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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hey, everybody, I'm David Zier. You're watching Breaking Point. Unreal. America's Voice News. I had an incredible week traveling last Monday on February 9 with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and our super cameraman Jonas Sellers. And we traveled on the C40 jet from joint Base Andrews and went to Quonset Point, Rhode island, to the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, where we're making the Columbia class submarines, which will replace the Ohio class submarines. These things are massive. These people were awesome. 2,500 employees were screaming up and down, jumping up and down for Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. It was really amazing. And then we did an enrollment ceremony for new recruits to the US Navy, and Hegseth administered their oath of service to them. And then we were off in the jet again to Bath, maine, where over 5,000 vessels have been made over the last 400 years up there. And General Dynamics took it over in 2020. It's the home to our guided missile destroyer Arleigh Burke. Aegis class destroyers. These things are powerhouses. It's the most successful naval program since World War II. Check out all this great time we had on the ground and. And just check it out. It's great on the ground. At Joint Base Andrews of Real America's Voice News. We're about to depart with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on our way to Rhode island for an enlistment ceremony. And then off to General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, where we build and maintain our nation's underwater fleet. And then off the Bath Iron Works in Maine on the Kennebec river, where they've made thousands of ships, including the Arleigh Burke destroyer class, the most successful shipbuilding program post World War II. And we've got a whole new fleet of high tech ships that'll be coming out. And this is part of Secretary Hegseth's arsenal of freedom tour and rapid capabilities, delivering new weapon systems at speed and scale to our troops. And we'll be bringing you more throughout.
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Good morning, everybody. Good morning. How we doing? We're going to forget there was a football game last night. All right, Jisoo. Great to see a room full of real patriots. Great Americans, great men, great women's willing to put the uniform on. So many around us here already, we're in the uniform in this beautiful space. And then the families right in front of us who raised these great patriots, it spilled in them the values and the virtues, the Principles and the discipline necessary make a really difficult choice, the choice that most Americans won't make to raise their right hand to defend something greater than themselves. Godly country and the Constitution. It's a really special thing. Spent the weekend with, you know, with all my kids, like many of you, and you look them in the eye and you love them. And one of them broke his wrist this weekend, had put a cast on playing basketball. You go through the ups and the downs of life with these youngsters, and then they reach an age where they can make their own decisions. And I pray that as a father, you raise young men and women willing to think above and beyond themselves that might be willing to wear one of these sweatshirts or T shirts and raise their right hand in the country, because it means you've instilled in them values beyond just what's right in front of them. That's critically important, and the nation needs that. You see, a couple years ago, it was tough to get people to enlist in the United States military. The numbers were low and getting lower. They were lowering the goals to meet the goals. Last year, we set historic records of young Americans who want to raise their right hand. And this year, we are breaking those records again. Because, as President Trump puts it, there's a spirit in our. In our ranks, in our country, and all of you are a reflection of that. And you're about to stand on the shoulders of giants. So there are men and women just like you all around the world right now. Red Sea, the Caribbean, the deserts and mountains, wearing one word. We're celebrating athletes in Italy as well. It's pretty cool. Thirteen of them actually are members of our Service. We have 13 military members as Levians as well. And all of those folks in Italy are wearing TV usa, and they get to do that once every four years for the winter elephants. You guys wear TV USA on your chest every single day. And we are. We couldn't be more proud of what you do and why you're doing it. And our job at the War Department is to have your back and then give you the systems out there that are second none. Which is why we're on an arsenal of free you tour right now up here in New England, talking to companies who filmed the most sophisticated subs and ships and weapons that our nation needs. But what we said on this tour is everywhere we go, we want to stop and see young trees who are enlisting to serve our nation. Because ultimately, it is those men, those women, who employ those systems. You are the real cerebral weapon of the United States of America. No other country produces young men and women license. So thank you for the perspective you have and your willingness to make this choice. Thank you to the families who are giving us the most special gift you could give. It's our job to be responsible of that, ensure