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Wednesday, the 4th of March, and we join you from Texas. Hugh is out today, and the talk show gods are smiling.

There are all kinds of things going on around the world, obviously.

I think you know why they call it the Department of War now, don't you?

Defense was lovely.

Defense is part of the gig, but when it's time for war, you need a Department of War,

and boy, do we have one.

So we're going to talk about

various trouble spots around the world, talk about various conflicts, including one of the ones

that we may be about to have right here in my state of Texas. Listen, we've got all kinds of things

going on, a big slate of guests, all kinds of people to talk to. We stand in this war effort

at a critical juncture. It's always a

critical juncture, I know. But what we have right now is people in a media culture and people

in Democrat culture, which may be an oxymoron, who actively want America to fail. And what exactly

are we to make of that?

What exactly?

What, what, I've reflected with people about this.

I've thought about it in my own mind.

What do I want of the Democrat Party when a Republican president and the military that is at his command,

his commander in chief, when they are going about an

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