November 13, 2024 • 34 mins
In a blockbuster day in politics - President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Joe Biden for lunch in the White House, John Thune earns election as Mitch McConnell's successor for Senate majority leader, Pete Hegseth is a surprise pick for Secretary of Defense by Trump, and Matt Gaetz is nominated for Attorney General in perhaps the most shocking development of all.
Ryan breaks it all down, including why Pete Hegseth was exactly the right pick to lead our American military.
Ryan breaks it all down, including why Pete Hegseth was exactly the right pick to lead our American military.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a new day in the United States Senate, and
it's a new day in America. The American people have
loudly rejected the failed policies of the Biden Harris Schumer agenda,
and this Republican team is united. We are on one team.
We are excited to reclaim the majority and to get
to work with their colleagues in the House to enact
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the President Trump's agenda. We have a mandate from the
American people, a mandate not only to clean up the
mess left by the high Biden Harris Schumer agenda, but
also to deliver on President Trump's priorities. We'll make sure
that the President his team have the tools and support
that they need to enforce border security laws and to
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remove the violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every
one of our states.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That is Senator John Fuhne, who just a little while
ago earlier today was voted to be the next Senate
Majority Leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell Cocaine, Mitch the Turtle in
that role for the Republican Party. Ryan Schuling live back
with you, and there is so much breaking news today.
My head is spinning. There is so much winning, and
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there might be even more winning than you expected. But
we'll see where it goes from here.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
For John Thun, he was not my first choice of
the three available candidates who were nominated. I think it's
pretty clear that MAGA world and those who support Donald
Trump the strongest, and I would put myself in that category,
were most comfortable and confident in Senator Rick Scott in
carrying out the America First MAGA Make America Great Again agenda.
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It got down to Thun and Senator John Cornyn as
Rick Scott was eliminated after the first round of secret
ballots among the currently sitting senators. And if those are
the two choices again, you got to make lemonade out
of lemons sometimes, and I get it where you can't
always get what you want. Mick Jagger Rolling Stone style.
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I do think Fune is far preferable to Cornyn, but
I I really preferred Rick Scott. That wasn't gonna happen, though,
and that's just not what was in the cards. We
know what we're up against when it comes to the
establishment and the Republicans in Washington and those that have
been there for many years, and the further entrench they are.
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It coincides the length of time generally that they have served.
I would like to know who voted for whom. I
know that most of the Senators that would be favorites
of yours and mine were originally Team Rick Scott. But
we'll see what Senator John Thune does, and we'll talk
to somebody who knows him best, and that's Dick Wadhams
coming up at the bottom of hour number two, three
thirty three PM. And why Dick Watams knows John Thune best.
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It is one of the greatest upsets in the twenty
first century in American politics, and it happened back in
the earlier part of this decade the century, rather as
John Thune than just a young Republican in South Dakota upstaged, upstarted,
and up upset Tom Dashel, remember that guy. He was
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the Senate majority leader when the Democrats had control of
it back in the early two thousands. And he lost
in a stunner, in a shocker to Senator John fun
who remains in that seat today. And Dick Wadhams ran
his campaign. So I got to imagine, and I know
a lot of you have polarizing reactions to mister Wadhams.
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He's the former chair of the Colorado Republican Party and
he has just avowed support for Donald Trump this time around,
after voting for him twice. So I'll be very curious
to hear what he has to say. Now that John
fun a guy that I know he believes in and
thinks very highly of and has great affection for, is
now the Senate majority leader. Now you could say that
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there's some kind of balance here, a check in balance
that Fune would serve as a realistic, reasonable, kind of
counterweight to a Trump agenda.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
But it sounds like based on.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The results of this election, which were an overwhelming man
not just for Republicans, and you could argue, maybe in
spite of Republicans in some ways for Donald Trump and
his presidential agenda. And I'll tell you what I liked
what I heard from Senator Foon right here.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining
the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden Harris regulations. And
we will work to restore American energy dominance, not just
our energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower costs
and bolster our national security. I'm excited to get to
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work with this team right away, and I want to
thank my colleagues who place their faith in me to
serve as leader, and to those who were supporting another candidate,
I promise to be a leader who serves the entire
Republican conference. We'll have an ambitious agenda and we'll take
each and every Republican working together to be successful.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So we'll wait and see and we'll get your thoughts
five seven seven three nine. What grade would you give
John thun as the Senate Majority leader coming in? Just
your feelings about it, your hope for it, your suspicions
and doubts maybe about it. I want to hear all
of that at five seven seven three nine, And again
we'll talk to Dick Wadhams in about an hour and
a half, get his reaction, and he'll be kind enough
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to join the show.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Then Steven L.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Miller read Steez on X and the host of the
Versus Media podcast coming up to start our number two.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And there's so much to talk about now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That was kind of headline number one today, but it
was one of several, as Tulsey Gabbert has been named,
pointed tabbed as the Director of National Intelligence. Keep in mind,
all of these will have to go through Senate confirmation hearings,
and if Dave McCormick holds on as we expect him to,
even Chuck Schumer has allowed and jettisoned Dave McCormick as
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Senator alive though the race has not been called and
Senator Casey, the Democrat incumbent, has not conceded his presence.
McCormick's would make it a fifty three to forty seven
majority in the Senate. And I strongly believe that Tulsea
Gabbard will be approved as the Director of National Intelligence.
It's a phenomenal pick. She has America's interests at heart
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and in mind. And this has been a common thread
of all of these appointees by Donald Trump. And then
we get to the red hot potato today. This is
straight up trolling of the left. And I thought it
was a joke. You know, you get some of these
parody emails. I am on the Trump Vance distribution list
here in my work email at iHeart even then I'm like,
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is this a real press release? Matt Gates, Congressman Florida,
has been tabbed to be the United States Attorney General.
Alexa texted in about that and says, this should be
very interesting. Gates is the first one. There's a couple
things about him. I like his spirit, his fight. He
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is definitely team Trump, Promaga, all of that died in
the wall, everything along those lines. He does come with
some whispering, lingering controversy about him in some unresolved issues
regarding potential relations with an underage girl. I don't know
what the outcome of that will be, or if that's
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already been adjudicated to the level that it's going to be.
There is that concern. And then my other concern about
Matt Gates specifically is he is a polarizing figure on
the level of Trump and perhaps even more so, and
that in this somewhat narrowly divided Senate, even with the
fifty three to forty seven margin that the vote would
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take place with, if they're able to peel off the
Democrats Alisa Murkowski Assusan Collins, now you're already down to
fifty one to forty nine, they'd have to peel away
two more because as we know, the fifty to fifty
split JD Vance would be the tie breaking vote. Would
there be a couple of other mealy mouthed kind of
moderate Republican senators that would not be willing to confirm
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Matt Gates as Attorney General. I mean Trump's willing to
have this fight. I mean he wouldn't have put Matt
Gates's name up there for nomination unless he felt very
strongly about it. And I believe that to be true.
