And you don't have the major American newspapers in there.

And he actually thought he thought he could get away with it.

He thought he could get away with doing whatever he wanted to do inside the Pentagon

because he has a news he has a news source run by a Chinese religious cult reporting on him instead of the Wall Street Journal.

Laura Lumer has a desk in the press room at the Pentagon now, not the Washington Post, Washington Post delivering these stories.

I do want to talk about some of the legacy platforms that I've long been a critic of. I'll start with the F-35.

They cost about $100 million a copy.

What percentage of the F-35 are fully mission-capable today?

So, that's a great question, Matt, and I appreciate you getting after it, because not enough.

Not enough.

It is the most capable fighter that we have right now.

When it flies.

When it flies, you're right, it is the most capable fighter.

What we have right now, and you saw just last month in the acquisition speech, is a department

and leadership that's willing to get after it to challenge industry to produce better.

Yeah, but what percentage of them can fly?

So not enough.

Not enough. Yeah, but you just of them can fly? So not enough. Not enough.

Yeah, but you just called it our most capable platform and less than 40% of them, by my last

review of the Air Force's statements, are fully mission capable.

Why is it not failure for a platform to perform at less than 40% when it costs $100 million.

So, Matt, looking at it holistically, sure, you can throw out the number 40%.

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