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This is America first and here's your host Dr. Sebastian Gorka.

What should the Secretary of Defense do? What's his job? It's not a trick question.

It's a question that's very relevant given recent developments, not just in the last few days,

but in the last few months and years. I'll play you an audio cut to demonstrate just how

significant a question that is, but first this is America first. On the Salem Radio Network,

with me, your host Sebastian Gorka, the current incumbent of the outfit over there, as Joe Biden calls

the Pentagon, the largest building in the world, as a retired general, by statute, shouldn't be

allowed to be Secretary of Defense because not enough time has elapsed since he took off his

stars on his shoulders, and became a civilian, but hey, I guess it's just statute. His name is Lloyd

Austin, and this is what he thinks is the problem with the national security environment, audio cut to.

The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies, but we can't do that

if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks. Enemies within our own ranks.

His boss, Joe Biden, who can't remember the Secretary of Defense's name, he couldn't remember it.

In an event last week when he had two females standing behind him who he had promoted to four

star, like props, like meat puppets, he gave a speech about the really important things in the US

military. This is video cut 18 play cuts. Some of it's relatively straightforward work,

where we're making good progress, designing body armor that fits women properly,

tailoring combat uniforms for women, creating maternity flight suits, updating

our updating requirements for their hair styles. Updating hair styles.

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