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It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

I was just watching the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, giving a talk to the 800 military leaders he had summoned to Quantigo, Virginia, from around the world.

And basically, he said, everything you were doing in the past was wrong.

Promotions of risk-averse officers. And basically, he said, everything you were doing in the past was wrong.

Promotions of risk-averse officers.

And he also talked about the role of women in combat and they're physically not as strong as men.

And basically arguing that, okay, but since President Trump came into office, we're going to do this right. We're changing the way we approach problems around the world. We're installing a warrior

culture. And I don't know what the assembled brass thought about that.

Number one, I've spared you this up until basically the last day, but it does look

extremely likely that the government will shut down at midnight tonight, Tuesday.

President Trump and top Democrats failed to strike an agreement during a private meeting

with Chuck Schumer pointing to large differences on health care and J.D. Vance

saying the government was probably headed to a shutdown. Each side blamed the other. Now,

I got to stop here and say, not only will a shutdown cost a lot of money because of all the

preparations you have to make, what vital services have to keep going, and all of that.

And even if it lasts for a few days,

there's the real-life impact of, you know,

tourists won't be able to go to the Washington mine,

and all of that, all of that stuff.

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