Know, our military leaders, and rank and file people in the military, they hate this debate being hijacked by such social issues and they will always say, they ve always said, you want to debate abortion? debate abortion, that is fine. but don t bring us into that debate. we are about protecting america. they are making our troops into political pawns, that s what they are doing. the d.o.d. doesn t want any of this. our troops don t want it, they don t want to be used for politics in washington, but that is what the republicans are doing with this bill. yeah, jim? congressman, the senate was senator tuberville holding up having the senate approved military promotions and said that there is not a confirmed chairman of the joint chiefs, which is kind of mind-blowing. can you explain, based on your experience in the military, what the impact that that has? like, i come from a military family, i ve had members of my
Right to bear arms. it s because their guy quote unquote donald trump was not the election wasn t stolen for him. convention this is this is an an array convention. your election convention? no, i m saying it s like it s not because of his position on guns. it s because they wanted him to steal the election for them, and so you know, it doesn t matter. it s also is like then what value is an r? a. if you aren t looking for candidates that really protect policy position, you re agreeing. um what? what do you make of it? interesting the booing sometimes doesn t mean that they re upset with you at the time. sometimes it s getting you you two know we re on you. you better do the right thing. it s a warning. sometimes some warning shot that says. we re coming after you unless you are giving us everything we need. and speaking of the nra, i mean, the candidates were were all out there talking about their position in line with the line with the nra. i know that you are a student at marjorie d
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The city too busy to hate. we re gonna help people. priestly protests, but we re also not gonna allow people to get out of line. and i think the people in our state know that and anybody that s coming from out of our state that doesn t realize that they are in for a rude awakening. but i would just say that s why we cannot get distracted. i mean, you can have whatever opinion you want, whether these investigations or grand jury, um things that have been going on or politically motivated or not, or you know why they taken so long and some instances, but regardless of that, that is not what we can focus on every day. you know i can t control um you know what the judicial branch is doing or what a local prosecutor is doing in many ways. um but what we can control is what we re focused on . and that s exactly what my message was to republicans and that s what we just finished doing in our legislative session that ended just a few weeks ago , we sent a billion dollars back to the taxpayers.
Against leaks in the future. but the intelligence community believes that the u. s military is still kind of the weak link because so many people have security clearances, and dod doesn t vet them as vigorously as they re vetted in the cia or the nsa example. you re also on the armed services committee. do you agree with that assessment? is the military a weak link when it comes to this sort of thing, type of questions we re going to ask and hearing we re going to have an all senators briefing this week, but we will also be having hearings in the intelligence committee and in the armed services committee. we need to know the fact. we need to know. who the chairman was why he felt he had the authority or ability to show off confidential documents. secret documents to his friends. um it sounds like he was extremely immature and someone who did not understand the weight and the importance of these documents, and so we need to figure it out and put proper protections in place. according to