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Human Events Special: Department of War

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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posovic.
Christ is king.
The Army, Air Force, Marines, 108% in November, 119% in February, 108% after the election, 105% with the Navy.
With the Marines, up 112% and 100%, they are through the roof.
The U.S. Air Force, 100% of its goal, same thing in February.
I think the warfighters are happy to have a warfighter up top.
Those numbers are a reflection of why we're here.
When warfighting and lethality is brought back and it's serious, what we're doing here is serious about getting after soldiering and warfighting.
American people want to come back in.
They want to sign up.
These recruiting numbers don't surprise me.
You're a part of a huge surge right now, a historic surge of Americans that are stepping up to serve this country.
As President Trump points out, record-breaking numbers of Americans are enlisting to serve.
A year ago, we couldn't get folks to serve.
Today, we barely have enough throughput and basic training to deal with the amount of Americans that want to stand up and serve.
It is historic, the level of recruitment that we're getting.
And those that are in the ranks already, retention is at record-breaking levels.
We don't care what you look like.
It doesn't matter if your dad left or if you knew who your father was.
One more fact.
They're getting annihilated.
We have been honed into a machine of legal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what's good for you.
That three sites have been struck by U.S. bombers.
We will not back down.
We've seen war.
We don't want war.
But if you want more with the United States of America, there's one thing I can promise you.
So help me God.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
Today is December 12th, 2025.
Anno Domini.
Folks, today we've got a special treat for all of you.
Today is the Human Events Department of War special.
Because what we're doing today is, if you remember, we went to the Department of War earlier in the week and we conducted a series of interviews with department officials who were there.
And in those interviews, we talked about the new mission of the military.
And I should actually say it's the old mission of the military.
Funny enough, it's the mission of the military that I joined when I joined the United States Navy.
The mission of defending the United States of America, its Constitution, and its people.
That is the point of the U.S. military.
It's not social programs.
It's not DEI.
It is not transgenderism.
It is none of this stuff.
It is basic defense of the homeland.
Are you defending your home, Patriot?
Are you actually able to be there and be someone who's part of an organization whose job it is, yes, to defend the homeland by hurting people and breaking stuff?
That is what the point of the military is.
Military is not a humanitarian organization.
The point of the military is to perform military operations.
And military operations are those sorts of operations where, yes, bad guys get hurt and their stuff gets broken.
That's the entire point.
And you continue to do that until you make sure that those people never come back to your homeland.
Do the same thing.
But at the same time, you don't want to go around picking fights all over the world.
And unfortunately, prior to the Trump administration, that is what we saw time and time again, the way our military be used.
It was wrong.
And that's why the American people voted against it.
So what did we also see?
Well, we also saw the U.S. military being used for social engineering, for pushing trans programs, for pushing all sorts of just, I'm going to say it, abject insanity, pushing experimental vaccines, pushing all of this nonsense.
And look, I got out right before, I want to say right before the, you know, this all really hit.
I did actually, I had to sit when I was still in the military, I had to sit through one, just one actual transgender training for a sensitivity class to have it explained to me as a Navy officer, what it would be like if I, and the way that I would be expected to treat a fellow member who was trans.
Now, what's interesting is I never had to do that with, you know, serving with anyone in the military.
And I believe me, I served with everyone.
I served with, I served with white people.
I served with black people.
I served with Hispanics.
I served with Asians.
I served with just everything under the sun, everything you can think of.
All right.
Christians, Muslims, Jews, serve them all.
Okay.
Probably some Buddhists too, if I think about it, you know?
And the thing is, we never had any special classes on how to treat one another.
It was very simple.
Treat each other with respect.
That was it.
That was the bottom line.
And get the job done.
And the standard was always, as long as you can get the job done and perform your work up to mission standard, then you are good to go.
That's the standard of the military that I joined, right?
You have to, and you have to maintain physical standards.
You have to maintain your physical fitness.
You have to maintain all of that as well, as well as grooming standards.
For example, right now, I have a beard.
I am out of grooming standards.
My hair is in grooming standards.
That is basically the way the military used to work.
And that is the way that now, finally, thank God, the Department of War is returning the United States military to military operational readiness.
