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President Trump addresses the UN General Assembly · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 3: Like you, I am a Southern Californian. Like you, I
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  Speaker 3: am an Ohioan by birth. Like you, I am a
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  Speaker 3: conservative and I'm proud of it. I've also got a
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  Speaker 3: few other things on my resume. I am a senior
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  Speaker 3: columnist at townhall.com. I'm the author of many books, including
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  Speaker 3: trial lawyer from Los Angeles and everything I had in
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  Speaker 3: common with Hugh. He was an attorney, too, for many
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  Speaker 3: years down in the Southland. And I'm a United States
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  Speaker 3: Army infantry colonel. I served in Desert Storm. I was
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  Speaker 3: in the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake, the San
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  Speaker 3: Diego fires. And, of course, I went to Kosovo after 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: So I did a lot of fun things. I also
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  Speaker 3: went to the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Got
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  Speaker 3: a degree in strategic studies. Now, don't get all impressed. OK,
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  Speaker 3: it's a party war college. It's the Chico State of
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  Speaker 3: war colleges. So, you know, and I I was the
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  Speaker 3: I was in charge of the Toga parties. But in
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  Speaker 3: any case, look, there's so.
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  Speaker 2: Much going on.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to leverage a little of my military
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  Speaker 3: stuff to talk to you about what I think is
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  Speaker 3: frankly one of the most important things that's going on.
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  Speaker 3: We could be talking about Iran. We could be talking
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  Speaker 3: about Trump at the UN. And we certainly will during
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  Speaker 3: the next three hours because we've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: great guests coming up, including David Drucker, Matt Continetti. My gosh,
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  Speaker 3: we've got so many folks. Michael Duncan from the Ruthless podcast.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be incredible. But I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you about something that may slip beneath the radar
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  Speaker 3: of people who don't know what's truly important. And what's
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  Speaker 3: truly important is taking care of our soldiers, our leading,
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  Speaker 3: our magnificent troops. I was honored to lead and command
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  Speaker 3: at almost every level. up to full colonel. I was
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  Speaker 3: an 06 before I retired. I was a platoon leader
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  Speaker 3: many times. I was a company commander several times. I
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  Speaker 3: was an acting battalion commander and an actual squadron commander.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I met Hugh Hewitt and my cavalry squadron, Paul.
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  Speaker 3: I was a deputy commander of an infantry brigade and
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  Speaker 3: an acting commander occasionally. So I got to lead a
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  Speaker 3: lot of soldiers, and they were fantastic. And there's one
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  Speaker 3: thing that we owe our soldiers, and that is great leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, we're getting our mojo back.
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  Speaker 2: Now, full disclosure, because.
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  Speaker 3: If you read the Washington Post, you know that at
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  Speaker 3: one point I was hired by the Pentagon earlier this
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  Speaker 3: year with several other people, including Tom cynical Publius Anderson,
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  Speaker 3: who we will talk to a little later to go
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  Speaker 3: in and look at the war colleges to see if
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  Speaker 3: we're teaching our senior leaders, our colonels and captains in
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  Speaker 3: the Navy war. everything they needed to know to lead
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  Speaker 3: our troops to victory, to take care of our troops,
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  Speaker 3: to not squander their lives, to make sure we achieve victory.
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  Speaker 2: So we went in and we did that. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: there was some controversy about that.
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  Speaker 3: Washington Post didn't think that was a great idea. Don't
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  Speaker 3: care what the Washington Post thinks. I was proud to
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  Speaker 3: serve in uniform. I was proud to serve as a
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  Speaker 3: civilian helping to make the war colleges better. But as
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  Speaker 3: part of the larger program in the Pentagon to improve
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  Speaker 3: our senior leadership, well, I'll let Pete Hegseth tell you himself.
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  Speaker 3: Cut 15.
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  Speaker 5: A couple months into the job, Chairman Kaine gave me
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  Speaker 5: a portrait of General George C. Marshall, whom Winston Churchill
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  Speaker 5: famously called the organizer of victory. That portrait is a
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  Speaker 5: constant reminder of our mission to cut bureaucracy and demand
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  Speaker 5: true meritocracy across our senior ranks. To do that, today,
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  Speaker 5: I'm announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation. Starting this year, eligible 06s,
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  Speaker 5: that's colonels and Navy captains, screening for one star will
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  Speaker 5: undergo this assessment to stratify their ability to fight, adapt,
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  Speaker 5: and win. While the backbone of our military is our
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  Speaker 5: NCOs and our petty officers, victory depends on the commanders
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  Speaker 5: who lead them. America needs warfighters who can master a
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  Speaker 5: chaotic battle space.
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  Speaker 2: This principle is proven.
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  Speaker 5: Before World War II, General Marshall used the Louisiana maneuvers
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  Speaker 5: matched by the Navy's fleet problems to test commanders under
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  Speaker 5: realistic friction. Peacetime reputation dissolved as leaders like Eisenhower Nimitz
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  Speaker 5: and Bradley emerged. The joint warfighter evaluation brings that standard
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  Speaker 5: to the modern multi-domain fight. This evaluation is an objective equalizer.
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  Speaker 5: The scenario only cares about operational decisions under pressure. One
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  Speaker 5: year ago, I tasked Stu Scheller and his team with
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  Speaker 5: challenging generations of promotion assumptions. Stu, thanks to your commitment,
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  Speaker 5: this reform is ready. In 1941, General Marshall did not
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  Speaker 5: look for consensus builders.
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  Speaker 2: He searched for warfighters.
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  Speaker 5: Our troops deserve commanders chosen by proven competence, not paper credentials.
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  Speaker 5: The Joint Warfighter Evaluation ensures our flag is carried by
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  Speaker 5: our most lethal and most adaptable leaders.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me translate that from military speak into civilian.
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  Speaker 2: What we're doing now is going out there, and before you.
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  Speaker 3: Become a general officer, that's in 07, a brigadier general
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  Speaker 3: in the Army or a rear admiral lower half in
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  Speaker 3: the Navy, before you become one of these flag officers
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  Speaker 3: where you're leading thousands and thousands of American troops, Right now,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to prove anything.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, you have to have a good record.
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  Speaker 2: Your record goes up.
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  Speaker 3: It's examined by a board of other generals and they decide,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and admirals, and they decide, yes, we'll give
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  Speaker 3: a chance to this person. What Pete Hegseth, Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: War Hegseth, is saying is we're going to try something radical.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to try true merit. We are going
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  Speaker 3: to test these people. officers, these aspiring general officers and
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  Speaker 3: flag officers to see whether they've really got it. Because yes,
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  Speaker 3: your paper file has to be good. You have to
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  Speaker 3: have done the jobs you need to do. You have
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  Speaker 3: to succeed at certain things before you're qualified to be
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  Speaker 3: a general or flag officer.
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  Speaker 2: But now you have to show that you can do it.
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  Speaker 3: You have to prove it. And you have to prove
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  Speaker 3: it in the dirt. Now, we did a little of
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  Speaker 3: that in the Army. Speaking from the Army, other branches
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  Speaker 3: do other things. We had something called the NTC, National
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  Speaker 3: Training Center. And they would send a brigade, that's about
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  Speaker 3: 5,000 guys, out to the middle of the desert out
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  Speaker 3: near Fort Irwin, California. And they would run around for
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  Speaker 3: about three weeks in combat conditions.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, on the scale of misery.
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  Speaker 3: For me, the most miserable I was in the Army
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  Speaker 3: was not war. It was officer cad at school. Second
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  Speaker 3: was my tour at NTC. After that, you get airborne school.
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  Speaker 3: After that, you get basic training. After that, you get deployments.
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  Speaker 3: Why was it so miserable? Because I was second in command. OK,
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  Speaker 3: I was the deputy commander of the 79th Infantry Brigade.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of stuff was on me. I was
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  Speaker 3: moving all the time. I was thinking all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking all the time. I was being tested
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  Speaker 3: all the time. It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard.
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  Speaker 3: And that's too bad if you can't take it. It's
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  Speaker 3: too bad if you can't cut it. Some people aren't
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  Speaker 3: cut out to lead. A lot of the generals before
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  Speaker 3: World War II were great on parade. They were great
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  Speaker 3: in garrison. But man, you get them on a battlefield,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't know what the hell they were doing. Thank
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  Speaker 3: goodness we had General Marshall. General George Marshall went out
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  Speaker 3: there and said, I'm going to start picking leaders. Leaders
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  Speaker 3: who can win. Leaders who can fight. Leaders who will
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  Speaker 3: bring us victory. The heck with all the procedures and regulations.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get it done. That's what Secretary Warhag
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  Speaker 3: said is doing.
