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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Arm Strong and Getty and he.

Armstrong and Getty jump ahead a day. I just saw Senator Marco Rubio.

Whose confermation hearing is tomorrow for Secretary of State. We'll say in his opening remarks that China has lied and cheated its way to superpower status at the expense of the United States, according to.

The syllable truth.

Absolutely man, I love a secretary of state coming in that. That's his opening point of view. That's freaking awesome.

Time to call a spade a spade and a communist a communist.

But for today, makeup America, grow up, stand up, get up.

For today it pull your socks up. As John Lennon right, Pete heggsth is trying to be confirmed as Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense. And in cases they don't follow this sort of stuff very closely, it's worth knowing that for a lot of the media and the politicians themselves.

It's just yar side or boo our side.

They just want to shoot down whoever the other side nominates with some sort of feeling that if they have to go to their second choice, you've won something. Though I haven't seen that displayed in my life on any level that it really has any lasting impact. But so they would feel like MSNBC and the Democrat senators would feel like they won something if they could stop Hezeth

Oh yeah, absolutely, it's just posting a win for our side, even if, as you indicate, the wind doesn't do you any good.

Yeah, just go to a different choice.

And and and they and they are playing out the president's policy anyway as secretary of State or sect deef or whatever. If they didn't, they get fired by their boss. Right, So where should we start on some of that? They're in the third hour of the Hegxeth hearings. That would be a grueling day, man, And I I don't know how you not lose your temper. That'd be the main thing I'd be saying there, don't get angry, don't get angry, don't get angry. That's I'd be saying to myself. Stay cool,

That's one of their goals, right, yeah, although it depends. You know, some some can get that boil at just the right level. But it's a it's a dangerous game to play. You don't me.

I'd go with you, you pizza half, you mother plag and try to climb over the table, and then people have to hold me back. That's why I said some too specific.

He Hanson, where do we want to start in these?

Okay, here we go, Here we go, Pete exit being questioned by somebody.

So what we're talking about here specifically is women in ground combat roles in jobs like infantrymen or artillerymen or special forces. Until about ten years ago, that wasn't the case. Under Secretary of Panetta, those roles were opened up to women to serve in. As President Trump indicated all that he plans to rescind or alter that guidance.

You're correct to point out, Senator, that these are the decisions that the commander in chief will have the prerogative to make. He has not indicated me to me that he has plans to change whether or not women.

Would have access to these roles.

However, I would point out ensuring that standards are equal and high is of importance to him and great importance to me, because in those ground combat roles, what is true is that the weight of the ruck on your back doesn't change, the weight of the one to five to five round that you have to carry doesn't change, the weight of the two forty provo machine gun you

R So, what percentage of America would agree with what he just said?

There huge, huge, huge.

Absolute majority, without a doubt. I'm looking at Byron.

York from the Washington If you were to poll people who served in combat and therefore really know what they're talking about, it would be unanimous Byron York.

Washington Examiner says that Kristen's Jilibrand as her attempts failed. She's the demoocratic senator from New York. Let's hear a little of her.

Everything you've said in these public statements is politics. I don't want women.

I don't want moms. What's wrong with a mom?

By the way, once you have babies, you therefore are no longer able to be lethal. I mean, you're basically saying women after they have children can't ever serve in the military in a combat role. It's a silly thing to say. It's a silly thing to say. Beneath the position that you are aspiring to to denigrate LGBTQ service members is a mistake. If you are a sharpshooter, you're as lethal regardless of what your gender identity is, regardless of who you love.

Senator, as the President has stated, I don't disagree with the overturn of Donuts Hotel Great.

Because I don't want you thinking can't serve if your mom can't serve your LGBTQ.

He's like, who are you yelling at? And why?

Well, okay, then all right, So I would just say, hey, Democrats keep thinking that that Twitter worldview is the winning argument.

Do it go, take it to the mat.

Just keep pushing it, cycle after cycle. That's all about LGBTQ and identity, politics and everything.

Keep doing it. I'm all for you. I'm on your side.

Kirsten Gillibrand is the classic mid wit. I think that's the term we're supposed to use these days. Hl Menkin would have called her a mediocrity. Whichever term searchs you suits you the best.

Maybe I think that's probably true. I remember when she ran for president and I wasn't impressed. But she's also trying to get re elected in New York where a lot of her constituents agree with what she just said, and that's her job.

So staying in office is her job.

