Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

Wow, to jump ahead a day, I just saw Senator Marco Rubio,

whose confirmation hearing is tomorrow for Secretary of State,

will say in his opening remarks that China has lied and cheated its way to superpower status

at the expense of the United States.

According to the... Every syllable true. Absolutely. Man, I love a secretary of state coming in that that's his opening point of view.

That's freaking awesome. Time to call a spade a spade and a communist, a communist.

But for today...

Wake up America.

Grow up. Stand up.

Get up.

For today, it's, uh, pull your socks up, as John Lennon would say.

Right.

Um, Pete Higgseth is trying to be confirmed as Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense.

And in cases you don't follow this sort of stuff very closely, it's worth knowing that

for a lot of the media and the politicians themselves, it's just yay our side or boo our

side.

They just want to shoot down whoever the other side nominates with some

sort of feeling that if they have to go to their second choice, you've won something,

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