Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

It's a wall builder show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

And we're sticking with the hot topic of a new federal government.

Essentially, I mean, we're getting a real remake of the federal government.

At least we could.

If everything that Donald Trump is saying and his new term comes to pass, it's going to be

incredibly interesting. So I'm at Greene here with David and Tim Barton. And guys, yesterday, we were

talking about some of the appointments. And we couldn't get through all of them. There's more now.

But we'll try to get through as many as we can today. And David, as we were signing off yesterday, you said you had some thoughts that might go a little bit of different directions. So let's just toss it to you, man. What were you thinking about those appointments? Well, you know, we were talking about Secretary of Defense. And PG has is kind of a surprise nomination. As Tim pointed out, he has military credentials, but it's not

necessarily really strong. There's a National Guard service, and there's no question he loves

America. He loves military history, you know, the book he did in on the Barbary Pirates and Muslims

and Christians back in the early days, all that's really good stuff. And with that, here's what I think

is really important with that.

If you have a guy that loves America, and if you have a guy that is militarily aware and experienced,

and you have a guy that is willing to carry water for the Defense Department, the question I have

then becomes, who are the people close around you?

Because this is one of the lessons Trump learned in his first term that really cost him.

He trusted all the military guys around him because they were the experts.

And he found out late in his term that just because they're experts doesn't mean that

they love America the same.

And particularly, I think what surprised him was I think he thought that if you're in the

Pentagon and you're a one two three four star general you you've earned that and militarily if

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