that we're trained properly, employing properly. And certainly you have a president of the United States who's going to have their back in every single circumstance. So congratulations to this group. Thank you for joining the most ferocious discipline fighting force the world has ever seen. And some of you are going to be in some car class. This ecosystem of our defense industrial base which is the best in the world. It truly is. I was over at Electric Boat. They make incredible Virginia and Columbia Clyde and it's incredible, exquisite. But it's also too tethered to an existing pipeline that has become too slow, cost too much, fixed timelines that always extend. We. So we get. You don't get what we need when we need it time and time and time again. That frustration emanates all the way from the Oval Office. Trust me, I hear it every day. People need more, we need it faster. We need these capabilities. Why don't we have enough? And that's where we turn to existing companies to do more. And that's a big part of it. But a huge part of the Arsenal Freedom Tour and reviving our defense industrial base is opening up the aperture for new competitors like Ian. Because I don't actually care whose name is on the side of a suffering or a missile, but company don't care. Not my job. That's your CEO's job and the other company's job to out compete who wins in that scenario. Usa. Usa. Usa. Usa. Usa. U.s.a. usa. Usa. Usa. All right, good morning, quonscent point. What do we build? What do we build? We are the arsenal of Rio. We are the arsenal of Rio.
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We're on the ground at General Dynamics Electric boat division here in Rhode Island. They're the largest employer of Connecticut and Rhode island with 25,000 employees. They're adding another 8,000 employees. Pete Hegg said the Secretary of War about to take destroyers stage here. We got this incredible crowd here. Unbelievable energy in the room here. They're going to be putting out their 66% done with the first Columbia class submarine to replace the entire fleet of the Ohio class submarines. These things have nuclear reactors that can last for 30 years. Just incredible. The jobs, the enthusiasm and the rapid capabilities concept through Trump's defense acquisition executive order that was codified in the NDAA this Goes across the services. And this is part of the arsenal of Freedom Torpedox that will be on the ground in Bath, Maine later at the Bath Ironworks, another General Dynamics facility. They're kicking out the Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers. Incredible product here. We just kicked out the third generation with the Lewis Wilson. This crowd is really fired up here. Really awesome. Feels like America's back. David's here for real America's voice news.
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Are you fired up? Well then join me as only 3,000 badass shipbuilders can, in welcoming the United States Secretary of War, the honorable Pete Hagseth. This is why we are on the arsenal of freedom tour. You know, right here in the front row, we got a lot of uniform members, Navy sailors. Good to see you. And it's actually the perfect visual because we got uniform right here. They raised their right hand to serve this nation. They're going to be in these beautiful submarines that you're building. But look who's behind them. All those hard hats, every single hard hat out here, and the jobs that you do and the way that you work enables these Americans right here in this front row to do their job on behalf of the American people. That's what the Arsenal of Freedom Tour is all about. Yes, we. I just got done swearing in some young, young Americans who are enlisting in the armed forces. It's incredible. And look their families in the eye and thank their families for raising such great Americans who know that they serve something bigger than themselves, God and country in the Constitution. It's a beautiful thing. And we celebrate those folks, the real 1%, a lot. But what we haven't done in this country for far too long is also honor the men and women who do the hard work of American manufacturing, of American engineering, of American shipbuilding and welding, all the things that are done in this place that enable the kind of exquisite capabilities we are surrounded by that no other country on planet Earth can bring to bear. And before President Trump, he did it in his first term. He's doing it again. We lived under some internationalist, globalist fantasy that we could just outsource our jobs to other countries, outsource our capabilities and our supply chains to foreign countries, and flowed into some perfect utopian world run by international bureaucrats. Everybody in here knows that's fake. Everybody in here knows that's not true. And everybody in here knows that some distant capital run by bureaucrats and internationalists and globalists doesn't care about you and your family, doesn't care about the United States of America, doesn't care about our sovereignty and our borders, doesn't care about our jobs in our communities, certainly doesn't care about the defense of our country. But you do. But this company does. But this department. What do we think of the new name of the Department of War? We are the strength department, built to ensure peace for our people. See, it's our unity. That's our strength. It's our shared mission. That's our strength. It's what we fight for together. That is our strength. Training, discipline, accountability, readiness, lethality. The