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  Speaker 6: And thank goodness.
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  Speaker 2: This is an outstanding development. Be proud of our military.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is the Hugh Hewitt Show. We're
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  Speaker 2: back in red, white, and blue.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Kurt Schlichter, guest hosting for The Great Hugh Hewitt,
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  Speaker 3: and it is my distinct pleasure to have.
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  Speaker 2: One quarter of the Ruthless Podcast gang join me. It's
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  Speaker 2: Michael Duncan. Follow him at Michael Duncan on the Twitter machine. Michael,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, Kurt. Good to see you, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you, man.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are my constant companions as I walk through
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  Speaker 3: Hugh's show. where I'm staying every morning on my constitutional
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  Speaker 3: sunglasses on, pistol under my T-shirt, because, of course, it
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  Speaker 3: is Texas.
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  Speaker 2: And today, you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys on the show, well, are you teasing me when
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  Speaker 3: you say you might go to four days a week?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I think we're going to do it.
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  Speaker 8: The audience demands it and the content's out there to
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  Speaker 8: justify it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we've got a big election upcoming.
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  Speaker 8: So, yeah, I think we'll probably add another episode, kind
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  Speaker 8: of give people a peek behind the curtain on some
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  Speaker 8: things like, you know, ad spending or, you know, new
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  Speaker 8: ads that are on the air or polling. And all
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  Speaker 8: this stuff can change really quickly as we've seen here
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  Speaker 8: in recent history. And so I think, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 8: we're going to go to four shows a week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: Now, one of the great things about you guys is
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  Speaker 3: you've actually done this for a living.
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  Speaker 2: You've run campaigns. You know how it happens. You're professionals.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm just a well-intentioned amateur, so I love hearing
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  Speaker 3: about the nuts and bolts. I also like the big
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  Speaker 3: picture stuff that you give. Here's my theory. Over the
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  Speaker 3: last week, about a week ago, things were looking, you know,
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  Speaker 3: right before the convention, things were looking down. We were
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  Speaker 3: told we're going to lose. A lot of the polling
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  Speaker 3: was pretty harsh. Then we had the convention. Then we
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  Speaker 3: have a giant money spend. And now we have some
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  Speaker 3: slightly better and some slightly worse polling. I think things
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  Speaker 3: are starting to look up for Republicans. Am I drinking
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  Speaker 3: the Kool-Aid?
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  Speaker 8: I don't think you're drinking the Kool-Aid here. Look, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: like you said, and thank you for your kind words.
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  Speaker 8: And we've been involved in political campaigns for the better
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  Speaker 8: part of two decades. And so in that time, you
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  Speaker 8: get a little bit of perspective, cycle to cycle on
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  Speaker 8: the things that you see and the trends you should
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  Speaker 8: watch and the things you should ignore.
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  Speaker 7: You know, so you'll see polls, you know, bounce around here.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think the money and the investment, particularly
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  Speaker 8: in places like Texas, is indicative of a place where,
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  Speaker 8: you know, the mainstream media would tell you Republicans are
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  Speaker 8: skeptical of their odds. But I think, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: ad buyers seem to be pretty confident they can change
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  Speaker 8: those numbers on James Tallarico. Obviously, a very contentious primary
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  Speaker 8: against John Cornyn. Ken Paxton's well-defined and Tallarico is not.
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  Speaker 7: So if you can.
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  Speaker 8: Spend $ 160 million to change people's opinions of James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 8: that's obviously going to change the polling.
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  Speaker 7: Down the road.
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  Speaker 8: So, you know, I think Republicans have obviously struggled in
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  Speaker 8: the Trump era and midterm elections and. The lower propensity
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  Speaker 8: voters who've turned out in a presidential election cycle for
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump have been less likely to turn out in
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  Speaker 8: a midterm environment, particularly rural voters.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, the support is there.
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  Speaker 8: If you look in the polls, the support for the president,
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  Speaker 8: the support for the agenda. But the fact remains, those
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  Speaker 8: people have to turn out in a midterm when he's
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  Speaker 8: not on the ballot.
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  Speaker 7: If they do, I like Republicans odds. If they don't,
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  Speaker 7: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: No, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about Texas, because you guys were just
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  Speaker 3: down here on the Lone Star State at the convention.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got a special on that on Fox Nation, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: They did a little behind the scenes thing at the
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  Speaker 8: convention so people can see how the sausage is made.
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  Speaker 8: You know how we, you know, travel around the convention.
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  Speaker 8: You get a little insight into the, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: movers and the shakers there that are kind of. inhabiting
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  Speaker 8: the hallways and doing interviews and things like that. We
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  Speaker 8: talked to everybody from Sean Duffy to Linda McMahon to
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  Speaker 8: Doug Burgum, Lisa McClain, a whole ton of people out there,
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  Speaker 8: you know, who are at the convention who are trying
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  Speaker 8: to make sure Republicans win big in November.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Duncan, look, I'm here on the ground in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 3: No Tallarico signs outside the liberal enclave I live in.
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  Speaker 3: But this morning as I was walking, listening to the
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  Speaker 3: Ruthless program, I saw my first Ken Paxton sign in
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  Speaker 3: front of a house. Of course, there was an American
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  Speaker 3: flag out there. The way you show you're a Republican here,
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  Speaker 3: you fly an American flag. I've talked to regular Texans,
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  Speaker 3: by which I mean people who aren't addicted to politics.
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  Speaker 3: Most of them had an idea that Tallarico existed. They
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  Speaker 3: weren't really clear on a lot of the weirdness this
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  Speaker 3: blasphemous little communist embodies.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they're going to become aware of it.
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  Speaker 9: And then you just kind of look at the background.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't see Texas electing this weirdo.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 8: No, neither do I. Look, it's going to be an
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  Speaker 8: uphill battle, though, given how divisive the Republican primary was
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  Speaker 8: and how much money James Tallarico will have. And different
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  Speaker 8: parts of the electorate on the Republican side, I think,
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  Speaker 8: need to hear different things. I think the cultural issues,
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  Speaker 8: you know, the stuff that Talrico said about God being
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  Speaker 8: non-binary and there's six genders and the thing he cares
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  Speaker 8: the most about are, you know, transgendered children, which is
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  Speaker 8: a very strange thing to be hyper-focused on as an
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  Speaker 8: adult man.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes!
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  Speaker 8: But, you know, those will motivate a cohort of the electorate,
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  Speaker 8: the MAGA base and stuff.
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  Speaker 7: But then, you know.
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  Speaker 8: I also worry about that Republican suburban vote, thinking like
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  Speaker 8: your Highland Park, Dallas suburban Republican, who's more of like
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  Speaker 8: a kitchen table taxes and spending Republican, who we've had
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  Speaker 8: a hard time keeping in the tent in the Trump era, frankly.
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  Speaker 8: And if we can educate those people about how far
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  Speaker 8: left James Tallarico is on pocketbook issues, hopefully we can
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  Speaker 8: get them to vote for Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 3: Well- Michael Duncan, I interviewed Ken Paxton yesterday here on
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  Speaker 3: the Hugh Hewitt Show. I thought he did very well.
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  Speaker 3: I think he should do more interviews. One of the
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  Speaker 3: interesting revelations I got is that John Cornyn has not
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  Speaker 3: talked to him by phone, has not taken his calls,
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  Speaker 3: has not even answered his texts.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, John Cornyn and George W. Bush had a–
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  Speaker 2: A fundraiser here.
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  Speaker 3: In Texas where they raise funds for Republican candidates explicitly
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  Speaker 3: excluding Ken Paxton. What do we do about the sore
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  Speaker 3: loser Republicans who have been told, thanks for your service.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a gold watch.
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  Speaker 3: Now you need to be on the team like you
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  Speaker 3: were demanding we be on.
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  Speaker 2: The team when you needed us. What do we do
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  Speaker 2: about these guys?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it's so close to the election. I, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I just kind of ignore that sort of noise because
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  Speaker 8: I'm firmly in the camp of one team, one dream.
