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Jan. 14, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: TRIGGERED Dems Attack Christian Veteran Who Claims Christ As Lord
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Thank you.
Thank you.
In my ear right now, I'm listening to the confirmation hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee between hostile Democrats and Pete Hegseth.
Right now, he's being questioned once again by a...
Well, not a...
Somebody who claims to be an independent by the name of Agnes King.
They're going back and forth over women's combat.
I'm going to pipe that in.
Let's take a listen.
Operational and strategic implications.
How you allow warfighters to go about winning and fighting their wars.
President Trump understands that.
And within the laws of war and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, we are going to unleash...
Warfighters to win wars so that wars don't drag on forever, as our generation has seen.
So are you rejecting Title 18 and Title 42, I think, also has provisions that incorporate the Geneva Convention and the laws of armed combat?
Are you saying that those laws should be repealed?
That is the law of the land right now.
Senator, we have...
Laws on the books from the Geneva Conventions into the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
And then underneath that, you have layers in which standard or temporary rules of engagements are put into place.
We fight enemies also, Senator, as our generation understands, that play by no rules.
Civilians as human shields.
So are you saying that the Geneva Convention should not be observed?
We follow rules.
We follow rules.
All right, so this has gone on.
I've been watching this really all morning, you know, leading up to the broadcast.
Fascinating.
I will say this.
The last Democrat before this supposed independent, who's obviously using Democrat talking points.
Tim Kaine, absolutely.
What a demon that guy is.
I don't know if you saw it, and I'll try to pull it up as quick as I can while we're in the middle of a live broadcast one-man show here.
Have to do both at the same time.
But Tim Kaine's questioning of Pete Hexeth is absolutely disgraceful.
To see this Jack Nicholson-type grin as he's trying to hammer Pete Hegseth over his past when it comes to his ex-wives before he came to faith in Christ and just the sheer joy he got from a Democrat to try to take the moral high ground on sexual ethics and morality is...
Really just the height of hypocrisy.
What a demonic presence that was as Tim Kaine was talking to Hegseth.
Just the sheer, again, the elation in his face as he's talking about a sexual assault.
It's just really disgusting.
You see the disdain that they have for this.
The one thing about Pete Hegseth is that he is an outspoken Christian.
That was...
From the very beginning of the hearing, that was really what was on the forefront.
Here's Pete Hegseth from earlier in his hearing, signing the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
And as Jenny and I pray together every morning, all glory, regardless of the outcome, belongs to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
His grace and mercy abounds each day.
May his will be done.
So Christ's grace and mercy abounds each day.
May his will be done.
Whether he's confirmed or not, whether he gets the votes or not, whether he becomes the Secretary of Defense or not, he is saying that the Lord's will be done.
What a refreshing attitude compared to, oh, I don't know, this.
This is our military now.
Right.
We have deranged, mentally ill men dressed up like women.
We have the Globo Homo agenda on full display.
We have the rainbow flag.
We have the trans flag, which I actually believe stands for pedophilia and the normalization of sex with kids.
We have Lloyd Austin here looking like some iteration of, I guess this is what James Earl Jones would have looked like.
Had he actually wanted to play Darth Vader, not just do the voice.
And then we have whatever fetish this is.
Is this some sort of furry adjacent fetish where this is what is celebrated, this kind of degeneracy?
Which, you say what you want to about America's wars in the Middle East, dead soldiers in the Middle East, or potential dead soldiers in Ukraine, foreign policy, and how disastrous that's been over the years and it needs to change.
The fact of the matter is, if America is going to have a fighting force, its one goal should be to kill the enemy as efficiently as possible.
Which, by the way, is...
Not what we saw with the neocon foreign policy my entire lifetime.
They took our soldiers, put them in the Middle East where they died, waited to be blown up, and essentially made them some sort of glorified police force.
And instead of actually killing the enemy, I mean, if we're willing to go to war, we should destroy the civilization completely that opposes us.
That type of black and white thinking is completely gone.
And that's why we have a war that lasts for 30, 40 years that could have been won.
But anyway, that's a whole different discussion.
But if you're going to have a military, the goal of the military is to efficiently kill the other side as quickly as possible.
And that's clearly not what has happened in my entire lifetime.
We've completely abandoned that idea for evolved sensibilities that are really just designed to, you know, one of the things is just to make defense contractors.
Richer and richer and richer.
A few more clips from his opening statement here is Pete Hegseth earlier this morning.