So join with us today as we embark on the Human Events Department of War special.
Stay tuned with the special interviews of various officials from the department filmed right inside the Department of War, the Pentagon itself.
Folks, you're in for a big treat.
Stay tuned.
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Welcome to the second American Revolution.
We're really excited here at Human Events Daily to be sitting down with Patrick Weaver.
He is the senior advisor to the Secretary of War specifically for Homeland Defense.
Patrick, thank you for being here.
Thanks for having me.
I mean, you work here, so actually, for me, it wasn't that far.
How long was the commute to the studio?
Two minutes.
Two minutes.
All right, all right.
So, but no, I, you know, just very appreciative of the department and the secretary for allowing us to have the space here and, you know, to be able to do the show, do these, this series of interviews, because I do think that that level of transparency is something that we haven't seen before, quite frankly.
And so we really appreciate it.
Absolutely.
Well, we're excited to have fresh journalists here who care about reporting the truth and the good work we're doing here.
Well, look, our job is to get the story out.
Whatever the story is, whatever the truth is, we're going to get that out.
And so, you know, if something comes up and we saw that, you know, the whole mainstream media was going off about these, you know, this drone strike off of Venezuela.
And, you know, I remember just with my own background as, you know, prior Navy intelligence, that's kind of SOP, actually.
And, you know, Admiral Bradley, having been a Deaf Group commander at TLCM6, you know, he's following SOP.
That's always been that way for the background of his entire time in the Navy.
So it was really something where, even with my own background knowledge, having been in the military, just I knew their story didn't make any sense.
But look, you know, I thought that the answers that we received, we had a briefing yesterday on that.
I thought it was fantastic to be able to just sit here and ask basic questions and then hear the direct answers.
What a concept.
Exactly.
And the left and the fake news have made it clear from day one that they do not support our mission with stopping the cartels and the drug flow to the United States.
And when the president designated these as foreign terrorist organizations, he unleashed a whole new level of authorities for us to stop the drug flow into the United States.
And that is what we're going to do.
Well, and I think that's actually been something that a lot of the media in this town doesn't quite understand is that these are the very same authorities that would be used in CENTCOM, occasionally in Indo-PACOM.
It's just, and by the way, in the past, certainly have been used for a whole variety of hostile actors in the Western Hemisphere in Northcom PACOM.
It's just that hasn't been the focus recently.
Absolutely.
And as you know, and all of Trump's supporters know, when the president campaigned, he made promises to secure our homeland.
And that's exactly what we're doing through the border and all our operations with NORTHCOM currently.
So on the NORTCOM front, obviously, you know, we were sitting here a couple of days ago.
We saw the, you know, the horrific situation outside of the White House with the West Virginia National Guardsmen, two of them being shot, one killed, one, as we talk, currently in critical condition.
Of course, praying for him.
But when we look at those operations throughout NORTHCOM, what is the Secretary's position on, I guess, obviously force protection for those operations, but the continuance of these operations and the priority that really seems that the administration is making on it.
If I can take it a step back, if you remember in L.A. when the president deployed the guard there in a federalized status, it was clear that the president and Secretary Hegseth wanted to use soldiers to protect federal law enforcement agents who were out there arresting illegal migrants and keeping law and order in this country.
So our view has never changed.
It will not change this administration.
We have the backs of the law enforcement officers who are out there keeping Americans safe.
And then with DC specifically, from day one, Secretary Hegseth authorized the soldiers to carry sidearms and he continues to have that policy where our soldiers will have their weapons with them.
And so the policy is authorized now that each individual commander can make different decisions on that.
I know this has come up, and there's still more reporting, I think, to come out on exactly the status of this.
But I do understand and believe yesterday Press Secretary Wilson had said that they're looking to do, specifically in D.C. and probably others, more direct patrols with local law enforcement and the guardsmen together to help that, you know, watch each other's backs, basically.
Yeah, absolutely.
And this is something we do on the border every day.
Our soldiers patrol alongside U.S. Border Patrol and other federal agents.
So I think incorporating that in DC and other cities is a great move.
No, I think that's right.
