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Hello.

Bobby Jones here from It Is Such and Dollar Media Networks.

The clip you just saw was the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announcing to the world that there would be a live stream of the scheduled execution of the former Army Major Nidal Hasan, who in two thousand and nine killed thirteen of his fellow soldiers and wounded over thirty.

Now, when I first saw this clip, I kept saying, "You can't be serious.

You can't be serious.

You can't be serious." But over the [laughs] next couple of days, Pete Hegseth doubled down.

On the Western side, the Iranians seem to know what they're doing and the Houthis

do too.

Saturated with strategic stupidity to the point where Think about this.

The second Trump talked about bringing the Moab out to use for the shock and awe of it, all of our reactions in the military was like, okay, a great fireworks show.

What's that going to do? It doesn't even faze us that he's talking about bringing these weapons out.

A, because we're like, he may not even do it.

But B, I'm like, okay, so what? You still can't pull a ship in to the Strait of Hormuz.

Do you think that we might be not just at the precipice of a third world war, but the makings of a true... holy war called jihad because of the shiite sunni you know this

Can you briefly explain what this crime involved and how it affected those serving in the military?

Yeah.

It, it-- To, to put it bluntly, it was the most insider of insider jobs ever, right? You, you had someone not just in uniform but someone who was trusted with the psychological well-being of their fellow soldiers, right? And he literally betrayed all of that, used that as the ultimate entry, and ended the lives of his fellow soldiers.

And let me be very, very clear on something.

When you join the military, the UCMJ is a closed loop legal system, and you also realize that there is a, a heightened level of punishment across the board.

I don't care if it's stealing.

I don't care if it's murder.

Um, what was your immediate reaction when you heard this announcement that this execution is taking place and it's gonna be an execution by firing squad live-streamed on December 3rd?

So do you think that the Israelis are actually going to get involved? And what will that accomplish?

Man, so we kind of said this before coming on.

Netanyahu never asked for permission to do anything in that region.

Had he done that, we probably wouldn't be sitting here right now, right? So just keep that in mind.

Now, here's the thing.

To have MBS allegedly going from bunker to bunker... because there's genuine fear for the safety of the royal family, is a game changer.

It is a game changer.

Some of our guests don't like to, but we love when our guests do because it really makes the dynamic a little bit more interesting than just me, me, me gabbing.

Mm-hmm

... gives a damn about the United States and its forces unless it's in direct support of what they want to achieve.

So if that means America's bases get bombed out, no sweat off Israel's back.

Does Iron Dome and everything still work? Okay, we're good.

Can we still get weapons provided to meet our objectives? Okay, we're still good.

And how do they sweeten that deal? They make sure to have personal business arrangements with the Trump family to sway them to support this.

So if you had to say what, what do you expect to happen here in the next three weeks? I think Israel will escalate on all four fronts that they're dealing with, and the United States will reluctantly have to support at some point.

"Why do you keep saying Iran has unlimited ability to escalate and unlimited ability to retaliate?" Well, Bobby, I'll let you take that one.

too

woke.

They fired every last one of them.

Because they anticipated conducting strikes and wars that would probably be illegal.

And they knew that the legal lawyers that have spent an entire 30, 40 years in the military would have said, this is illegal.

We can't do it.

So they removed those blocks.

Three carrier strike groups and two amphibs groups from Diego Garcia.

Let's see how it happens.

So, so here's what I'll say to that, you know, Greenland and everything.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, you talk about having warfighters and reestablishing warfighters, and it's amazing.

The man is firing actual warfighters like Chris Donahue, who, I don't know, Delta Force, kind of warfightery, you know, and removing those people to have lackeys.

I'm specifically talking about Hegseth, right? And since we've rebranded the Department of War, we've been getting our ass kicked in war.

position in the

Of hobbies.

Speaking of hobbies, I am late to this trend apparently by years because I don't have social media.

Yeah.

It's where you have like you pick five hobbies.

Have you heard about that? No.

It's like the five hobby trends and you pick one to like be creative and one to grow and one to find peace and one to find connection.

There's different like themes.

It was exhilarating once you were up there.

Your reporting, what are Democrats looking for answers on?

Bobby Jones here from Midas Touch and Valor Media Network.

