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Velshi

Purges, Cuts, and Turnabouts

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Seth Moulton, Rep. Brendan Boyle, former HHS Secretary and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt III, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Yaroslav Trofimov.

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0:00.0

Well, she starts now.

0:10.0

Hey, good morning. It's Saturday, February the 22nd, day 34 of Donald Trump's second term. And boy, it has been an active and busy a few days of the second term. We've been seeing purges across the government,

0:22.4

including last night, where the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the country's top

0:27.6

military leaders, has been removed from his job. It's General Charles CQ Brown, the chairman

0:34.6

of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's the highest ranking military post in the

0:38.1

country. Brown was the only second black person to hold that position. According to NBC News reporting,

0:43.8

Secretary of Defense Pete Hanks has called the general last night to deliver the news.

0:48.3

Moments later, President Trump posted a statement about Brown's termination on social media.

0:53.0

President added that he intends to

0:54.6

nominate the retired three-star Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Raisin Kane as the next joint

1:01.5

chiefs of staff to replace Brown. In his post, the president praised Kane as a warfighter and

1:06.5

said that he was, quote, instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS Caliphate.

1:11.3

In all, six Pentagon officials were fired last night. In addition to General Brown,

1:15.9

the administration dismissed the chief of naval operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti.

1:20.9

She's the first woman to lead the Navy. In his most recent book published before he was

1:25.3

nominated to serve in Trump's cabinet, Defense Secretary Pete Higgis derided Franchetti's promotion, suggesting it

1:32.7

was only because she was a woman. Also fired last night, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff

1:38.1

General James Slife, and three Jags, Judge Advocates General, the top lawyers in the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force.

1:46.9

For more on this, I'm joined by the Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.

1:51.0

He's a member of the House Armed Services Committee, former 2020 presidential candidate.

1:54.7

He previously served as a Marine Corps officer in Iraq.

1:58.8

Congressman, good to see you.

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