joining me now is the man who just saw missouri senator eric schmitt. senator , good to see you tonight. now, biden is asking for a pentagon budget increase and it goes now to nine hundred billion dollars. so my question to you is , how are republicans? republicans continue to just rubber stamp the kind of spending, given what we just laid out, what they re actually doing within the ranks of our own military? well, i served on that armed services committee, laura , and we were asking some really tough questions today. i mean, it goes beyond, you know, first of all, the biden administration from the very beginning has injected identity politics, is really divisive ideology into everything for grants for schools with crt. and it s now made its way into the military. the military has been as apolitical, a place where it s a true american to see where people from the humblest beginnings can achieve great things no matter your skin color creed. i mean, we have ticker tape parades for people