And now for a moment of clarity.

What Secretary Hegseth said about it being fortified could be true.

In fact, but it's how it was fortified that I think is interesting to me as I read that piece.

It may have had T walls, big concrete six foot walls around that tactical

operations center, which would in fact make it quote unquote fortified, but was it fortified

against an air attack?

Was it fortified against a drone coming from up high?

And that's, I think, an open question.

It is possible that it wasn't.

So both things can be true. Fortified but not necessarily fortified against the threat.

So the accounts given by those soldiers, that certainly is alarming and interesting.

And I hope that when the Central Command finishes this investigation, that they'll be, you know, completely transparent and fulsome in describing what

they found. And more critically, what, if any, lessons learned they got out of it and what changes

they might have to implement to force protection going forward. I don't know how we meet that

expectation or how this administration meets that expectation when everything virtually coming out

of them is a lie or a reframing of facts to meet a storyline and a narrative, John, that they

want to perpetuate. This for them is a video game. This is a television series. You know,

listen to the Secretary of Defense.

We don't have a Department of War People, but it's the Secretary of Defense sitting up here,

talking the way he talks.

These young men and women, what is their expectation when they go into battle?

And, you know, that's not going to be their reality.

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