Again, to your point, her job is not to figure out who would be the best second f right. She probably didn't even consider that.

So here he is, how do you say the name Herno Rono Herono? But this is where they start getting into his personal life and questioning him on haven't heard this.

Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature. No, Senator, have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct.

Senator, I was falsely accused in October of twenty seventeen. It was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.

I don't think how completely cleared is accurate, but the.

Fact is that.

Your own lawyer said that you entered into an NDA paid a person who accused you of raping her some of money to make sure that she did not file a complaint. Moving on, as secretary, you will be in charge of maintaining good order and discipline by enforcing the Uniform Code of Military Justice you see in addition to the sexual assault allegations. And by the way, the answer

Do you know that being drunk.

At work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ.

Senator, those are multiple false, anonymous reports pedaled by NBCD. You know that directly to the dozens of men and women.

I worry I'm not hearing that.

My question.

I like the question, do you know you're not supposed to be drunk at work. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Mazy Herono is a seventy seven year old progressive crank.

So I just I've just looked ahead on this. This gets into whether or not he'd shoot protesters in the legs, So I want to hear this.

The next one.

In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown d C.

An order.

Secretary Esper refused to comply with would you carry out such an order from President Trump?

Senator I was in the Washington DC National Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those would you carry.

Out shoe protest in the legs?

I saw as the service agents to get injured, b rids trying to jump over the fence, se church on fire, and destruyer.

That sounds to me that you will comply with such an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg moved on.

Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. I've enjoyed Hawaii. I've talked to Hawaiians. You can do better than that half wit elect somebody who's got like two thirds of a wit looking up at Senator Warren. Elizabeth Warren, I've been looking waiting for her today. She says, I want to pick up on the questioning of Senator Herono. So that's exciting. So hey, take this further down the road. Well, we have more Mazie Herono, who I'm actually enjoying in a

President Luck has attacked our allies in recent weeks, refusing to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal, and they threatening to take to make Canada the fifty first state. Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force? Or how would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?

Senator.

I will emphasize that President Trump received seventy seven million votes to be the lawful commander.

Talking about the election, my question is would you use our military to take over Greenland or an ally of Denmark?

Senator.

One of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand and so I would never in this public forum give one way or another direct orders the president in any context.

That sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland.

Mister he says, was you shoot Greenlanders in the legs if you invaded and they protest? Senator, that's a ridiculous I can only assume you would shoot Greenlanders in their legs.

You know what's against the law to be drunk in Greenland.

But you, having shot a Greenlander in the legs, get drunk and come on to her.

Would you secu pass a drunk Greenlander who was limping along having been shot in the leg.

Have you in the past answer the question?

I just love how she borderline sounds drunk and goes you understand it against the rule to be drunk. I realize that's the way she talks. But yeah, she did something a little drunk. You know you're not supposed to drink the work, right, She got a just a nit wit at age seventy seven. Now we're taking ridiculous grand standing questions. What do we where's the greatest superpower on Earth?

Act like it?

Ninety nine percent of hearings are our grand standing performative bs for talk radio to mock one side or the other.

I do want to hear the Tim Kaine stuff. It's kind of long.

Uh.

He's the senator from wherever he was Hitlar Glint's running mate. You might remember him.

Nobody cares Virginia maybe.

Or remember they featured him on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago. It was hilarious. Nobody remembered who he was. That was the whole point.

Anyway, he really gets into Hegzeth's personal life.

And we're going to play that for you.

Come up.

The bit on SNL real quickly is they had a game show and they played a show to tweet from one of the contestants that said, this is the most important election of our lifetime.

Who's with me?

Back in twenty sixteen for a Democrat who was voting for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, And then they marched out Tim Kine, the real Tim Kaine. Ones announce said who is this? And they had no idea. I had no idea as a political junkie. That's how quickly you

Thank you, mister hegg Seth.

I'm looking forward to this opportunity to talk. I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago, that he in Monterey, California, in October twenty seventeen. At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct, I believe so, And you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your.

Third wife, correct, Senator.

I was falsely charged, fully investigated, and completely cleared.

So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime, that's your definition of cleared. You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you are completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and sheet on the mother of a child who had been born two months before, and you tell us you are completely cleared?

So how was that a complete clear Senator? Her child's name is Gwendolen Hope hag Seth, and she's a child of God, and she's seven years old, and you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn't you?

Those were false charges?

Well, no, fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.

And I am so useful in the marriage. I have to decide.