basics. What the military was built to do on behalf of the American people. We're not a social experiment. We're not doing social engineering. We're not doing social justice. We're not doing politically correct. We're going to fight and win our nation's wars. We're rebuilding our military. That's why we're here. Had a chance to spend time with your executives? They're driving fast. They're Driving hard. They also know this is not about corporate profits. It's not about stock buybacks. It's not about CEO salaries. It's not about Wall Street. It's about real capabilities. It's about the workers that do the hard work. It's about ensuring folks are paid the way they should and treated the way they should. And that you're incentivized to invest in this business, in faster processes, so you're more efficient and more effective in what you do. Rebuilding our military. President Trump did it once and we're doing it again. And it takes intentionality. It's not just about a higher top line budget, although that's important, too. And President Trump has pledged next year to spend $1.5 trillion on defense. That's a signal to the world. Yeah, you better build faster. You guys aren't going anywhere. We need this facility. We need you, we need these subs, we need these capabilities, and we need them yesterday. And I could feel that urgency in this building. I can feel it from your leadership. I was taking a tour down that part of this warehouse on the way, and I could hear all of you. I was totally distracted and I heard nothing because I could feel the energy coming out of this place from all of you. We're rebuilding that military because of Americans like you. And third, restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military and reestablishing deterrence. You see, deterrence is an active thing. It's not simply reputational. You can have a reputation until you don't. And then when you don't have that reputation anymore, adversaries take advantage, whether it's on a street corner or geopolitically. And what we saw in the previous administration, whether starting with a disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, what happened when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, what happened on our southwest border with the invasion, what happened with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which never would have happened under President Trump. You saw the world, saw a different America where they thought we were open for challenge. The American people voted for something else. They voted for a commander in chief who will defend American interests and Americans here in our hemisphere and around the world. And so that meant locking down our southern border. We've gone nine months without any crossing of America's southwest border. Again. No other country in the history of the world is capable of such projection of military might. And President Trump has pledged we will use that might to deter conflict, to ensure that American interests are advanced, Americans are secure. And that's how you see that power projection being used. It's a Reestablishing of deterrence. So when the President says to Iran, hey, you should not pursue a nuclear weapon, Iran would be wise to negotiate. And just like every other place around the globe, when the President speaks, he means business. But the point of this arsenal of freedom tour is actually a simple one. That's a lot of talk about who we are and what we believe. It's to look you in the eye and thank you for what you do, to tell you that we see it from the halls of the Pentagon. We track it in the halls of the Pentagon. We watch your, your build rate, how fast you're going, where are your bottlenecks, how can you go faster? We talk to your executives. What more can we do? How do we speed you up? Where do you need to invest for better facilities? How do you take care of your workers? How do we ensure that these exquisite capabilities pump out as fast as possible to ensure that any adversary in our hemisphere or around the world knows that today is not the day. And it's this capability specifically that you are all very well aware of, that is the difference maker oftentimes in whether or not an adversary will decide to mess with this. You can't see it, you can't find it, you don't know where it is. It's a silent hunter. And the thing is our adversaries know exactly what it's capable of and that's what scares them. But they don't know where it is and they can't find it. And it's got incredible Americans right here running it. And it's got the expertise of these Americans behind you. My team is right here with me in the front with their ear to the ground, listening to what you need. And everywhere we go we get better ideas and concepts about how to address going faster, how to ensure we get to that solution quicker, how to how we out compete our adversaries in space and undersea every single domain and is going to determine who wins the next fight. That's I was out at SpaceX. That's why we've been out at Blue Origin, that's why we've been out at Anduril. That's why we're here, that's why we're talking to big companies and small. We need every single aspect moving with the kind of urgency that we feel. Because my job is effectively simple. It's to serve all of you, to put you in a position to be overwhelmingly effective in that decisive moment where the country calls on you, where you're putting your life at risk for the man and woman next to you, but also for that