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  Speaker 8: Like everybody's got to be pulling in the same direction
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  Speaker 8: on this thing. And we've dealt with this issue before
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump in the Tea Party era when Republicans would
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  Speaker 8: lose their primaries. You know, think about, you know, Marco
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  Speaker 8: Rubio when he won or when Ted Cruz won over
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  Speaker 8: David Dewhurst in Texas. I remember you and You'll remember
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  Speaker 8: that race as well. We've always dealt with this in
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  Speaker 8: the Republican Party. But I think, you know, there's enough
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  Speaker 8: people out there who are invested in a place like Texas,
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  Speaker 8: because if we lose it, there's no Senate majority.
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  Speaker 7: Let's let's be clear.
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  Speaker 8: And so everybody from, you know, the campaign of Ken
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  Speaker 8: Paxton to the NRC, to Thune's Senate Leadership Fund, to
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  Speaker 8: the president's various PACs affiliated with MAGA Inc., everybody's on
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  Speaker 8: board for the big win in Texas and part of
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  Speaker 8: the team.
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  Speaker 2: We've got about five seconds. Do you think we win Texas?
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  Speaker 4: I do. I do.
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  Speaker 8: I think at the end of the day, when everybody
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  Speaker 8: knows the truth about James Tallarico, Republicans get home.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Michael Duncan of the Ruthless podcast, I demand, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I say again, I demand a fourth Ruthless podcast. Every
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  Speaker 3: week before the midterm election. Thanks for joining us. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around.
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  Speaker 3: We have so much more on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to The Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host
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  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlichter. And that sinister symphony can mean only one thing.
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  Speaker 3: The arrival of Bloomberg opinion columnist and Dispatch contributing writer
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  Speaker 3: David Drucker.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Follow him at David M. Drucker on the Twitter machine. David,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Good to be back.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Good to see you, Kurt.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Let's get right down to it. Midterms. Are Republicans going
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  Speaker 2: to hold the House? Are they going to hold the Senate?
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  Speaker 2: What's going to happen?
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  Speaker 10: Unlikely they'll hold the House, but they could hold the
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Senate in part because there's such a favorable map.
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  Speaker 6: Democrats have to sort of cut a.
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  Speaker 10: Path straight through hostile red territory in some pretty committed
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  Speaker 10: red states. The polling— shows, and I think the polling
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  Speaker 10: should be believed, that these races are competitive. Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa.
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  Speaker 10: Susan Collins is on the ropes again. Of course, she's
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  Speaker 10: been there before. But North Carolina looks like a flip
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  Speaker 10: at this point, and Georgia looks like a hold.
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  Speaker 6: For the Democrats at this point.
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  Speaker 10: So it's doable for Democrats, but it's still a steep
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  Speaker 10: hill to climb, just given the political polarization of our
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  Speaker 10: current era. I mean, the House is going to be very,
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  Speaker 10: very difficult for Republicans to hold, even though there are
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  Speaker 10: fewer competitive seats in this election than there were in
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  Speaker 10: past wave environments.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, looking at the Senate races, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of strange stuff going on. The number one spending state
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  Speaker 3: is Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Who would have thought?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's I don't know that we would have predicted
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  Speaker 10: that at the outset of the cycle.
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  Speaker 6: But Sherrod Brown is giving John Husted about all he
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: can handle. Now, I'm not high.
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  Speaker 10: On retread candidates. I don't care if you're a Republican
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: or a Democrat. You try and come back after being
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: defeated or even after retiring and just getting bored and
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: decide you want to come back to the Senate.
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  Speaker 6: It usually doesn't work well.
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  Speaker 10: But Brown is known and does have an image in
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  Speaker 10: the state. And again, it's just a terrible political environment
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  Speaker 10: for the Republican Party. Not uncommon in midterm elections for
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: the party in control of the White House, but that's just.
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  Speaker 4: The way it is.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about why it's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, there are historical trends. It's always hard.
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  Speaker 3: For the incumbent party in the White House in the
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: middle of a second term.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just traditional.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: But what are the problems that the Republicans are truly facing?
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  Speaker 3: Because there's a lot of positive economic news, not all
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: of it. And there's a lot of positive foreign policy news.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: And Trump's done a lot of the things he said
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  Speaker 3: he was going to do. Hasn't done everything, but.
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  Speaker 4: He's done a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So why are Republicans, it has to be Republicans, upset?
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  Speaker 11: And independents, I guess.
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  Speaker 10: Well, look, I'd say the Republican Party's problems are affordability, affordability, affordability,
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  Speaker 10: in that order. And when I say affordability, I know
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: some people don't like the buzzword, but it's something I
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: picked up from voters. I didn't make it up as
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: a shorthand, but I'm referring to the cost of living
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: across the board. Inflation has not curbed to voter satisfaction,
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: and it's one of the number one reasons they sent
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: Trump back to the White House. There's a number of
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: things he's done. Border security, that was a priority, and
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: some other things. But the number one thing is this
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: guy is going to run a pre-COVID economy for us again,
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: and they don't think he's done so. And his numbers
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: are particularly bad with independents and what we call double haters,
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: people fed up with both parties. The other thing is that,
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  Speaker 10: you know, while you can point to some foreign policy successes,
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  Speaker 10: no doubt Americans have just never been sold on the
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  Speaker 10: Iran war and sort of, you know, you've got, you know,
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  Speaker 10: nevermind Democrats, but independents don't like it. Soft Republicans initially
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: supportive and have, have over time soured on it. And,
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: and so, you know, those are the driving factors in
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  Speaker 10: this election are the, the high cost of living in
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  Speaker 10: the Iran war and, and, and, Not enough voters like
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: it in the right places.
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  Speaker 3: The conventional wisdom says the Republicans are going to lose
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  Speaker 3: the House. I agree with you that I think it
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: would be very tough for them to lose the Senate.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I'm just not feeling it. I'm here in Texas, for instance.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I just don't see Tallarico taking out Kenny Paxton. but
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: we might lose one or two seats and still have
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: a majority. What does the last two years of Trump
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: 47 look like with a Democrat House and a small
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  Speaker 3: majority in the Senate?
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  Speaker 10: Well, listen, I mean, look, once you lose one House
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  Speaker 10: of Congress, all of a sudden you can't just I mean,
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: you can't do whatever you want anyway, right? But I mean,
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: House Democrats can serve as a backstop against a certain
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: number of Trump administration priorities, Republican priorities, right? You know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: whether on spending or otherwise, but mostly on spending. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: then they also have, you know, the power to investigate
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: the administration. Now, all parties are supposed to investigate all administrations,
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: regardless of.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Party, But you know how this goes, right?
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: When the Democrats have the White House, Democrats in Congress
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: want nothing to do with Article 1 power. And it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: been the same for Republicans when they've got the White House.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: And so, you know, the biggest changes you'll see is
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: the Trump administration will have to negotiate to a large
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  Speaker 10: degree with.
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  Speaker 6: House Democrats on spending.
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  Speaker 10: And they'll have to put up with checks and balances
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  Speaker 10: from the House Oversight Committee, the House Judiciary Committee.
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  Speaker 6: And the like.
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  Speaker 10: And I think those will be the biggest differences with
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: the last two years versus the first two years of
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  Speaker 10: the second term if, you know, that's the way things
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: go on Election Day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, David Drucker, I'm watching Donald Trump, watching him
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  Speaker 3: at the U.N., watching him do his things, continuing to
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: fight the Iran war, even though it is unpopular for
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: reasons that, you know, escape me.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: But what do I know about strategy?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I'm getting the vibe that Trump doesn't want to lose
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: the House, but figures he can deal with it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: And that maybe.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: That economy that he's been looking for, that golden age,
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  Speaker 3: comes about in the.
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  Speaker 2: Next two years.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And his successor gets to surf that into being 48.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we'll see.
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: You know, I mean, part of the problem that the
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: president has with his economic agenda in terms of it
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: flourishing the way he says it is, but voters don't
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: think it is, is his commitment to tariffs and, you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: fighting multiple trade wars on multiple fronts. It just hasn't
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: done prices, it hasn't done costs any good. And it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: restrained growth, even though we've been growing. And the president's
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: not going to change his mind on that. But We
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: will see who the Democrats nominate in 2028. That's going
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: to have a lot to do with how that race
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  Speaker 10: turns out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you who they're going to nominate. It's
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: going to be Kamala Harris. You can mark that down.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: David M.
