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It's hour number two on this Thursday, the 19th day of March 866 660 5759.

The Pete Hagseth excerpts there in the top of the R&U's cast made me want to

dial back a few minutes and catch some of his remarks in the Pentagon briefing.

I'll share some of those in particular into a somewhat greater extent.

All kinds of topics on the fly. In a minute, I'm going to do the

like I need to reveal it. I've talked about it 43 times.

What is it that has me so stoked? Actually, there are a couple of things.

There are a couple of things. My little 12-year-old

space dorks heart may explode out of my chest for a couple of reasons

today. But speaking of things I'm

enthused about doing as we started today's show

in Dove Into The Rand Paul Mark Wayne Mullins says our shavve as

legacy collapse. A barrage of news stories.

That means I got a little occupied and listen. The

the Lord quite literally give it and take it away.

When he take it away, my clarity to do this at the beginning of the show, he give it

to the eight o'clock hour. So as we begin before I say anything about

anything else, Lord we thank you every day for this blessed

nation and for your hand in creating it.

Fill our hearts with the energy to defend the freedoms which come from you

which our nation was founded to protect. These are times filled with

opportunity to improve our great country.

So as we fight for what we believe in, help us to carry a positive spirit,

treating others as we would want to be treated.

We know we're always going to face challenges. So lift us as we follow your word

and work for a better America where our constitution is honored, our borders

work, where our schools and public spaces are safe,

where we protect the unborn, we fight for the definition of the two sexes created

by you, and where we navigate our differences

with honesty and goodwill, and where our freedoms of speech and worship

are protected. As we face each day's problems,

give us the clarity to look around and cherish our many blessings in our nation,

our great state of Texas, our communities and our families.

If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything,

and we ask these things in your holy name. Amen.

You know, we we field questions about a lot of things,

and somebody has asked me about the, what do I always say?

We are the words mean things, talk show.

So somebody asked, because I think I did this a few weeks ago,

did, hey, Mark, what is with the change in phraseology

in talking about the the two sexes God created,

because didn't that start out as the two genders that God created?

Yes, it did. Look how attentive you are.

So why the change? It wasn't necessary, but the reason I did

is because gender has been co-opted in a way, there's synonymous, obviously male, female, gender,

male, female sex. Gender is the descriptive basis on which

the left and and this this demonic cult of slice and open your kid

on the the altar of gender cultism, that gender is fluid,

gender is a social construct, construct, blah, blah, blah.

So I figured, and this is not a surrender, because obviously I consider gender

to be a very specific thing that is about

male-ness and female-ness, but while gender is something you can talk about in that

broad realm, sex is biological. You are male.

That is your biological sex. It's not your biological gender.

It is your definitive human self-defining sex.

Male, female are are matters of sexuality. So the two sexes you created

seem to bring it does bring a scientific clarity

to to to to that observation. Makes sense? So all right.

It's six six six, oh five seven five nine.

Tonight, uh, eight, when is it eight or nine o'clock?

They're going to roll the Artemis launch vehicle back out to the pad.

It looks like we're good. I think they fix the fuel lines, the helium tanks,

the screen doors, whatever they need to do to fix on that spacecraft, on that

launch vehicle. So that my new friend captain

Reed Wiseman and his crew of four can launch

on or about April April 1st. Great. The April Fool's Day launch.

It will be real. And uh, and it will it will be so very, very real to me.

Taken me back to 1968 when we went to the moon for the first time.

Now we landed in 69, but we went to the moon for the first time

in 1968. The crew of Apollo eight. I mean, 19 oh this is crazy.

1903, the Wright brothers, 65 years later,

where we're orbiting the moon. That's a, that's unbelievable.

A similar block of time between then and now as there was

between the Wright brothers and humans going to the moon.

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders. They read from the book of Genesis as they

orbit the moon with the black and white grainy photographs that were the

stuff of that time. The TV got better. Do you know what's going to happen

when we actually land on the moon in within a year or two?

I mean, it's going to be like 4K digital stuff of folks hooping around

on the lunar surface. My head's going to explode in my heart with it. I just, so

so anyway, it's one mile an hour. So this, you know,

400 foot rocket is going to be, it takes hours like hours to go a couple of

miles out back out to the launch pad. So that's all going to be starting

tonight. And there'll be a lot of live feed of it. So if you're just like

stare at a screen that looks like a still photograph, but it is actually moving.

You can, you can do that at massa.gov. But let's, let's not bury the lead here

as, as far as today. Because when this begins at like, again, I can

7, 8, 9, something like that. This evening at the Kennedy Space Center,

Lisa and I will be walking out of a theater

having just seen Project Hail Mary.

Here it comes. You just, you got to do this for me and thank me later.

If you're not a space door, don't care about sci-fi, blah, blah, blah,

the appeal of this movie is apparently so broad as the appeal of the book was.

Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian and that became a pretty great movie too with Matt Damon.

Guy trapped on Mars a few years ago. Great book. Didn't read the book.

