Michael Mullen
Former United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffWikipedia
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Sep 10, 2026
William H. McRavenGUEST
For me, it had actually begun in, well, let's see, December of 2010.
William H. McRavenGUEST
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, came out to, uh, Afghanistan, as he did frequently, and, you know, he spent about an hour or so talking to the troops, and he says, "Hey, Bill, let's, let's go up to your office." So we, we go to my office.
William H. McRavenGUEST
I'm in, in Bagram, and he says, "Look, uh, the agency thinks they have a lead on, on bin Laden, and they may call you in a couple of weeks to, to come back and talk about it." Candidly, in my mind, I was probably a little dismissive because we'd had a lot of leads on bin Laden.
Jake SullivanHOST
Right.
William H. McRavenGUEST
And of course, you know, part of my responsibility was track down these leads, and every time we did, they turned out to be, as we said, a, a dry hole.
William H. McRavenGUEST
But sure enough, a couple weeks later, I get the call to come back.
William H. McRavenGUEST
I, I swung by the Pentagon and talked to the chairman and, uh, Secretary Bob Gates and then went over to see, uh, Michael Morell.
William H. McRavenGUEST
And, um, and this would've been, uh, I'm, I'm guessing late January, maybe, Jake, or, or early February.
Joyce KaufmanHOST
This is not merely an economic problem.
Joyce KaufmanHOST
Admiral Michael Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it plainly in 2010, the most significant threat to our national security is our debt.
Joyce KaufmanHOST
He was early, not wrong.
Joyce KaufmanHOST
Washington now spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on interest alone, more than the entire defense budget.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Someone I've been lucky to spend some time with and I'm humbled to have on this program.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
I am very proud to welcome the great and powerful Admiral Mike Mullen to Independent Americans.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Welcome, sir.
Mike MullenGUEST
Great and powerful.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
It's been maybe a decade and a half now.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
And it may have been on a stage with Lady Gaga.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
There was an event in New York City where I was asked and IVA was asked to bring like 100 veterans to stand on stage with Admiral Mike Mullen and Lady Gaga.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Does
Steve FriendHOST
So there's this series that's been going on from the editorial board And, and this one relates to the massive deficits that we have right now in this country because we're spending things like, um, 9,000 bucks to stay-at-home moms to have kids.
Steve FriendHOST
So headline, "Can the US afford a major war? Not with this deficit." "The most significant threat to our national security is our debt," said then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen in 2010 during the second year of the Barack Obama first administration, when the national debt was $27 trillion lower than it is right now.
Steve FriendHOST
Guys, in the second year of the Obama administration, Barack Obama, remember the Barackalypse, the Obamageddon? Gosh, the hope and change.
Steve FriendHOST
I hope I have some change after he spends us into oblivion.
Melissa Ann DuboisHOST
Total Force Fitness is the Department of Defense official holistic health and readiness framework that predates Hegsith about 15 years.
Melissa Ann DuboisHOST
It originated around 2009-2010 under Admiral Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Melissa Ann DuboisHOST
The premise was a direct response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Melissa Ann DuboisHOST
Readiness couldn't be reduced to PT scores because troops were breaking down in ways fitness tests didn't capture.
Andy BoydHOST
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Andy BoydHOST
What comes to mind when we think of military commanders? Fortitude? Loyalty? But what about mathematical skills? Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently sat for an interview with representatives of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Andy BoydHOST
It's a professional society for mathematically inclined problem solvers.
Andy BoydHOST
In business, these problem solvers go by many names.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
We had 14 separate meetings.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
I saw the head of the Joint Chiefs, Mike Mullen, Secretary of Defense Gates, there was David Petraeus, there was Crystal.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
We went through a rigorous analysis.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
I cannot...
Jack ArmstrongHOST
So he's trying to work any of his connections at the gate, and texting them and calling them and saying, "Hey, I can get a bus there with five guys on it.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
Can you get them through the gate?" Admiral Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was calling him saying, "Do you have any connections?" That's how bad it was.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
A, a guy who was a chairman of the Joint Chiefs who was an admiral trying to text some guy and saying, "Hey, I got to this somebody.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
Good guy.
Jimmy RobertsGUEST
It's been an honor to interview some people, military leaders.
Jimmy RobertsGUEST
I have a pretty good relationship with a man named Mike Mullen, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both President Obama and President Bush 43.
Jimmy RobertsGUEST
We did a speaking engagement once together.
Jimmy RobertsGUEST
I think that he said something, come to think of it, there was one thing that he said that really kind of shocked me.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
So here's the deal.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
We usually go through a few headlines first, and then we'll get into some questions for you.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
So I'll just start here.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
Senator, are you ready to go over some headlines? Let's rock.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
Let's go.
Maritsa GeorgiouHOST
Okay, so we have some news in mail-in voting today.
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Rahm EmanuelGUEST
you didn't do Maritza?
Jon TesterHOST
Yeah.
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