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Learn more at NEI Academy.org. Today, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth spoke to

nearly the entire senior officer corps of the military. It was an unprecedented gathering at a

marine base just south of Washington. Hegeseth announced new directives. And as Nick Schifrin reports, the president laid out a

vision to use the military not against overseas enemies, but for threats he sees here at home.

Today, speaking to a sea of generals and admirals, whose experience was forged by two decades of

foreign wars, the commander-in-chief said their chief enemy was domestic.

We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national

guard, but military.

The Trump administration has deployed active duty Marines and National Guard to Los Angeles,

as well as guardsmen to Washington, D.C.

But they've spent more time strolling than training.

And President Trump vows to deploy troops into Chicago, Memphis, and Portland.

Defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. That's what it is.

Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia,

while America is under invasion from within.

For years, the senior officers in today's room not only led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

and Special Operations Forces troops across more than 80 countries, they've also been

trained and educated all their careers to believe the U.S. military should not be deployed

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