And so the whole idea being that when they're deployed in a title, obviously D.C. is a little bit different, but when they're deployed in a Title X capacity, that's always to support state law enforcement and state law enforcement and federal law enforcement.
Because you talk about LA, for example, these ICE agents were facing threats.
They were facing hostility.
They were facing riots.
I mean, that's the entire purpose of the National Guard, I thought.
Absolutely.
And we've seen this in Chicago, Portland, LA.
These protesters are throwing rocks, damaging vehicles and government property, but then also injuring federal law enforcement officers.
And wherever we can, we will use our soldiers either in a National Guard status or a federalized status to protect law enforcement.
And if I could add, just to the list, you know, I am from the Philadelphia area, so we can't leave Philly off.
We can't leave Philly off the list.
Absolutely.
And I'm from Lancaster.
Oh, you're from Lancaster.
Oh, no way.
There you go.
Yeah, Philadelphia has seen lots of crime and drug use there, and it's gone downhill.
Well, unfortunately, even Lancaster City has some issues these days.
Absolutely.
You know, you look at the lawlessness.
And, you know, just to take a step back, I think the administration's only been in, you know, 10 months, 10 months into this, and it seems like an entire policy change from the previous administration to now.
How do you view the interagency and the way that they've sort of dealt with this big sea change?
Because I seem to get a sense, certainly from the media side, there's a lot of whiplash, but how's it been actually inside the admin, inside the government?
Yeah, I will say, as someone who was sworn in as a political on January 20th, we got to work that same day with the interagency specifically on border at the time.
But to this day, we talk daily about operations, whether it's law enforcement and our support to them, border operations or Western hemisphere operations.
So all that to say, I've never seen government agencies work like this together.
And when the president signed his executive order clarifying the military's role with the border, that brought the Department of War up to be an equal player on the border operations instead of supporting DHS in a support role.
Well, and as it turns out, that the poorest border, the massive level of crossings that we saw over the previous four years, 20 million perhaps, it's a choice, isn't it?
It actually is something that can be solved by policy.
Absolutely.
And leading up into the 24 election, you heard everyone say that it took an act of Congress to signal.
Right, right.
That was the whole talking point.
And they were trying to say Republicans were, I remember this, they were saying Republicans weren't for the bill, therefore it was the Republicans' fault.
Absolutely.
It made no sense.
Yeah, but what we found out on January 20th is it only took a president who cared.
And when he declared the national emergency at the border, we had troops headed to the border on January 24th, just four days after.
Now, when you are looking at the border, and we talk about this, and my friend Bill Malugan over at Fox, he always says, you know, I had to stop covering the border because there's nothing to cover, which I do think is funny.
He's actually here in DC now.
But at the same time, I have to imagine that there are still threats that you are tracking on the border or across the border.
What are some of the things, if you can share with us, that you do still see down there?
Absolutely.
Well, the cartels have had a hard time making money because they can't smuggle humans or drugs across the border.
Which is why they're switching to the votes.
Yeah, so they've switched to the boats, but they're increasingly dangerous because they're trying to find ways to make money because they're hurting for funds.
So that's one example.
Drones, we've seen them weaponize drones and start testing them.
So getting our counter-UAS systems up on the border to protect our soldiers and the federal agents on the border, that's huge.
And then just continuing to adapt to the illegal aliens who are in our homeland that the Biden administration allowed into our country.
Specifically, on those illegal aliens, are you tracking or do you ever see occasionally, because there's questions, obviously this Afghan migrant guy was different, different capacity, but do you ever see opportunities or potential threats, indications, warnings of perhaps plots or operations that they're trying to use to go after Americans or to go after law enforcement or military?
Yeah, I would say that's probably a better question for federal law enforcement partners and their authorities.
But one thing that's unique that we created in this administration is the Homeland Security Task Force, which combines all the federal law enforcement agencies, the NCTC, which is headed by Joe Kent, and then the Department of War to target those criminals and foreign terrorist organizations now in the homeland.
So probably a better question for Joe Kent and federal law enforcement, but we're excited about this opportunity to find these illegals who are here to harm our citizens.
