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Coming from the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, towards Dan Driscoll. But in the last several months, it appears as though that friction has been two-sided. This was something that was expected. I was told by one source there was no surprise here that he submitted his resignation. Although I will tell you that I talked to other members of the administration who said they were hoping that he would last a little bit longer just as this continuation of this Iran war is playing out right now. We did get a statement just seconds ago from the White House. I'm going to read it to you. It says, Secretary Driscoll has been highly effective in advancing President Trump's agenda to make America strong again at the Department of the Army by providing outstanding leadership during historic military operations, restoring an emphasis on readiness and lethality, assisting with negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and more. The United States Army is more powerful than ever thanks to his work alongside the Commander-Chief and Secretary of War. Now, we have updates on this where one reporter says that, the former Army Secretary reportedly met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign policy goals. Trump talked exclusively about the ballroom in response. He's losing his mind. And that caused the Army Secretary to resign, believing the administration was, quote, doomed. I finally read the fine print on my free email account, and it turns out it's making somebody money. Just not me. Every message. I send it gets scanned. So a company I've never met can build a little profile of who I am. Cool. I just love that. Well, that's why I partnered with today's sponsor, ProtonMail, encrypted email that actually works for you, not the ad guys. ProtonMail is end-to-end encrypted and built under strict Swiss privacy laws. 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Dan Driscoll, army secretary, resigns. It looks like the reasons he retired was essentially Hegseth just messing around way too much in the rank and file. And finally, Driscoll says enough and he goes to Trump. The Atlantic in this story recounts that he goes to Trump with his resignation letter and talks to him about the things that he thinks are going poorly at DoD. Obviously, it's a bit frightening to see all the civilian leaders gone and Senate-confirmed positions gone and just utter chaos at the Pentagon, which I can't ever recall seeing before. We've never seen this degree of chaos and disarray and it's dangerous, but it's the Pentagon, kind of an important place, you know? He decided to leave now and he decided to basically tell the Atlantic so he wasn't being shy about signaling his dissatisfaction. He's not going to be a part of the military. He's going to be a part of the military. I'd like to think that our leadership representing us in the Pentagon and in the White House, we should be better than that. And I thought it was demeaning and uncalled for. As you know, there were questions about Hegseth during confirmation hearings, quite hard questions. And yet, Republican senators confirmed him. Should they have seen this coming? I think so. I told a few senators that I would vote no. And I was told by some, and I'll keep them nameless, Don, you're not under all the pressure that we're under to vote for him. But I said, I've been under a lot of other pressure and other bills. I still vote no or vote my conscience. I felt like he was trouble from the beginning. And then right after he got confirmed, then we had the signal gate. And what bothered me there, he put classified information on an unclassified phone in an unclassified application, gets caught. And instead of just saying, you know, I was wrong, I shouldn't have done it, he gets mad at the reporter. And I expect leaders to take responsibility when they fail and they make a mistake. We're not, none of us are perfect. But when you fail, you own up to it. And so I was wrong and it won't happen again. And I heard somebody that acted more like my teenagers when they're 30 and 40 now. But when they were teenagers, just deny and accuse somebody else of being at fault. I didn't like it. I thought it was wrong. And service members have literally died because of Pete Hegseth's incompetence. Pat Ryan revealed that. Yesterday, during a committee meeting. Internal analysis had said the site was indefensible from aerial attack and should not be used. Yet you sent our soldiers from the 103rd Sustainment Command there anyway. Is that true or false? True or false? Straightforward question. Are you going to give me a chance to answer or just play gotcha? Did you send them there or not? I always, we took proactive measures from the beginning to ensure force protection and defensive posture. Let's talk, Mr. Secretary, let's talk about what defenses they had. Prior to the attack, officers on the ground knew our troops were vulnerable. In fact, they requested additional force protection. Did they receive it? Wherever humanly possible, force protection and counter UAS was always made available. They did not. In fact, when asked to describe the base's defense, one survivor who's come forward from the unit said, quote, I mean, I would put it in. In the none category from a drone defense capability, none. And Frank Kendall, who was the Air Force secretary in the Biden administration, literally said that it's going to take years, if not decades, to repair two years of Pete Hexeth. I spent 20 years in the Pentagon. It has always been that way until this administration. Do you worry about the impact it has long term? Oh, absolutely. Caitlin, four years of this is going to do enormous damage. It's going to take. Several years or a decade to go repair this and restore the type of system that that we have had traditionally. When we listen to Secretary Hexeth, I mean, he often has the same kind of mantra that he repeats. Some people might hear that and agree with it. Some people might say, well, I like that he's doing that. The concerns, though, that we seem to be hearing in our reporting and from Secretary Driscoll himself is that it's impacting what he believes the military should be focused on, what he believes the secretary should be focused on. Right now in our competition. Strategically, brain power is just as important as how big somebody's biceps are. We need people with intellectual capital just as much as we need people who are physically capable. He's overemphasizing this kind of, you know, bro thing with the testosterone thing you mentioned, as well as many other things. That's not what the secretary of defense should be working and worrying about. What he should be worrying about is not getting us into a conflict that we have no obvious way out of and isn't going to accomplish the things that we got into. And we're working. We're thinking of an absolute disaster in Iran right now. The way we went into this thing with very poor assumptions about how it will play out, risks that were well understood and prevented any other prior secretary of defense or president from doing this were ignored and we went into this conflict. We now have no way out. We need leadership that doesn't do that sort of thing. And the other things that are kind of window dressing that Secretary Hegseth seems to be focused on are not things that a secretary of defense should be worrying about. The professional military. We'll take care of standards of grooming, physical fitness and all those things. They're very good at that and they always have been. He doesn't need to worry about that. But frankly, in this case, I don't think he knows how to do anything else. So he's doing the things that he understands and thinks he can do something about. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, just like with COVID, Donald Trump can pretend like everything's fine, but eventually reality catches up with you. And I think reality is catching up to him very quickly. Now, the way that Donald Trump. Is going to get out of this is by blaming everything on Pete Hegseth firing him, putting someone in even worse. But my hope is, is that after he fires him, he uses that as an excuse to say that this was incompetently managed by Pete Hegseth and that Donald Trump is going to fix it by ending the war. That's what I hope. I hope that's what comes out of this is one drunkard Pete Hegseth resigns or is fired into it stops. The war. I don't I truly don't know how else we'll get out of this thing without some sort of scapegoat. And my hope is that Pete Hegseth is that it does look like the rumblings are getting louder and I don't think Donald Trump is going to be able to ignore them. And I certainly don't think Pete Hegseth is going to be able to avoid the inevitable, which is Donald Trump doing what he always does, using the closest person next to him as a scapegoat to deflect from the fact that Donald Trump hasn't no doesn't know what the hell is going on. All right, well, if you like the video, hit, like, subscribe and I'll see you soon. So you can get in on the sports action no matter where you are, including these places. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. So there goes. That's my big idea for the commercial. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for 12 month plan required. Initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes. May slow when network is busy. See terms. Traditional home security only alerts you after a break in. 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