“Protect My Vets”
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Secretary of the VA Doug Collins went viral recently for taking a reporter to task in a way that all media should be held to account. It was beautiful and important. See the exchange as we talk to our old pal, Doug, who is the perfect fit to protect Veterans.
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Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Michelle, we're always going to have issues that we're not going to do it right. But it's amazing to me. |
| 0:05.6 | I've walked in here and to hear some of our critics over the last few weeks, you would think that the VA was perfect before we got here. |
| 0:11.9 | I mean, yeah. I'm so glad you put it in those terms because, yeah, now everything suddenly it was perfect before Trump. |
| 0:21.9 | USAID was virtuous and perfect. |
| 0:24.6 | The IRS is perfect the way it is. |
| 0:27.3 | The federal government is perfect with all of its blow. |
| 0:30.2 | Don't touch a thing. |
| 0:31.3 | How could you possibly fire a federal worker? |
| 0:33.7 | People get fired in every industry every single day. |
| 0:44.9 | He is now Secretary Douglas Collins, the Honorable Douglas A. Collins, named the 12th Secretary |
| 0:51.8 | of the VA by current President Donald Trump. You may have seen Doug |
| 0:55.7 | Collins on this show before. He used to have a podcast on this same network. And we did each other's |
| 1:00.9 | shows quite often and he's become a friend. But now he's become a voice for the veterans. And he is |
| 1:07.7 | a passionate voice and an honest voice and a transparent voice. |
| 1:12.2 | He is super well educated. |
| 1:14.4 | He's also served as an Air Force chaplain. |
| 1:16.3 | He's a veteran. |
| 1:16.9 | He's a lawyer. |
| 1:17.5 | He was in Congress. |
| 1:19.1 | The guy's been around. |
| 1:20.6 | But the thing that I love about Doug Collins is he is just authentically who he is. |
| 1:26.2 | He's going to say what he believes. |
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