But as President Trump also told me, we've repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly the right credentials, whether they are retired generals, academics, or defense contractor executives.
And where has it gotten us?
He believes, and I humbly agree, That it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.
A change agent.
Someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.
My only special interest is the warfighter.
Deterring wars and if called upon winning wars by ensuring our warriors never enter a fair fight.
We let them win and we bring them home.
Like many of my generation, I've been there.
I've led troops in combat.
I've been on patrol for days.
I've pulled the trigger downrange, heard bullets whizz by, flex-cuffed insurgents, called in close air support, led medevacs, dodged IEDs, pulled out dead bodies, and knelt before a battlefield cross.
This is not academic for me.
This is my life.
I led then, and I will lead now.
Ask anyone who's ever worked for me or with me.
I know what I don't know.
My success as a leader, and I very much look forward to discussing my organization's successes at Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.
I'm incredibly proud of the work that we've done.
But my success as a leader has always been setting a clear vision.
Hiring people smarter and more capable than me, empowering them to succeed, holding everyone accountable, and driving toward clear metrics.
Build the plan, work the plan, and then work harder than everyone else around you.
I've sworn an oath to the Constitution before, and if confirmed, I will proudly do it again.
This time, for the most important deployment of my life.
I pledge to be a faithful partner to this committee, Taking input and respecting oversight.
We share the same goals.
A ready, lethal military, the health and well-being of our troops, and a strong and secure America.
Thank you for the time, and I look forward to your questions.
All right, checking back in here.
That was earlier.
Let's see if they're still going live.
Here's Rick Scott live and Pete Hexet.
Our warfighters understand what kind of commander-in-chief they're going to get.
In President Donald Trump, someone who stands behind them, someone who gives them clear missions, someone who ends wars decisively, and the issue of Ukraine was mentioned, and ensures new wars are not started.
There was a minor incursion under Barack Obama into Crimea, followed by nothing under President Trump, followed by an all-out assault by Vladimir Putin into Ukraine under the Biden administration.
That did not happen under Donald Trump.
Donald Trump managed the Taliban.
Under the Biden administration, Afghanistan collapsed tragically, ending the lives of 13 at Abbey Gate, who we remember every single day, and no one was held accountable for that.
Chinese spy balloons were flying over the country.
None of that happened under Donald Trump, and our warfighters understand that.
So there's no better recruiter, in my mind, for our military than President Donald Trump.
My job is to come alongside him, should I be confirmed, and continue to emphasize.
His emphasis on warfighting, on getting anything that doesn't contribute to meritocracy out of how decisions are made inside the Pentagon.
What gender you are, what race you are, your views on climate change, or whether you are a person of conscience and your faith should have no bearing on whether you get promoted or whether you're selected to go to West Point or whether you graduate from Ranger School.
The only thing that should matter is How capable are you at your job?
How excellent are you at your job?
I served in multi-ethnic units in every place that I were, every place that I served.
None of that mattered.
But suddenly, we re-inject DEI and critical race theory dividing troops into different categories, oppressor and oppressed, in ways that they otherwise just want to work together.
That's why I've pointed out before, and I'll say it again, because I'm sure it'll be quoted to me at some point.
The dumbest phrase in military history is our unity is our strength.
No, our shared purpose is our strength.
Our shared mission is our strength.
We are one DOD community of all committed to the same mission.
Has nothing to do with your background.
Has to do with what your commitment is to the country.
And that is my solemn pledge to every single person that would put the uniform on and reflects.
President Trump's priorities as well.
Senator.
Thank you.
You know, we talked a little bit about the fact the Pentagon can't do an audit, all right?
Can you talk about, to me, I've run big businesses.
It's all about accountability.
If you want to get an audit done, you can get an audit done.
You might get letters saying there's things you have to fix, but it all goes to accountability, and we haven't had it.
So can you talk about how you bring accountability to the table, what you've done in the past?
What you're going to do with regard to bringing accountability to the Pentagon.
I meant it when I said it in the opening statement, Senator.
I know what I don't know.
I know I've never run an organization of 3 million people with a budget of $850 billion.
But what I do know is that I've led men and women.
I've led people.
And it's leadership of people and motivation of people and a clear vision of people where you build a team.
Cast that vision.
Empower people properly.
I want smarter and more capable people around me than me.
And you will get that at the department.
I cast the clear vision, build the plan, work it, we set the metrics, and everyone is held accountable.
I know our incoming businessman president believes in accountability.
And holding people accountable.
That will happen at the Pentagon.