You've admitted that you had sex at that hotel in October twenty seventeen. You said it was consensual. Isn't that correct anything. You've admitted that it was consensual and you were still married and you.

Just had a child by another.

Wow, again, how do.

You explain your completely false charges against me? You fully investigated and.

I was completely clear.

You have admitted that you had sex while you were married to wife two, after you just had fathered a child by wife three.

You've admitted that.

Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be secretary defense, wouldn't it?

It was a false claim?

Then in a false claim.

Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be a secretary of defense, wouldn't it?

That was a false claim.

So you're talking about a hypothetical.

So you can't tell me whether someone who is committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being a Secretary of Defense.

Senator.

I know, in my instance, and I'm talking about my instance only, it was a false claim, but you acknowledge it.

But you acknowledge that you cheated on your wife, and that you cheated on the woman by whom you had just fathered a child.

You have ad met at that. I will allow your words to speak for them.

You're not retracting that today.

That's good.

Wow oof wow.

So he's got a very ugly don't approve of it personal life obviously.

Oh yeah, that's been pretty well conceited by all he ran around.

This isn't new information.

But he could have responded with, so are you arguing Bill Clinton should have never have been president? Or I know you went to Harvard John F. Kennedy's School of Government. Should his name be taken off that building? I mean, my lifestyle is not much different than their lifestyle. I know you wouldn't say that, but it's true.

Or yeah and absolutely throw in And I regret the way I acted. I was more interested in my desires than my responsibilities as the young men. I've changed completely.

That's some ugly stuff there.

That his wife's business, but it's current wife didn't really dig hearing it either. We had a little more of this and other stuff on the way Liz.

Warren Armstrong and Getty.

I love my country, Senator, and I've dedicated.

My life to the war fighters.

People see me as someone who hosts a morning show on television, but people that really know me know where my heart's at. It's with the guys in this audience who've had my back and I've had theirs. We've been in some of the darkest and most difficult places you can ever be in. You come back a different person, and only by the grace of God am I.

Here before you today.

I'm doing this job for them, thank all of them.

And I'm getting drilled and insulted by a bunch of rich halfwits who the most difficult thing they ever done is accepted their phony master's degree.

Mark Levin tweeted out, is herono part of an S and L skit agreed, We played that a little bit earlier. If you missed it, get the podcast.

Yeah, yeah, I wish there had been more of her. She was so funny. Unintentionally speaking. Speaking of unintentionally funny, you've got the beer swinging fake Indian from Massachusetts or wherever she's from. Elizabeth Warren. She's a Havid academic. She is in favor of all things progressive. She has a problem with the actual fighting man. Pete Hagsith. I like this conversation, though, I'm glad it's taking place. Seventy nine Michael, page fourty eight of.

Your book, you claim that women should not be in combat roles meant because men are distracted by women. And then ten weeks ago you appeared on the Sean Ryan Show and said, I'm straight up just saying should not have women in combat rules. Now, I presume you recall making all these statements.

Senator, I'm not familiar with arcle you're pointing to in twenty thirteen, but it underscores my argument completely. It is in that twenty thirteen argument I was talking about standard.

I stand up there.

What it's always been about, you have the same fight has always.

Been about, So did you directly.

We've got the video. We're happy to show it. But I want to be clear here. For twelve years you were quite open about your views, and your views were consistently the same. Women are inferiors, soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and guardians. And in case anyone missed the point, and these are your words from ten weeks ago. Women absolutely, straight up should not be permitted to serve in combat.

And I notice on each.

Of these quotes those are said without qualification. It's not by how much you can lift or how fast you can run. They don't belong in combat, period, or your words straight up. And then on November ninth, twenty twenty four, just thirty two days after your last public comment saying that women absolutely should not be in comment, you declared that quote, some of our greatest warriors are women, and you support having them serve in combat. Now, that is a very very big about face in a very very

Senator again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comment from twenty thirteen, because for me, this issue has always been about standards. And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been in four years, stop have driven.

Seen you so and I have the answer. Actually, he Pete's not going to give it. The reason why he change his opinion was Jony Ernst, the female senator from Iowa, who is a Republican, who was very unhappy with those things that I think he actually believes, and he needs fifty Republican votes to get confirmed, and he is.

Trying to get hers.

I think he believes that women in combat are a distraction and make it more difficult to have an effective fighting for us. I don't have any way to speak to that. I think it makes perfectly good sense his theory, but I don't know that's true or not. I've never experienced it myself well and honestly.