But I want to get your thoughts on that as well.
Five seven, seven, three nine. The one pick from yesterday
that I just really loved is my favorite pick so
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far and is by Miles is Pete Hegseth as the
Secretary of Defense. This guy's an American hero. He is
down to earth, He's accessible, he speaks his mind. He
has the trust and respect of those who have served
because he has served himself with two Bronze Stars service
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in Iraq and Afghanistan. And like Tulca Gabbard, he came
away from that experience feeling a certain way about America's
strength militarily abroad, but only wielding that strength when we
absolutely needed it, not going or engaging in wars of
adventure or misadventure, never ending wars and using America's strength
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to prevent military conflict and war. And I think this
is a tremendous outside the box pick by Donald Trump.
It drew a lot of criticism, but this is going
to be dwarfed. I don't know if this is an
intentional troll by Donald Trump, but the Matt Gates bombshell
is going to blow this head set story right off
the front page.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Pet Pete hegg Seth's gonna get confirmed, I think, And
I just want to give you a taste and of
flavor of Pete Hegseth the guy. And one of the
things I always try to withhold judgment about an individual
that I don't know personally is what the people closest
to him and around him say about him. And if
you listen to the likes of Will Caine, a guy
I really like. He's my favorite backup host on Fox News.
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He does a tremendous job, and he's of crossed over
from sports into news.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And I know that experience personally.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But he spoke so glowingly and warmly and deeply about
his good friend Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It really moved me to hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Also, Rachel Campos Duffy, a co host of his on
the weekend Fox News show, for which Whoopy Goldberg mocked
Pete hag Seth. I mean, this is rich coming from
somebody like Whoopee Goldberg.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
He also picked you ready co host of Fox and
Friends Weekend, not even like the Weekend Pete Heggs. Okay,
Pete Hegseth, and he's picked him to be us Secretary
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of Defense. Now MAGA supporters and detractors are trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Out what because of this pick.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I would like to compare and contrast the ratings for
the View on any day, any given day to those
of Fox News on the weekend morning show, and I
would venture to say that Pete Hegseth's ratings dwarf those
of the View. But here's Pete, in his own words,
talking to Ben Shapiro about starting executing finishing wars. These
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are the points that I have made, but I have
not served like Pete has and been under the heat
of battle as he has.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It goes all the way back to we're not even
declaring wars anymore because no one wants. They're so politically
untenable as to what way they'll go. So no one
actually wants to invest in them or is willing to,
And so you get these these forever wars, which is
a bad phrase because they're not forever wars, but it's
it's it's the way it ends up being described because
there is no actual instinct. Tell me what the nstrate
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is in Ukraine, I could tell you what.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
The end state is in Israel.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And what's the only thing the American military and the
American diplomats are doing right now trying to stop Israel
from finishing the fight?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Like there's one thing but Israel could do.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Kill every West one of those Hamas mother now and
then the war stops. And by the way, Israel didn't
start it. Like that's how wars end, that's how peace
breaks out.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
For thousands of years, somebody actually wins the war. And
when they win the war, then there's a new reality,
a new geopolitical reality. We don't fight that way.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
We let the lawyers lead, We let international institutions have
too much.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Say he's right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And in my view, there's never a good war. There
are justin necessary wars like World War two. That's an
obvious example. But in the time since was the Korean
War a necessary and just war. Was there victory in
that war? No, that was basically a draw. Was the
Vietnam War a just and necessary war? That was an
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l for the United States South? Vietnam was overtaken and
it's a communist nation to this day. And the whole
premise behind getting into involved with Vietnam was one to
bail out the French. That's a surprising story, I know,
and to combat the Domino theory of communism in the
Far East. I don't think that's a good enough reason
for as many American men as we lost in that war.
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I think it's a horrible stain on our legacy and
our history. Desert Storm, I think was a just war
necessary in that we couldn't allow Saddam Hussein to Willy
Nelly going invading neutral or Allied countries in the Middle
East and stealing their resources in oil and no blood
for oil. Remember that if you're my age back then
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in the early nineties. But the thing about that was
we executed under the leadership, tutelage and guidance of General
Norman Schwartzkoff and executing the Powell doctrine, which even for
neo cons out there, this is a sound philosophy. You
avoid war at all costs, but if you do get involved,
you respond with overwhelming force and then you get out.
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And that's what we did. And I thought George Herbert
Walker Bush executed that war to near perfection with minimal
American casualties, and we didn't just stay there, try to
nation build, try to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And that's the
mistake that George W. Bush, his son, felt that his
father made that he needed to correct when we got
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involved in the war in Iraq in two thousand and three.
And I thought that was a tremendous mistake, and like
Tucker carlson reaction to that, that pushed me away from
any kind of warhawk stance, and that turned into not
only a war of misadventure in my view, but a
war of distraction. Imagine if we had committed all of
those resources and soldiers and airmen and sailors instead entirely
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on Afghanistan and the pursuit and the manhunt of Osama
bin Laden and Okaida. They did not exist, They did
not set up shop, and did not make any sense
in Iraq that there would be any kind of alliance
tenuous even between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You're
talking about Sunni Muslims, but Toadam was a secular guy.
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I think he was bluffing that he had weapons of
mass destruction. If he ever had them at all, they
were long gone by the time we got there. So
I think you come into this with a very healthy
and heavy mindset about the tool that war takes on
a country on its psyche. And here's Pete Hegseth further
explaining that, and it percolates.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I tell stories directly as a platoon lear down to
can you shoot?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Can you not shoot?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Our guys being criminalized after the fact, put in jail.
I mean, Donald Trump, pardon a bunch of guys I
advocated for in his.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Last couple of years in office.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
They killed the right guys in the wrong way, according
to somebody, I'm done with that, Like, we need to
fight total war against our enemies when we do, and yeah,
you don't kill civilians on purpose, but you kill bad guys,
all of them. You stack bodies and when it's over
then you let the dust settle and you figure out
who's ahead. But it turns out we're the ones with
the big guns, right Now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
This leftist fantasy that we can execute a war and
have no civilian casualties.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's folly, it's fiction. It's a fairy tale. It can't happen.
It's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But when somebody like Hamas in Gaza uses civilians as
human shields and sets up shop in mosques and schools
and puts children above them with the very purpose of
thinking that they will not be attacked because that is
the venue, then you have to find a way to
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fight that war. And the Israelis have done it through
urban warfare, which is highly costly in terms of casualties
and lives and injuries and deaths, but they've gone to
great lengths Israel to avoid or minimize civilian casualties. Here's
the other part of about Pete Heggsat that you're really gonna.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Like any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that
was involved in any of the DEI woke it's gotta
go either.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You're in for war fighting that and that's it. That's
the only litmus test we care about. You got to
get Dei's Certata.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Military academy, so you're not training young officers to baptized
in this type of thinking.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Yes, and then you know, whatever the standards.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Whatever the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Let's just make those the standards.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that
you know did top gun Maverick and create some real
ads that motivate people that want to serve.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
An army of one, you remember those be all you
can be in the in the US army. You know,
some pride in our military. You want to appeal to
young men, you know, this is the way to do it.