Well, that's great because I remember, of course, I served at DIA for part of my time when I was in, and so they had DCTC, which would work with NCTC.
But boy, sometimes it was like herding cats between the two of those two.
Absolutely.
Well, I think the NCTC has a new mission, and under this president, they will have better results.
I'm really glad to hear that.
When you look out at the status of these operations, particularly in Northcom, looking at the cities, do you see, and I've got to ask, you know, are there any cities where you're looking to expand to?
Yeah, I would say when it comes to federal law enforcement, if the president asks us to protect his agents, we will do that.
We have some ongoing litigation in Chicago and Portland.
So we're kind of waiting to see how the Supreme Court rolls on that.
But the President, again, has made it clear that he's a president of law and order, and we're ready to support however he needs.
Okay, so it's almost like wait and see how the Supreme Court cases go and then depending on the ruling, future operations will work to comply with that.
Absolutely.
And if protesters and rioters are attacking agents, the president hates to see that, rightfully so, and we're ready to support him.
And some of the left attacks me for being one of the youngest advisors to the secretary.
And I'm excited to work on these issues because I know a lot of young people across America care about these issues too and protecting our homeland.
So I'm excited to work on this.
Ah, yeah.
How can you not trust a guy from Lancaster?
Exactly.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Today, you know, they talk about influencers.
These are influencers.
And they're friends of mine.
Jack Russell.
Where's Jack?
He's got a great job.
I'm very excited to be on here.
And not the first time that I've interviewed him, but certainly in a different capacity.
I know you as General Tata, but you are currently the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness.
Thank you so much for joining us, Human Events Daily.
Great to be with you, Jack.
And so, you know, you're, when it looks at it, the way I look at it is you're in charge of the home front.
Does that make sense?
That and many other things, but we've got 3 million men and women in uniform and non-department civilians and their families.
I've got 160 DODEA schools, a DOWEA now, Department of War Education Activity Schools globally, Europe, Asia, here in the United States, have over 600 child development centers, have over 300 youth activity centers.
We're in charge of recruiting, retention, and transition into civilian life after you've been a soldier, sailor, airman, marine guardian individual.
And so the broad responsibilities here, I've got 955 military hospitals and clinics and 40,000 health care providers.
That's all home front stuff.
That's all operational stuff.
And so the portfolio is vast and broad.
I've got 230 commissaries feeding the home front.
Oh, believe me, if there's a problem with the commissary, the whole base is going to have a problem.
Right.
And so, and a very lean team back here in the building and around Northern Virginia that's operating all of this.
And so our focus has been on taking a look at the presidential priorities, Golden Dome, shipbuilding, southwest border, and reorienting personnel policy to support President Trump's priorities.
And then taking a look at Secretary's priorities, reestablish deterrence, rebuild the military, restore the warrior ethos.
How do we do that?
We rip DEI and CRT out of all the child care stuff and the education things that we're talking about.
I've got all the service academies looking hard at those curriculum.
Curricula, we pulled out the CRT and DEI out of that.
And that's worried about it.
No, you're saying there were CRT and DEI being taught.
And when you say service academies, you're talking West Point, you're talking Annapolis, you're talking about the Air Force Academy, the six military colleges, North Georgia, Citadel, VMI, and so forth.
And they were teaching that those are meant to be the leaders of the future military.
And rather than being taught warfighting, strategy, how to think of a commander, they were being taught this kind of stuff?
They were being taught that plus some of the other things.
So we've ripped all that out and we've refocused.
And the Secretary's message, president's message, let's focus on those things that unify us instead of those things that divide us.
Let's not identify all the differences that we have.
Let's identify a common purpose, unity of purpose, unity of command, lethality, mission focus.
Everybody from tooth to tail are focused on the same thing.
That's being a physically fit, mentally fit, warfighter to get out there.
And how do you do that?
It starts with what you were talking about on the home front.
You have good quality education for your children.
You help with spouse employment and reducing that.
We have a 20% spouse unemployment number.
We have a goal to reduce that by 5% this year.
And it comes to portability.
We move people around so much.
How do we get the licensure and certifications right?
If you're moving from Virginia to California and you're a teacher, you're a doctor, you're a lawyer.
