April 23, 2025 • 8 mins
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Chris takes the Department of Defense to task in this unfiltered episode, spotlighting what he calls “chaos at the top” under Secretary Pete Hegseth. From questionable Signal chat discussions involving military strikes to the sudden firing of top advisors, Markowski raises serious questions about judgment, accountability, and basic competence. He pushes back against blind MAGA loyalty and defends the importance of criticism as a form of true patriotism—especially when national security and taxpayer dollars are on the line. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i
Watch on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
Chris takes the Department of Defense to task in this unfiltered episode, spotlighting what he calls “chaos at the top” under Secretary Pete Hegseth. From questionable Signal chat discussions involving military strikes to the sudden firing of top advisors, Markowski raises serious questions about judgment, accountability, and basic competence. He pushes back against blind MAGA loyalty and defends the importance of criticism as a form of true patriotism—especially when national security and taxpayer dollars are on the line. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader. Chris markowskid O.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
D Chaos Department of Defense Chaos, Pete Haig Seth. I'm sorry,
he's screwing up. He's screwing up, screwing up Royally. His
appearance on Fox and Friends yesterday was hysterical, quite frankly,
(00:40):
and at some point in time, you are the Secretary
of Defense of the United States. People have the right. Okay,
you are a government employee. We pay your salary, and
they see various different things that things that make you
(01:02):
go behind the scenes. You have the right to be
questions and you should answer those questions, whether you know,
I don't care, if it's the left, I don't care,
if it's right, whatever it may be, Acknowledge, discrupts and
move on. You're going on there and then you're you know,
(01:25):
basically making it almost like you are some sort of
pundit going on Sean Handy's program talking about the Charnay
sipping class and Donald Trump hired me to put us
on a war fighting thing. That's all well and good.
That's all well and good, and I appreciate you doing that.
I think we all see the great success you've had
(01:48):
as far as enlistment is concerned. Obviously the men and
women and know they seem to like you. These are
these are some good things that you can point out.
It's how you go about doing it. Quite frankly, you
had three advisors that were fired last week, and each
(02:10):
and every one of them took to social media and
they claimed ill treatment. Another advisor published an account of
what he called a month of total chaos at the Pentagon.
Hag Seth. This is multiple media sources. Ran a chat
(02:32):
on the Signal messaging app that discussed a military strike
and included his wife and other associates. Again, I am
an SEC registered investment advisor and we have very very
strict rules, very strict rules, email, text, you name, Everything
(02:57):
I do has to be arco and recorded. If I
was discussing a client's portfolio and his finances and I
included my wife and some of my buddies, I'd be
(03:21):
indeed do do let's just leave it at that. I'd
be looking at major fines, probably my license suspended for
a period of time. You are the Secretary of Defense, Man,
the hell is your wife doing on a freaking signal
chat discussing military strikes? Are you shitting me? And again,
(03:48):
obviously you know the Republicans circle, the Wagmans, Tom Cotton
coming out that President Trump won't be taking staffing advice
from political co Yeah, we know that. Again, heg Seth
very very defiant and dismissive of these concerns, and are
(04:11):
are not these concerns valid? H just just throwing it
out there again with the concerns in regards to heg
Seth was whether or not he is able to handle
the job. You're you're talking, You're talking one of the
(04:34):
biggest bureaucracies, if not probably the biggest bureaucracy in the world.
This is a de pentagon of bureaucracy that has n't
ever be able to pass an audit. Sometimes you have
to understand man, like the old Clint Eastwood, Man's got
to understand. Man's got to know his limitations. Man's got
(04:54):
to know his limitations. Pete Hegseth should be surrounding him
elf with people that know what the hell they're doing again.
You want a successful business owner. You want somebody that's
going to surround them, surround themselves with people that are
brighter than themselves. Listen, Okay, I you know I try
(05:21):
to do that at Markowski Investments. Okay, I'm trying to.
I'm always looking higher, the best and the brightest that
are out there. You know, heg Seth has his value.
He's already demonstrated his value in regards to recruitment, going
up and getting rid of some of the DEI woke
(05:41):
crap that was in the military. Again, you want to
change the culture and the bureaucracy at the pent Gon. Okay,
but you need some help, man, you need I'm sorry,
you need some grown ups in the room. You've never
(06:03):
done anything like this in your entire life. It's some
big job. And again, who knows you know? Who knows
you know what his credibility looks like inside the Pentagon?
I don't know. I listen, I want to clean up
the Pentagon. I want cuts to I for the life
(06:24):
of me, don't understand how they just got to bump
in money to over a trillion dollars a year. That
makes no sense to me. You can't pass it on
a Donald Trump is let's shovel more money at this
and you had your mind. We're also out of our
mind to not question the confidence of somebody when again,
(06:45):
it hasn't been that long and you've had multiple screw ups.
Get your act together. And this is again all of
you maga types out there that don't believe that, don't
believe in criticizing what's wrong with you? Well, yeah, how
(07:07):
do you think you want success in life? You gotta
knit pick, you gotta focus not just on the big things,
the little things, and every single day, try to improve,
try to come better, you know, and say, oh, we're
just awesome. We can't do no wrong. Trump Trump, Trump, Maga,
Magna Maga. That's the biggest bunch of bull excremen everywhere.