I mean, this has been a problem.
So this is kind of, we've heard this, we heard some of this in the opening statement.
There was one moment of contention we're going to catch you up on here, which would have been this with Kristen Gillibrand of New York.
New York having a real problem with Hegseth's former statements or previous statements talking about how women in combat doesn't need to be a thing.
This is extremely triggering to women having to be confronted with the fact that men naturally are physically stronger and faster, generally speaking, in every way.
And the idea that we don't want women to go to war and be in combat, right?
It actually is a disgrace.
It's not a biblical idea of women going to war.
It's gross, it's disgusting, and it's just wrong, flat-out wrong.
Now, since he's made those comments on a podcast or whatever, I know everybody's been clutching their pearls because the god of this country, one of the false idols of this country, is women.
We worship women.
We worship the idea of equality.
As I've said on the program many times, what you're seeing on Capitol Hill today with all of these Democrats essentially being beta males, all these Democrats coming out and supporting a woman's right to go die.
I'm sorry to laugh at that because it's not funny.
That's essentially what they're doing, is they're somehow thinking they have the moral high ground by advocating for a woman to go die in combat is disgusting.
But I've said this before, that we've given women the special right to murder their children and not be prosecuted for it.
Then telling a woman who is legally allowed to murder another human being with no consequences that they also don't need to serve in a combat role is kind of stupid, right?
What do you mean I can't serve in a combat role?
I can already legally murder.
No one else can have that, right?
You're going to deny me entry into combat or entry into the military?
This is why we're here, right?
We're seeing the rotten fruits of feminism and fighting the patriarchy.
No pun intended there.
But here was the brief back and forth between Kristen Gillibrand and Pete Hegseth.
Standards have been changed inside infantry training units.
Ranger school, infantry battalions, to ensure that commanders meet...
Give me one example.
Please give me an example.
I get you're making these generalized statements.
...commanders meet quotas to have a certain number of female infantry officers or infantry enlisted, and that disparages those women who are incredibly capable of meeting that standard.
Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the infantry.
That does not exist.
It does not exist.
And your statements are creating the impression that these exist.
Because they do not.
They are not quotas.
We want the most lethal force.
But I'm telling you, having been here for 15 years listening to testimony about men and women in combat and the type of operations that were successful.
You know what?
Let's just go full.
Let's just do the whole thing.
Let's just ban men from the military.
Let's only have a military full of women.
Maybe that's what we need to do.
Only get a military full of women.
Here's what Hegseth is saying.
He's saying, practically speaking, there may not be an official rule that says you have to have a quota, but there's pressure from commanding officers who are infected with the woke mind virus, infected with the woke sex religion, and they're adherents to it.
They are disciples of it.
You know, you don't have to have a quota.
There's police departments all over America that have quotas for their officers and how many tickets they need to write in a month.
It's not an official quota.
It's not something that's public knowledge, but they exist.
And so Kristen Gillibrand here is clearly being willfully ignorant because she knows.
She knows you don't have to have an official policy for the policy to actually be enacted and ongoing.
Checking back in here with the live feed.
Oh my gosh, this is going to be good.
By the way, I heard Elizabeth Warren was caught scalping tickets to a Washington Redskins game.
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 short period of time.
So help me understand, Mr. Hagseth, what extraordinary event happened in that 32-day period that made you change?
The core values you had expressed for the preceding 12 years.
Senator, again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comments from 2013, because for me, this issue has always been about standards.
And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been in political power for the last four years, priorities other than standards, lethality, and meritocracy have driven decision-making.
I'm quoting you from the podcast.
Women shouldn't be in combat at all.
That's true.
Where is the reference to standards that they should be there if they can carry, if they can run?
I don't see that at all, Mr. Hegseth.
This is great.
What I see is there's a 32-day period in which you suddenly have another description about your views of women in the military, and I just want to know.
What changed in the 32 days that the song you sang is not the song you come in here today to sing?
Senator, the concerns I have and the concerns that many have had, especially in ground combat units, is that in pursuit of...
Certain percentages or quotas, standards have been changed.
And that makes the combat more difficult for everybody involved.
Let me make a suggestion about what happened in that 32 days.
It puts the lives of our soldiers at risk.
You got a nomination from President Trump.
Now, I've heard of deathbed conversions, but this is the first time I've heard of a nomination conversion.
And I hope you understand that many women serving in the military right now might think...