Serve your country, be proud of your country, and don't
back away from that. Now, this was a controversy'll take
and it caught fire on X because he said it
just in the last few days.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I'm straight up, just saying we should not have women
in combat roles hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made
us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
We've all served with women and they're great.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in
places where traditionally not traditionally over human history, men in
those positions are more capable.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He's right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
In professional sports, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball, NFL where
dollars are on the line, winning and losing is on
the line. It's a competitive environment in an arena of athletics.
Why are there no women in any of those sports
because you're playing to win? So why would we lower
the bar or make exceptions for any woman in combat
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just to check a deibox when lives are on the line,
not just wins, losses and dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Lives are on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And if a woman, if there's a brand of Ptarth
like from Game of Thrones, and she can meet the
qualifications of a man, I totally support that personally. But
if we're lowering the bar, and that's what's happening in
a lot of these cases just so we can be
woke and get a certain percentage of women like we
saw with the Secret Service, that's not acceptable. We have
to protect our soldiers' lives in the theater of war period,
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and there's no argument against it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
More after this, I'm Ryan schuleing live.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
He looks great, I mean, but these sounds terrible, And
I think that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
There's this fiction that there's something wrong with America's military.
What problem you're trying to solve we have the most lethal,
the most respected, the most feared military in the history
of the world.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There's not even number two.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And so the idea is that our military there's something
wrong with it. Our generals are terrible. This is a fiction.
And so when you start trying to solve non existent
problems with the best fighting force in the world, you
actually create problems. And I don't think there's any evidence
or any data that shows that having women involved in
that military has made our military worse.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Where is the evidence of this.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
This is all fiction, It is all ideology, and it's
all quite frightening. And you know, and and I don't
think anybody can defend this choice. This is not somebody
who I mean is a Fox News host who used
to be in the military. That's the stated we're going
to be going with. I think it's very alarming.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Van Jones is a fiction that's just a completely bastardized
representation of who. Pete Hegseth is the nominee for Secretary
of Defense by Donald Trump. Back here on Ryan Schulting Live,
We'll get to your text in just a moment five seven,
seven thirty nine. He's not talking about women in the military. Van,
and that's a dishonest representation that I think he's perfectly
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aware of. What Pete Hegseth is talking about is women
in combat on the front lines, when lives are on
the line, you need the brightest, the best, the fastest,
the strongest.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I'm not in that category.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'm talking about young men ages probably eighteen to twenty nine,
in peak physical condition, mental focus, and acuity, sharp shooters.
The lower you make the bar for entry into that
type of profession, the more American troops are going to die.
And that's not acceptable. I hate that. That sounds sexist, misogynists,
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whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But we're done here.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Trump won for not just a reason, but for many reasons,
and this was one of those reasons. We got to
get away from this woke DEI crt bull crap, and
Van Jones is exactly wrong in his characterization of our military.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We are diminished. Morale is down.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Do you know, not just the border patrol agents, who's
morale has skyrocketed, according to Bill Milusion of Fox News
since Donald Trump's election last Tuesday, But go interview some
of our military personnel in any of the branches and
how they feel about this result, and if they feel
supported by this result. It was never the boots on
the ground, those rank and file members of our military
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who are serving abroad, who are truly putting their lives
on the line for our country. No, it's the millies
and all of these unelected bureaucratic appointees who have worked
their way up through the system within the military industrial complex,
who make decisions on the lives of others. And we're
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not fundamentally serious people. And the trans ideality, what is
that recruitment numbers across the board way down, way down.
They're having a lot of trouble recruiting young Americans into
our military branches, no matter which ones they are, the Army,
Air Force, Navy, Marines, any of them.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Van Jones basically said, there was exactly wrong, Carl Bernstein,
this guy's had it. I mean, he's a biscuit short
of a KFC.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Meal benefits best election as reflected in these appointments in
the park, and that is putin Yahouh.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And third in China, China, well Chinese.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
But the real thing is that these appointments are indicative
of a new American position in the world that we
no longer are NATO is no longer the significant leader
in the world. Want that we're looking at a situation
in Ukraine. It has fallen to the disadvantage of Ukraine
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as a result of this election.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And what Donald Trump has said about no.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Kind of settlement Carl Bernstein, like Van Jones, is exactly wrong.
The chances for peace in Ukraine just skyrocketed exponentially because
Vladimir Putin actually respects Donald Trump. He'll get Vladimer Zelensky
and Vladimir Putin in some kind of deal making scenario.
And I firmly believe that Donald Trump is going to
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brok her a piece in that conflict. Joe Biden, it
was going nowhere on his watch under his leadership. In quotes,
who's running the country.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We don't know. It's not Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Carl Bernstein suggesting that all of a sudden, now we're
in a worse position in the world, We're in a
stronger position. And this is not any favorite of Putin
or Jijienping. This is the last thing those two wanted.
Scott Jennings makes a lot of the points I would
otherwise make, but he does it very eloquently.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So I'll let you hear him.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
They want to have confidence in the current leadership of
the Pentagon and the way the defense situation has been
operating for the last several years. I mean from the
Afghanistan pull out, which was an extreme debuckle for which
no one was held accountable. Kat Chick True, We've had
five balloons flying over the United States, got Chick True.
We built a three hundred million dollar pier as a
public relations stunt which wound up killing an American service member, Gaza.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
I'd say I've had.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Just about enough of the so called insiders running the
Defense Department. I think we ought to get Pete Heggs
at the chance.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We do not want somebody who's been embroiled and embedded
with and a doctrinated by the military industrial complex.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Where's that gotten us? Where has that leadership gotten us?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
All?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
The criticism of him is that he's not the expected
Washington pick. And I'm just saying to you that the
American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So
he's got twenty years in service, yep, Afghanistan, Iraq, Tu,
Bronze Stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so
are the rest of us, by the way, and I
think you.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
Got listen, you just shaved this really interesting because you
highlighted a bunch of things that the civilian leadership of
the country decided on. In the military, their.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Job was just to execute. They exded to go. I'm
just saying, I'm decided to go.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
In terms of the decision making, you're assigning decision making
responsibility to the military over things that civilians are his
own time, so.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And those decisions were absolutely horrible for the exact specific
examples that Scott Jennings gave, Abby Fillip.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
What point are you making here?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You're making Scott Jennings's point for him, with Afghanistan withdrawal
was beyond a debacle. It was worse than Hanoi in
nineteen seventy five, and there was nobody held accountable. Do
you honestly believe if such a disaster had happened on
Donald Trump's watch that nobody would have been fired, nobody
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would have been disciplined or suspended in any way, Because
that's what happened on Joe Biden's watch, Lloyd Austin remained
as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Why why so?