It's it's it's at once a lazy argument an incredibly good argument, Senator. For all of human history, mankind has not put women into combat except in very, very rare circumstances. I mean, the numbers are tiny historically speaking, for a number of reasons, including standards, but also because women are too valuable to the society. If you want ten babies to be.

Had this Handmaid's tale, okay, here we go.

If you want ten babies this year, you need ten women. You need a dude.

By the way, that's the part that made me grown out loud. At Gladiator two, they're opening scene they had to have a chick warrior who was kicking ass.

Like, come don it, you're trying too hardier.

Oh goodness sakes pre historic.

Back in the Roman days, that wasn't happening.

It's not hard to imagine it as possibly being true that to have one woman in a group of fifteen guys presents more obstacles than it's worth. It's not difficult for me to understand even if she's.

Qualified, like physically can do the job right, it's just and this is the difference in orientation between Liz Warren and her type and more ours and Pete Hexas's is the only thing that matters. Well, okay, let me rephrase it. The first question must be effectiveness. It must be the

Well, you gain by in ferry you would double the pool of people you can choose warriors from. It's probably not double because the percentage of women that can physically do it would not be as high as men, but you greatly enhance the pool of potential great warriors if you allow women.

Well, I would suggest not to quibble, but if you kept the same standards as Pete is advocating, you would increase the pool slightly.

Yeah, I don't know that the current standards Tom Cotton was talking about aren't very strict.

Running at two miles and twenty two minutes, for instance.

Can you get off a couch and walk swiftly? Yes? Ah? Yeah, yeah. Well, putting aside the fact that a lot of this questioning is is blatantly unfair or irrelevant, and not all of it, but they got to figure out who this guy is and what sort of character he hasn't and there are gonna be some embarrassing and tough questions. I'm not gonna go full on, you know, one sided partisan on this one, but I just.

Feel like you did a bit ago where we got to keep the women back to have ten babies each.

Whatever. Whatever you're talking about, it's just been discussed that roughly.

That's roughly correct. Yeah. No, I'm glad these discussions are being had. Anytime they can be had publicly and have America's attention drawn to them, I think that's a good thing. Otherwise China is gonna whoop our ass.

Well, do you agree with me?

I think Pete believes women shouldn't be in combat roles because it doesn't it's more of a negative than a positive. But he has he feels like he had to abandon that position for whatever reason, for Jony Ernst at least.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think there could be some clarification. I mean, if a woman's like a fabulous drone pilot, is that quote unquote in combat?

Good question.

You're killed, folks, you're in combat. I would think, so, how about a fighter pilot because Joni was a pilot? Correct or am I misremembering? I might be thinking of somebody else. I apologize. But fighter pilot, okay with that. It's when you get into infantry and you know our artillery groups, squads, you know that I have problems with

It's amazing that we still can't have these conversations without just getting to the that group of twenty humans over there, are they going to be a more lethal fighting force with a woman or two or without the end? And then somebody honestly answered that question, and then whichever gonna make it the most lethal, Let's do that. If making it all women makes it more lethal, let's do that.

I don't care. I just wanted to beat the Chinese when the US HiT's the fan, right.

I'm reminded of that piece I read earlier, and we were talking about about Tanashi Coats and how the romantic point of view is just about your feelings and the facts and figures and effectiveness. Why are you denying my truth? I know I'm right, and I don't care what your facts are. We can't have that sort of person running our military. That please, the grown ups are required.

How about that team kine stuff.

Another thing I'm surprised we haven't worked out by twenty twenty five where we've just decided we're not gonna care if guys cheat on their wives and that sort of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the job. Or do we care? I mean, why can't we just figure that out once and for all.

Oh, we have. If it's the other guys, it matters completely, it's incredibly important. If it's our guy, it's irrelevant.

Seventy seven million people just dond voted for Donald Trump knowing exactly what kind of guy is when it comes to women.

Yeah, I think the difference there is it's a binary choice. Probably, sure, sure, yeah, yeah, I absolutely see your point. At the same time, it feels kind of case by case ish to me. Okay, I mean, it's not a sin to have an unhappy marriage and before the paperwork's done, maybe you've got a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Well, according to some people, it is a sin. But you know, in my world, I

Who was also married. The that woman was married and her husband was upstairs with the kids, that's a horrible story.