Even though I'm on the road, I definitely wanted to comment about a report that came out from the US Navy this week that I don't think is getting enough attention.

The Navy said that the USS Abraham Lincoln, the carrier that struck A new record for the length of its deployment, but most importantly, its continuous days at sea.

The United States Navy said that the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group had at least eight, eight suicide attempts during its deployment.

Now, what's interesting about this is when asked about this earlier during the conflict, which the Navy has selectively said is not a war, they said we have not identified an increase in suicide attempts on board the ship.

And now they're sand gate.

First of all, how much do you buy this? And second of all, even if it's true, how sustainable is this given the readiness issues in the

Navy? Right.

So let's back up and talk about what Sal said.

I believe...

He's probably accurate that there is movement.

I don't know if as much as 12 million a day.

That sounds a lot.

voted for Trump, didn't they?

Yet, every time I turn around, whatever drones we have are not really performing as well as I thought they'd be compared to, say, the cheaper stuff the Ukrainians are using and even the Russians are using in their war.

You know, it's kind of funny.

When I was combat systems officer on USS Steedham, a very high complex, you know, integrated air missile defense destroyer, I had a senior chief on that ship who was very wise.

And he said, you know, all this technological equipment, et cetera, et cetera.

He goes, you know, when these rounds stop going from being digital and becoming analog, everybody's butts are going to get tight.

What he meant by that was you can have all the technology in the world, but there will be simple weapons.

Simple, old fashioned World War One era weapons that will be more effective than all of this because of the complexity of it.

What's going on with targeting intelligence?

When you say Christian nationalism now represents the majority of the Republican Party, what's that coming from?

Yeah.

It's coming from years and years of study at Public Religion Research Institute, and not just our, uh, organization, but, you know, there are now dozens of political scientists and social scientists that have replicated these studies that have confirmed this.

And here's the truth of it.

When we ask questions like, "US should declare itself a Christian nation," "Christians should exercise dominion over all areas of American society," um, right? "If we don't, uh, reclaim Christianity, we won't have a country anymore." It's those kinds of questions that we are, um, asking, and when we ask those questions, we put them all into kind of a, a composite index, uh, and we measure that across the country, what we find is that this worldview that believes that idea...

And really to boil it down, it really is this idea that the country, um, is not a pluralistic democracy.

Rather, this country is a kind of promised land for Christians of European descent.

... for you is how do they get away with such a radical departure from what is actually in the foundational text that they claim to believe in?

We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

Hello.

Bobby Jones here from Midas Touch and Valor Media Networks.

This week, we mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

A very somber occasion.

It is by far the most preeminent event of my lifetime.

I was a newly commissioned naval officer as of May of 2001.

for

Ballistic missile defense, sorry,

yes.

Ballistic missile defense enabled naval ships.

You know what that means.

And it's a tactic.

And here's the thing.

This is the first time they've done this in this conflict.

We never went back.

And, Bobby, when you think back on this one, how do you remember this episode? Uh...

I don't know if we're allowed to curse on this, but I definitely think of, uh, what the fuck did I do all the time? Uh, I, as we all do, I'm sure I have some Jimmy McNulty tendencies at times.

And when I, once I come, once I finally get myself to realize that I'm wrong, I then say to myself, what the fuck did I do? Thinking of Jimmy McNulty, but, uh, uh, Just so much set up, obviously, the epilogue with Snot Boogie being murdered and why letting someone play who you know is going to rob everything.

This is America.

Everybody has a right to play the game.

But if you're in the game, you can certainly suffer the consequences, as Snot does, never to be seen again.

And then McNulty being this involved in a case that isn't his fault.

And I like that it followed him more so than McNulty in the first episode.

I mean, bridge is...

Right.

And why are we saying this? We're saying this because conventionally...

We are behind the eight ball.

Our logistics train has been moved very far out.

I mean, Marad.

So the Maritime Administration people basically that move the big ships that have high lift capability and what they have activated one of their ships that's at one of the Maritime Academies.

Do you think that that is in the offing here?

But when you're deployed, you measure time and milestones and you measure time and holidays and pushing that back and forth and extending people, it does wear on us and it means a lot for our future recruitment and our retention of great sailors.