Speaker 9 (26:36):
You make a good point the civilian leadership made decisions,
and then the people they put in charge of the
Pentagon carried it out, and it was all pretty much
a disaster. So now we have a new president who
I think got elected in part because of some of
those disasters, and he's going to put in some of
the non insiders in charge of not just this agency,
but a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Now you know, they've got to perform, fir, they've got
to perform.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I mean, we've got fifty three US centers there, Republicans,
and Pete Haig Saith. He's an American hero. The man
won two Bronze Stars for his service, and he's been
a champion for veterans, I don't I mean, he's going
to have to go up there, just like everybody else,
improve his knowledge of how to do this job. He's
not immune from that. But we ought to give this
man a chance.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
In my opinion, I have no reason to doubt Pete
Haig Seth. This man served our country and wants to
serve in this role, and I think is every bit
fit for the job compared to those that may have
never even seen battle, that went to West Point or
the Annapolis or the Air Force academy here, and all
due respect, I'll do credit for that path. It's a
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different path than being boots on the ground the way
that Pete Hegseth was. He lost brothers in arms overseas
in Iraq and Afghanistan. This guy knows the cost and
the toll of war and he will make those decisions
with that weighty consideration in mind. And if anything, he
is far more qualified than those on the inside that
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have that kind of direct knowledge ever could be. And
what I can't wait for are the Senate confirmation hearings
where Pete Hegseeth is sitting there and some Democrat senator
lightweight like Chris Murphy tries to take him on. Get
your popcorn ready, because Pete's going to handle it just fine,
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and he will be a model Secretary of Defense that
could break the mold and set the example for all
future secretaries of Defense going forward. Well, take this break,
I promise to get to your text. All your thoughts
on today's news. Matt gets nominated for Attorney General, Telsea
Gabbard Director of National Intelligence. We're talking about Pete Hegseth
(28:41):
for Secretary of Defense Donald Trump. He's doing things much
differently this time around, and I love every single bit
of it.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Ryan Schuling life continues after.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
This in the next line, this is a tweet by
one of your employees in.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Charge of diversity, equity and illusion and it's it's patently racist.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They say that she.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Had to give Karen the business that she talks about
caudacity presumably of Caucasian people.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So why does the look at it, well, why is
that any argument for me? That's terrible, it's wrong. She
shouldn't be doing that. Should she be fired? I don't.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
That's a dood employee, not US military uniform.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Austin. Again, as you heard in your.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Sub committee here, this this incident was investigated.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Was it now?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That was Representative Matt Gates, who is Trump's pick and
nominee for Attorney General. A real shocker and stunner, even
by my standards as I was envisioning what Donald Trump
might lay out for his cabinet. Of course, the other
announcements coming today Telsea Gabber for the Director of National
Intelligence from late yesterday, Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense,
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and one other one how about new CIA director. And
you'll have to go through the confirmation process Representative John Ratcliffe,
who did us all proud here going back to July
of twenty eighteen, when he was grilling Peter Stroke, the
one that talked about the smelly Walmart people, the one
that told his lover, Lisa Page, that don't worry, we
have other ways of removing Donald Trump after he won
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the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
Here we go, the approximately fifty thousand text messages that
I've seen with your personal beliefs like f Trump stopped
Trump in Pete's Trump. Go ahead and confirm on the
record that none of that occurred on an official FBI
device or on official FBI time.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Go ahead and do that. Sure, No, they did, many
of them did it? Oh they did? Okay, So doesn't sir?
Really no, I'll give you.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
A chance at the end. So what you really meant
to say was that when you said you never crossed
that bright, inviolable line, what you meant to say was,
except for fifty thousand times, except for hundreds of times
of day where I went back and forth expressing my
personal opinions about effing Trump and stopping Trump and impeaching
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Trump on official FBI phones, on official FBI time, other
than that you never crossed that line. I'm sure there
are thirteen thousand FBI agents out there that are beaming
with pride. And how clearly you've drawn that line.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
These nominees are coming in hot. Let me know what
you think of them. Five seven seven three nine, especially
with everything that's happened today. And oh, by the way,
Senator John Thune has kind of been lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He was elected by his.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Fellow members of the Senate as the majority leader for
the Republicans heading into the next Congress. And we'll talk
to Dick Wadhams coming up at the bottom of next hour.
He ran John Thune's campaign some twenty odd years ago
in unseating Tom Dashel, who was the Senate majority leader
for the Democrats, going way back when one of the
great upsets in the twenty first century in American politics.
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To your text, we go five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Ryan. When people start saying he's too young.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
For Secretary of Defense, talking about Pete Hegseth, he might
want to remind them that Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of
France when he was thirty four.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
He did. Napoleon is a.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Bit of a tyrant himself. So I don't know if
I'm going to be too comfortable with the comparison. But
the age part, yes, Bob, and Arvada says the inscription
on the Statue of Liberty was not done by the
United States Congress or France, but by Emma Lazarus in
eighteen eighty three to help raise money for the pedestal
of the statue.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Interesting factoid there, Bob.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I mean, that would be a good one to put
on Jeopardy or something like it, or Trivia night, if
you're going out for that this evening, the huddled masses,
you're tired, you're poor, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I know. It's not a policy. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
These Democrats they cite that inscription on the Statue of literal, Oh,
you have to let everybody in. Got an open boter.
That's not the policy of the United States. It's always
been under the purview of whoever the sitting president was.
And sometimes the books were closed. It's like getting made
guys in the mafia. The books are closed, we can't
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give you the button. And Harry Truman shut things down
after World War Two. My grandparents were very lucky to
get in here. You know how they got in here
the right way, the legal way. They were granted asylum
because they were fleeing a communist dictatorship in Yugoslavia. And
Tito because my grandfather fought for the Chetnik army and
he would probably be hanged after a show trial like
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his general was. They had to have sponsors here both.
My grandmother separately had to have a sponsor. It was
her aunt who was living in e Course, south of Detroit.
My grandfather had to have a sponsor. He was his
brother Albert in New York City. He would eventually moved
my grandfather to Saint Louis, Missouri and Ava, Illinois, had
a farm there. He had to learn the language, he
had to become a citizen, He had to have gainful employment.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It was a bargain that was struck.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
So miss me with the ryans of xenophobic whatever rhetoric
that I know a lot of the left wants to
lob at me.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Can't do it because I just articulated.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Exactly how and why legal immigrants should be allowed into
this country. But immigrants cannot be tolerated anymore than any
other country would tolerate it themselves. If I was illegally
in another country and I was shown the door. What
argument would I have. I'm in France, I'm illegal, I
didn't come here the right way. Well we're gonna have
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to escort you out, mister Shueley. Wow, I guess you
got me.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I mean, what am I gonna do? Say? I have
a right to be here?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
America, Land of the Free, is not owed to anybody.