flag on your shoulder. My job is. And that's why this arsenal of Freedom Tour, the defense industrial base, is so important. Because if we're getting you old equipment or we're getting you equipment three years later when you needed it yesterday, you're less effective in your fight. And so this is you, this view right here with the cameras is all an extension of your fight. And that's what the Article of Freedom Tour is all about. So I, I ask all of you, I hope you'll go home and tell your spouse how much we appreciate it. Remind your kids what you work on, whatever you can tell them about it. Remind your kids what you work on. They should be proud of the kind of work that you do, of how you invest in our defense industrial base. I look out at my kids, they're all 15 and younger. I hope they wear a uniform like this or a hat like that. No one else is coming. It's the United States or nobody else. It's you or nobody else. It's the Navy or nobody else. We can't rely on anybody else. As a country, we have to come together with all the capabilities we can bring to bear to defend this precious freedom that we all love so much. Now it's time to keep going. Run as hard and as fast as you can in the conduct of your work and know that at our level, it's appreciated, respected, and we know how important it is. God bless you, Godspeed, and God bless our warriors. Thank you all very much.
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We'll be right back with more Breaking Point on Real America's Voice news. Last Monday was extraordinary. Traveling with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Amanda, the troops love him. I've been covering the rapid capabilities of the U.S. navy, the Army Space Command for a couple of months now. And there's a sea change going on in the military and the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth promising to cut through the red tape. And he says that Trump and him don't care if the defense contractors don't produce stuff on time. They have no problem. And they don't want, you know, these big CEOs making all this money and then dragging out these military projects out for years and years and years, and that we can't spend 10 years at a time designing specs for our military equipment. Something like the Bradley fighting vehicle, which took a really time, a long time to get into combat. And finally they got it right. And it was really great. In the first Gulf War, took out more tanks than our M1s with their TOW missile system. But these guys are so awesome. Here at the Bath Iron Works There were like 4,000 vessels created or 5,000 over the last 400 years up there in Maine on the Kennebec River. General Dynamics took it from where there were strikes in 2020 and there was Covid and all these issues. They are back to full employment and they. It's a town of only 9,000 people, but people travel an average of about 40 minutes each way to come all the way up near the Canadian border on down. You know you got harsh conditions in Maine, especially in the winter. These people are dedic 65 acre Navy yard building our Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers, the Aegis systems, really amazing and also the Zumwalt class, our stealth destroyers. So I've got more stuff on the ground. Showing you our time with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and again another incredible reception by the hard hat workers. The guys building these ships, the dangerous jobs, the dirty jobs that they're doing. It's really unparalleled I think on the planet. The military is back on top. Trump's pledging I think to make the defense budget about a trillion and a half dollars because they don't want guys on welfare and they want to fix the conditions on the base and they're promising to cut the red tape. So that is a really nice thing to hear and America is number one. And I want to show you our trip to the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. We also have the Zumwalt class to my right here being built. We just delivered one the USS Barnum and we'll be delivering the USS Lewis Wilson in 2027 here. But over 5,000 vessels have been produced here in Bath Maine over the last 200 years or so. This facility is great. The workforce comes from all over Maine to be here to work. The average commute being 40 minutes each way or 40 miles each way here. But we spent the day earlier in Rhode island in Quonset and we had a Great morning with 2500 General Dynamics Electric Boat division employees. They were fired up for Pete Hegseth chanting usa. They were loud and they were proud. They are delivering over there the new Columbia class submarines that are 560ft long, 43 foot beams, have a crew of about 150 and they're about 20 tons bigger than the Ohio class they're going to replace. Now General Dynamics is the largest employer in Connecticut and Rhode island with 25,000 employees. But they're adding another 8,000. And this all comes as Trump signed the executive order for defense acquisitions last year that was codified in the ndaa. The House Armed Services Committee, in a bipartisan effort, voted on and put into play where we're going to be delivering rapid capabilities at speed and scale in cooperation with private industry and academia. So the wheels seem to be turning quicker. There seems to be a unified message in the Department of War here, and we'll be bringing you more. We've been following Pete Hegseth around. Very, very popular with workers and the troops. I'm David Zier. For real America's voice.
