that is what i m talking about. there is no set rules on this. it is just, hey, if you want to have one, have it, we ll pay for your flight anywhere to a state that can do it, we ll give you three weeks off paid, that doesn t come off of your time off as a service member? there is a lot added to this and it will be charged to the taxpayer. seven former u.s. defense secretaries including two who served under former president trump disagree with you. and they signed a letter to senate leaders saying your, as areing military readys and risks turns them into military pawns. and there are pretty important positions that you are holding up critical to checking iranian and chinese aggression. are you saying that you know better than those seven former defense secretaries? first of all, those secretary of defenses were nominees, they weren t elected. i was elected to represent the
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yet, but that is one of the markers that i m watching very closely. i m also watching prigozhin himself. you ve heard mike mcfaul a few moments ago talking about his lack of communication. i think that s consistent with him been sidelined. i would not, to be honest, be surprised to see shoigu leave. you ve served in government alongside, may you think about responsibility and accountability when military campaigns fail. we do that in the united states. our defense secretaries our service chiefs, our combat commanders, they would all have been fired by now after this real lack of performance. you know that. i would not be surprised to see shoigu move to the side as well. admirable james stavridis, thank you as always for sharing specific and helpful analysis with us. my next guest says things are
investigation as inherently political, nothing to see here, the fact that you don t have former defense secretaries or cia directors or for that matter democratic senators out there making the case that mark esper and bill barr made, i think that there are democrats who find that a little mystifying. what is behind that do you think? is there a push to get more people out there and to be more vocal and there is resistance to it? yeah, i think well, what is behind it is that the biden administration is reluctant do anything that would feed into that narrative that it is inherently political. there is this kind of an excess of caution. it goes with their broader view that governing, you know, is the key contrast with the kind of chaos that always surrounds donald trump. but i think that there are a lot of democrats who are uneasy with how silent the broad party has been including former national security official in the midst of this very sustained attempt