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So yesterday, the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States spoke before

hundreds of top military leaders.

Now, this had been touted for a few days in advance, the idea that basically all the top brass in the U.S. military was going to gather in one place in Virginia at the Marine Corps base in Quantico.

And there's a lot of speculation as to what this meeting was going to be about.

Was it going to be a sort of announcement of forward facing in Ukraine or with regard to China?

Was it going to be about Venezuela? Well, actually, as it turns out, it was going to be a speech

from Pete Hagsath, the Secretary of War and the President of the United States about

recalibrating our military approach, particularly internally.

So Pete Heggseth has spoken about this a lot over the past few years.

If you go back and you watch an episode of the Sunday special that I did with Pete Hegseth about a year ago, he had a new book out in which he was talking about wokeness in the military, lowered standards in the military,

the fact that more militaries around the world were not fearing us as much because we had

implemented all of these left-wing ideologies within the military. This has been a big bugaboos

of Pete's for legitimately years. Well, now he has the opportunity to change all that because,

of course, he sits atop the Department of Defense.

The event, according to the Washington Post, was organized by Hegeseth's team at the Pentagon.

And again, it did summon generals and admirals from command posts throughout the world to Virginia.

Washington General Dan Kane, Trump's hand-selected chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

told attendees in his opening comments the event was an unprecedented opportunity and honor for assembled senior

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