host: the top pentagon contractor donors to think tanks, here's the top five, northrop grumman, lockheed martin, mitsubishi, rtx and airbus at about $1.7 million. what should we know about pentagon contractors? guest: there's a lot to know, great question. i think when it comes to that list you mentioned, it is well worth noting, we talk about companies, these are some of the very top defense contractors, these are companies getting tens of billions of dollars every year in pentagon contracts and taxpayer money. what we see with this think tank funding is they are turning around and taking a little piece of that, giving that money back to think tanks, they are making recommendations that would be a financial benefit. this includes things like recommending specific arms sales . recommending other arms sales from places like israel. we see this over and over again that these think tanks are funded by pentagon contractors are making recommendations that would be financial windfall. you are seeing this -- i would say virtuous, but you are seeing the cycle of taxpayer money going to these ent

uh, because your manufacturing base right now is all to lockheed martin and rape your northrop grumman and the general dynamics. and the rest of them went on advertising people to sell their short shares of i had asked us whether you will that military in industrial intelligence community neccessary speaker is capital intensive. it's not labor intensive. it's all about the bells and whistles of, of the national defense infrastructure at, but you know, you have to look at what's happening domestically about as you can just right now, since about a trillion dollars a year now, so called to fax it to so much it is wasted, so much of the box attached here has been absolutely ripped off paying multiple times for goods that would cost a fraction of what has paid for and on the market. so we, we have a moment here, a contract, which is an event where the american economy is, is struggling, where the american people are having trouble buying large, making intimate, where the economic policies of the past administration. i have not been successful in reviving the economy. where there's always m

because your manufacturing base right now is all to lockheed martin raphael and northrop grumman and the general dynamics. and the rest of them went on advertising people to sell their short shares of i had asked us whether you will that the military in industrial intelligence community neccessary speaker is capital intensive. it's not labor intensive. it's all about the bells and whistles of, of the national defense infrastructure at, but you know, you have to look at what's happening domestically about as you can just right now, since about a trillion dollars a year and so called to fax it to so much it is wasted, so much of the box attached theres been absolutely ripped off paying multiple times for goods that would cost a fraction of what was paid for and on the market. so we, we have a moment here economy, which is an event where the american economy is, is struggling, where american people are having trouble buying large making ends meet, where the economic policies of the past administration. i have not been successful in reviving the economy. where there's always money for wa

agent rocket diane, and northrop grumman had a unit. they are the only two providers, and they were scale for their demand forecasts, and that is all they were scale for. when all this missile production kicks back in, it will take them a couple years to add to what they already have because just to get production up, but we decided we need to have a third in this country, our company did because we were not going to get funded by the government because there's no line item in the budget. i said let's try to team up on this. i have a plant where we can do final assembly. we have product centers where we can build some key components, and we teamed up to create a third provider, and we are going to design systems, build some components. general and amex is going to team with us to do assembly and test the products, and then you will have a third supplier, but that was the initiative of the companies in the space. we just know we are going to do this, and we just took a risk investment up front hoping that it plays out, but that is an ant

but maybe he's run a boeing or a northrop grumman, and i just don't know about it, because from what i can tell, the manager of your local applebee's has more experience managing a bigger budget and more personnel than pete hegseth. and i don't want that person in charge of the dod. like i said, she has been red hot on this nomination. the new york times did a profile this weekend of incoming white house chief of staff siouxsie wiles, and in the course of interviewing her for that profile, they asked siouxsie wiles what exactly makes pete hegseth qualified for this job led to this rather astonishing paragraph in their recent profile of her quote, hegseth, a military veteran who has been accused by a woman of sexual assault, which he denied, has no experience leading an agency of nearly 3 million people. quote, that's what staff is for, miss wiles said briskly. we don't need a defense secretary who can run the defense department. quote. that's what staff is for. those are the people. >> they can do it. >> i'm not sure which is a better like take on things from the trump transition. ri

northrop grumman, raytheon and the other defense behemoths are going to bathe in contractor cash, whichprofitable. you know, war is like the most profitable thing. so while you're focused on the terror raids and the firings and the end of black history month and the fake piety about merit, while trump hires liberal tv personalities to run his government, trump and friends are preparing to pull off what amounts to a giant bank robbery. guys, they're going to loot the federal government, hand out contracts to their friends who no longer have to worry about hiring black folks women, disabled veterans, lgbtq folks, anybody who might not go along with the scam. because when you're preparing to start the steal, you know what? you don't need hanging around witnesses like, say, long time civil servants who make the government run, whether their president is someone they voted for or not. you don't want civil servant witnesses around when you start the steal, because they might tell, you know, who won't tell cronies who got their jobs only because they pledged total because they pledged total pe

the peacekeeper program and today, i had the privilege to work on the sentinel program with northrop grumman and the air force. and so, deterrence is kind of in my blood, literally, for my whole life. and so i had the privilege of working with some of you at los alamos and it has just been an incredible mission. what we're doing down in australia is that we are working closely with the aussies down there, the australian submarine agency, to really focus on their needs around infrastructure that is capable of not only sustaining but building their fleet. some of the work that we have done with the u.s. navy has allowed us to do the things that are necessary not only to master plan the henderson defense precinct just outside of perth but to really master plan and then play out scenarios that allow them to pick the best solutions in their analysis of alternatives that are necessary to build that shipyard which, as you know gives freedom of navigation and access to the indian ocean and the south china sea. very, very important job. a lot that we have learned from our public ship yards is getting

host: the top pentagon contractor donors to think tanks, here's the top five, northrop grumman, lockheedn, mitsubishi, rtx and airbus at about $1.7 million. what should we know about pentagon contractors? guest: there's a lot to know, great question. i think when it comes to that list you mentioned, it is well worth noting, we talk about companies, these are some of the very top defense contractors, these are companies getting tens of billions of dollars every year in pentagon contracts and taxpayer money. what we see with this think tank funding is they are turning around and taking a little piece of that, giving that money back to think tanks, they are making recommendations that would be a financial benefit. this includes things like recommending specific arms sales . recommending other arms sales from places like israel. we see this over and over again that these think tanks are funded by pentagon contractors are making recommendations that would be financial windfall. you are seeing this -- i would say virtuous, but you are seeing the cycle of taxpayer money going to these entities.