It is a privilege to be here as a foreign citizen,
not a right. Nobody outside of our borders has a
right to be here.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
End of story. A time out.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
A lot coming up at hour number two, including Steven L. Miller,
not the bald one that's on the Trump team, the
Versus Media podcast host.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Next, we come back on Ryan Schuling Live
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
That is Senator John Fuhne, who just a little while
ago earlier today was voted to be the next Senate
Majority Leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell Cocaine, Mitch the Turtle in
that role for the Republican Party. Ryan Schuling live back
with you, and there is so much breaking news today.
My head is spinning. There is so much winning, and
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there might be even more winning than you expected. But
we'll see where it goes from here.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
For John Thun, he was not my first choice of
the three available candidates who were nominated. I think it's
pretty clear that MAGA world and those who support Donald
Trump the strongest, and I would put myself in that category,
were most comfortable and confident in Senator Rick Scott in
carrying out the America First MAGA Make America Great Again agenda.
(01:36):
It got down to Thun and Senator John Cornyn as
Rick Scott was eliminated after the first round of secret
ballots among the currently sitting senators. And if those are
the two choices again, you got to make lemonade out
of lemons sometimes, and I get it where you can't
always get what you want. Mick Jagger Rolling Stone style.
(01:57):
I do think Fune is far preferable to Cornyn, but
I I really preferred Rick Scott. That wasn't gonna happen, though,
and that's just not what was in the cards. We
know what we're up against when it comes to the
establishment and the Republicans in Washington and those that have
been there for many years, and the further entrench they are.
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It coincides the length of time generally that they have served.
I would like to know who voted for whom. I
know that most of the Senators that would be favorites
of yours and mine were originally Team Rick Scott. But
we'll see what Senator John Thune does, and we'll talk
to somebody who knows him best, and that's Dick Wadhams
coming up at the bottom of hour number two, three
thirty three PM. And why Dick Watams knows John Thune best.
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It is one of the greatest upsets in the twenty
first century in American politics, and it happened back in
the earlier part of this decade the century, rather as
John Thune than just a young Republican in South Dakota upstaged, upstarted,
and up upset Tom Dashel, remember that guy. He was
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the Senate majority leader when the Democrats had control of
it back in the early two thousands. And he lost
in a stunner, in a shocker to Senator John fun
who remains in that seat today. And Dick Wadhams ran
his campaign. So I got to imagine, and I know
a lot of you have polarizing reactions to mister Wadhams.
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He's the former chair of the Colorado Republican Party and
he has just avowed support for Donald Trump this time around,
after voting for him twice. So I'll be very curious
to hear what he has to say. Now that John
fun a guy that I know he believes in and
thinks very highly of and has great affection for, is
now the Senate majority leader. Now you could say that
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there's some kind of balance here, a check in balance
that Fune would serve as a realistic, reasonable, kind of
counterweight to a Trump agenda.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
But it sounds like based on.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The results of this election, which were an overwhelming man
not just for Republicans, and you could argue, maybe in
spite of Republicans in some ways for Donald Trump and
his presidential agenda. And I'll tell you what I liked
what I heard from Senator Foon right here.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining
the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden Harris regulations. And
we will work to restore American energy dominance, not just
our energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower costs
and bolster our national security. I'm excited to get to
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work with this team right away, and I want to
thank my colleagues who place their faith in me to
serve as leader, and to those who were supporting another candidate,
I promise to be a leader who serves the entire
Republican conference. We'll have an ambitious agenda and we'll take
each and every Republican working together to be successful.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So we'll wait and see and we'll get your thoughts
five seven seven three nine. What grade would you give
John thun as the Senate Majority leader coming in? Just
your feelings about it, your hope for it, your suspicions
and doubts maybe about it. I want to hear all
of that at five seven seven three nine, And again
we'll talk to Dick Wadhams in about an hour and
a half, get his reaction, and he'll be kind enough
(05:27):
to join the show.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Then Steven L.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Miller read Steez on X and the host of the
Versus Media podcast coming up to start our number two.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And there's so much to talk about now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That was kind of headline number one today, but it
was one of several, as Tulsey Gabbert has been named,
pointed tabbed as the Director of National Intelligence. Keep in mind,
all of these will have to go through Senate confirmation hearings,
and if Dave McCormick holds on as we expect him to,
even Chuck Schumer has allowed and jettisoned Dave McCormick as
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Senator alive though the race has not been called and
Senator Casey, the Democrat incumbent, has not conceded his presence.
McCormick's would make it a fifty three to forty seven
majority in the Senate. And I strongly believe that Tulsea
Gabbard will be approved as the Director of National Intelligence.
It's a phenomenal pick. She has America's interests at heart
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and in mind. And this has been a common thread
of all of these appointees by Donald Trump. And then
we get to the red hot potato today. This is
straight up trolling of the left. And I thought it
was a joke. You know, you get some of these
parody emails. I am on the Trump Vance distribution list
here in my work email at iHeart even then I'm like,
(06:44):
is this a real press release? Matt Gates, Congressman Florida,
has been tabbed to be the United States Attorney General.
Alexa texted in about that and says, this should be
very interesting. Gates is the first one. There's a couple
things about him. I like his spirit, his fight. He
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is definitely team Trump, Promaga, all of that died in
the wall, everything along those lines. He does come with
some whispering, lingering controversy about him in some unresolved issues
regarding potential relations with an underage girl. I don't know
what the outcome of that will be, or if that's
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already been adjudicated to the level that it's going to be.
There is that concern. And then my other concern about
Matt Gates specifically is he is a polarizing figure on
the level of Trump and perhaps even more so, and
that in this somewhat narrowly divided Senate, even with the
fifty three to forty seven margin that the vote would
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take place with, if they're able to peel off the
Democrats Alisa Murkowski Assusan Collins, now you're already down to
fifty one to forty nine, they'd have to peel away
two more because as we know, the fifty to fifty
split JD Vance would be the tie breaking vote. Would
there be a couple of other mealy mouthed kind of
moderate Republican senators that would not be willing to confirm
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Matt Gates as Attorney General. I mean Trump's willing to
have this fight. I mean he wouldn't have put Matt
Gates's name up there for nomination unless he felt very
strongly about it. And I believe that to be true.
But I want to get your thoughts on that as well.
Five seven, seven, three nine. The one pick from yesterday
that I just really loved is my favorite pick so
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far and is by Miles is Pete Hegseth as the
Secretary of Defense. This guy's an American hero. He is
down to earth, He's accessible, he speaks his mind. He
has the trust and respect of those who have served
because he has served himself with two Bronze Stars service
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in Iraq and Afghanistan. And like Tulca Gabbard, he came
away from that experience feeling a certain way about America's
strength militarily abroad, but only wielding that strength when we
absolutely needed it, not going or engaging in wars of
adventure or misadventure, never ending wars and using America's strength
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to prevent military conflict and war. And I think this
is a tremendous outside the box pick by Donald Trump.