Movie was great. Love the, love the, love the, the, the movie.

So my good friend, State Senator Phil King, like two years ago, more than two years ago,

recommends this book to me. Like, okay, Andy Weir. I wrote a good book before.

That's going to go to track record. So I read Project Hail Mary about a very

unassuming science teacher named Ryland Grace, who finds himself tasked

with an unbelievably daunting mission.

And in pursuing that mission, he finds himself in the farthest reaches of space.

And makes, and this is the stuff of so many sci-fi movies, please, how many movies have been

about first contact? Were humans in some form of alien life meat for the very first time?

It's a premise that's been done very, very well. It's a premise that's been done very, very poorly.

And a lot of, a lot of examples in between. This one is told so beautifully and so wonderfully.

And so I, I just ate this book up in large gulps and cried like a baby at one of the best

endings a book ever had. So I finished the book, I thank Phil, and it wasn't a couple of months

before I saw the news and oh, they're making a movie. Oh, be still my heart. Ryan Gosling will play

Ryland Grace. And I instantly thought, because you know me, he books ruined movies and I'm only

half kidding. How in the world can they put on screen? How? How? Because you know, when you read

the book, your brain makes the movie and your brain invents the characters, your brain creates

the visuals. And especially with regard to Rocky, the alien in question here, I was like,

wait, how can they do him? Just how? Well, I know, because this is my one little gripe,

he's in the previews. Wait a minute, what? This could have been one of the great reveals in

movie history. What is what this, you know, little dude looks like. Well, you know, you know,

but in a parent, not only does it not, you know, spoil it, their reviewers and some other people

apparently a little more special than me who have seen it already. But the premiere date, the

opening date is technically tomorrow, but listen every theater. I don't know if they're all sold out.

You can find it this afternoon. You can find it tonight. We're going to a showing at four o'clock.

And it's not two and a half hours. So strap in.

The praise, it's been, it's, it's, it's too much. It can't be this good. Can it?

I mean, people who said, I don't really care that much about sci-fi, but it was fantastic.

And people have said it's one of the best adaptations of a book to a movie that they've ever seen.

Like, okay, just stop it. Just stop it. My, my expectations now, because certainly I love

the subject matter. Certainly I love the book. I'm talking about a huge Ryan Gosling fan. He's great

in everything. My expectations are, are, are as stratospheric as the mission he is on.

How in the world can my expectations be met? And is it mathematically possible for those expectations

to be exceeded? I don't know. Does disappointment loom for me in the theater? I'm sure it'll be great.

But will it be as great? Will it be as great as it has the potential to be? Will it be as great as I

want it to be? I don't know, but I'll let you know tomorrow. No spoilers. I'll just tell you,

it'll be, it'll be a qualitative essay. Was it as great as everybody says? Project Ale

Mary in theaters near you. Not funny, because sometimes when Lisa and I will go, usually when we're

going to see a movie that's about a book, she's read it, like house made, a couple of others,

a lot of, a lot of, she reads more fiction than I do. I'm doing about 70, 30 nonfiction fiction.

She's doing probably about the reverse because she loves, she loves her, her stories.

And, and see what, what was the, one of the movie about the, where the bees fly or where the

butterflies grow or something like, I'm sorry. And, and we, and it was great. And we went to it and

she was so, so thrilled because she'd read the book and it's funny. She knows, she's tempted to go,

you're not going to believe what's about to happen. Honey, stop it. So she'd now just softly elbows me

when something cataclysmic. So today it's this in reverse because I've told her that part of my

joy is not just seeing this book turned into a film that, that I'm stoked about, but I can't wait

to watch her to have her in a seat right by me and let this just wash over her because it is,

it is, it is emotional. It is great. So I just, I just, I cannot, cannot wait. So Project

Hail Mary, check it out. And maybe some of you will have seen it tomorrow too as I will have.

All right. Uh, here's something I saw just, uh, like when the last hour, Pete Hegseth at the

lectern and shocker, having a word or two about, well, first of all, he starts off with a

word or two about those, those lives we have lost. And we, we have lost lives and we will lose more

in this action against Iran. The way, the way he views them, the way I view them, the way

supporters of this operation view them is just very different than the way the media culture views

them. And the Secretary of War has a thing or two to say about the, the media culture too.

Let's listen into that next and then do a few other things. 866, 666, 5759, Mark Davis, 821.

From Goodby Yellowbrook Road, Elton, and this song has no title, which is self-evidently false.