That if you can convert so rapidly your long-held and aggressively perceived views in just 32 days, that 32 days after you get confirmed, maybe you'll just reverse those views and go back to the old guy who said, straight up, women do not belong.
I hope so.
Now, Mr. Hagstaff, you have written that after they retire, generals should be banned from working for the defense industry for 10 years.
You and I agree on the corrosive effects of the revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors.
It's something I would have liked to talk to you about if you'd come and been willing to visit with me.
Yeah, but what's the point, Pocahontas?
The question I have for you on this is, will you put your money where your mouth is?
And agree that when you leave this job, you will not work for the defense industry for 10 years?
Senator, it's not even a question I've thought about.
You can think about it right now.
My motivation for this job has never been about what could conceivably come next.
Time is short.
I just need a yes or no.
I would consult with the president about what the policy should be in the defense department.
In other words, you're quite sure.
That every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years?
You're not willing to make that same pledge?
I'm not a general, Senator.
You'll be the one, let us just be clear, in charge of the generals?
So you're saying, sauce for the goose, but certainly not sauce for the gander?
I would want to see what the policy of the president is.
Oh, I'll bet you would.
Thank you, Senator Warren.
Senator Tuberville.
Well, that's interesting.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for your hard work and your committee's hard work.
This is fascinating.
This has gone well.
I'd like to submit this letter, Topic Conduct at Vets for Freedom, for Hexeth.
I'd like to submit that for the record, please.
Without objection.
General Hexeth, I mean Mr. Hexeth.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here today and with your family.
I know this is tough.
That's what it's all about, though.
You're a tough guy.
Been here for a while.
Never seen this many people.
Real quick, we're going to get right back to this here in just a minute.
Before we do, though, well, first of all, let me tell you this.
The little quip that I made about...
Elizabeth Warren getting caught scalping tickets to a Washington Redskins game.
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We've got some disclaimers on that.
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So this is a way we laugh at the left's expense.
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Everything from...
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We wrote that card before Sports Illustrated went away.
You know, because they started putting fat people and trans people and stuff on the cover.
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Okay, now checking back in here with Tommy Tuberville questioning Pete Hegseth.
Talking to their kids and grandkids, wondering, pondering, do I want them to serve?
Will my country use them responsibly?
When that kind of doubt is cast, you get serious recruiting problems like we do right now.
That's a great point, by the way.
I've talked to many people, especially from a Christian standpoint, is there room in the military now?
If you have a young son about to turn 18 thinking about going to the military, does the military even have room for Christians anymore?
That's why I think this is so...
It's incredible that Hegseth is an outspoken Christian, regardless of what you think about the different changes in foreign policy that need to be made.
This is a big deal, and one of the reasons that they can't stand this guy, and one of the reasons demonic Tim Kaine was trying to point out his hypocrisies and his sins, is because there's, I mean, literally, Tim Kaine earlier in this hearing looked like he had just rolled out of bed, but looked like he was, I mean, he just loved reveling in accusing.
Somebody who claims, just like Satan does, right?
The accuser will come at you and throw your sins in your face and try to get you to forget the grace and the mercy that you've received because of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection and his ability to save sinners.
That's exactly what Tim Kaine did to Hegseth by trying to bring up...
You know, affairs and that sort of thing that he went through before, according to his pastor, before he came to faith in Christ.
He said in his opening statement that he's, you know, been forged by God, been essentially remade, been regenerated, and is an outspoken Christian now.
And that's one of the reasons that they hate him.
But more from Tommy Tuberville and Pete Texas.
Worked at a lot of them.
That is one of the excuses I get from our kids.
We've got to break that.
Another one.
According to the Pentagon, between 2001 and 2024, the number of civilian employees in the Office of the Secretary of Defense has nearly doubled from 1,500 to 3,000.
Civilians on Joint Chiefs has increased from 191 to almost 1,000.
Our military end strength goes down.
Our staff numbers are exploding.
What are you going to do about that?
Senator, we're going to address that.
We won World War II with seven four-star generals.
Today we have 44 four-star generals.
There's an inverse relationship between the size of staffs and victory on the battlefield.
We don't need more bureaucracy at the top.
We need more warfighters empowered at the bottom.
So it's going to be my job working with...
Those that we hire and those inside the administration to identify those places.
Hopefully those that you fire.
Can we talk about those that you will fire?
Thank you, Senator Tuberville.
Senator Peters.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to this committee.
Mr. Who?
We have far too much partisanship in our country right now.
I think it's eating away at the fabric of what has always made this country great about Bringing people together from all sorts of backgrounds, all sorts of experiences.