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  Speaker 6: Drucker.
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  Speaker 3: Follow him right there on Twitter. He's a dispatch and
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  Speaker 3: Bloomberg columnist.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Schlichter, guest hosting.
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  Speaker 12: For Hugh Hewitt. We'll be right back.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Welcome back. I'm guest
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: host Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 3: And I am joined by Matt Continetti, a man with
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: a resume that is long and impressive, AEI scholar, Wall
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  Speaker 3: Street Journal columnist. Follow him at Continetti on the Twitter machine.
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  Speaker 2: Matt, always a pleasure. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Kurt. Good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good to talk to you, man. Gosh, if only there
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: were topics to cover today. I'm you know, we might
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: have to talk about pop music and other things. But
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe there's a few few things you might have
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  Speaker 3: some ideas about. One of the things that particularly has
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: fascinated me today is Secretary of.
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  Speaker 2: War Pete Higgs's. new idea about evaluations.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: For senior officers to become generals. Now, that may seem
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: esoteric to a lot of people, but I think you'll
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: see exactly why that's a very important thing.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to know what you thought of it.
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  Speaker 13: Well, it's an interesting idea, and it's, I think, part
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: of Secretary Hague's general approach to the Pentagon, to the
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: Department of War. He wants to to make sure that
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  Speaker 13: the military is focusing on its core objective, which is
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  Speaker 13: to deter and defeat the enemies of the United States.
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  Speaker 13: And that means raising standards. I mean, it means raising
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  Speaker 13: standards for promotion. It means raising standards for physical fitness.
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  Speaker 13: And I think it means kind of looking at some
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  Speaker 13: of our general officer corps and saying, you know, who's
• 27:30
  Speaker 13: there really to fight and win wars and who's there
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  Speaker 13: simply because it's desk work and it's a bureaucracy in
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  Speaker 13: the Pentagon. And I think the results show for themselves
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  Speaker 13: when you look at these record-high recruitment numbers.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's a good idea and worth exploring.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Matt, I really appreciate you saying that.
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  Speaker 2: I've read your resume.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see military on there. But, boy, you get
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: it better than a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of the flag officers out there.
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  Speaker 3: You understand the essential nature of what a military does,
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  Speaker 3: and you also understand– why young people join up.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think there's a hunger.
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  Speaker 3: Out there among young people, Matt, to do something bigger
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  Speaker 3: than themselves, to do more than just follow the latest
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Instagram influencer and actually serve a greater good?
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  Speaker 2: Or are they just looking to pay for college?
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  Speaker 13: Well, look, Kurt, I mean, I think you know as
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: well as anybody that there's a crisis among America's young people,
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  Speaker 13: especially among America's young men. And it's a crisis of meaning.
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  Speaker 13: There's a crisis of patriotism, a crisis of connection to
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  Speaker 13: important institutions like the family, like faith. And so serving
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  Speaker 13: your country in the United States aren't forces. I mean,
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  Speaker 13: that to me is and you're right. I did not
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  Speaker 13: do it myself to my regret. But that to me
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  Speaker 13: is the ultimate expression of love of country and of
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: faithless service to others. And so when you have a
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  Speaker 13: department leader like Secretary Hague says, saying, look, we're going
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  Speaker 13: to go back to basics here. We're going to look
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  Speaker 13: at what the Department of War is all about. And
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  Speaker 13: we're going to insist on performance for our young people.
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  Speaker 13: And we're going to take the politics out of it.
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  Speaker 13: I think that is very attractive to young men in particular.
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  Speaker 13: And those are the boys that really drive our recruitment numbers.
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  Speaker 13: And I think you see it in a lot of
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  Speaker 13: the celebrations of America 250. People love these flyovers. They
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  Speaker 13: love to see our military might. They love to see
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  Speaker 13: expressions of patriotism. And I'd much rather America's young people
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  Speaker 13: look at a life in the military or service in
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: the military than, say, devoting their energies to finding connection
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: in the democratic socialists of America. something that would tear
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: our country down rather than build it up?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, I'll tell you, anytime I'm feeling down and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: depressed about things, I talk to some soldiers, airmen, Marines,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Coast Guardsmen, whatever the hell they are in the Space Force,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just knocked out. I can't believe they let
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  Speaker 3: me in the same room with them, much less be
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: an officer.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But, you know, here's a thought.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to evaluate it for me because I
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  Speaker 3: am aggressively pro-war on Iran. I think the mullahs need
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  Speaker 3: to be destroyed. I was in high school when they
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: took our hostages. I remember when they murdered our Marines.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: They've wounded people I know in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: all for putting these guys down. But let's face it,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: this war is not popular. Do you think a significant
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: part of that lack of popularity, we hear everyone's mad
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: because gas prices are high. Do you think there's a
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: large part that the American people really don't want to
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: put our troops in harm's way if they can avoid it?
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: I do think Americans want our troops to remain safe.
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: They prefer that we have no casualties or as minimal
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: casualties as possible. I think, though, Kurt, the reason the
• 31:17
  Speaker 13: war is unpopular is that there's no swift resolution to
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: the war. And that since the beginning of April, when
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: President Trump initiated the ceasefire, we've been involved in this
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: kind of back and forth with Iran. We have the
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: right policy, I think, in place to squeeze the regime
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: economically and to slowly get oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: But now we see that the Iranians have opened up
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: a new front with their Houthis proxies in Yemen. And
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: so I think Americans like to win and they like
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: to win quickly and they like to win painlessly. And
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: while we have had tremendous military success against Iran, we've
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: kind of, you know, put our own foot on the
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: brake pedal when we should, if anything, I think, work
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: to achieve our goals there as rapidly as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks to me, Macron, that the president's leveraging
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: the diplomatic information and especially economic levers of national power
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: as opposed to military. I mean, when he says I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: could go in and destroy them, well, you know, he could.
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  Speaker 3: He could essentially set them back to the Stone Age
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: without dropping.
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  Speaker 2: A hot rock, a nuclear weapon.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: You could do that conventionally by targeting certain infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: Facilities.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: When did America lose the patience it needs to achieve
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: long-term goals? Because we're not going to win the war
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  Speaker 3: against the mullahs tomorrow. It's going to take time. It's
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  Speaker 3: something that I think needs to be done. But when
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  Speaker 3: did America stop being able to take a couple of
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: punches but fight through 15 rounds?
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  Speaker 13: Well, we've lived through this era of the forever wars.
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: These conflicts that seemingly go on for decades and in
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: the case of Afghanistan and in this disaster under President
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: Joe Biden and as we beat a retreat.
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  Speaker 4: In Kabul.
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: And so I think Americans are skeptical of conflicts that
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: don't have a quick resolution as a result. But I
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: think it's also we need to explain what we're doing more.
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: And I was quite happy to see President Trump in
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  Speaker 13: his speech to the U.N.
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  Speaker 4: General Assembly.
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  Speaker 13: Today say, look, others have talked, I've acted, and here's
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: the choice that Iran faces in the coming weeks. Here's
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  Speaker 13: a choice that I face between resolving this conflict peacefully
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: or some type of escalation. I think when we look
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  Speaker 13: at the Houthis, for example, who I just mentioned, the
• 34:00
  Speaker 13: Houthis don't want to fight the United States. They don't
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: want to fight Israel. They're just fighting Saudi Arabia.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Why is that?
• 34:07
  Speaker 13: Because they know, based on experience, based on Operation Rough
• 34:10
  Speaker 13: Rider last year, that if they fight the United States,
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: America will hit them hard. And they know that Israel
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: will too. And Iran doesn't want to fight Israel. They
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: haven't fired on Israel since the ceasefire back in April.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: Because they know if they do, Israel will hit them hard.
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: So we need to get, I think, the Iranians to
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: fear America as much as the Houthis fear America and
• 34:35
  Speaker 13: Israel themselves. And as much as the IRGC, it seems,
• 34:38
  Speaker 13: fears Israel.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Keith, we only have about 30 seconds in this segment.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I'd like to keep you over to talk about a
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: few other things. But do you think the president is
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: going to escalate before these midterms?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Because that may politically hurt him.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: It could.
