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Oct 28, 2026

Kyle ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:44
As with all of our debates, the only time that we will refer to the candidates with their titles is now.
Kyle ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:50
Congresswoman Boebert and retired Rear Admiral.
Kyle ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:52
Rear Admirable.
BenHOST
2:54
You're admirable.
Eileen LaubacherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:19
Thank you, Kyle.
Eileen LaubacherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:19
Thank you so much for having us here tonight.
BenHOST
5:22
Yeah, that is like Rear Admiral.
BenHOST
5:24
It's a funny name because it has rear in it, but it is a pretty high rank.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
12:49
And yes, correct.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
12:50
It's the retired Rear Admiral Michael Smith, I believe, is who it is.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
12:56
And he's been out there in public talking with others.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
13:01
And like I said, they try to be hush-hush, but they're not really good at it.
Liz WheelerHOST
18:42
So State Department employees, Pentagon employees, sixteen hundred military or military minded individuals who are part of a group called NSL for a.
Liz WheelerHOST
18:53
And this group is led by a retired rear admiral of the U.S. Navy named Mike Smith.
Liz WheelerHOST
18:58
And I want you to remember that name because we're going to revisit that name in just a minute.
Liz WheelerHOST
19:03
This particular group, if the Insurrection Act is invoked, they plan to have a situation room, as you would in the military, as you would in the White House, to monitor red lines in order to identify and help manipulate people into believing that red lines have been crossed and then to provide assistance in blocking operations.

24 MINS LATER

Liz WheelerHOST
43:10
He is interested in being a part as long as he doesn't have to be the poster child for it.
Liz WheelerHOST
43:16
Likewise, Governor J.B. Pritzker, if you look at his activities of last year, this came out in October of 2025, a press release from Governor Pritzker's office reads as follows.
Liz WheelerHOST
43:25
Today, this was August 16th of 2025, Governor Pritzker convened a group of distinguished former military generals, rear admirals and veterans to hear their perspectives amid the Trump administration's ongoing exploitation and politicization of America's service members and his unprecedented attempt to deploy the military into American cities.
Liz WheelerHOST
43:44
With continued escalating threats by the Trump administration, the retired military leaders expressed grave concern about Trump's continued abuse of power and attempts to politicize the military.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:51
When that directive was openly ignored, the president instituted an urgent, high-level panel to uncover how and why his executive instructions failed to filter down through the military and state structures.
speaker_0NARRATOR
1:03
The independent panel reporting directly to Ramaphosa comprised prominent legal and military figures, including Chairperson Justice Bernard Ngoepe and panel members Justice Kathleen Satchwell, Justice Mashangu Monica Liu and Rear Admiral, Junior Grade Patrick Dewes.
speaker_0NARRATOR
1:21
While initially given a strict mandate of one calendar month to finalise their investigation, the panel successfully argued for an extension, presenting evidence that more time was required to properly assess the security breaches and logistical timeline.
speaker_0NARRATOR
1:35
Because the investigation touches directly on defence operations, international diplomatic relations and intelligence protocols, the Presidency has noted that the panel's findings remain confidential owing to national security concerns.
Larry BrockHOST
8:15
NSL-4A, National Security Leaders for America, is a group of 1,600 retired flag officers, intelligence officials, and diplomats.
Larry BrockHOST
8:24
They are led by a traitor named Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith.
Larry BrockHOST
8:29
I bet he is a rear admiral, too, if it comes down to it.
Larry BrockHOST
8:32
All right.
Larry BrockHOST
8:32
Now, it SL4A also played a key role in the illegals orders messaging that went out from Slotkin, former CIA, a known Democratic communist sitting in our Senate right now, which targeted Secretary of War Pete Hexen.

