Welcome to Beg to Bue to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable Discussion, featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars Bill

Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker, who writes the

sub-stack newsletter,

Notes from the Middle Ground, and Linda Chavez

of the Niskanin Center.

And Linda is joining us today,

even though she is not feeling well,

she's down with COVID for the second time,

but has managed to get here anyway, which we appreciate.

Our special guest this week is Cori Shaki,

director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise

Institute. So welcome, one and all. Corey, I'm so glad that you were able to make it this week because we need a refresher on foreign and defense policy and particularly I want to hear your views on what's going on with Senator Tommy Tuberville.

As of now, the nominations of 301 senior military leaders, including

the commandant of the Marine Corps and others others have been held up because Senator Tubberville does not approve of the Defense Department policy on giving liberal leave people to seek abortion services in states other than the one they're stationed in or something like that.

And because of this, he is holding up all military promotions.

It would be funny if it weren't so serious.

Well, it is still kind of funny,

but I looked on the Defense Department website.

And they said that soon the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is going to be just joint chief of staff.

That is a good line.

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