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: It could hurt him. He might not be faced with
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: an option. You know, we have yet to see the
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: Iranian people come out. And I think that the great
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: scholar Victor Davis Hanson makes a fair point when he
• 35:09
  Speaker 13: says the Kurds could move, the Iranian people could move.
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: And then President Trump, I think, would have to act
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: before the midterms, even if it might cost him politically
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: in terms of these gas prices.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Well, Matt Connetti, stick around. We're going to have you
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: on the other side of the break. I'm guest host
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlechter. This is the Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: The Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: On guest host Kurt Schlichter. That's the replacements. Their nickname
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: were the Mats. And, of course, now we have Matt
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Cononetti here. A little symmetry for you on the Hugh
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Hewitt Show. Matt, let's take a different direction. Over the weekend,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I read something in the New York Times that I
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: found remarkable. It was an article by Nicole Hannah-Jones, who
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you know from such massive academic frauds as the 1619
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Project and various communist agitations like the BLM.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Movement and so on. so forth.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: She came out and admitted that she basically shafted her
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: daughter by throwing her into a garbage public school system
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: that was essentially chaos because she wanted to prove her
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: political bona fides to her friends.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Did you read that article? What do you think?
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: I did see that article. I thought it was pretty incredible.
• 36:31
  Speaker 13: On the one hand, I have to hand it to
• 36:33
  Speaker 13: Nicole Hannah-Jones because it's often the case that liberals don't
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: want to live at the cost of their own policies.
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: They want to impose the costs of their virtue signaling
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: onto others.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: And you see that with open borders. You see that
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: with crime.
• 36:46
  Speaker 13: You see that with green energy and the net zero nonsense.
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: In this case, you have a liberal, more than a liberal,
• 36:54
  Speaker 13: a radical. She is actually harming her own child. harming
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  Speaker 13: her own child's education and chances for a brighter future
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  Speaker 13: because she wants to make an ideological point and she
• 37:05
  Speaker 13: wants to feel good about her superior morality.
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  Speaker 4: It's a remarkable sight to see.
• 37:11
  Speaker 13: It also says, I think, something about the state of
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: the New York Times, which, you know, was one of
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: America's most venerable papers and now is in this kind
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: of morass of socialism and just it. kind of cutting
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: off one's nose to spite one's face. It's really sad
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: to see in a way.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I found it especially heartbreaking.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: You know, her daughter is going to this inner city school,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: which is run entirely by Democrats and Democrat.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Run unions entirely. There's there's no meaningful way to blame,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: you know, those.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Those mega Republicans. They shafted my daughter. She puts her
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: in this school. doesn't pay attention for several years. When
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: she finally looks, she realizes that her kid's stuff isn't
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: being graded. Her child thinks she's getting A's in math,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: that she's good at math. Nicole Hannah-Jones looks at her
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: daughter's math problems, her teachers never did, and realizes that
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: she's getting everything wrong. And yet she still resists taking
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: her daughter out of this nightmare, though her daughter's begging
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: her to go because it's chaos.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Um, you know, I just.
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: Found it horrifying that they, that Nicole Hannah-Jones would place
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: her daughter's wellbeing beside, behind her own virtue signaling.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: It's, it's terrifying, frankly.
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: It is, you know, and anyone who though, who's read
• 38:41
  Speaker 13: Tom's soul and the vision of the anointed knows that
• 38:44
  Speaker 13: this is kind of where the progressive mindset leads. And I,
• 38:48
  Speaker 13: The story is fascinating because it proves the conservative critique
• 38:53
  Speaker 13: of the public school system, that the public school system,
• 38:56
  Speaker 13: especially in deep blue places like New York, is monopolized
• 39:00
  Speaker 13: by the unions. The unions aren't in it for the students' education.
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: They are in it to feather their own beds. These
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: places have no standards, and they have no discipline. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: so conservatives are saying, in this type of situation, we
• 39:16
  Speaker 13: need to increase choice. We need to have accountability and
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: we need to have high standards and we need to
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: have safe school rooms. That's how you create a public
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: school system, restore.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: A public school system.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: That can be an engine of social mobility Like it
• 39:33
  Speaker 13: was in the past Rather than what it's become today
• 39:36
  Speaker 13: Which is, I think, a system of public ignorance It
• 39:40
  Speaker 13: manufactures public ignorance That is causing America a great deal
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: of social and political pain Well, look.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Matt Connany, I thought it was particularly noteworthy that, you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: she she's.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Heading for the end zone.
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: But, you know, she doesn't make that last 10 yards
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: where she makes the connection between the leftist policies that
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: she's embraced and the total failure of.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Primarily young black and other minority children in these inner cities.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Isn't it interesting? It should be stunning to her, at least,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: that if you want to find black children who are
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: succeeding in school, who are learning to read, who are
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: learning to count, who are not living in violence, you
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: have to go down deep into the heart of Dixie
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: to Mississippi, where they started teaching phonics. They started empowering
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: teachers to get rid of troublemaking kids. And, oh, my gosh,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: black children are succeeding. And she can't get there.
• 40:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you're absolutely right to point out the Mississippi miracle.
• 40:52
  Speaker 13: It's one of the great stories in education. And it's
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: maddening to me that more blue state governors aren't looking
• 41:01
  Speaker 13: to red America and saying, look, maybe we should adopt
• 41:04
  Speaker 13: some of the methods that are proving so successful in education.
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: in tax policy, in public safety policy.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: You name it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 13: We have this fight on right now in this country
• 41:14
  Speaker 13: between two models of social organization, the blue state model
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: and the red state model. And Nicole Hannah-Jones' article just
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: goes to show how decrepit and decadent the blue state
• 41:27
  Speaker 13: model has become, whether it is education, whether it is
• 41:31
  Speaker 13: public safety, whether it's public finance, whether it's our attitude
• 41:35
  Speaker 13: toward illegal immigration, whether it's our decarbonization efforts and this
• 41:40
  Speaker 13: blue move to drive out fossil fuels that provide America
• 41:45
  Speaker 13: so much plentiful energy. Again and again, you see the
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: blue states failing and the red states succeeding and Americans
• 41:52
  Speaker 13: voting with their feet and moving to red America by
• 41:57
  Speaker 13: the millions. And that's going to have long lasting effects
• 42:01
  Speaker 13: on our society and on our politics with the next census.
• 42:05
  Speaker 13: But it's frustrating because you would think that any rational
• 42:10
  Speaker 13: person would look at these results and say, we have
• 42:12
  Speaker 13: to change course.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: But that's not the liberal attitude.
• 42:16
  Speaker 13: That's not the attitude of The New York Times or
• 42:19
  Speaker 13: of the political officials in New York City and New
• 42:22
  Speaker 13: York State.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm one of those refugees from a
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: red state. I'm here at my Texas house. I may
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: move here full time. I'm And I'm looking around, and
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: the Democrat who wants to turn around all the policies
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: that made Texas a miracle is likely to get between 40%, 45%,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: maybe 46%, 47% of the vote against Greg Abbott, a
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: guy who you cannot argue he's done a great job. And,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: of course, James Tallarico is polling very well. He's all
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: in on this stuff. How can leftists be so resistant–
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: To empirical evidence, the evidence that's right in front of
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: the success and the failures that are right in front
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: You know, the Democrats are going.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: To win the vote of the people in Pacific Palisades,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: if you can believe it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: We got about 30 seconds.
• 43:19
  Speaker 13: It's one of the maddening things about politics. But I
• 43:23
  Speaker 13: think the important point is to keep driving it home.
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: You know, we have to bust through that media cloud.
• 43:29
  Speaker 13: We have to remind people that poverty fell to a
• 43:31
  Speaker 13: record low in the United States last year. Median income
• 43:34
  Speaker 13: went to a record high. No one knows these facts.
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: And so the only way to, I think, combat the
• 43:39
  Speaker 13: bad information, the moral virtue signaling that has no results,
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: is to just continually remind people of positive results.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Well, Matt Continetti, thank you for joining us.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: AEI senior fellow, columnist at the Wall Street Journal. Follow
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: him at Continetti on the Twitter machine. I'm guest host
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Kurt Schlichter. We'll be back with more Hugh Hewitt Show.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Kirk Schlichter, senior columnist at townhall.com, Los Angeles trial lawyer
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: for 30 years, retired United States Army infantry.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Colonel, and boy, I've got something special for you.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: It's a friend of mine, a comrade in arms, if
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: you will, although we never served together.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: He was in the stuff I was... Commanding a heavily
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: armed car wash.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: You may know him on the Twitter machine as cynical publius.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: He's Tom Anderson. He was a ordnance officer, logistics officer
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: in the United States Army, airborne, not a five jump
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: chump like me.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: And he also became.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: After serving as a full colonel, became a mergers and
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: acquisitions lawyer.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: In Silicon Valley.
