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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello, America.

Welcome, it is Eric Erickson.

My goodness, I've been chomping at the bit to get on here today.

I wish I could have gotten the show started early because we got a lot to go.

I have caught CNN, the cable news network that prides itself on its factual broadcast. And I have caught them in a lie attempting to smear the president of the United States.

It's actually a really big freaking deal.

We've got to begin with the Secretary of Defense.

And what the Secretary of Defense did this morning. The Secretary of Defense having a press conference tearing into the media.

How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours?

Has MSNBC done that story? As Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is? Have we done it two or three times so that American people understand how about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from an F-15 or 16 or F-22 or F-35? Or what it's like to man a Patriot battery? Or how hard it is to refuel mid-air, giving the American people an understanding of how

complex and sophisticated this mission really was.

There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred

of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful.

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