How do you make sure that your education activity, if you're in Virginia, move to Camp Pendleton and the Marine Corps base, that if you're on page 67 of the history book, you're on page 68 the next day when you move to Camp Pendleton.
and that unity of purpose and taking care of the family.
If I'm a trigger puller in Afghanistan, as I was, and I know my family's taken care of, I can focus on my mission.
I had a CEO once in the Navy who, that's exactly what he said.
He said, you have to take care of home before you can take care of the mission, because if you are worried about home, he said, you're going to be no good to me on mission.
You're going to be no good to me.
Right.
You're going to be looking for that call, looking for that email, looking for that letter, making sure everything's okay if you've got a sick child.
Or if there's a pay issue.
All of that.
As we all know.
And, you know, I take a look.
I've got such a professional team working for me.
And, you know, I was at the other end of the, all professionals here.
But I think about why is my team so good?
You can't fail on recruiting.
You've got to make your numbers.
You can't fail on pay.
You've got to pay the troops.
You can't fail on benefits.
You've got to provide the benefit that they're due, that they're owed.
Which media told me the troops weren't getting paid.
Well, the troops are getting paid.
And during the shutdown, right?
During the lapse in government the shutdown, civilians weren't being paid because, you know, including me, senior levels, but we made sure the troops got paid.
We found the money legally to pay the troops during the government shutdown.
And that was part of my job, the comptroller.
We go to the secretary, say, here's how we can do it.
We checked with Earl Matthews, General Counsel, and we made sure that troops got all their pay, and as they should have.
They should not be caught in the political crosswinds that are happening whenever there's a continuing resolution or a shutdown or whatever.
Congress needs to do its job.
And I appreciate the fact that they were able to resolve that and allow us to move forward with full department pay and benefits.
Well, that's absolutely clear.
What would you say just on that point?
And final question, because I know we're pulling you out and we've got a lot to go on.
What would you say your general message is when you focus on these issues for the troops?
So my message is for the troops is that you have a secretary and you have a president that are focused on your health and welfare so that you can be the most lethal fighting individual in force in the world and that we are going to create this cohesive focused force to deter our enemies so we never have to go to war.
That's my message.
You've got a focused commander-in-chief, a focused secretary, single-minded purpose of peace through strength.
Secretary Arteda, great to see you again.
Great to see you, Jack.
Hey, Jack, where is Jack?
Where is Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting publishers.
I'm very excited here to be at Human Events Daily.
We're sitting down with Eric Garcia.
He is the Senior Advisor for Strategy for the Secretary of War.
Eric, welcome to the show.
Thank you very much.
Well, great to be here.
I want to say thank you again for actually having us and hosting us here in the Pentagon.
This is obviously new for us.
We've done a couple of shows over at the White House and been with the Air Press Corps.
But I got to say, the studio digs here are a little bit nicer.
We got a lot of room in the Pentagon.
There is a lot of room in the Pentagon.
So you've known Pete for a long time.
You served together.
You deployed together.
You're now working at this level of strategy.
How would you say your experiences and his experiences having gone to war together have shaped what you do now in terms of the office?
Those experiences that we've shared in combat, they shape you for the rest of your life.
You learn a different things in combat that allow you, we're a little different than some of the folks that haven't been yet.
Some of the things is your priorities are forever changed on focusing on what do you need to do to train your soldiers, prepare them for war, lead them for combat, and bring them back home.
In combat, you see the thing, you narrow your focus.
Like, we're totally focused, you know, battle drills, medical training, physical fitness, marksmanship.
Your units can do that to the highest of standards.
They're able to do everything our country asked them to do, which is to go fight and win our nation's wars.
And so having that experience, especially serving together, really, that's what we're focused on.
And as you can see, a lot of the things the Secretary has completely driven the whole department to we want higher standards.
We want the soldiers to raise the level of their physical fitness.
We want the soldiers, all the service members, to be experts in whatever their field is, their assigned weapon, because we want them, and when we assign them a mission, when the president gives us the priorities, this is what we need to do, we've created those options for the president.
They're trained and ready as we can make them.