You almost need a chart, like we're doing a murder podcast. But anyway, story with her kids upstairs and her husband's in the host yeah, same hotel room. Yeah, but anyway. Uh, if I found that that about a person, I would definitely think, oh boy, Okay, I know what sort of fell I'm dealing with here, right, case by case basis, I don't like his chances at all for a variety of reasons. Okay, but I respect Pete hegseeth, and I

I think Fetterman hinted he's a yes. So then you only need to get to forty nine Republican senators right if yes, but there are according to Mark Alprin, yeah, yesterday, a dozen pretty close to hard nos among the Republicans, which is way more than would doomi, which includes Mitch McConnell and a variety of other people whoever replaced Mitt Romney.

You know who doesn't have a chance. I'll tell you next Okay.

We'll finish strong next day.

Here, it's looking like the Supreme Court is going to uphold the ban on TikTok starting this weekend. If the band goes into effect, Americans can still see tiktoks, but the apple will stop working due to a lack of updates.

It's pretty much what happened to President Biden. Yeah, I didn't know that till yesterday.

The TikTok app, it doesn't like disappear from your phone or whatever, and you can still get it. It's just they're not going to be able to update it or anything. And over time it will work, it'll get bugs, and your new phone won't be.

Able to use it, so it'll kind of phase out.

Interesting again, as Jimmy Fallon said, they're starting this weekend, but it's not a hard cut off all of a sudden, TikTok dis beers this weekend.

No, you just can't download the app. You could still access it online theoretically. I don't know how that differs the experience from having the actual app. I guess people, I was listening to a technical explanation of the how it develops bugs and win and then eventually it doesn't work at all. Stuff. But it was just it was a very dry and be over my head.

I'm guessing there'll be a lot of reporting next week about how well it is or isn't still working on people's phones.

Yeah, how about your youngsters. You get your homework done, learn to read and write.

To go on a date, Oh my god.

Yeah, yeah, go have a couple of beers by the overpass. Don't drive, just go live life. Oh my god. So you gave a great it's so cool, it really is. Oh that's you gave a great tease.

And I don't remember what it was.

Oh it was. Which nominee for the cabinet is absolutely not going to make it? And that would be, uh, the perhaps highest profile guy, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I'm looking at a pretty good list of you know how many yes's and no's and maybe's probably there are in the Senate, and he has a whole lot of people who are barely even able to say, yeah, we'll give him a good look. A lot of a lot of Republicans, modern Republicans are very hesitant or very skeptical about him.

So you're predicting he goes down.

I am. I am indeed, so how I'm not rooting for it, per se. It'll be interesting to see. And again, he is a very bright guy. So how the hearings go nobody knows, but I don't love his chance.

How will Maha react to that?

Make America healthy? And yeah, they will react badly and angrily.

Practically everybody I know who's into that, the sort of thing has Maga and Maha in their.

In their feeds.

Thought. I'm strong, I'm strong.

Get ready with Katie Green and.

Strong.

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. Let's begin with our technical director, Michaelangelo. Michael, what's your final thought? I agree with you guys. Young people, if you're listening, go.

Find that cute girl, take her out for ice cream, Go to a square dance, Get out.

There, Get out there.

Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.

I just came across an interesting fact.

They've now arrested forty people that were looting these fires in LA not one of them from the area.

They all traveled there for the looting.

Wow, they hang horse thieves or they used to just say stand story. Yeah yeah, indeed, My god, there can't be a sanctions severe enough Jackie.

Final thought, This might be all you need to know about politics. One of the Democratic senators who's already announced he's a no vote, Senator Richard Blumenthal, for decades lied about being a Vietnam vet, then we all found out he wasn't, and he's still a US senator and gets to grill the potential sect deaf.

Are you kidding me?

My final thought. I'm looking at the handicapping from the various nominees, including Christy Nome, and the first thing they mentioned is that she fatally shot her dog. Credit cricket. Tell you what you need to shoot your dog, Go ahead and shoot it, but don't put it in your buck armstrong.

Yeah, he's wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

I'll see it tomorrow.

God bless America.

I'm strong and Getty. He has to stop like the day before yesterday. Yep, absolutely, are you sure? Oh dead shure. I've been thinking that we really all need a trendous hug.

Get the hell out of here. Do you think it's a little ot?

It's one hundred on the crazy meter? Are you shuting? So let's go with a bang. I think our generation is very aware, like a lot of us are activists, and I think that awareness influences our drinking habits. On that high note, bye bye Armstrong and Getty.