Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.

Good night and good luck.

Hey everybody. It's Rick. Welcome to the elephant in the room.

Every week we try to pull back the curtain on something we think is happening in the country that people are not paying enough attention to and to explain why we think it's important.

By the way, you just saw a black cat creep out from behind me.

That's Zurich.

He is very shy.

The elephant in the room this week is civilian control of the military.

This has been since George Washington, since our first president, since even before he became president,

America had a sacred tradition of civilian control of the military. We did not cross the streams.

We did not allow presidents, and presidents did not seek, by the way, to control the military as a political force, to force military members to conform to the party or the ideology of the president at the time, or to use them against American

civilians. This week, Donald Trump has penetrated those final barriers. He's crossed those

rubricons. At Fort Bragg this week, there was an absolutely repugnant, utterly repulsive display.

While Trump went to Fort Bragg, gave a speech, they hand. They hand selected from reporting that we've seen

today, or excuse me, on Thursday. They hand selected members of the audience who looked the part.

They hand-selected members of the audience based in some reporting on their political opinions.

These are young soldiers. These are young adults, 18, 19, 2021. Every single one of these people in that room should have been told by command, this is not a political event.

You will be polite.

You will not engage in clapping or demonstrations for or against any of the president's statements that come in the political space.

But Trump couldn't resist breaking that barrier.

So you have these young men and women clapping at

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