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paul, what did active duty military think of jim mattis? >> he was a god. >> i mean, they called him saint mattis. >> they were shrines to mattis in marine corps barracks all around the world. >> and he was held up, you know, as our generation's patton in many ways, in part because he embodied the ethos and the values of the military loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage. >> we all know them. and mattis embodied all that. what you saw today is someone who violates all those values. and i think what you saw today is the first major battle in trump's culture war. and that's a culture war. we've talked about it over the last couple of months. pete hegseth is an effective culture warrior, and he brought that war to this confirmation hearing today. and we didn't talk about iran or about nuke policy or about, you know, carrier strike groups. we talked about whether or not he can be trusted to get drunk on the job or not, and whether or not he lied to his family and to potentially to trump. and i think this is
paul, what did active duty military think of jim mattis? >> he was a god. >> i mean, they called him saint mattis. >> they were shrines to mattis in marine corps barracks all around the world. >> and he was held up, you know, as our generation's patton in many ways, in part because he embodied the ethos and the values of the military loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage. >> we all know them. and mattis embodied all that. what...
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he's got some dust on his boots, and so does jim mattis. so it'd be hard to portray these two guys in particular as some pauper, you know, princes of the pentagon. these are real national security experts. look, we're in a very difficult position. the commander in chief incoming has disparaged our allies, has suggested illegal use of military power domestically and in foreign operations, is a friend of putin. the criminal invasion of ukraine. that's the challenge we've got. and i think this secretary of defense nominees extremely capable. he's got a troubled past. he's got some language that he used to entertain people on fox tv, that he's trying to walk away from. but one of his greatest qualifications from the perspective of mr. trump is he'll do what he's told. other than that, i think the guy's actually very capable, very competent, and you don't have to have run general motors to be the secretary of defense. you have to be smart and have an understanding of the fundamentals of the building. i think he probably does have that. if they g
he's got some dust on his boots, and so does jim mattis. so it'd be hard to portray these two guys in particular as some pauper, you know, princes of the pentagon. these are real national security experts. look, we're in a very difficult position. the commander in chief incoming has disparaged our allies, has suggested illegal use of military power domestically and in foreign operations, is a friend of putin. the criminal invasion of ukraine. that's the challenge we've got. and i think this...
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how dare hegseth imply that people like lloyd austin and jim mattis had not been in combat, risking theirtry? it was quite a spectacle today. >> yeah. major general eaton, is. is this someone, pete hegseth, who you would promote if he were serving under you? >> knowing what i know right now. it's very easy. no. certainly not. >> i can't speak about what he what his qualities were while he served on active duty. >> the. if you can get folks back there who will speak on his behalf, who served with the nominee here, that might be helpful. but knowing what i know right now, he is definitely do not venmo. >> let me play for you, major general eaton, this is senator eric schmitt of missouri, and he explained what the republican's beef is with the military as it is currently constructed and why they feel they need pete hegseth. take a listen. >> dei is not about giving everybody opportunity. it is rooted in cultural marxism. the idea that you pit the room, any room with oppressor versus oppressed. it's race essentialism and it is poison. it has no business whatsoever in our military. i think the
how dare hegseth imply that people like lloyd austin and jim mattis had not been in combat, risking theirtry? it was quite a spectacle today. >> yeah. major general eaton, is. is this someone, pete hegseth, who you would promote if he were serving under you? >> knowing what i know right now. it's very easy. no. certainly not. >> i can't speak about what he what his qualities were while he served on active duty. >> the. if you can get folks back there who will speak on...