Hello, Bobby Jones here from Midas Touch and Valor Media Networks.

Well, the word has now gotten out.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group will be leaving in the next few weeks to relieve the USS George Washington Strike Group, who has just relieved the USS Abraham Lincoln, who was doing joint dual carrier ops with USS Gerald Ford.

All of these strike groups, all of these ships, And here's the thing.

There's no end in sight to the surge of deployments that the United States Navy is having to deal with.

And there's a really good threat that the fleet itself may break.

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level.

And so what President Trump did with this executive order, he ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create a state citizenship list.

This list will basically be all of the eligible voters That the federal government says based on birth certificates and other things that will then be allowed to vote via mail in ballot.

Now, here's the key thing.

Mail in ballots are supposed to be accepted up to 45 days before the election based on the list.

60 days is what this executive order is now counting for.

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As a Saudi source told me, the war has shown Saudi Arabia, that's the U.S.'s longest standing Arab ally, that the alliance with the U.S. cannot be exclusive and it is not, in their words, impregnable.

Hello, Bobby Jones here from Midas Touch and Valor Media Networks.

You know, the conflict between the United States and

Iran has now lasted, well,

since basically the beginning of March until now.

Months, months going into six months of conflict.

What was lost in all of the devastation and destruction specifically for the United States and its forces are families, dependents actually, that are in the actual theater of war.

This takes me to Naval Station Bahrain.

I'm

so glad you...

Man, Brandon, you're reading my mind.

I'm so glad you thought about this because one of the big issues that I had when this started back in February, March, was this sets a historical precedent that other countries of the world may actually go to.

Because here's the deal.

Strategic waterways are very precious because despite all the air technology and everything we have, you know, most of our trade still goes by sea.

Right.

density.

Olivia Rubin, ABC News, Washington.

Hello, Bobby Jones here from Minus Touch and Ballot Media Networks.

The United States Navy has dominated worldwide and domestic headlines for the last few months.

That's for obvious reasons.

The conflict in Iran has caused many observers to wonder what the current state of America's fleet is.

And more importantly, where does it go moving forward? Its presence around the world has been something that many people just took for granted.

But due to the latest decisions by the President of the United States, the fleet finds itself under stress.

What, what are, are the jobs that they're performing in support of the war in Iran?

So let, let me, let me not only talk about their jobs, but the strike group.

And I, I'm gonna tell you why I'm saying strike group.

An aircraft carrier never goes anywhere by itself.

It is a national asset.

It is the national asset for any country, but especially United States.

So you have smaller ships that escort it.

And I'm wondering, um, what, what are your expectations when you go into the military about your ability to speak freely? Like, can you speak up? Are you allowed to speak up when there are problems with the chain of command or with the living conditions or things like you've described?

This is insane by any measure at all.

Hello, Bobby Jones here from Midas Touch and Valor Media Networks.

The report you just saw is hammering home the cost of this war, not in dollars, not in equipment, but in life.

Now, before I really get into this, I need to just make a couple of things clear.

Number one, I know what it's like to be extended on deployment in the Middle East.

It happened to me a couple of times.

And eight to nine months at sea is rough.

There've been town hall meetings, from these military families in the san diego area where they have just erupted understandably so on leaders about the conditions they're hearing about from their loved ones on board that ship

you know it's about military readiness this is something that we worried about on the armed services committee all the time you you you you have to make sure the rotation is such that people can can do their rotation they can do their duty then they can get home

there is no

They can get back on base.

They can rest up.

They can be, again, prepared.

So this comes down to military readiness.

I've never seen anything like this before.

But it's hard because we're taking out those little boats now with the same weapon we used to take out the drug lords and the boats coming in.

Hello, Bobby Jones here for Midas Touch and Valor Media Networks.

Well, we're back at it again.

The United States and Iran are trading military strikes in the Persian Gulf region, rendering the memorandum of understanding signed ironically at Versailles moot and void.

Now, despite what everybody is saying, despite what is recently happening, President Trump has been put in a cycle that he can't get out of.

One of the main reasons he's there is because of his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth, from all reports, egged the president to accept Benjamin Netanyahu's assessment of the situation and said we should attack Iran.