And we know that in our motto, together as one, we are strong.
And so we in this committee, and certainly I speak for myself, but I think I speak for many of my colleagues, want to take partisanship out of this proceeding as much as we can.
I'm not naive.
It's out there.
I get it.
But we've got to try to take that out.
And I want you to know that as a member of this committee, I have voted in a bipartisan way for Secretaries of Defense.
I voted for two Secretaries of Defense when Donald Trump was previously president.
We had those two.
We had, I think, five total Secretaries of Defense during that four-year period.
So we want to keep that in mind as to what we might see in this coming administration.
But I voted...
And we voted by a big margin for those folks as well.
Likewise, the Republicans that voted for Biden's pick.
I made repeated requests to meet with you prior to this meeting.
If they vote against Hexeth, we'll be very telling.
My colleagues also wanted to meet with you.
I did that with the other nominees that I was happy to vote for.
I thought they were highly qualified individuals and true professionals.
And yet, I could never get a meeting with you.
Was there a reason you were afraid to have one-on-one meetings with some of my colleagues before the hearing?
Senator, I know there was a great deal of outreach to multiple offices.
Schedules get full.
There's a lot going on.
I was ready.
And I welcome the opportunity, pending my schedule, to have an opportunity to sit down.
I was ready.
It would have been so much better to have that opportunity to talk.
I think that's a big mistake and it doesn't set us on a good course when you refuse to meet with people and have a...
Yeah, but here's the deal.
I mean, you know...
Come on.
He doesn't have a chance unless he meets with the Republicans.
Anyway, this is just all theater anyway.
We all know this.
This article came out, and it's disturbing to me.
And I'm going to tell you why this is disturbing here in a moment.
And I would encourage all of you guys, for those of you listening to the audio-only version, we've got a Breitbart.com article up, written by Christina Wong.
The headline, Pete Hegseth's FBI file comes back as, quote, unremarkable, end quote, dashing Democrats' hopes.
Of a scandal.
So we have...
The reason this is concerning to me is because there doesn't need to be any reliance.
There doesn't need to be any reliance on the FBI's word, good or bad, because they're full of liars and they're full of intel oligarchs.
And so...
And by the way, I'm surprised the people...
Well, I'm not surprised.
The people at the RNC need to get with it.
The people at the RNC need to get with it.
And when I say RNC, when I read a Breitbart article, just so you know how I process the news, if I read a Breitbart headline, I am reading the Republican National Convention's take.
And I'm not saying Breitbart...
It doesn't have its uses, you know, but I'm telling you that when I read a Breitbart headline, okay, this is the RNC's take.
Earlier in the week, we talked to, I guess yesterday we mentioned what we talked about the week before, is that there are Republicans, there are RINOs who want to use the FBI's reputation, the FBI's background checks as a reason to not vote for Hexeth or not vote for RFK or not vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
And so now what we could possibly see here is just kind of setting up the narratives, which would be Hegseth's FBI file comes back, so we vote for him.
But Tulsi Gabbard's FBI file, from a rhino standpoint, this is providing a rhino with cover.
Again, do you understand why I see a Breitbart headline and I think, okay, this is what the RNC is telling me?
So this could potentially be used to provide RINO's cover if an FBI background check comes back negative on a Tulsi Gabbard or negative on an RFK. And so they could say, you know, well, I trusted the FBI's judgment on Hegseth, so I voted for him.
I'm trusting the FBI's judgment on Tulsi Gabbard, so I'm not voting for her.
This is potentially what's going on here.
So, I mean, you know, in the news of the day, it's fun.
To say, ha ha, we got you.
The Dems were hoping for something scandalous on Hegseth.
But if you look at the chessboard, there are people playing this game and they say, potentially, we're going to let Hegseth in, but we're going to use the FBI, we're going to rely on the FBI, then rely on the FBI's report on Tulsi being a negative one.
We have to think this way because this is the way they think.
And they think in much...
Much more complicated terms than even that.
But Christina Wong reporting that Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, FBI background check, came back as unremarkable.
According to Punchbowl News, his FBI file was delivered to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker and ranking member Jack Reed.
Senator Rogers and Jack Reed, the chair of ranking member respectively, are the only committee members who have viewed Hex's FBI file, which was delivered to the panel late last week.
Republicans and SASC who have been briefed say the report is unremarkable.
So nothing there.
Again, we just have to have a very healthy level of skepticism with what these Senate, the Senate rhinos.