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jim. >> mattis was overwhelmingly supported and confirmed. >> same with mark esper. >> so this is a very different situation here. and the question that i have been asking. while this has been. >> a. >> very uncertain vote for a matter of weeks now, rachel. >> is will. >> pete hegseth. >> if confirmed. >> come into this. >> building in any way with weaker than other secretary. >> of defense? secretaries of defense have come into the pentagon. and i. >> got to tell you, i don't know if that's going. >> to be the case. the reality. is he has so much support from. president donald trump. from the administration. >> and from this. >> overwhelming amount of. of support, whether it be in social media. whether it be. >> in. >> republicans. that we have seen the. >> pressure campaign that has existed. >> to get. >> pete hegseth, this vote. >> above the. >> threshold has. >> been unlike. >> anything i have ever. >> seen before. there has been. >> a real. >> lobbying campaign. >> to get him across the vote. even what we were hearing from julie, the fact. that he went to the senate tonight. >> with
jim. >> mattis was overwhelmingly supported and confirmed. >> same with mark esper. >> so this is a very different situation here. and the question that i have been asking. while this has been. >> a. >> very uncertain vote for a matter of weeks now, rachel. >> is will. >> pete hegseth. >> if confirmed. >> come into this. >> building in any way with weaker than other secretary. >> of defense? secretaries of defense have come into...
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back in 2017, when president trump first implemented this, jim mattis, then the secretary of defense, he did include some very notable exceptions. and then on the other things like gutting die programs, clearly a very high priority for pete hegseth. he tweeted about it over the weekend, saying dod does not equal dod die. and finally, that reinstatement of service members who were kicked out of the military because they refused to get the covid 19 vaccine. again, what is that going to look like? are they going to have to join the military again to get that back pay and their and their full rank reinstated? for how long are they going to have to sign up to serve in the military in order to get that back pay? where is the u.s. military going to get the money to give them that back pay? all things that have to be really figured out here and hammered out in the in the next months, and maybe even up to a year. boris. >> yeah. we'll see how the administration approaches those open questions. natasha bertrand live for us at the pentagon. thank you so much, brianna. >> let's talk about this no
back in 2017, when president trump first implemented this, jim mattis, then the secretary of defense, he did include some very notable exceptions. and then on the other things like gutting die programs, clearly a very high priority for pete hegseth. he tweeted about it over the weekend, saying dod does not equal dod die. and finally, that reinstatement of service members who were kicked out of the military because they refused to get the covid 19 vaccine. again, what is that going to look like?...
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>> you had a similar problem when jim mattis was secretary of defense, and donald trump would call him up and say, here are things i'd want to do. >> and the secretary of defense, even though mattis's instincts were right, i'm uncomfortable with the civil military relationship where the president calls the pentagon and the secretary of defense says, we're not going to do that, or in this case, the secretary of defense says, sure, whatever you want to do, mr. president. >> and, you know, i'm not really an advisor. i'm just a guy who executes your orders. >> this is really bad in every way, and i hope that some somehow sanity prevails here. >> and the trumpet there are republicans who are perfectly credible nominees to be secretary of defense. it's not like you can't find a real republican defense expert. joni ernst is sitting right there, among others, you know, but this is apparently and her name was suggested at one point. and it is interesting because democrats have had republicans as secretaries of defense. like it's actually not the world's most partizan job, but it has to work. an
>> you had a similar problem when jim mattis was secretary of defense, and donald trump would call him up and say, here are things i'd want to do. >> and the secretary of defense, even though mattis's instincts were right, i'm uncomfortable with the civil military relationship where the president calls the pentagon and the secretary of defense says, we're not going to do that, or in this case, the secretary of defense says, sure, whatever you want to do, mr. president. >> and,...
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trump's two secretaries of defense, jim mattis, had like 98 or something votes, and mark esper had 90. we haven't had anything that was this disputed for this position since chuck hagel. he still won, but he was bruised somewhat in his hearing in 2013 by his own party, by republicans. but by and large, when you're looking at this position, this is something that usually you go into it with a with a huge bipartisan majority. so even if pete hegseth is confirmed tonight, he's going to be entering the job somewhat diminished by the fact that he will have more than likely lost all of the not have any of the democratic votes to begin with. and he will have lost at least two that we know of right now. republican votes from susan collins and lisa murkowski, and who we don't know yet if there will be one, if there's one more than we need jd vance to break the tie. and if there's but he can't lose more than one more republican vote after that, it's game over for him. >> well, can i ask a little bit more about that, helene, if he is going to emerge from this confirmed but nonetheless bruised by
trump's two secretaries of defense, jim mattis, had like 98 or something votes, and mark esper had 90. we haven't had anything that was this disputed for this position since chuck hagel. he still won, but he was bruised somewhat in his hearing in 2013 by his own party, by republicans. but by and large, when you're looking at this position, this is something that usually you go into it with a with a huge bipartisan majority. so even if pete hegseth is confirmed tonight, he's going to be entering...