It drew a lot of criticism, but this is going
to be dwarfed. I don't know if this is an
intentional troll by Donald Trump, but the Matt Gates bombshell
is going to blow this head set story right off
the front page.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Pet Pete hegg Seth's gonna get confirmed, I think, And
I just want to give you a taste and of
flavor of Pete Hegseth the guy. And one of the
things I always try to withhold judgment about an individual
that I don't know personally is what the people closest
to him and around him say about him. And if
you listen to the likes of Will Caine, a guy
I really like. He's my favorite backup host on Fox News.
(09:58):
He does a tremendous job, and he's of crossed over
from sports into news.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And I know that experience personally.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But he spoke so glowingly and warmly and deeply about
his good friend Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It really moved me to hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Also, Rachel Campos Duffy, a co host of his on
the weekend Fox News show, for which Whoopy Goldberg mocked
Pete hag Seth. I mean, this is rich coming from
somebody like Whoopee Goldberg.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
He also picked you ready co host of Fox and
Friends Weekend, not even like the Weekend Pete Heggs. Okay,
Pete Hegseth, and he's picked him to be us Secretary
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of Defense. Now MAGA supporters and detractors are trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Out what because of this pick.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I would like to compare and contrast the ratings for
the View on any day, any given day to those
of Fox News on the weekend morning show, and I
would venture to say that Pete Hegseth's ratings dwarf those
of the View. But here's Pete, in his own words,
talking to Ben Shapiro about starting executing finishing wars. These
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are the points that I have made, but I have
not served like Pete has and been under the heat
of battle as he has.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It goes all the way back to we're not even
declaring wars anymore because no one wants. They're so politically
untenable as to what way they'll go. So no one
actually wants to invest in them or is willing to,
And so you get these these forever wars, which is
a bad phrase because they're not forever wars, but it's
it's it's the way it ends up being described because
there is no actual instinct. Tell me what the nstrate
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is in Ukraine, I could tell you what.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
The end state is in Israel.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And what's the only thing the American military and the
American diplomats are doing right now trying to stop Israel
from finishing the fight?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Like there's one thing but Israel could do.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Kill every West one of those Hamas mother now and
then the war stops. And by the way, Israel didn't
start it. Like that's how wars end, that's how peace
breaks out.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
For thousands of years, somebody actually wins the war. And
when they win the war, then there's a new reality,
a new geopolitical reality. We don't fight that way.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
We let the lawyers lead, We let international institutions have
too much.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Say he's right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And in my view, there's never a good war. There
are justin necessary wars like World War two. That's an
obvious example. But in the time since was the Korean
War a necessary and just war. Was there victory in
that war? No, that was basically a draw. Was the
Vietnam War a just and necessary war? That was an
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l for the United States South? Vietnam was overtaken and
it's a communist nation to this day. And the whole
premise behind getting into involved with Vietnam was one to
bail out the French. That's a surprising story, I know,
and to combat the Domino theory of communism in the
Far East. I don't think that's a good enough reason
for as many American men as we lost in that war.
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I think it's a horrible stain on our legacy and
our history. Desert Storm, I think was a just war
necessary in that we couldn't allow Saddam Hussein to Willy
Nelly going invading neutral or Allied countries in the Middle
East and stealing their resources in oil and no blood
for oil. Remember that if you're my age back then
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in the early nineties. But the thing about that was
we executed under the leadership, tutelage and guidance of General
Norman Schwartzkoff and executing the Powell doctrine, which even for
neo cons out there, this is a sound philosophy. You
avoid war at all costs, but if you do get involved,
you respond with overwhelming force and then you get out.
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And that's what we did. And I thought George Herbert
Walker Bush executed that war to near perfection with minimal
American casualties, and we didn't just stay there, try to
nation build, try to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And that's the
mistake that George W. Bush, his son, felt that his
father made that he needed to correct when we got
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involved in the war in Iraq in two thousand and three.
And I thought that was a tremendous mistake, and like
Tucker carlson reaction to that, that pushed me away from
any kind of warhawk stance, and that turned into not
only a war of misadventure in my view, but a
war of distraction. Imagine if we had committed all of
those resources and soldiers and airmen and sailors instead entirely
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on Afghanistan and the pursuit and the manhunt of Osama
bin Laden and Okaida. They did not exist, They did
not set up shop, and did not make any sense
in Iraq that there would be any kind of alliance
tenuous even between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You're
talking about Sunni Muslims, but Toadam was a secular guy.
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I think he was bluffing that he had weapons of
mass destruction. If he ever had them at all, they
were long gone by the time we got there. So
I think you come into this with a very healthy
and heavy mindset about the tool that war takes on
a country on its psyche. And here's Pete Hegseth further
explaining that, and it percolates.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I tell stories directly as a platoon lear down to
can you shoot?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Can you not shoot?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Our guys being criminalized after the fact, put in jail.
I mean, Donald Trump, pardon a bunch of guys I
advocated for in his.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Last couple of years in office.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
They killed the right guys in the wrong way, according
to somebody, I'm done with that, Like, we need to
fight total war against our enemies when we do, and yeah,
you don't kill civilians on purpose, but you kill bad guys,
all of them. You stack bodies and when it's over
then you let the dust settle and you figure out
who's ahead. But it turns out we're the ones with
the big guns, right Now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
This leftist fantasy that we can execute a war and
have no civilian casualties.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's folly, it's fiction. It's a fairy tale. It can't happen.
It's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But when somebody like Hamas in Gaza uses civilians as
human shields and sets up shop in mosques and schools
and puts children above them with the very purpose of
thinking that they will not be attacked because that is
the venue, then you have to find a way to
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fight that war. And the Israelis have done it through
urban warfare, which is highly costly in terms of casualties
and lives and injuries and deaths, but they've gone to
great lengths Israel to avoid or minimize civilian casualties. Here's
the other part of about Pete Heggsat that you're really gonna.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Like any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that
was involved in any of the DEI woke it's gotta
go either.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You're in for war fighting that and that's it. That's
the only litmus test we care about. You got to
get Dei's Certata.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Military academy, so you're not training young officers to baptized
in this type of thinking.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Yes, and then you know, whatever the standards.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Whatever the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Let's just make those the standards.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that
you know did top gun Maverick and create some real
ads that motivate people that want to serve.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
An army of one, you remember those be all you
can be in the in the US army. You know,
some pride in our military. You want to appeal to
young men, you know, this is the way to do it.
