Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. It has been a hectic week in Washington as we've been watching all of these hearings.

And the first hearing that we were watching, we had Pete Hegseth, who was out there.

He was a champ going through all of these, this harassment.

And then he had a bit of a champion of his own in Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from the great state of Oklahoma, and we have him here with us today.

Senator, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me on.

So I think that you said things that we were all thinking, and I just want to, and even things that people haven't actually

said out loud. So I want to play one of the clips from the hearing that you talked about

qualifications. And I think it is so key because we go through these elections every two years

or every six years. And how much do you really know about somebody?

But then these guys just get grilled in the public for three hours and sometimes a second

time.

So first I want to play this clip and then I want to get to your reaction to what people

said to you afterward.

I'm just making a point because there's a lot about qualifications.

I think it's so hypocritical

of senators, especially on the other side of how he'll be talking about his qualifications,

not going to lead the secretary or be the secretary defense. And yet your qualifications aren't any

better. You guys aren't any more qualified to be the senator than I'm qualified to be the

center except we're lucky enough to be here. I mean, such a good point that you said, but we're

lucky enough to be here because it is an honor to serve in that role. And Senator, I'm so appreciative

that you are here today with us to talk about this, but nobody really says that.

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