And the whole goal is get them to get out there, complete the mission, and bring them all home.
Well, it really seems that certainly in the prior administration, even before then to an extent, that the focus was elsewhere, shall we say?
Over the past, it goes back quite a lot.
I served for 26 years in uniform, then I was a Department of Defense contractor, then I was a Department of Defense civilian.
We've gotten to where the military was focused on a lot of non-war fighting tasks.
And as a unit, especially for a small unit leader, you don't have a whole lot of time because you don't know, especially in some units like the 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, 75th Ranger, you don't know when it is you're going to be called out to conduct an operation for real.
So you only have so much time to prepare your troops.
And when the units are bogged down with all these non-warfighting tasks, some of these things that should absolutely have nothing to do with the military, some of the what looked like social experiments, we don't have time for it.
We have a duty as leaders to make sure these soldiers, these service members, are trained and ready.
And when we pile on things that have nothing to do with that, we shouldn't be focused on that at all.
What the Secretary has done, and because of President Trump and his leadership, is allow to get the military to be focused on what the country needs the military to be.
And that's trained and ready, once again, to fight our nation and win our nation's wars.
Well, not only that, but it's the relaxing of standards that you can just see it.
You can see it when you're in the area and you're around some of the various military installations that are all throughout DC.
And you can just see the standards have become relaxed when you see, you know, I'm always looking at sailors as prior Navy, but, you know, I said, how is this person just walking around like that in uniform?
If I was in this guy's unit, I'd say I would have pulled him aside.
I said, what are you doing?
And you just see it all over and over.
And people think that's something small, but it's not, actually.
It's something very important, isn't it?
Oh, it's the most important.
Like if these service members are not physically fit, they're not going to be able to do what we're asking them to do.
And they shouldn't find this out when it's too late, when we put them somewhere in harm's way.
You can go like when we started going back and look at this, there was like a whole bunch of people and some senior folks retired in uniform were really gouging into the secretary about some of the decisions and some of the focus.
I don't know how anybody can go back and say, hey, we don't want higher standards.
We don't want our service members to be in better shape.
We don't want them to be experts in their occupational field.
I don't know how anybody could go back and say that.
There's nothing political with that.
There's nothing, because the enemy doesn't look at us of, you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're this ethnicity.
All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.
And it's our duty as leaders, especially for combat organizations, hence the Department of War, to make sure they have the best equipment, they're trained to the highest standards, that they're able to go accomplish the mission, get the job done, and come home safely.
And that's what the Secretary's whole focus is.
And thank God we have President Trump that has paved the way to allow us to focus on this stuff.
Well, and it's been something where, you know, I remember during, you know, even Pete's confirmation as secretary, and then when he became secretary, some of the speeches he's given.
And they try to twist his words to make it out as if he's saying something political, but he's not.
Having standards in the military goes all the way back.
We were just this past weekend.
I'm from the Philadelphia area, and I took my kids out to Valley Forge.
And I said, I was teaching them.
I said, kids, this is where the first veterans came from.
This was the first military of the United States.
This was the first United States Army, this Continental Army.
We didn't even have the United States yet.
And that's what it was all about.
It was the harshest possible conditions.
You've lost every major U.S. city at that point.
You're out there, you're in cabins.
Many of the times they didn't even have shoes.
They're walking around makeshift tents and huts and different things.
And it was just the elements, right?
So you have to be willing and able and capable of dealing with all of that to be able to come forward.
And I see some of the things that we have now, and I just think, are we treating that legacy properly?
We're definitely changing the culture back to where it needs to be.
It's a huge thing.
But I can tell you, I have the opportunity to go out, visit units from all the different services.
And what we're doing here, the decisions and policies that are being put in place by Secretary Eggset, are 100% reaching and affecting these units.
And the troops are all on board.
They want to be part of a winning team.
There's no mistake on why the recruiting numbers are through that.
So my next question is.
Yeah, there's no mistake on why we looked at this year, the highest number of folks going to special forces selection in years.
Largest class.
This is all for a reason.
Nobody wants to be part of a losing team.
People want to, they want, the people that join the military and enlist and then get commissioned and come in, they want to be part of a winning team and they want to be the best.
