Lloyd Austin
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Oct 1, 2026
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
And that kept changing.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
And then, you know, Biden kicked out the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, 8,500 career soldiers because they didn't get vaccinated when 10,000 people were coming in a day across the southern border, and they didn't even want-- They would no more say, "Do you have a vaccination?" Because we've just kicked out 8,500 soldiers.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
But it was a tyrannical...
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
My iconic point was they had a guy, and you knew him, and he's a colleague of mine, Scott Atlas.
Vince CoglianeseHOST
You know, a lot... at that level, a lot of it is, is, is, it truly is politics.
Vince CoglianeseHOST
You know, these are people who came up in a world where, uh, you had, like, people like Lloyd Austin calling the shots, the Biden administration trying to create a situation where the upper ranks of the American military were dominated by left-wing activists and people who had subscribed to DEI.
Vince CoglianeseHOST
This i- which is, by the way, racial prejudice, sexual prejudice, uh, and all of this, like, poisonous garbage.
Vince CoglianeseHOST
It has nothing to do with mission readiness, nothing to do with morale, nothing to do with unity of purpose, nothing to do with lethality.
Eliot CohenHOST
It was, of course, a bitterly partisan speech.
Eliot CohenHOST
It was a speech that denigrated all of his predecessors, both Secretary of Defense, uh, Austin, uh, General, uh, General Mark Milley.
Eliot CohenHOST
And I mean, it was par- it was, you know, bitterly partisan in other ways.
Eliot CohenHOST
The attacks on the media and, uh, secondarily, I would say on elite universities, but really on the media, were vicious.
Elliot KaufmanGUEST
And on that point, I think he was right.
Elliot KaufmanGUEST
Because after the strike happens, with very little notice, only once planes were in the air, very little notice given to the American side, Yoav Galant hears it directly from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who is not happy, who rages with him on the phone over this strike.
Elliot KaufmanGUEST
The Biden administration, at every point, I would argue, including at the very start of the war, but certainly ramping up, was advising Israel to tone it down, do less, and ultimately accommodate yourself to even more and to an even worse situation.
Elliot KaufmanGUEST
And Israel increasingly had to say no.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That is why that same administration, like two years later, had to send troops back in.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No wonder the same guy screwed up the Afghanistan withdrawal, with none other than Lloyd Austin as the commanding general of Iraq, then turned Sec...
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They, they named him SecDef after he screwed up the Iraq withdrawal that literally created ISIS, and we're surprised why Afghanistan was such a dumpster fire? But this goes to what War Secretary Pete Hegseth said today about shrinking top brass.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The previous administration wanted politically correct generals.
Ward MillerHOST
Hegseth fired several senior generals this year, And in April, Hegseth fired two more Army generals after he ousted Army Chief of Staff General Randy George.
Ward MillerHOST
General George served in the role under Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Ward MillerHOST
General Randy A. George will be retiring from this position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army, effective immediately, Pentagon spokesman Sean Purnell said.
Hutch Bailey JrHOST
Well, I'm totally for that.
David StilwellGUEST
So why would we establish even more hotlines like the defense telephone link and the secure video teleconference capability?
Tiffany MeierHOST
To your point on the phone aspect or the hotline under the previous administration, we did see the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, saying there was a whole headline where you called China and the phone just rang like they didn't pick up.
Tiffany MeierHOST
To your point on that, I want to dig into messaging, though, because there's been a lot of.
Tiffany MeierHOST
talks about that, if you will.
Dexter IngramGUEST
He doesn't have the competence or the capability, the wisdom, the humility to listen to people around him.
Dexter IngramGUEST
I was talking to somebody last night And for a minute, they couldn't remember Lloyd Austin's name.
Dexter IngramGUEST
And I said, you know what's funny about that? You can't remember Lloyd Austin's name because he wasn't about himself.
Dexter IngramGUEST
He was about the mission.
Dexter IngramGUEST
You didn't see him in the news all the time.
Dexter IngramGUEST
Now, what do we see in the news all the time? Like and subscribe.
Dexter IngramGUEST
That's who we have leading us.
Malcolm NanceHOST
Lloyd Austin did his job to such effect that you couldn't remember stupid shit.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
'Cause for our, uh, the Israelis, October 7th was 9/11, right? In terms of traumatizing the country and saying, "We can never let anything like this happen again.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
We're gonna go so aggressive." And American generals, including I remember Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary under Biden, said, "Hey, Israel, just learn the lessons from us on 9/11.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
You're traumatized right now, and you gotta be very clear in your mission.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
Because if you don't have a clear mission, victory is gonna be impossible.
Ana KasparianHOST
There's a moment in your book that I'm never gonna be able to forget.
Ana KasparianHOST
And it was when our Secretary of State Lloyd Austin Secretary of Defense, I apologize.
Ana KasparianHOST
Lloyd Austin was speaking to Yoav Gallant in October of 2023.
Ana KasparianHOST
So this was soon after the attack and he literally told Yoav Gallant, happy hunting, happy hunting.
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