May or may not do.
The Senate RINOs that are controlled by the Intel oligarch complex that won as little change as possible in an incoming Trump administration.
Just something to think about.
Checking back in with Democrat Gary Peters.
An important organization and do it with a professionalism and has no experience that they can tell us that they have actually done that?
I have real problems with that.
This is not about...
Other issues that are brought up, they're all very important.
I'm just about trying to get things done, managing efficiently, and having the best people who have demonstrated that in a large organization.
And I'm sorry, but I don't see that in your background.
There are a lot of other things you can do very well.
You're a capable person, but I'm not, I do not, you have not convinced me that you're able to take on this tremendous...
The breaking news, Democrats are not going to vote for Pete Hegseth.
Okay, all right, next up.
Here is a little bit earlier.
Hegseth was talking about this, about all these claims.
So from story after story in the media, left-wing media, we saw anonymous source after anonymous source based on second- or third-hand accounts.
And time and time again, stories would come out, and people would reach out to me and say, you know, I've spoken to this reporter about who you really are, and I was willing to go on the record.
But they didn't print my quote.
They didn't print any of my quotes.
Or I've worked with you for 10 years.
Or I was your accountant.
Or I was your chief operating officer.
Or I was your board member.
Or I was with you on a hundred different tour stops for Concerned Veterans for America.
No one called me.
No one asked about your conduct on the record or off the record.
Instead, a small handful of anonymous sources, We're allowed to drive a smear campaign and agenda about me because our left-wing media in America today, sadly, doesn't care about the truth.
All they were out to do, Mr. Chairman, was to destroy me.
And why do they want to destroy me?
Because I'm a change agent and a threat to them because Donald Trump was willing to choose me, to empower me, to bring the Defense Department back to what it really should be, which is warfighting.
So I'm willing to endure these attacks.
But what I will do is stand up for the truth and for my reputation.
False attacks, anonymous attacks, repeated ad nauseum, printed ad nauseum, as facts, we have provided to the committee, Mr. Chairman, and I know you're going to share, on the record statement after on the record statement from people who have served with me, worked with me at Fox News, Concerned Vets, Vets for Freedom, you name it.
From the top of the chain to the bottom.
Who will say I treat them with respect, with kindness, with dignity?
That's men, that's women, that's black, that's white, that's every background.
I have prided myself as a leader of respecting people, being professional.
That is the balance of mind.
I'm not a perfect person, as has been acknowledged.
Saved by the grace of God, by Jesus and Jenny.
I'm not a perfect person, but redemption is real.
And God forged me in ways that I know I'm prepared for.
And I'm honored by the people standing and sitting behind me and look forward to leading this Pentagon on behalf of the Warfighters.
So here's the deal.
Just, you know, from my standpoint as a Christian, and I just think this is such a huge vibe shift.
I really do.
Going from, again, what we talk...
I mean, going from this...
I mean, look at this.
It's just crazy, man.
And again, nobody's perfect.
There are pros and cons to different policies and everything else.
But my goodness, what a difference between just abject evil, abject debauchery.
And again, I'll say it objectively just based on Scripture, which I regard as the Word of God and ultimate truth.
Versus a guy, a Christian veteran, sitting in front of the committee, sitting in front of some of the most wicked rulers in the land, just to be honest, and saying, you know, I'm a Christian, I'm a veteran, and I think I can lead the Department of Defense.
It's a total 180 degrees of what we had.
180 degrees of what we had.
And so when he said in his earlier statement that Jesus Christ's grace and mercy abounds every day, that is a true statement.
It does abound every day, whether you have wicked rulers or whether you have righteous rulers.
That's a true statement.
America has had wicked rulers for a very, very long time.
And the American people continue to vote.
At least in theory and principle, against these wicked rulers.
And a lot of times the rulers, they get in office and they change their mind.
They go back on everything they said they would do.
And then you look at what happened in 2020 and the people who did not vote en masse the way they said they did.
We've done a show.
A program before where we go over the Ten Commandments and, you know, we talk about, obviously we talk about the pitfalls of the Uniparty, we talk about the pitfalls of the Republican Party, but we also talk about how, just in uniformity, the Democrats stand against, as a matter of public policy, every single one of the Ten Commandments.
And so the question then becomes, how do you even order a society?
Well, you don't.
Chaos reigns, misery reigns, and we end up with the rotten fruits of...