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: You may know him as one of my comrades on
• 44:51
  Speaker 14: the War College Examination Task Force, which was attacked by
• 44:57
  Speaker 14: the Washington Post weekly and in a very feminine fashion
• 45:02
  Speaker 14: as some sort of scam when it was really a
• 45:05
  Speaker 14: bunch of colonels trying to help our troops.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Tom, welcome to the show. Hey, Kurt.
• 45:11
  Speaker 15: Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you bringing me on,
• 45:13
  Speaker 15: and it's good to see you.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Well, it's good to see you. It's always great to
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: see you. You have served your country incredibly. You should
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: be very proud of what you did. And, of course,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: you're going to tell me you didn't do anything. Well, folks,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: that's nonsense.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: He did a lot, and I'm in a position to know.
• 45:31
  Speaker 16: Tom, let's jump right up to Secretary Hegseth, who neither
• 45:35
  Speaker 16: of us works for anymore. Today he put out that
• 45:40
  Speaker 16: he's going to start testing colonels and captains, those sixes,
• 45:45
  Speaker 16: who want to become general officers to see if they're
• 45:48
  Speaker 16: tactically and technically proficient in their jobs, just like General
• 45:52
  Speaker 16: Marshall did before World War II.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: Oh, I'm thrilled. There's a saying that you hear in
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: the Army when you make colonel, and it's that, congratulations,
• 46:04
  Speaker 15: this is the last promotion you're going to make on merit.
• 46:07
  Speaker 15: And that's because when you start getting into those higher ranks,
• 46:10
  Speaker 15: it really matters.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: A lot who you know.
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: I mean, everyone is an excellent officer at that level,
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: but you kind of need to have a sponsor. You
• 46:16
  Speaker 15: kind of need to have a guy sitting on the
• 46:19
  Speaker 15: board who's going to represent you and help you get promoted.
• 46:22
  Speaker 15: And this is a step away from that. That's politicization.
• 46:26
  Speaker 15: I think the number one thing that Pete Hicks has
• 46:29
  Speaker 15: been doing for our country is removing politics from our
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: senior ranks, Instead, putting in merit, merit about warfighting, merit
• 46:38
  Speaker 15: about closing with and destroying the enemy. That's what this
• 46:41
  Speaker 15: is about. And I'm really thrilled to hear it. There's
• 46:44
  Speaker 15: some potential downsides. Hopefully the services aren't going to try
• 46:47
  Speaker 15: and dilute what he's implementing. But I think it's a
• 46:50
  Speaker 15: great step in the right direction. And I also think
• 46:53
  Speaker 15: it's great because this is going to be a real
• 46:54
  Speaker 15: stressor for these guys. I mean, this is their careers
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: they're talking about. And I know it's hard to replicate
• 47:00
  Speaker 15: wartime situations in a simulation, but when your career is
• 47:03
  Speaker 15: on the line, that's pretty serious. So I think this
• 47:06
  Speaker 15: is going to be a really good test.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Tom, it should be stressful. It should
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: be the hardest thing in the world. I remember when
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I was a deputy commander of a brigade during NTC.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: The only more miserable experience I had in the Army
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: was officer candidate school.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: It was hard because everyone's looking at you.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: But, you know, Tom, I know you've been in the
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: same position I have. You've seen soldiers hurt, even killed.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Because their leaders didn't do their job. And I'll tell you,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I know that I'm not going to talk about what
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: we did on the War College panel, but I will
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: tell you, you folks, every single thing we did was
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: to make sure that in the future, no junior soldier
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: had a senior leader who wasn't absolutely the very best.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: That was our entire intent. And I think that's Pete
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Hegg's intent now.
• 47:59
  Speaker 15: Yeah, and you mentioned the National Training Center. I mean,
• 48:02
  Speaker 15: my experience is more the Joint Readiness Training Center, which
• 48:04
  Speaker 15: is being a light airborne guy. But same thing, very,
• 48:07
  Speaker 15: very difficult, demanding, an opposing force that's able to kick
• 48:11
  Speaker 15: your butt. You want to be stressed to the maximum
• 48:14
  Speaker 15: extreme so you're ready for war. And I think that
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: this is a great extension of that concept by putting
• 48:21
  Speaker 15: it into the personnel system. Now it's not just seeing
• 48:23
  Speaker 15: how a unit performs. It's seeing how the individual performs
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: under pressure. And I know that you can look at
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: the trail of OERs, efficiency reports, and say that was
• 48:34
  Speaker 15: the proof. But it's not the same thing as going
• 48:36
  Speaker 15: up against an artificial intelligence. It's not the same thing
• 48:39
  Speaker 15: as being graded at the moment that you're making decisions.
• 48:43
  Speaker 15: It's the Louisiana maneuvers. It's George Marshall. It's getting rid
• 48:47
  Speaker 15: of dead weight and focusing on warfighting. It's a great initiative.
• 48:50
  Speaker 15: I'm thrilled by it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Tom— Let's put a pin in AI
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: because we're going to come back to that because you
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: were a Silicon Valley lawyer and you know about this stuff.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: But why is there opposition to the kind of thing
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth is doing? I mean, you've led men and women.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: You understand why it's important that the boss gets down
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: and does a bunch of pushups. Can you explain why
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: that is so critical to our listeners who maybe haven't
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: had a chance to serve?
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Well, it's called leading by example.
• 49:24
  Speaker 15: And I know Hegsit gets a lot of criticism for this, like, oh,
• 49:28
  Speaker 15: that's not really the Secretary of War's job. And that's
• 49:30
  Speaker 15: because a lot of times we have 70-year-old men as
• 49:33
  Speaker 15: the Secretary of War or So it's unreasonable to expect
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: them to be able to go out there and do
• 49:38
  Speaker 15: pull-ups and push-ups and run with the troops.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: But Pechert is a young man.
• 49:42
  Speaker 15: He's physically fit.
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: He's active.
• 49:44
  Speaker 15: And he's leading by example. He's doing the things that
• 49:47
  Speaker 15: he expects his subordinates to do. He doesn't want a
• 49:51
  Speaker 15: fat four-star general sitting in the Pentagon. He wants that
• 49:54
  Speaker 15: guy out there doing physical training at 630 in the morning,
• 49:57
  Speaker 15: just like every other troop in the military. And He's
• 50:01
  Speaker 15: out there setting that example. And it's inspiring to the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guardians,
• 50:07
  Speaker 15: I think is what the Space Force calls it. It's
• 50:09
  Speaker 15: inspiring to them to see a leader who is able
• 50:12
  Speaker 15: to do that and is willing to do that and
• 50:14
  Speaker 15: is willing to get down in the dirt with them
• 50:16
  Speaker 15: because he's been down in the dirt with them.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: He's been there.
• 50:19
  Speaker 15: He fought in Afghanistan. He fought in Iraq. He knows
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: what we were up against. That's leading by example. And
• 50:25
  Speaker 15: that That inspires people. That's why enlistment rates were so high.
• 50:31
  Speaker 15: That's why re-enlistment rates were so high. That's why we're
• 50:33
  Speaker 15: seeing a motivated, competent military that's not mired in the
• 50:37
  Speaker 15: politics of DEI and all the other social experimentation that
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: we tried to foist on the military in recent years.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Well, Tom, I couldn't have said better myself. You know,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you are of my generation.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: The guys who were, I don't know if you were
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: in Desert Storm, I was, but you and I were
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: commissioned about the same time. The guys who taught us
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: were the guys who fought in Vietnam. And they weren't playing.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: And these guys knew about leadership. You know about AI
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: from your civilian career. There's a lot of talk out
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: there about how AI is going to kill us all.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Is AI going to kill us all, Tom?
• 51:20
  Speaker 15: Yeah, just like climate change is going to kill us
• 51:22
  Speaker 15: all and net neutrality is going to kill us all.
