Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday, June 12th.

Happy Thursday, folks. The weekend is almost here. Pete Hankseth on Capitol Hill today talking about

the defense spending bill that he's going to need for his Pentagon, saying the DOD was spending

tens of millions of dollars a year sticking marbles in the rear ends of cats in his jaw-dropping

Senate testimony. Take a listen to his exchange with Marxist Dem, Dick Durbin.

I'll tell you what I've done about it. As chairman of this subcommittee at one point in time,

we have dramatically, dramatically increased the medical research to protect the men and women in uniform.

As we learn these things, we want to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible.

It is enough for me that they risk their lives for our country.

We shouldn't make it a more dangerous situation, and we ought to understand what's going on in their minds

and their bodies when they serve.

And as a result of that, we have dramatically increased defense medical research.

I think we owe it to the men and women in uniform.

Your budget cuts two-thirds, two-thirds of that amount for defense health research.

How can that be consistent with our mutual goal of making the military life a safer life for our men and women uniform? Well, Senator, I would

take issue with your characterization that all two-thirds of that, whatever was reduced, is focused

on the issues that you just spoke about, because those are issues that as a secretary

who's very close to these issues and knows people close to these issues, my team knows that's

exactly the type of research that we would fund. But we did find lots of other research

inside the Defense Department to the tens and millions, and in some cases cases hundreds of millions of dollars that was a

boondoggle for the American people why do you say give me an example of a boondoggle in medical

research and there are multiple i mean we're talking about some stuff i shouldn't shouldn't say in

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