and hungry. the part i take issue with is when you look at the big increase of price of weapons going to ukraine. part of it is, brian, those weapons were old. the production lines have been shut down years ago. the pentagon had told these contractors to move on and create new, better, more modern things now we are saying, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. go stand up those old production lines again and s it s expensive. it s a mixed piece there. but i will tell you what, this these are the types of issues the leadership in this pentagon needs to be focused on fixing right now instead of making a carbon-free army, instead of focused on climate change, or this obsession with diversity, when you have a military that actually overrepresents minorities compared to the general population. these are big complicated issues. and this is what we are telling biden s secretaries, you are got to be focused on helping us fix this instead of all of this
stealth fighter and don t focus on all the spare parts and sustainment over time. we have to have competition that system. look, the other one is there is no accountability. we have ships and tanks that don t work, who gets fired? i mean, mccain john mccain was famous for pointing this out. no generals get fired. no ceos get fired, and we have got introduce accountability into the system to hold these people accountable because our troops aren t getting what they need. brian: i would think the military should welcome an amassive audit that includes military people like yourself whose objective streamline and see where there is gliewt of workforce. get accountability of those troops thanks, man. brian: special on memorial day. if we don t have proper defense we will be seeing many people dying because of it. appreciate it. the emergency meeting happening in target stores across the country. why the company should be
brian: thanks, guys. steve: coming up on 7:00 here in new york city and we start this hour with a major shakeup in the race for the white house. florida governor ron desantis is set to announce his bid tonight to run for president on twitter. peter doocy is live at the white house at 7:00 eastern time and peter, tonight, is he going to be talking on twitter at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. peter: yes, and that means that this cycle, ron desantis is trying to do something that worked for the republican nominee in 2015 and 2016, which is to try to win primaries by using twitter. we ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and we ll be it will be the first time something like this is happening on social media and
special operations, we put this great human performance team behind them to set them up for success, much like the operations team behind triple seven. set us up for success as well. brian: kristin, this is something that i look at and i don t think it s possible but, getting ready for the 23-month journey is key, right? yeah, it really is. it s about making these guys as resilient as humanly possible. leading into the mission so they can manage all of the complexities and physical did he degradation that s going to happen in the seven day period is going to be profound. getting them ready. ainsley: very important. dr. parsley, you know, this because you helped make sure these guys when they are going through these situations that they are safe and they re healthy. what kinds of things can we expect? really the most important part of this is recovery. so we are using device to measure a bunch of metrics, use recovery metrics while they are training to get them as robust
is. brian: welcome back. i have been dying to talk to us about this. the send ammunition to ukraine. weapon suppliers are overcharging the pentagon and gouging us on almost everything. why? because there is too few contracting companies. let s break down the numbers as we see it. first off on ukraine and the investment. we know we have given them $37 billion under president biden. then we found out we have given them 375 million. yet, they still don t have enough. why this number seems to be extremely high. let s look back at how the cost of things changed over the years. let s look in 2015 if we can. as we switch gears 2015, for example, you you meanted to get a shoulder fired missile now 20% more than it was. they made hundreds of millions of dollars on seven deals over seven years. these are contractors selling to the pentagon and what has happened? there has been a consolidation of major corporations. so, therefore, there is no more competitiveness. there is not inspector general