Our sin, the rotten fruits of this pluralism, this secularism, that claims that not believing in God is somehow a worldview that can affect other people, and then at the same time you have people that are actively choosing evil and calling it that at the same time.
It's just fascinating what we're going on.
Let's check back in here.
Where are we at?
We've got Mark Mullen from Oklahoma.
Again, Pete Hegseth.
One of the best possible teams you can imagine with decades and decades of experience outside the Pentagon, driving innovation and excellence, and also inside the building, knowing how to make it happen.
Yes, sir.
So, in your organizations that you did have the privilege of running, did you have a board?
In both organizations, we had a board, yes.
Okay, and what did you do with that board?
What kind of decisions did you make with them?
Those boards provided oversight and insight into decision-making.
They all have special, unique sets that may be filled gaps that you're not the expertise in?
Yes, sir.
So do you believe you're capable of surrounding yourself with...
Okay, yeah.
All right, so let's move on here, because we've got a few things I want to get to in the rest of the program as we're kind of winding down here.
There's got this headline, Breaking Russia Foils Ukraine's Attempt to Disrupt the Turk Stream Pipeline.
This is from investigative journalist Ann Vanderstiel.
Steel News.
I covered this a while back.
I pointed this out that Turkey, it's very interesting with Turkey and their ability as a NATO member to still ink these gas pipeline deals with Russia.
And also in the wake of the Nord Stream pipeline being destroyed.
Yesterday we told you about the reports from Jeremy Brodsky that actually now says that Gazprom, which is Russia's gas...
The North Stream pipeline lost $6.9 billion last year, which once again blows a huge hole, no pun intended, in the idea that Russia blew up their own pipeline.
Why would they blow up their own pipeline if it was going to cost them $7 billion?
Again, Marco Rubio, the incoming Secretary of State, goes on CNN with a straight face and says Russia blew up their own pipeline.
What a joke that is.
But so in the meantime, then you have Turkey that's like, okay, well, we're going to ink a gas pipeline deal, and then we're going to end up being the hub for Europe.
If Germany's not going to be the hub for Europe, well, you know, Turkey can be.
And in this case, Hungary is involved.
The Turk stream pipeline is critical for natural gas supply in Hungary and Central Europe, especially now that the Nord Stream's gone.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter, I'm not going to, let's just say Zarto, Ukraine wants World War III. I mean, they are not yet a paper tiger.
Okay?
We have to...
We have to be vigilant here.
Also continue to pray for our country and pray for Donald Trump becomes the next president, gets inaugurated, and that there's not another assassination attempt.
And if there is, that it fails.
So that was a story that was interesting to me.
We also have this story about gun rights that I thought was very good.
National file writing, Trump has promised to pass national concealed carry reciprocity legislation.
House Republicans just introduced the national concealed carry reciprocity bill.
Will Speaker Mike Johnson bring the bill to the floor for a vote?
Now, I'm no fan of concealed carry licenses.
Currently, in my home state of Arkansas, we have a concealed carry permit program, I actually don't have a concealed carry permit in my home state of Arkansas because right now the law stands I don't need one.
As a matter of fact, I was just on the phone from somebody in Little Rock today because the legislative session in my home state kicked off yesterday.
And there are subversives down there trying to weaken the gun rights that we have.
But as it stands now, Arkansas is a constitutional carry state where it is legal for you to carry a handgun open or carry a handgun concealed without any permission slip from the government.
It actually took us a while in the grassroots in my state to kind of shake the NRA out of their permit mentality.
The only way the NRA gets anywhere in these northern Yankee states is by adopting a permission slip mindset.
And so then they were trying to kind of force that same mindset here.
they actually resisted for a long time us trying to decriminalize possession of a firearm here in Arkansas.
Where effectively now, or at least for a time, you know, it'd be like, you know, there's no law that says that you are free to sit on your front porch and drink a glass of iced tea.
But there isn't a law that says you can't do that.
Therefore, you're perfectly free to sit on your front porch and drink a glass of iced tea.
That is essentially the state of gun laws in Arkansas.
It's absolutely fantastic.
That being said, I don't deny the usefulness of having a permission slip when it comes to going.
I would rather the Second Amendment suffice.
But with some of these northern states that are obsessed with this, and other basically outright communistic states like the state of New York, Where people have, you know, out-of-staters that have carried a gun in there end up going to jail for a very long time.
This would be a good idea because there are members of red states that have to do business in, you know, godless communist blue states.
And so, you know, in this case, a national reciprocity bill, which would inevitably get challenged by the courts, by the Dems in court, but it still would be a good thing.
