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washingto. host: welcome back. we are joined now by the editor-in-chief of breaking defense. welcome. guest: thank you. host: let's start with the firing of chairman brown. explain what chairman of the joint chiefs does and why he was fired. it's just: the chairman of the joint chiefs is mostly the top for officer in america. his main goal is to be the top military advisor the president. he's not actually in the chain of command, he and order forces to go anywhere. he is basically the uniform guide to say this is our best military advice. she was named air force chief of staff which is fully of the airport under president trump 2020 and been promoted by fighting to be the chairman several years later. the second black man to be nominated at the colin powell to have been jobs. this is a four-year term. he got about a year and a half the seat before he was fired on friday. as to why he was removed, there hadn't really many statements my the president or secretary of defense pete hegseth why they made this move. we know that very early on, there were comments from pete hegseth's

ordered that accountability and by the amount of squawking that wen are seeing and i've only been in washingtoean teltl you people dont like when yo mu move their chee, but it's not they are teased the team american taxpayers cheese. >> laura: what cheese has beenrs found in the irs that might beth given by the rats? what is going on at the irs with doge? i don't know what we will find that the irs, but i can tell you with irs i have three holes,k th collections, privacy and customer service. and i don't thin eitk there is anyone who thinks that either of those three categories fir is fg on all sen cylinders by all mea. >> laura: can be irs be melted inha another agency or shrunken significantly? >> i think what we can do is wev are at the advent of this great ai revolution.s 12 they irs from my understanding has 12 different it systems that operate on system of cobalt which is what i learned to program in the '80s.do >> laura: that is obsolete. >> we will do a big it upgrade and see where that takes has. >> laura: if you were just in00 bukraine and zelenskyy said $100 billion wasn't sure how t

just moments ago a federal judge in washingto d.c.trump has the authority to firusaid a workers, saying the plaintiffs agaicould not demonstrate harm. a familiar phase we are seeing fromudges here. there's half a dozen oth court victories for doge and trump against democrats. joining us now, americanfor tax reform president, grover norquist. what the do you make of this? what does this legal victo mean f trump's push to cut waste,buse of tax dollars? we understand usaid, this is it's going to get subsumed into thstate department, and we're hearing it it will uphold charitable giving and funding r cotries in africa and also, you know, around the world. there's been a pause in th. they're a gointo kick start it soon. what are you hearing i >> well, there's seval things. one is there are too many people in the federal government getting a paycheck. right now ma of them aren't even cominto work ever or we need fewer people in the bureaucracy, that's across the board from the pentagon which is probably 200,000 people overstaffed in their c

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