Serve your country, be proud of your country, and don't
back away from that. Now, this was a controversy'll take
and it caught fire on X because he said it
just in the last few days.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I'm straight up, just saying we should not have women
in combat roles hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made
us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
We've all served with women and they're great.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in
places where traditionally not traditionally over human history, men in
those positions are more capable.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He's right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
In professional sports, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball, NFL where
dollars are on the line, winning and losing is on
the line. It's a competitive environment in an arena of athletics.
Why are there no women in any of those sports
because you're playing to win? So why would we lower
the bar or make exceptions for any woman in combat
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just to check a deibox when lives are on the line,
not just wins, losses and dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Lives are on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And if a woman, if there's a brand of Ptarth
like from Game of Thrones, and she can meet the
qualifications of a man, I totally support that personally. But
if we're lowering the bar, and that's what's happening in
a lot of these cases just so we can be
woke and get a certain percentage of women like we
saw with the Secret Service, that's not acceptable. We have
to protect our soldiers' lives in the theater of war period,
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and there's no argument against it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
More after this, I'm Ryan schuleing live.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
He looks great, I mean, but these sounds terrible, And
I think that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
There's this fiction that there's something wrong with America's military.
What problem you're trying to solve we have the most lethal,
the most respected, the most feared military in the history
of the world.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There's not even number two.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And so the idea is that our military there's something
wrong with it. Our generals are terrible. This is a fiction.
And so when you start trying to solve non existent
problems with the best fighting force in the world, you
actually create problems. And I don't think there's any evidence
or any data that shows that having women involved in
that military has made our military worse.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Where is the evidence of this.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
This is all fiction, It is all ideology, and it's
all quite frightening. And you know, and and I don't
think anybody can defend this choice. This is not somebody
who I mean is a Fox News host who used
to be in the military. That's the stated we're going
to be going with. I think it's very alarming.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Van Jones is a fiction that's just a completely bastardized
representation of who. Pete Hegseth is the nominee for Secretary
of Defense by Donald Trump. Back here on Ryan Schulting Live,
We'll get to your text in just a moment five seven,
seven thirty nine. He's not talking about women in the military. Van,
and that's a dishonest representation that I think he's perfectly
(20:26):
aware of. What Pete Hegseth is talking about is women
in combat on the front lines, when lives are on
the line, you need the brightest, the best, the fastest,
the strongest.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I'm not in that category.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'm talking about young men ages probably eighteen to twenty nine,
in peak physical condition, mental focus, and acuity, sharp shooters.
The lower you make the bar for entry into that
type of profession, the more American troops are going to die.
And that's not acceptable. I hate that. That sounds sexist, misogynists,
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whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
But we're done here.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Trump won for not just a reason, but for many reasons,
and this was one of those reasons. We got to
get away from this woke DEI crt bull crap, and
Van Jones is exactly wrong in his characterization of our military.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We are diminished. Morale is down.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Do you know, not just the border patrol agents, who's
morale has skyrocketed, according to Bill Milusion of Fox News
since Donald Trump's election last Tuesday, But go interview some
of our military personnel in any of the branches and
how they feel about this result, and if they feel
supported by this result. It was never the boots on
the ground, those rank and file members of our military
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who are serving abroad, who are truly putting their lives
on the line for our country. No, it's the millies
and all of these unelected bureaucratic appointees who have worked
their way up through the system within the military industrial complex,
who make decisions on the lives of others. And we're
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not fundamentally serious people. And the trans ideality, what is
that recruitment numbers across the board way down, way down.
They're having a lot of trouble recruiting young Americans into
our military branches, no matter which ones they are, the Army,
Air Force, Navy, Marines, any of them.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Van Jones basically said, there was exactly wrong, Carl Bernstein,
this guy's had it. I mean, he's a biscuit short
of a KFC.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Meal benefits best election as reflected in these appointments in
the park, and that is putin Yahouh.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And third in China, China, well Chinese.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
But the real thing is that these appointments are indicative
of a new American position in the world that we
no longer are NATO is no longer the significant leader
in the world. Want that we're looking at a situation
in Ukraine. It has fallen to the disadvantage of Ukraine
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as a result of this election.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And what Donald Trump has said about no.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Kind of settlement Carl Bernstein, like Van Jones, is exactly wrong.
The chances for peace in Ukraine just skyrocketed exponentially because
Vladimir Putin actually respects Donald Trump. He'll get Vladimer Zelensky
and Vladimir Putin in some kind of deal making scenario.
And I firmly believe that Donald Trump is going to
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brok her a piece in that conflict. Joe Biden, it
was going nowhere on his watch under his leadership. In quotes,
who's running the country.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We don't know. It's not Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Carl Bernstein suggesting that all of a sudden, now we're
in a worse position in the world, We're in a
stronger position. And this is not any favorite of Putin
or Jijienping. This is the last thing those two wanted.
Scott Jennings makes a lot of the points I would
otherwise make, but he does it very eloquently.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So I'll let you hear him.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
They want to have confidence in the current leadership of
the Pentagon and the way the defense situation has been
operating for the last several years. I mean from the
Afghanistan pull out, which was an extreme debuckle for which
no one was held accountable. Kat Chick True, We've had
five balloons flying over the United States, got Chick True.
We built a three hundred million dollar pier as a
public relations stunt which wound up killing an American service member, Gaza.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
I'd say I've had.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Just about enough of the so called insiders running the
Defense Department. I think we ought to get Pete Heggs
at the chance.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We do not want somebody who's been embroiled and embedded
with and a doctrinated by the military industrial complex.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Where's that gotten us? Where has that leadership gotten us?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
All?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
The criticism of him is that he's not the expected
Washington pick. And I'm just saying to you that the
American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So
he's got twenty years in service, yep, Afghanistan, Iraq, Tu,
Bronze Stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so
are the rest of us, by the way, and I
think you.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
Got listen, you just shaved this really interesting because you
highlighted a bunch of things that the civilian leadership of
the country decided on. In the military, their.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Job was just to execute. They exded to go. I'm
just saying, I'm decided to go.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
In terms of the decision making, you're assigning decision making
responsibility to the military over things that civilians are his
own time, so.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And those decisions were absolutely horrible for the exact specific
examples that Scott Jennings gave, Abby Fillip.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
What point are you making here?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You're making Scott Jennings's point for him, with Afghanistan withdrawal
was beyond a debacle. It was worse than Hanoi in
nineteen seventy five, and there was nobody held accountable. Do
you honestly believe if such a disaster had happened on
Donald Trump's watch that nobody would have been fired, nobody
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would have been disciplined or suspended in any way, Because
that's what happened on Joe Biden's watch, Lloyd Austin remained
as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Why why so?
