Gen. Mark Hertling: The Nation May Need a Trump Every Once in a While...But for How Long?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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General Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the U.S. military, rising to become Commanding General of the U.S. Army Europe. Since his retirement, he has become well-known as a commentator on television and on social media. He discusses what went wrong between Trump and "his generals", the current level of dysfunction within the U.S. national security establishment, its impact on our allies, our security and morale in the military. He also speculates as to whether or not, it may actually be helpful for the U.S. to have a president like Donald Trump every so often--in much the same way that a heart-attack may help a smoker give up cigarettes. Don't miss this wide-ranging and incisive discussion.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of National Security magazine from Deep State Radio.
0:47.8	These are our one-on-one conversations with leading thought leaders in national security.
0:55.0	And today we are extremely proud and pleased to have with us General Mark Hurtling,
1:01.0	who is one of the most distinguished products of the US military in the past several decades, and maybe known to all of you as a national security and military analyst for CNN.
1:17.0	Welcome, General.
1:18.0	Well, that's quite an introduction.
1:20.6	I'm not sure the professors at the military academy
1:25.0	quite agree with you on that distinguished product but I'll take it
1:28.0	and my mother would be fried for sure.
1:30.0	Well, good, you know, I'm glad, you know, you're the only guess and we might as well, you know, get
1:35.7	give you the best possible treatmenter. So, so let's start with you know some recent developments.
1:44.0	The president two years ago, as he started,
1:50.0	and had no experience in the government made a decision to surround himself with generals, which he quickly, in Trumpian style, began to refer to as my generals.
2:05.2	And there were a bunch of them.
2:09.0	There was James Mattis,
2:12.2	at the Secretary of Defense, there was HR McMaster, there was Mike Flynn,
2:18.0	and generals got people throughout the government. now of course all those people are gone and even some of the other generals in this past week
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