They don't want us to lower standards.
They want a challenge.
These are the folks we need to be focused on.
These are the folks that we want.
And those are the ones that are raising their right hand to serve the country and do the things that they're doing for us.
Well, and particularly, and we only have a couple of minutes left, but one of the biggest issues, and I know with your breadth of experience, you'll know what I mean when I say this.
One of the biggest red flags that I saw over the past couple of years prior to your administration coming in was the fact that military families were starting to say that they didn't want their sons and daughters to join.
Talk to me about the importance of making sure that military families still continue that tradition of service.
We say all the time this is a family business.
I mean, I remember the first time I went to West Point and I got to go out there and spoke and spent a few days with the firsties, which is the graduating class.
And first time I'd been there, never didn't care about the officer training.
I was an NCO.
So it's the first time I got to work.
You work for a living.
Yep.
And but I was surprised on, and it really hit home on how many of these kids, these officers getting ready to be commissioned, were all sons of people that I had served with.
And you don't just see that on the officer side, it's also on the NCO side.
So when we got to the point where these parents are saying, I don't want my sons and daughters to do this, we were at a breaking point.
We were at a, and I'm telling you, I don't, I think if we would have went a few more years, we would have been past the point in no return.
I think in some of the units, some of the things we've changed.
That's your core recruitment pool right there.
100%.
And the ones who grew up around the military, they're the most familiar with it.
They know the routines, grew up on the bases, can always go to mom or dad for information.
I mean, you lose that.
You're broken, totally broken.
Yeah, we were on the way, but once again, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, you know, their priorities, the agenda, were able to turn that around pretty quick.
And you could see it on every unit, on every service member we meet with, you can see we're going in the right direction.
The right direction.
Eric Harrisy, thank you so much for joining us.
It was great to meet you.
Jack is a great guy.
He's written a fantastic book.
Everybody's talking about it.
Go get it.
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
And we're going to turn it around and make our country by killing him.
Amen.
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So there was a new poll, by the way, that I didn't really get a chance to talk about on the situation regarding, listen to this, the drone strikes.
Yes, the drone strikes in a poll that was done from the Harvard Harris team of, again, Harvard University, regarding the drone strikes in the Caribbean.
And this is really interesting because I want people to dig into this.
I certainly am going to dig into this and have dug into this, but people don't realize that there is massive support for these drone strikes.
Harvard Harris found, you got to love this, Harvard Harris found that most support the drone strikes.
And of course, this is the way you have to be careful.
You have to be very careful with the way that you, you know, you word this because they'll think, oh, well, the second one is worse.
The second one's like this.
The second one, no, no, no, no.
I'm talking about the current drone strikes on the drug boats in the Caribbean, the drug boats strikes.
And guess what?
Think about this.
And I'm pulling it up right now.
There's almost 60% of Americans who support this out of the Harvard Harris poll.
60%.
It is a literally a 60-40 issue.
Should be an 80-20 issue, honestly.
Guess what?
Americans don't care about drug boats getting murked.
It's really as simple as that.
Americans want their military actually defending America.
And look, you know, we're going to be doing this series on regime change coming up around Christmastime.
And I want people to dig into that because for so long, we've been using the U.S. military overseas and they paint it with these romantic images and use this romantic, flowery language of, oh, we're fighting them over there.
So we have to fight them over here.
Oh, we're fighting the Ayatollah.
We're fighting the Tsar.
We're fighting the mullahs, whoever we're fighting, et cetera, et cetera, to the terrorists.
But at the end of the day, we don't actually use the U.S. military, or we hadn't up until this point, for direct threats against the homeland, just actual direct threats.
And people say, well, you know, most fentanyl isn't coming in from Venezuela.
There's more coming in from Mexico.
There's more coming in.
You know, there's more cocaine from Venezuela.
Guess what?
I totally support killing the Mexican cartel members too.
What a concept.
I remember saying this.
I was debating the libertarian, when I debated the libertarian candidate for president last year, Chase Oliver, and Ryan Grimm was the host.
I said specifically, I said, well, I do actually disagree with the idea of legalizing drugs in the United States.