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This way as well. We're just not going to get anything behind us. Today. General Dynamics Math Ironworks is proud to be part of the Arsenal of Freedom tour, highlighting the manufacturing that delivers tools and technology to America's war fighters in the 21st century. And that's what we do here. We build the ddg, which is the workhorse of the United States Navy. There's no better symbol of manufacturing prowess than people here at BIW who design, build and support the world's most sophisticated warship, the Arleigh burke destroyer. For 400 years, people have been building ships along the Kennebec river here in Maine. The men and women of BIW continue that legacy, carrying on the tradition that bath built is best built. You guys just made my day. I'm here to thank you for what you do the job you do the way you do it. And I'm here to tell you to keep going, go hard and go fast and get these capabilities to the war fighter. See, our job is to have the backs of those warriors to ensure that they have everything they need so they're never in a fair fight. But we can't do that without you. What you're building here in bathroom, that is essential to the arsenal of freedom, and nobody builds it better than you guys. Make sure we're squeezing everything possible out of the best capabilities in the world. Ships front and center to that. But we're also addressing quality of life for troops, getting after barracks, barracks improvements, new barracks, quality of life and ensuring that they get paid what they should for the job that they do. We shouldn't have troops on food stamps. When I talk to President Trump that I'm going to talk to a group like this, of folks in uniform or in hard hats and say, what do you want me to say? And he always says, you know, Pete, just tell him I love him. As he does. He wants the best for our troops and he wants the best for you. And that's why in addition to rebuilding the military, we're reestablishing deterrence. You see under the previous administration. Whether it was the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that reverberated around the globe Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel, the war unleashed on Ukraine, which never would have started if President Trump had been president, or the radicals who fired on our ships in the Red Sea, our border invaded by millions, tens of millions of illegals, the world saw a country open for challenge. It didn't look like America was prepared to lead. Biden was asleep. And Lloyd Austin went awol. Especially for companies that can't make things on time. You should see the fire in the president's eyes when he looks at the size of CEO salaries for companies that are years behind and billions over budget on projects they owe the war fighter. Hell hath no fury like Donald Trump hearing about that. See, when President Trump spoke over the radio to the Americans who went downtown to Caracas, he simply said, good luck and Godspeed. I knew, I know that you all make your own luck because you're the best at what you do. As was said Bath built, as they say, is best built. You serve the troops. The recipe is simple. Keep going and God bless. Thank you. It.
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Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. Welcome back, everybody. Real America's Voice was invited to participate as new media back in December at the Pentagon. And it has been a stellar ride since then. A few weeks ago, I was on the ground at Fort Bragg, a meeting with the general in charge of Lieutenant General Greg Anderson of the 18th Airborne, home to the 82nd Airborne down there. These guys are amazing. And they're getting equipment to the war fighters at speed and scale. And I already saw some examples of it, which was really refreshing. And that's definitely something new where they partner with private industry and academia to get wartime solutions for real time. Threats exist across the globe. And I got some time with Pete Hegseth when we landed at Joint Base Andrews after this incredible trip to Rhode Island Electric Boat Division where they make our nation's greatest submarines. And then we went to Anduril, unmanned autonomous vehicles that can roam the oceans and launch torpedoes against threats. And then to Bath Ironworks in Maine building our guided missile destroyers. They're launching the Lewis Wilson next year. I think they just launched the USS Barnum. And Pete Egseth, a really gregarious guy on target focused, laser focused on getting these systems delivered to our war fighters at speed and scale. Secretary Hegseth, how are you, sir?