Speaker 9 (26:36):
You make a good point the civilian leadership made decisions,
and then the people they put in charge of the
Pentagon carried it out, and it was all pretty much
a disaster. So now we have a new president who
I think got elected in part because of some of
those disasters, and he's going to put in some of
the non insiders in charge of not just this agency,
but a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Now you know, they've got to perform, fir, they've got
to perform.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I mean, we've got fifty three US centers there, Republicans,
and Pete Haig Saith. He's an American hero. The man
won two Bronze Stars for his service, and he's been
a champion for veterans, I don't I mean, he's going
to have to go up there, just like everybody else,
improve his knowledge of how to do this job. He's
not immune from that. But we ought to give this
man a chance.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
In my opinion, I have no reason to doubt Pete
Haig Seth. This man served our country and wants to
serve in this role, and I think is every bit
fit for the job compared to those that may have
never even seen battle, that went to West Point or
the Annapolis or the Air Force academy here, and all
due respect, I'll do credit for that path. It's a
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different path than being boots on the ground the way
that Pete Hegseth was. He lost brothers in arms overseas
in Iraq and Afghanistan. This guy knows the cost and
the toll of war and he will make those decisions
with that weighty consideration in mind. And if anything, he
is far more qualified than those on the inside that
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have that kind of direct knowledge ever could be. And
what I can't wait for are the Senate confirmation hearings
where Pete Hegseeth is sitting there and some Democrat senator
lightweight like Chris Murphy tries to take him on. Get
your popcorn ready, because Pete's going to handle it just fine,
(28:20):
and he will be a model Secretary of Defense that
could break the mold and set the example for all
future secretaries of Defense going forward. Well, take this break,
I promise to get to your text. All your thoughts
on today's news. Matt gets nominated for Attorney General, Telsea
Gabbard Director of National Intelligence. We're talking about Pete Hegseth
(28:41):
for Secretary of Defense Donald Trump. He's doing things much
differently this time around, and I love every single bit
of it.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Ryan Schuling life continues after.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
This in the next line, this is a tweet by
one of your employees in.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Charge of diversity, equity and illusion and it's it's patently racist.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They say that she.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Had to give Karen the business that she talks about
caudacity presumably of Caucasian people.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So why does the look at it, well, why is
that any argument for me? That's terrible, it's wrong. She
shouldn't be doing that. Should she be fired? I don't.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
That's a dood employee, not US military uniform.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Austin. Again, as you heard in your.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Sub committee here, this this incident was investigated.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Was it now?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That was Representative Matt Gates, who is Trump's pick and
nominee for Attorney General. A real shocker and stunner, even
by my standards as I was envisioning what Donald Trump
might lay out for his cabinet. Of course, the other
announcements coming today Telsea Gabber for the Director of National
Intelligence from late yesterday, Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense,
(29:58):
and one other one how about new CIA director. And
you'll have to go through the confirmation process Representative John Ratcliffe,
who did us all proud here going back to July
of twenty eighteen, when he was grilling Peter Stroke, the
one that talked about the smelly Walmart people, the one
that told his lover, Lisa Page, that don't worry, we
have other ways of removing Donald Trump after he won
(30:19):
the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
Here we go, the approximately fifty thousand text messages that
I've seen with your personal beliefs like f Trump stopped
Trump in Pete's Trump. Go ahead and confirm on the
record that none of that occurred on an official FBI
device or on official FBI time.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Go ahead and do that. Sure, No, they did, many
of them did it? Oh they did? Okay, So doesn't sir?
Really no, I'll give you.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
A chance at the end. So what you really meant
to say was that when you said you never crossed
that bright, inviolable line, what you meant to say was,
except for fifty thousand times, except for hundreds of times
of day where I went back and forth expressing my
personal opinions about effing Trump and stopping Trump and impeaching
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Trump on official FBI phones, on official FBI time, other
than that you never crossed that line. I'm sure there
are thirteen thousand FBI agents out there that are beaming
with pride. And how clearly you've drawn that line.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
These nominees are coming in hot. Let me know what
you think of them. Five seven seven three nine, especially
with everything that's happened today. And oh, by the way,
Senator John Thune has kind of been lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He was elected by his.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Fellow members of the Senate as the majority leader for
the Republicans heading into the next Congress. And we'll talk
to Dick Wadhams coming up at the bottom of next hour.
He ran John Thune's campaign some twenty odd years ago
in unseating Tom Dashel, who was the Senate majority leader
for the Democrats, going way back when one of the
great upsets in the twenty first century in American politics.
(31:52):
To your text, we go five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Ryan. When people start saying he's too young.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
For Secretary of Defense, talking about Pete Hegseth, he might
want to remind them that Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of
France when he was thirty four.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
He did. Napoleon is a.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Bit of a tyrant himself. So I don't know if
I'm going to be too comfortable with the comparison. But
the age part, yes, Bob, and Arvada says the inscription
on the Statue of Liberty was not done by the
United States Congress or France, but by Emma Lazarus in
eighteen eighty three to help raise money for the pedestal
of the statue.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Interesting factoid there, Bob.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I mean, that would be a good one to put
on Jeopardy or something like it, or Trivia night, if
you're going out for that this evening, the huddled masses,
you're tired, you're poor, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I know. It's not a policy. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
These Democrats they cite that inscription on the Statue of literal, Oh,
you have to let everybody in. Got an open boter.
That's not the policy of the United States. It's always
been under the purview of whoever the sitting president was.
And sometimes the books were closed. It's like getting made
guys in the mafia. The books are closed, we can't
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give you the button. And Harry Truman shut things down
after World War Two. My grandparents were very lucky to
get in here. You know how they got in here
the right way, the legal way. They were granted asylum
because they were fleeing a communist dictatorship in Yugoslavia. And
Tito because my grandfather fought for the Chetnik army and
he would probably be hanged after a show trial like
(33:19):
his general was. They had to have sponsors here both.
My grandmother separately had to have a sponsor. It was
her aunt who was living in e Course, south of Detroit.
My grandfather had to have a sponsor. He was his
brother Albert in New York City. He would eventually moved
my grandfather to Saint Louis, Missouri and Ava, Illinois, had
a farm there. He had to learn the language, he
had to become a citizen, He had to have gainful employment.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It was a bargain that was struck.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
So miss me with the ryans of xenophobic whatever rhetoric
that I know a lot of the left wants to
lob at me.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Can't do it because I just articulated.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Exactly how and why legal immigrants should be allowed into
this country. But immigrants cannot be tolerated anymore than any
other country would tolerate it themselves. If I was illegally
in another country and I was shown the door. What
argument would I have. I'm in France, I'm illegal, I
didn't come here the right way. Well we're gonna have
(34:14):
to escort you out, mister Shueley. Wow, I guess you
got me.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I mean, what am I gonna do? Say? I have
a right to be here?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
America, Land of the Free, is not owed to anybody.
It is a privilege to be here as a foreign citizen,
not a right. Nobody outside of our borders has a
right to be here.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
End of story. A time out.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
A lot coming up at hour number two, including Steven L. Miller,
not the bald one that's on the Trump team, the
Versus Media podcast host.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Next, we come back on Ryan Schuling Live
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