• 51:24
  Speaker 15: and Obamacare is going to make sure we're not all killed. No,
• 51:28
  Speaker 15: I don't believe it is. I mean, what we have
• 51:31
  Speaker 15: and what's got my attention on this, and you're right,
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: I am a Silicon Valley lawyer. I've done a lot
• 51:35
  Speaker 15: of deals with small AI companies, and that's what most
• 51:38
  Speaker 15: AI companies are, very specialized companies that are doing.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Web analytics or how to build your own.
• 51:44
  Speaker 15: Web page or marketing or how to have a diet.
• 51:47
  Speaker 15: I mean, those are the sorts of things that AI
• 51:49
  Speaker 15: has customized for individuals. But we have this problem of
• 51:53
  Speaker 15: what I call dystopia versus utopia. I just gave you
• 51:57
  Speaker 15: some of the utopia, which is all these great things
• 51:59
  Speaker 15: that can help people. Dystopia is the matrix. It's Skynet.
• 52:03
  Speaker 15: It's the whole world is going to be destroyed. We're
• 52:05
  Speaker 15: all going to die from being eaten by gray goo.
• 52:08
  Speaker 15: And what got my attention on this was when I
• 52:10
  Speaker 15: started seeing Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Hakeem Jeffries calling for
• 52:16
  Speaker 15: AI regulation at the same time as the large AI
• 52:20
  Speaker 15: companies were calling for the same thing. There's a thing
• 52:23
  Speaker 15: called regulatory capture. I know you know what that is, Kurt.
• 52:27
  Speaker 15: But for those who don't, it's the idea that the
• 52:29
  Speaker 15: government decides to regulate an industry. And the leaders in
• 52:33
  Speaker 15: that industry have so much input into what is actually
• 52:36
  Speaker 15: going to go into those regulations that they ultimately control
• 52:39
  Speaker 15: what the government does, creating a very anti-competitive environment. We
• 52:43
  Speaker 15: saw that with Obamacare and the insurance industry. We saw
• 52:47
  Speaker 15: it with Dodd-Frank and the banking industry. We almost saw
• 52:49
  Speaker 15: it with net neutrality and all of the major Internet players.
• 52:53
  Speaker 15: We see it in other ways with the Department of
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: Education and teachers unions. We don't want the AI folks
• 53:00
  Speaker 15: being the ones who are setting the regulations. You know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 15: it's scary because AI is very powerful, but there's existing
• 53:08
  Speaker 15: laws in place to prevent most of the bad things
• 53:10
  Speaker 15: that people are worried about. If you want to say, oh,
• 53:13
  Speaker 15: AI is going to allow me to produce the next
• 53:15
  Speaker 15: COVID in my basement, that's already illegal.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: So I think that what we're seeing is- Hey, Tom,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but we're running out of time. Where can
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: people find you real quick?
• 53:25
  Speaker 15: At Cynical Publius on X.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: If you're not following him- You're failing the test. I'm
• 53:33
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host
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  Speaker 2: Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 3: And, of course, my next guest's favorite band is The Replacement.
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  Speaker 3: He's Byron York from the Washington Examiner, where he's chief
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  Speaker 3: political correspondent.
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  Speaker 2: You can follow him at Byron York. Byron, are you
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  Speaker 2: a Joey or Johnny guy?
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  Speaker 12: You know, I was just thinking, what is there going
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  Speaker 12: to play for me today? Will they play The Replacements?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this time we got the Ramones. I think you're
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: a Johnny guy.
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  Speaker 3: He was actually a conservative, which was amazing, considering how
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: loud and fast he was. And speaking of loud and fast,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: did you catch the president at the U.N.
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly?
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  Speaker 3: I did. I did.
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  Speaker 12: It was quite a speech, I thought. It was not
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: one of these weave speeches. He actually stuck to the text.
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  Speaker 12: Very strong defense of the war. not really taking into
• 57:21
  Speaker 12: account much some of the terrible snags we've run into
• 57:25
  Speaker 12: in the war, a strong account of Venezuela, strong words
• 57:32
  Speaker 12: about immigration for the rest of the world, defending U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Policies.
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  Speaker 12: There's just a lot of interesting stuff in that speech.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, I watched Donald Trump, and I don't think
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen an American president be such an advocate
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: of independent Westphalian nation states. I mean, he was basically saying,
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: you foreigners, keep out of our business. Oh, and we're
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: going to take care of business.
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  Speaker 2: In our own hemisphere. Have you ever seen an American.
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  Speaker 3: President swimming against the tide of globalism the way he is?
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  Speaker 12: Actually, it was very extraordinary. about his defense of sort
• 58:11
  Speaker 12: of his updated Monroe Doctrine and the United States and
• 58:17
  Speaker 12: his defense of the United States on immigration. So I
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: will read you a little bit, because I thought it
• 58:21
  Speaker 12: was really strong here. He said, It is deeply ironic
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  Speaker 12: that the UN has an entire institution, the UNESCO group,
• 58:32
  Speaker 12: devoted to protecting cultural heritage. Yet, with their ceaseless promotion
• 58:37
  Speaker 12: of mass migration, these globalists are actively destroying the greatest
• 58:42
  Speaker 12: cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history. There
• 58:47
  Speaker 12: is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is
• 58:51
  Speaker 12: a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we want
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: to remain a sovereign nation. So should you. That was
• 59:00
  Speaker 12: pretty straight.
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  Speaker 3: Man, the wail you hear from the East is all
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: those folks at the EU crying out in terror like
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: all being destroyed by the Death Star.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. And Byron, there are people mad.
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  Speaker 3: At conservative people mad at Donald Trump right now.
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  Speaker 15: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 12: Well, look, I certainly understand being very unhappy with some
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: of the ways that Trump has conducted the war. I
• 59:34
  Speaker 12: didn't think it was a good idea to start it.
• 59:37
  Speaker 12: So I can understand that sort of opposition. But as
• 59:39
  Speaker 12: far as the speech is concerned, Trump was defending his policies,
• 59:43
  Speaker 12: and he was defending the United States' place in the world.
• 59:47
  Speaker 12: And it was pretty darn strong, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think it's fair to say that the Democrat
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: position is– We need to be, as the United States,
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: subservient to the international elite consensus on immigration, on everything else.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's always been the basic division, I think, between
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  Speaker 12: Republicans and Democrats and the UN. And the Democrats have
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 12: always wanted the United States to be more under the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 12: influence of international institutions. even when George W. Bush went
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 12: through the whole UN, the whole process to start the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 12: war in Iraq, which I think was a mistake, but
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 12: he certainly dotted all his I's and crossed all his
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 12: T's in terms of getting the resolutions and everything like that.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 12: So Democrats have always just been pro-international institutions, and Republicans
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 12: have been just pro-independent America.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Barbara Newark, let's talk a little about the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me– and I may be wrong. You
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: may have another view. About two weeks ago before the–
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  Speaker 3: Before the convention, I think we kind of hit bottom
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: as Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: I think it looked bad. The polling was bad. The
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: vibe was bad.
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  Speaker 3: The convention started to kind of turn around, and then
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: the money showed up. And then you start seeing some effects.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: For instance, Ken Paxton is now allegedly one point behind
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: Tallarico here in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: I don't buy that. I buy that he's ahead. But
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: putting that aside.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the time where the Republicans start waking up
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  Speaker 3: and start moving into a more competitive position, including as
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: people wake up and say, you know, I may be
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: mad at Trump, but this guy wants to castrate little
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: boys to conform to the dendrit illusions of their munchausen mommies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not playing that.
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  Speaker 12: Well, sure as heck better be the time. I think,
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  Speaker 12: how many weeks are we away now?
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  Speaker 2: Six.