And they said, well, the war on drugs has been a failure.
And I said, I disagree.
It has not been a failure.
I said, what do you mean?
Of course, it's been a failure.
I said, no, I disagree because you haven't allowed us to actually fight drugs like a war.
And in a war, you don't sit around and fight it like a policing operation.
You kill people.
That's the difference.
In a war, you kill the enemy.
You fight them with violence and you kill them.
So now I said this to libertarians.
Libertarians lost their minds because libertarians don't actually believe in such things.
But it does get to a point.
It does absolutely get to a point where someone is a terrorist or someone is a cartel member and you want to kill them.
And that's what's actually best for your country.
That's actually what's best for the defense of your homelands, the defense of your people.
Think about how many American kids get killed by fentanyl.
How many American families get destroyed because of a fentanyl murder?
You're saving lives because these people are animals.
They're disgusting.
What they do to our country is disgusting and divisive.
And that is why it is okay to use the military in these types of operations.
And that is why 60% of Americans support it.
It's really simple.
And by the way, let me explain to you how these, how these double taps work, okay?
Because I may have been involved in a couple, three drone strikes in my previous profession.
The mission is not concluded until the objective has been neutralized.
What does that mean?
If your job is to take out the drug boat, you take out the drug boat until it's at the bottom of the ocean.
And if people are in the drug boat, that's what we call in the military collateral damage.
Now, you may not like that, but that's the truth of the fact.
And their military exists in the real world.
And you have to deal with big boy issues.
And big boy issues come with big boy answers.
And big boy answers means having to suck it up, buttercup.
So you say, well, wait a minute.
Why just leave the guys?
This is like, this is like the same type of rhetoric you hear when when they say, why couldn't the cops just have shot him in the arm?
Why couldn't the cops just have shot him in the arm?
Why'd they have to kill him?
Why'd they have to do that?
It's so sad.
It's awful.
You know, Kyle Rittenhouse actually did shoot an arm off of somebody.
And look at how the liberals all treated him.
He actually did the thing that you guys have said for years that you wanted him to do, that you wanted someone to do.
Kyle Rittenhouse does it.
And look how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse.
Gage Grosen Krutz, right?
Communist Antifa Gabe, right?
I'll never forget that guy even had to change his name.
It got that bad.
So when you look at the situation, it's very simple.
If these guys were left in the water, they would be picked up by their gun running buddies or their cartel buddies, and they would then be shot by the cartel buddies for abandoning their cargo.
Do you understand how cartels operate?
Do you have any inkling of how that world operates?
Do you have any clue?
Have you even given a second of thought to it?
They are not like us.
They do not operate like us.
This is not like your kids' Little League team or something.
My gosh.
These are hardened narco-terrorists running narco-states in many cases, like Venezuela, like Mexico.
And so, yes, you do have to use violence.
Is it unfortunate?
Of course.
Of course, it's unfortunate.
But let me tell you something right now.
Let me tell you something right now.
When it comes to defending my family, and this is the way you have to think about this.
Is there an amount of violence?
Is there an amount of violence that you would not cross?
Is there a line that you would not cross when it comes to defending your family?
No.
Because for me, there is an unlimited amount of violence that I would be willing to employ in the defense of my wife and in the defense of my children.
And it's as simple as that.
It's really as simple as that.
So call it what you want, but it's the truth and it's got to be the truth.
And that's the way the world works.
And I said it to Megan Kelly.
Now, I wasn't talking about cartels.
I was talking about leftist violence at the time and these leftist killer networks, the Marxist killers, like the ones who killed Charlie.
And I said, Megan, no offense, but it's time to let the man handle things.
It's time to let the men handle things.
And when it comes to the military, that's what I mean.
People are going to say, oh, no, you're going to, what about women in the military?
Guys, guys, you know what I'm talking about.
When I say men in this sense, I mean real men making real decisions to provide real defense for our families, our cities, and our homeland.
And thank you to Secretary Hegseth and President Trump for working to do that, because I've been down there and I've seen the type of operations, the type of work they're putting in, and that is their only concern at all.
They are mission focused and they're focused on protecting the United States of America and the people dwell within it.
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