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How's it going? Dave Zier, Real America's voice. In the last few weeks, I was with the head of the 18th Airborne, the commander of U.S. space Command. There seems to be so much energy and enthusiasm out there. How did it make you feel today in the Electric Boat Division, the General Dynamics and the Bath Iron Works with that incredible crowd coming out for you?
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Spirit. The president calls it spirit. And that's what it is. You can feel it throughout the country. You feel it in our military. You see it in the recruiting numbers. You see it in the retention numbers. It's not just who's coming in. It's the guys that are in that are staying in at historic rates and at high rates. Then you see it in the workforce. And that's why I'm glad you guys can come along and see this Arsenal of Freedom tour and why our remarks are all public. It's because we're saying the same things out in the public that we are behind closed doors. We're all in this together. We got to move fast. We've got to get the capabilities to the war fighters. When everybody sees that spirit, everybody works a little harder, moves a little faster. So, yeah, we draw off that energy from the ground.
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A little bit of a sea change, right?
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Well, I would say it's more than a sea change. I mean, you look at the sleepy, slow nature of the Biden administration. They couldn't get people to join. They lowered the standards and lowered the goal numbers in order to get the number of recruits and still couldn't meet it. We've raised the standards and raised the goals, and we're exceeding them historically. And at these companies, they say, hey, our workforce is more motivated than we've ever seen them before. That's our goal. We can't, like I said to the crowd, we can't resource our guys and gals unless these companies are delivering, whether it's small or large, from Anduril to the big ones, these capabilities that we need. So urgent.
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Thank you.
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Local officials on the ground here. How are you feeling now? Are you feeling a little bit more hopeful now as we head into the future? What's to come in 2026? Of course, I mean, and I think we're just seeing some of the policy changes we've made as we gave a speech on acquisitions and how we're changing that process. So some of it's, like I said, almost coming off a spirit, off a vibe, like, hey, let's go. Now that the reforms are kicking in requirement changes, acquisition changes, the additional spending that's coming. This is just the beginning. I mean, I think we're seeing the front end of a surge. 26, 27, 28, 29. We're given log lead times on munitions. Companies are building new plants. Not just, you know, an additional shift, but it's a new plant next to a new plant next to a new plant, and companies are making their own investments to do it. That's how you ramp up our magazine depth, as we call it, the amount of munitions that we actually have. So I think we're. We're just on the front end because the President is. Has brought investment back, American manufacturing back, and we're bringing the defense industrial base back. How did you feel seeing the response on the ground, all the enthusiasm? Everyone really riled up to see you. Really enthusiastic and hopeful about the future. How'd that make you feel? There was one moment where I was almost speechless in one of those remarks where I just sort of stopped and took it in. You always. That's why I encourage the cameras to turn around. Now I understand why President Trump does that, because the view that I had was one of the most beautiful scenes. Just thousands and thousands of hard hats in the other direction. I saw some cameras turn around, too. Thank you for that, by the way. That's pretty cool to see. That's how that motivates us. It's not just rhetoric. Those hard hats deliver for our helmets, and that matters a lot. You dropped an interesting little tidbit to the destroyer workforce when you said, we're going to max out DVGs. What were you referring to? Meaning we're going to ensure they've got long lead times on those platforms to ensure they know, hey, we're buying DDGs into the future. This is a workhorse for us in the Navy. And them knowing that means they can invest even more. So there's more to be revealed in FY27, FY28 budgets. But from this secretary's perspective, the DDG is going to be a part of it. And sharing that demand signal wherever we can, helps ensure they can. Can do even more capital investment up front. That was the tip on the 27th budget. Possibly, probably, yes. No, I mean, FY27 is what we're talking about right now. We passed FY26. President's committed to 1.5. There's only so much capacity you can use in 27. So maxing it out means what kind of throughput can we actually put through? And we're working through that with the Deputy Secretary of War as well.
