underwater? we ll cover all of this on fox news today. keep it tuned here. our armed forces are facing a major recruitment problem. you know that. republicans say our military s progressive push is to blame. they are hurting the military and not helping. we have to stop the woke ideology we see at the pentagon. you have to make sure the military is about that mission of keeping america safe, secure and free. harris: however, the army s top civilian leader says the criticism itself is the problem. the quote. we are a ready army, not a woke army. that drip of criticism about a woke army i do think is having some counterproductive effects on recruiting, end quote. a reminder that for fiscal year 2022 army recruitment fell by 15,000 short of what they need. the branch achieveed just 75% of
well. people, the recruitment numbers are horribly down. you ve got people looking at, well, who s the commander in chief, who is the vice president, and it s like virtue signaling. it s still stuck in virtue signal, and that then reverberates to all those thank god that they re at west point and that they made their commitment. but, of course, people are concerned about the military the, the brass, what young people like that are being taught and what the impact will be when they re really needed to have to deliver. joey: yeah. listen, the recruitment problem is something we ve dealt with or have seen coming for more than a decade. this doesn t hang around one add administration s neck, it s not just woke culture. it s the detier deterioration of american culture. the idea that we spent 20 the years waging a war that we couldn t explain to the those fighting it what their goals were. every administration since george w. bush has a responsibility and a little bit of blame on what s g
gaming search if we see in this case. look, with the pentagon what they won t say is that they ve got a recruitment problem in terms of the numbers. we re falling short. and so that means that they need to get people on board faster than maybe a more rigorous review will allow. so you just have that tension between recruitment and then of course radicalization. but i will say, looking at this case, and in many of these cases, this is a command staff problem. one mistake may be i m just looking at the wrong stuff. two reprimands, as we know he s already had, is something weird is going on with this guy. by the third, when the with the disciplinary officer says why is he looking at things he shouldn t be looking at, like red alarms should be going off at that stage. so i view this as a command staff problem as much as a recruitment problem. john, the memos show
coming up for replacement. including the chief of staff of the army, the chief of naval operations, the head of the navy, the chairman of the joint chiefs, he s due to retire in late september, early october. there are a bunch of big names and big jobs that are going to be coming up here, katy, and if this is not resolved, they will be held up, and then we will see not only the impact on the families, we will see a real impact on the military leadership because of senator tuberville s hold here. tuberville says the readiness issue is not because of that. it s because democrats want to get white nationalists out of the military. what has the pentagon said about that? senator tuberville is right. there is a continuing recruitment problem in the military, across all services. that was the case in 2022, it continues to be the case now in 23. he s absolutely right about that. but the numbers done really support that it has anything to do with white nationalism or some of the argues we
cause of the crisis. young americans join the military because they want to serve our nation. they join to become warriors. they don t join to become social justice warriors. harris: all the backlash summed up in the headlines. going woke won t fix the military s recruitment problem. another. navy s drag queen a symbol of cultural knar sis many. the navy s bud light moment. marc thiessen and patrick murphy. great to see you both. congressman. you served. what do you say about a program using drag queens to try to recruit? well harris, thanks for having me on. the good news is that as you reported last segment there are 12.7 new jobs in america the last 12 years. the bad news is we are hurting. we are short in warriors joining