(07:31):
And that's what's gonna lead this presidency to a failed
one again. You you love Trump, you love Maggie, love
all this stuff. You know what, the best thing you
can do, start being honest. Start being honest, not being disloyal.
(07:51):
I said. One of the greatest forms of loyalty to
someone is actually being able to call them out, actually
being able to call them out, call it like it is.
Watchdog on wallstreet dot com,
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader. Chris markowskid O.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
D Chaos Department of Defense Chaos, Pete Haig Seth. I'm sorry,
he's screwing up. He's screwing up, screwing up Royally. His
appearance on Fox and Friends yesterday was hysterical, quite frankly,
(00:40):
and at some point in time, you are the Secretary
of Defense of the United States. People have the right. Okay,
you are a government employee. We pay your salary, and
they see various different things that things that make you
(01:02):
go behind the scenes. You have the right to be
questions and you should answer those questions, whether you know,
I don't care, if it's the left, I don't care,
if it's right, whatever it may be, Acknowledge, discrupts and
move on. You're going on there and then you're you know,
(01:25):
basically making it almost like you are some sort of
pundit going on Sean Handy's program talking about the Charnay
sipping class and Donald Trump hired me to put us
on a war fighting thing. That's all well and good.
That's all well and good, and I appreciate you doing that.
I think we all see the great success you've had
(01:48):
as far as enlistment is concerned. Obviously the men and
women and know they seem to like you. These are
these are some good things that you can point out.
It's how you go about doing it. Quite frankly, you
had three advisors that were fired last week, and each
(02:10):
and every one of them took to social media and
they claimed ill treatment. Another advisor published an account of
what he called a month of total chaos at the Pentagon.
Hag Seth. This is multiple media sources. Ran a chat
(02:32):
on the Signal messaging app that discussed a military strike
and included his wife and other associates. Again, I am
an SEC registered investment advisor and we have very very
strict rules, very strict rules, email, text, you name, Everything
(02:57):
I do has to be arco and recorded. If I
was discussing a client's portfolio and his finances and I
included my wife and some of my buddies, I'd be
(03:21):
indeed do do let's just leave it at that. I'd
be looking at major fines, probably my license suspended for
a period of time. You are the Secretary of Defense, Man,
the hell is your wife doing on a freaking signal
chat discussing military strikes? Are you shitting me? And again,
(03:48):
obviously you know the Republicans circle, the Wagmans, Tom Cotton
coming out that President Trump won't be taking staffing advice
from political co Yeah, we know that. Again, heg Seth
very very defiant and dismissive of these concerns, and are
(04:11):
are not these concerns valid? H just just throwing it
out there again with the concerns in regards to heg
Seth was whether or not he is able to handle
the job. You're you're talking, You're talking one of the
(04:34):
biggest bureaucracies, if not probably the biggest bureaucracy in the world.
This is a de pentagon of bureaucracy that has n't
ever be able to pass an audit. Sometimes you have
to understand man, like the old Clint Eastwood, Man's got
to understand. Man's got to know his limitations. Man's got
(04:54):
to know his limitations. Pete Hegseth should be surrounding him
elf with people that know what the hell they're doing again.
You want a successful business owner. You want somebody that's
going to surround them, surround themselves with people that are
brighter than themselves. Listen, Okay, I you know I try
(05:21):
to do that at Markowski Investments. Okay, I'm trying to.
I'm always looking higher, the best and the brightest that
are out there. You know, heg Seth has his value.
He's already demonstrated his value in regards to recruitment, going
up and getting rid of some of the DEI woke
(05:41):
crap that was in the military. Again, you want to
change the culture and the bureaucracy at the pent Gon. Okay,
but you need some help, man, you need I'm sorry,
you need some grown ups in the room. You've never
(06:03):
done anything like this in your entire life. It's some
big job. And again, who knows you know? Who knows
you know what his credibility looks like inside the Pentagon?
I don't know. I listen, I want to clean up
the Pentagon. I want cuts to I for the life
(06:24):
of me, don't understand how they just got to bump
in money to over a trillion dollars a year. That
makes no sense to me. You can't pass it on
a Donald Trump is let's shovel more money at this
and you had your mind. We're also out of our
mind to not question the confidence of somebody when again,
(06:45):
it hasn't been that long and you've had multiple screw ups.
Get your act together. And this is again all of
you maga types out there that don't believe that, don't
believe in criticizing what's wrong with you? Well, yeah, how
(07:07):
do you think you want success in life? You gotta
knit pick, you gotta focus not just on the big things,
the little things, and every single day, try to improve,
try to come better, you know, and say, oh, we're
just awesome. We can't do no wrong. Trump Trump, Trump, Maga,
Magna Maga. That's the biggest bunch of bull excremen everywhere.
(07:31):
And that's what's gonna lead this presidency to a failed
one again. You you love Trump, you love Maggie, love
all this stuff. You know what, the best thing you
can do, start being honest. Start being honest, not being disloyal.
(07:51):
I said. One of the greatest forms of loyalty to
someone is actually being able to call them out, actually
being able to call them out, call it like it is.
Watchdog on wallstreet dot com,
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