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Thank you.
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Yes. You identified several policy changes to the Defense Department was implementing to actually speed up and expedite some of the production. I was wondering what are the specific choke points that you guys have encountered when it comes to regulations or just like what are the issues? What's the hang up in some of these production facilities? Why have we seen delays on certain projects? A lot of the hang up has been us. So we look at ourselves first, the way we do business. We've been impossible to deal with. A bad customer who does to year after year changes our mind about what we want or what we don't want. And then we make little small technological changes which makes it more difficult for them to produce what they need to produce on time. So we have to fix our own house first, provide clarity, simplify the system, allow more people to access it, give that steady demand signal, which is what we're doing with munitions. I encourage folks to look at the deals we've cut recently with Raytheon, with foam, with other companies. Lockheed on Patriot missiles, on Thads, on other explicit munitions. That's groundbreaking stuff. Our department's never done that. The deputy secretary, Steve Feinberg is a whiz kid on these things, putting these deals together. The companies are investing because they know we're going to be buying into the future. That's just good business. We haven't operated that well that way before. And then things like requirements. There's mazes of requirements that this department has traditionally put on different systems and platforms that are impossible to navigate. And by the time you navigate them, you're, you know, five years behind the actual technology. So we're going to companies and saying, tell us what you can do based on the parameters of what kind of capabilities we're looking for, say in indopacom or southcom or out in Europe. And let's tailor it accordingly so it's changes on, on both sides. One more if we got one. I appreciate the nice super halftime show message that you left for Turning Point usa. I'm with Turning Point. We really appreciate it. Just want to let you know that we appreciated that message and we always appreciate the work that you guys do. Well, as you know, Charlie Kirk was a dear friend of mine. That was for him. This is all. I mean, what he's built, that ability to have kind of that dueling message to say, hey, we're going to be proud of the country and represent it properly. That was something that Charlie laid the foundation for the possibility of actually having so good on Turning Point for standing up. And we're honored to be a part of it. Absolutely. Thanks for coming along with us today. Appreciate it.
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I hope everybody enjoyed today's show. Next week, I got a really special interview with investigative journalist and best selling authority Peter Schweitzer, the author of Clinton Cash. And now he has the Invisible How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon against the United States. And we're going to talk about American generosity taken advantage of by Fidel Castro and the Mario Boat lift, emptying his prisons, kind of like what Venezuela did in recent years and also getting rid of his political opposition. And they came to the United States, but it's worse now. It's something more maniacal here and what he calls the reconquista, which is, you know, this wave of Mexican influence in our consulates in and out of the country and through the Mexican government. Right. They're in on this. And the Mexican president, I think Obrador, who preceded Sheinbaum, who was his mentor, her mentor, you know, was open about supporting legal immigration into the United States. And this was a little different under Biden, though, than say, the Mario Boat lift, you know. Well, we completely compromised in a plot for the Democrats to change the United States to a blue country, change the census with unfettered access through illegal immigration, supported by Catholic charities and NGOs. Coming up, the Darien Gap. Kids getting washed off the riverbanks in floods in the jungle, girls getting assaulted, sexually assaulted, sold into slave labor, sold into prostitution at the border. And how many lives has Donald Trump saved in the last year alone with the closed border for the last 10, 11 months? It's got to be tens of thousands of people. Will he get credit for that? Now we're starting to see the crime numbers on the ground across the country shaping up where it's proof that there is definitely effect. And how many lives of overdoses has Donald Trump prevented people from dying across the country in the last year? We got to get a handle on those numbers. But also, Peter Schweitzer is going to talk about how there's 1 million registered Chinese voters that don't live in the United States. They can vote in our elections. They register here, but they live in China. So don't miss it next week. Thank you for watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. I want to thank everybody for joining the rap family and watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. See you next time.
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