5 MINS LATER

Larry BrockHOST
14:07
That strategy outlines them to prepare for the worst, which to them includes the president invoking the insurrection act or an election meltdown, and their goal is to get structural reform in place by that, a polite way of saying, trashing our constitution and instituting a more democratic government to include a unicameral legislature making executive decisions now in july 2026 all right renew american democracy or renew to thrive r2t invited foreigners okay that they had previously worked with in other words governments that had been installed by these liberal communists in our own government to come and share their experience with the American community with the express purpose of operationalizing their experience and using it in the United States.
Larry BrockHOST
14:59
The seditionists are confident that a breakthrough will occur when, I'm sorry, that will allow them to get rid of Trumbull sometime between now and January the 3rd.
Larry BrockHOST
15:08
And Mike Smith, the admiral, rear admiral Mike Smith, allegedly acknowledges Rad's role in writing that the government, I'm sorry, that the government they will institute will come after this.
Owen InnesHOST
32:25
And in 1832 he returned to the Royal Navy.
Owen InnesHOST
32:28
He was eventually promoted to Rear Admiral in 1851 and later became an Admiral.
Owen InnesHOST
32:35
He was also involved in the development of naval technology and continued to advocate for reform.
Owen InnesHOST
32:42
Cochrane had long been interested in the possibilities of steam propulsion and the use of new technology in warfare.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
10:21
Tactical command of the invasion force approaching Guadalcanal in early August was vested in Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher as Expeditionary Force Commander, Task Force 61.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
10:33
His force consisted of the amphibious shipping carrying the 1st Marine Division under Rear Admiral Richard K. Turner and the air support force led by Rear Admiral Lee Noyes.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
10:45
Admiral Gormley contributed land-based air forces commanded by Rear Admiral John S. McCain.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
10:51
Fletcher's support force consisted of three fleet carriers, the Saratoga CV-3, Enterprise CV-6, and Wasp CV-7, the battleship North Carolina BB-55, six cruisers, sixteen destroyers, and three oilers.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
11:13
Admiral Turner's covering force included five cruisers and nine destroyers.

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26:12
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Aaron BennettNARRATOR
26:15
The rendezvous at Coro did give the senior commanders a chance to have a face-to-face meeting.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
26:21
Fletcher, McCain, Turner, and Vandergriff got together with Gormley's chief of staff, Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callahan, who notified the conferees that ComSopac had ordered the 7th Marines on Samoa to be prepared to embark on four days' notice as a reinforcement for Watchtower.
KevinSNARRATOR
86:14
In early September, the unit boarded a transport for Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides, the primary staging area for most reinforcements going to the Southern Solomons.
KevinSNARRATOR
86:25
There they continued training until Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, Commander Amphibious Force South Pacific, decided to land a force at Aola Bay on the northeast coast of Guadalcanal to build another airfield.
KevinSNARRATOR
86:38
He assigned Carlson and two companies of raiders to secure the beachhead for an Army battalion, Seabees, and a Marine Defense battalion.
KevinSNARRATOR
86:47
The McKean and Manley placed companies C and E ashore on the morning of 4 November.
Alan SandersHOST
26:38
Now, that's part three, but there's an addendum that she says, or called part 3.5. in which participants sound pretty confident that a breakthrough could remove President Trump sometime between the midterms and the new Congress that gathers on January 3rd of 2027.
Alan SandersHOST
27:09
In fact, there's a soundbite with a former Rear Admiral, a guy by the name of Mike Smith.
Alan SandersHOST
27:15
He's part of the National Security Leaders for America.
Alan SandersHOST
27:17
I mentioned him in Part 2.

24 MINS LATER

Alan SandersHOST
51:33
This is not a government of, by, and for the people.
Alan SandersHOST
51:36
There were no open debates.
Alan SandersHOST
51:39
Rear Admiral Mike Smith's National Security Leaders for America is roughly 1600 strong, all made up of former officers, intelligence officials, diplomatic personnel, and is credited with operationalizing the United Democracy Alliance and running the Insurrection Act Working Group.
Alan SandersHOST
52:01
They're the ones that are turning the red lines into indicators and then maintain a situation room to watch just like a ready room.
Chris KavasHOST
2:44
Plans to deploy the multipurpose maritime training ship Empire State 7 to CENTCOM apparently have been canceled.
Chris KavasHOST
2:52
State University of New York Maritime College President Rear Admiral John O'Connor on October 21st confirmed to G-Captain that the ship's planned deployment had been canceled and the vessel will return to Fort Schuyler in New York by mid-November to continue its normal training duties.
Chris KavasHOST
3:08
The Pentagon in late August ordered the ship to be activated for an unspecified mission, but the activation requirements included in systems and flight deck certifications to be carried out at GDNASCO's shipyard in Norfolk, where the ship has been since early October.
Chris KavasHOST
3:24
There had been significant concerns that the deployment would deprive SUNY Maritime of its prime training asset for the entire current academic year.

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