The House stopped the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth 211 to 204 on the eve of Veterans Day. The articles named the strikes on drug-running boats that the President ordered, strikes some in Washington have called crimes. Hegseth told Congress what that means for the people in uniform: put the Secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow. If they want to come for the warriors, he said, they will have to come through him.
Guest host Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin, puts that warning to a man who carried out orders. Jared Hudson is a former Navy SEAL sniper who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and the founder of Covenant Rescue Group. His answer does not depend on which side of the aisle you sit on: do not be for the war, and do not be against the war. Be for the warfighter. Service members deploy where they are told, he says, and the politicians who send them owe them a straight decision: let them fight and come home to their families, or bring them home.
Then the question most Americans who never served cannot answer: how does an operator know an order is lawful? Hudson draws the line and explains why stopping fentanyl before it reaches the border falls on the right side of it.
In this clip:
• Hegseth: "This is not about me"
• What a SEAL team hears when Congress talks about a trial
• "Don't be for the war. Be for the warfighter"
• How an operator knows an order is lawful
Call 202-224-3121 and thank your member of Congress if they voted to stop this impeachment. Watch the full episode at jennybethshow.com and learn more at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — A few good men
00:15 — Hegseth: "This is not about me"
00:52 — What a SEAL team hears when Congress talks about a trial
01:25 — "Don't be for the war. Be for the warfighter"
02:18 — They deploy where they are told
03:03 — How does an operator know an order is lawful?
03:35 — The clearest example of an unlawful order
04:22 — Why operators stand in the gap
05:07 — Both parties play both sides
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