  Speaker 4: the best. They deserve a heck of a lot better
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  Speaker 4: than Pete Hegseth leading the Pentagon right now.
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  Speaker 1: All righty. Congressman Ryan, Congressman Deluzio, thank you both for
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  Speaker 1: being here. I really appreciate it. Hey, it's Rachel.
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