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  Speaker 1: Six.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 12: It really needs to be the time. You know, I
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 12: got a good bit of attention a week or two
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 12: ago when I wrote an article asking the question whether
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 12: the midterm results are already, as the political professionals say,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 12: baked in the cake, because voters tend to make their
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 12: decisions a lot earlier than we sometimes assume. And I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 12: talked to some Republicans, and one strategist who's quite involved
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 12: in a number of current races said, look, the public's
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 12: negative view of Trump is absolutely baked. It ain't going
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 12: to change before November. No way, no how. Also, the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 12: public's negative views about the war in Iran and about
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 12: the economy are also not going to change. On the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 12: other hand— There are some really hot, flawed personalities amongst candidates,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 12: people like Abdul El-Sayed and James Tallarico. And the Republicans
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 12: still have room to maneuver and opportunities to define those
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 12: people for the voters negatively, of course. So I think
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 12: that that's the Republicans are in kind of a mad
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 12: dash to do that. As you know, there's been a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 12: lot of talk about, you know, gosh, President Trump is
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 12: sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars and he's not
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 12: spending it. Well, he's spending it now. And the question
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 12: is whether it's really too late. It's one of these
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 12: things where the election may be actually decided, but we
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 12: just don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one of the interesting things I found here in Texas,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: I'm at the Houston Rancho, is talking to regular Republicans,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: that is, people who aren't lunatics who pay attention to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: politics all the time, like you and you and me.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: They know Tallarico exists. They think he's a little weird,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: but they don't have the specifics yet. Well, Ken Paxton's
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: getting about $ 75 million to get them the specifics, and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: we have seen a little movement. Do you think the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: strategy towards spending late is an actual strategy or just happenstance?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: And if it is a strategy, do you think it
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: might pay off? How do you think this is going
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: to end? We've got about 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 12: I think it's happenstance. I don't think they were saying,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 12: you know, waiting all these weeks to say, you know,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 12: we're going to wait until we see the whites of
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 12: their eyes before we start shooting. You know, I don't
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 12: think they were doing that at all. I think Trump
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 12: was late to bring out some of the money, and
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 12: this is the kind of thing you do at the end.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 12: The question is whether it's enough in time to actually
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 12: make that difference in light of these hardened attitudes that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 12: I was talking about earlier. I just don't know, and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: I have to tell you, in terms of the House–
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 12: I still think it looks very bad for Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Byron York. It's always a pleasure to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: talk to you. My guest goes here on The Hugh
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Hewitt Show. I'm Kurt Schlichter. We'll be right back with more.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 2: That, of course, is.
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  Speaker 3: Roger Daltrey and The Who singing The Kids Are All Right.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite Who songs. I know everybody likes
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  Speaker 3: Bob O'Reilly, Teenage Wasteland.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. But that song is a gem. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. And it is so apt.
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  Speaker 3: For our next guest, who's the director of outreach and
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  Speaker 3: personality at PragerU Kids, Jill Simonian.
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  Speaker 2: You can follow her at Jill Simonian at Twitter. And Jill.
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  Speaker 3: What is a director of outreach and personality do?
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  Speaker 17: What do we find out new every day?
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Kurt, it's so nice to talk to you.
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  Speaker 17: I've been here for about six years. I helped create
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 17: the PragerU Kids program, which is now up to, wow,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 17: almost 1000 free resources, videos, downloadable books. Worksheets, lesson plans
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 17: on PragerUKids.com, grades K, kindergarten.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Through 12th grade.
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  Speaker 17: The tools so parents can educate their kids to appreciate
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 17: the USA through our faults, to know our history, to
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 17: learn about biblical heroes, to learn civics, financial literacy, American values,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 17: and love of country and more.
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  Speaker 3: You mean the stuff they should teach in schools but
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: don't because they're teaching weird gender commie gobbledygook.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Do I kind of have it right?
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 9: 100%.
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  Speaker 17: I think you have it right.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%. 100% that.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: Now, Deal, over the weekend, I think we had a
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: major event in the whole kid campaign to educate our kids,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: to take back their schooling from the— failed establishment.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Perhaps you saw Nicole Hannah-Jones'.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: Article about her daughter and how she, because of her politics,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: sent her daughter to a terrible.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: Deep blue city school district and her daughter literally knew nothing.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: And she stole years from her. Did you see that
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: and what do you think of it? I did see it, actually.
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  Speaker 17: And it's something that I often talk about on the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 17: weekly live stream that I have here at PragerU.com. It's
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 17: called Parent Alert. And we talk about the state of education.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 17: We talk about parental rights. We talk about what is
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 17: actually happening in our public schools. And the story that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 17: we saw break with the author of the 1619 Project saying, hey,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 17: public schools really didn't give my daughter the education that
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 17: we kind of intended is just another unfortunate illustration of
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 17: how badly and sadly our public schools have been hijacked
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 17: by politics, how they have abandoned schools. teaching tried and
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 17: true knowledge that has built built with Western civilization that
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 17: we have veered away of, you know, everything from reading
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 17: the classic works of Shakespeare and Homer that that taught
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 17: that taught virtue and and also gave, you know, a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 17: very pointed academic challenge to develop young people's minds. And
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 17: to the point where now they're teaching that math is
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 17: racist and every single subject from science to literature to
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 17: math is taught through this lens of us versus them,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 17: victim oppressor ideology. It's really tragic, but... The story made
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 17: me very hopeful that now not only are parents and
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 17: teachers alike waking up to the hypocrisy that's taken over
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 17: our schools, it's encouraged me that perhaps the pendulum will
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 17: be swinging back to a place of reasonability where we
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 17: might not all agree on everything, but we can at
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 17: least agree on the big stuff.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that, Jill Simonian.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: I look at Nicole Hannah-Jones and she didn't, you know,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: she was headed towards the end zone and then she
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: fumbled at the last 10 yards because she didn't tie
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: it in and say, we've got to.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Do something about the union.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: We've got to do something about the woke curriculum. We've
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: got to do something for these kids. Look, I live
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: in the South Bay of Los Angeles. You're in LA.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: You're in Angelino, too.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: Do you think the liberal wine moms of my neighborhood
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: would allow for a second their children to go to
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: a school that wasn't sending people off to Harvard and
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: Stanford and all that?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Not for a second, but you go five miles to
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: the east over.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: The 405, and those kids are prominently harmed by what
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: the Democrats are doing.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: How do we get— we can't fix it. How do we
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: get them to fix themselves?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: Well, here's the thing.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 17: Everything you said is absolutely true.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Of course, I agree.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 17: We are here at PragerU in the belly of the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 17: beast in the Southern California area. We live everything in
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 17: real time. As a mom of two teenagers now, I'm
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 17: experiencing everything in real time. And, you know, not to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 17: get too personal, but I have been on both sides
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 17: of educational choices for my kids. And I have seen
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 17: in real time what works for what doesn't, what's beneficial,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 17: what's harmful. That aside, what I will say that I
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 17: am encouraged by, and this is, you know, particularly with
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 17: my circle of friends that I have in real life,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 17: and also various, I will say, you know, to put
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 17: it in your words, white liberal wine women.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, those would be my words. Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 17: In my Instagram feed, who I, you know, at one
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 17: time followed in my Instagram feed, Many, many of these characters,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 17: I will say, have come to a point of reasonability
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 17: where they are now unexpectedly sharing online information. how shocked
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 17: they are about the most extreme gender ideologies in school,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 17: how harmful they are. Many of them will not backpedal,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 17: and they're sticking to their guns at the demise of
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 17: their own children and families. However, but on the flip side,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 17: I have seen many admit, oh, wow, we were duped.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: I was duped.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: This is harmful.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 17: This happened to my child in the public school when
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 17: I was championing these woke ideologies.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I've seen it in real time.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 17: And I really do think even though social media, you know,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 17: tells us one side of the story, I really do
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 17: think that there are more moderately reasonable people out there
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 17: than we like to maybe think about in our, you know,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 17: think about in our own little circles.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Jill, I think the test is, OK,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: you've heard all that. Now will you vote for a Republican?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: And I'm afraid the answer is going to be no.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid they would sacrifice their children on an altar
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: of wokeness. Look, how can parents who need resources get
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: them from PragerU kids?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: We got about 30 seconds.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 17: Yeah, that's the thing that I've personally been working on
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 17: because I get very heated and up in arms about
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 17: what I can't control and the garbage laws that have
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 17: come down in California to hijack our schools. But I've
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 17: started to understand what I can control. I can control
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 17: what I supplement my children's education with. I can control
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 17: teaching them about America. And that is the driving force
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 17: of what we do at PragerU Kids.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Like I said, we have all the tools. They're free.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 17: I share the civics lessons with my kids. I share
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 17: the financial literacy lessons with my kids.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 12: We share the.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 17: Videos about loving America through our faults. And that's how
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 17: we can combat this wokeness.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: It's the only way to do it. Well, thank you,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids. I'm Kurt Schlichter. We'll be
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: right back.