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and it's night and day from you know, i didn't agree with jim mattis and rex tillerson, world views and and day from the first trump term. so this is going to be very different this time around, right? >> i mean, we've got kash patel, who at least according to reports, was messing around with declassifying documents in order to help michael flynn, who had allegedly spoken with a russian official without authorization and who is a big backer of the big lie and other things with trump. that guy is probably going to be the next fbi director. we've got even sam alito on the supreme court calling trump to do background checks to make sure his former, you know, aide is sufficiently loyal. despite having worked for william barr. i mean, we've got tulsi gabbard, who the people most enthusiastic about her nomination to be in our national security administration is that russia loves her. the people most enthusiastic are russians. why would that be? >> well, because that her worldview has been totally aligned with kind of putin critique of nato support for putin ally and bashar al assad. i think w
and it's night and day from you know, i didn't agree with jim mattis and rex tillerson, world views and and day from the first trump term. so this is going to be very different this time around, right? >> i mean, we've got kash patel, who at least according to reports, was messing around with declassifying documents in order to help michael flynn, who had allegedly spoken with a russian official without authorization and who is a big backer of the big lie and other things with trump. that...
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for example, jim mattis for secretary of defense, he got 98 votes here in the senate. i don't think that's going to happen with pete hegseth, nor should it, given his lack of experience, relevant senior management experience, and the questions about his character with pam. excuse me, with attorney general bondi of florida. yesterday i was looking for a clear answer when i asked her if a group of career department of justice lawyers brought to you a criminal charge that's well predicated, well founded, and the white house directed you not to support that investigation, not to allow those charges to be brought. what would you do? now, i want to go back and review the transcript. but i wasn't satisfied. my recollection is of the answers i got at the time, and i want to make sure i'm being fair here. but she hedged and she hawed. she gave clear and good answers to my first two questions. can president trump run for a third term? no, she said, as a matter of constitutional law, who's your client? the people of the united states and the constitution. good answers. so i do th
for example, jim mattis for secretary of defense, he got 98 votes here in the senate. i don't think that's going to happen with pete hegseth, nor should it, given his lack of experience, relevant senior management experience, and the questions about his character with pam. excuse me, with attorney general bondi of florida. yesterday i was looking for a clear answer when i asked her if a group of career department of justice lawyers brought to you a criminal charge that's well predicated, well...
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and look, whatever you think of jim mattis, he was confirmed 98 to 1.s confirmed 88 to 11. i mean, these are not nominees designed to do that by trump. and i think what we what i want to try to get to understand is why? why? >> because, look, you really get the sense that it can be a variety of things, but you understand that loyalty is the preeminent issue, and that's not something that helps the public. >> we're going to come right back on that. i have to sneak in a quick break. also ahead, another shattered one time norm another shattered one time norm has been broken at the justice (husband) we just want to have enough money for retirement. (wife) and travel to visit our grandchildren. (fisher investments) i understand. that's why at fisher investments we start by getting to know each other. so i can learn about your family, lifestyle, goals and needs, allowing us to tailor your portfolio. (wife) what about commission- based products? (fisher investments) we don't sell those. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in your best interest. (husband) so ho
and look, whatever you think of jim mattis, he was confirmed 98 to 1.s confirmed 88 to 11. i mean, these are not nominees designed to do that by trump. and i think what we what i want to try to get to understand is why? why? >> because, look, you really get the sense that it can be a variety of things, but you understand that loyalty is the preeminent issue, and that's not something that helps the public. >> we're going to come right back on that. i have to sneak in a quick break....