If anything, it would be extremely interesting just to see how much the headlines would just rock themselves.
The leftist meltdown would be just absolutely insane.
All right, so folks, it's now time for my favorite.
Favorite part of the show.
I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
I believe in the non-binary God.
And now it's time for I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Alright, so for this, we've got a...
Quadruple header here.
I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Courtesy of protestia.
Good morning to everybody except those who are preaching about decolonizing our gratitude.
Here is a pastrix, impostrix.
Listen to this.
Gratitude reminds us that we are connected to the whole of creation.
It allows us to reinforce that reciprocal commitment to care.
To be grateful is to say, I see that I am provided for.
And I recommit to providing as well.
It grounds us in relationship.
And so if we want to decolonize our thanksgiving, decolonize our gratitude practices broadly, we need to shift from the gratitude of conquerors, thank you God for this thing that you have given me because I deserve it, to...
The gratitude consistent with indigenous practices, consistent with the teachings of Jesus, the gratitude of reciprocal relationship that says, thank you for caring for me.
I remember my call to care for you.
All right, so that's the first contender.
You guys feel free to tell me which is worse.
Then we have this.
Take a listen.
Let us join in the unison prayer of invocation.
God of all creation, your wisdom, your love and your mystery are boundless.
You have many names which are beyond all gender expressions.
We give you thanks for the gift of diverse gender identity, expression and sexuality.
Millstone.
We acknowledge the times we deny that gift by holding too tightly to expectations of conformity and norms.
We have created these divisions and used them against one another.
We know this is not your will or your way.
Wow.
to act mercifully and show grace to all of your people as you have done for us God of love you weep with us in our grief and fear Enfold in your loving embrace all those in our trans community lost to death this year.
You know their names, Divine Creator, even when they are misnamed or misgendered as a last act of violence and erasure.
I just have to reiterate a previous point.
The Bible is very clear that, you know, Church officers are for men.
But how are you going to tell somebody that's already been allowed to kill their baby without earthly consequences for it?
It's illegal.
They have that protected right to murder.
How are you going to tell that person that they also can't be a pastor or they can't serve in the military in combat roles?
Again, the guinocracy is real.
And then we have this.
We have another contender, which this is actually not a woman.
But it goes in for other reasons that will be made clear.
Jesus was God in the flesh, dwelling among us.
But nobody really knew that aspect of him.
The holy presence of Christ that day was enough to take your breath away.
He glowed.
His clothes transformed before people's eyes.
So he's talking about the transfiguration.
You see, if Jesus had not shared this truth, you would never know it.
But Peter, James, and John, they were privy to a revelation that was denied just about everyone else.
They saw what was at the very core who Jesus was.
You see, there are some realities that...
You will never know unless they are shared with you.
Gender is one of those realities.
At least at the present time, you cannot know a person's gender unless they tell it to you.
At gender reveal parties, gender is not revealed.
Genitals do not tell you a person's gender.
Chromosomes do not tell you a person's gender.
So at the ripe old age of 55, I came out to God and to myself as transgender.
So to those around me, I started sharing my transfiguration experience.
What was hidden inside of me, I was sharing and allowing the world to see.
On the day of Transfiguration, Jesus was revealed to be more than what meets the eye.
When a transgender person chooses to allow you to join them on their mountaintop and chooses to reveal to you their soul, feel honored.
Hear God proclaim that they are a beloved child.
And that you need to listen to them.
The only one who really knows your gender is the God who created you in yourself.
So, again, this courtesy of protesting, which is a great follow if you want to keep track of the madness, but that was a United Methodist Church in pastor comparing the transfiguration of Jesus.
It was essentially comparing that to being a transgendered woman, a transfiguration trans.
You know, you wonder how it took them this long.
There's probably countless sermons of people that, oh, the word trans is in the beginning of the word.
The beginning of the word is trans, and so let's talk about transgenderism.
And the reason this is related, and again, I told you we had a quadruple hitter here, is because of, well, I just accidentally clicked out of it.
We'll get to this on the show because we're actually out of time.
There is a cross.
There is a picture of a crucifix with a figure on the cross that actually has breasts at another church.
And so people ask me, you know, I mean, hey, Paul, are you against women clergy?
Like, I guess this man who thinks he's a woman or these actual women who think that they're men?
Yeah, I mean, I am, and I'm already against it.
You don't have to...
You don't have to convince me.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
All right, so that's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
My name is Paul Harrell.
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