Anyway, all righty, all righty. Uh, uh, oh, uh, where the crawdads, where the crawdads say,

what do I call it, where the butterflies made. I don't even know the, the, the book that Lisa

read that she loved and was so stoked to take me to the movie of that. I think this was probably

three years ago, uh, Daisy Edgar Jones was in it. It was really, really good. Where,

where the crawdads say it was from a novel by Delia Owens, Butterfly. I knew, I knew it was some,

some insecty crawdaddy kind of thing. It's 666, 660, 5759. Secretary of War,

Hegseth at the podium, at the Pentagon, um, it's, he, he begins by talking about those who have,

who have lost their lives in the conflict so far. As we will always remember those lost in

this conflict, their names are now, are now etched into our mission and into the soul of a

grateful nation. And that's the attitude to have. So the media culture will say, hey, we're covering

those word deaths too. We're covering those word deaths as if it's to honor them. When the media

culture, when the dominant media culture in CNN, MSNOW, all these, these jackals, when they

hold up our war dead, it is to use them as political weapons against the president to say, look at

these poor people, these poor young, young Americans who have died on, for, for Trump's folly.

That is, that is the reason they invoke them. I stand here today, speaking to you,

the American people, not through filters, not through reporters, not through cable news spin.

A dishonest and anti-Trump press will stop at nothing. We know this at this point,

to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and call into question every step. Sadly, TDS

is in their DNA. Clever, let me pause, get into the Mary Rose newscast, come back here. You had

a couple of other points that I wanted to ask you some questions about. And then I have some other

questions about various other things in the news. And if you have observations to offer up to me

and things you want to share, 866, 660, 5759, that's where you call us, that's where you text us on

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Love those boys. 866, 660, 5759, that's great.

It is as if a war isn't hard enough. You know, and by the way, I don't expect it's really

didn't happen in Vietnam, by the way. That was when it's it's funny. That was when

TV technology had advanced, and the horrors of war were brought right into our living rooms

every night, by Walter Cronkite, by John Chancellor, by Chet Huntly and David Brinkley. And that's

what journalism is. It's what it does. It's it's it's proper role. I you'll hear me often say,

we are not a war like people and we're not. But when it's necessary, it's necessary. Was Vietnam

necessary? There's an debate you can still have today. Is this one today necessary? I think the

bar is met. Others may differ. And they get to differ. Difference of opinion is, you know,

as American as apple pie. But when you have a media culture that that is that that seeks to

undermine a war effort because they hate the president that is waging that war. That is

that is not helpful to journalism. It's not helpful to to discourse. And so when you got to

to execute a war plan and an extinguish fires of misinformation and douse the passions of

of politically hate-filled skepticism as the secretary of war, it just it makes for a busier day.

They want President Trump to fail. But you, the American people, no better. Yes, there are

reporters in front of me, but they are not our audience today. It's you, the good decent patriotic

American people. You, the hardworking, tax paying, God fearing American patriots.

The media here, not all of it, but much of it, wants you to think just 19 days into this conflict

that we're somehow spinning toward an endless abyss or a forever war or a quagmire.

Nothing could be further from the truth. So this is the every war has a PR effort, right? It does.

You got to sell a war. You got to, you want a war to be popular? And by that, I mean,

the approval of the American public when we are waging it, one of the fascinating intellectual

questions of our time is with the popularity of World War II, which enjoyed pretty solid support,

you know, from through the first half of the 40s. What if the horrific images from Great Britain,

from France, you know, from Asia, have been brought into our living rooms through television

in 1942, 1943, 1944. What would, what would that have done? 866, 660, 575, 9, we're in Keller.

Mike, Mark Davis, welcome. How are you? Yes, good morning. Good morning, as always. I was just thinking

about what you were saying on how the media loves the rat tag tag on Trump, like he's a big

bottle of cotton of oil. And I found it interesting. It takes me back to David Blue, back to 2003,

that was done home to be in action with the war. But actually, he succumbed because he was

hard at it. And you remember what happened? For those for those that don't know, David Blue

was an NBC reporter who died in 2003, I want to say. And I think part of the diagnosis was like

deep vein thrombosis from having been as all soldiers are, but he from from ever been cooped up

and cramped up and contorted around inside all these armored vehicles. David Blue was a reporter's

reporter. And he went, but anyway, but so that's who he was. And he died from that in 2003 and

almost 40 years old. Go ahead. What's your point about him? Yeah, but the point was that he was

given the opportunity to go back to the rear, go to long stool in Germany, because I was in

Germany at the time. And, and, you know, he said, no, he wanted to stay. He wanted to, he had the

psyche. He wanted to be right there, the grips of the troops. Because remember, he was doing a lot

of live shots. Sure was. With him right or the tanks. But he came down with blood clots in his

knees. And they wanted to, um, let him back him to long stool to get that take care of, but he

refused treatments. That's what happened to him. It is a time it's the funny. I just mentioned

Walter Cronkite, the war correspondent. And we just talked about World War II, the war correspondent,

Edward Armurrow, a generation of people who covered a war sometimes in country, sometimes not.

It used to be such an honorable profession. And the profession still is when practiced correctly.

Mike, thank you. I mean, they're, you know, look at Trey yanked out there on a, on a balcony

in Tel Aviv as missiles fly over his head. Take a look at other people. Reporters wear in big

old vests and big old helmets right there in the middle of a war zone. It is absolutely still

an honorable profession when practiced correctly. And by the way, practicing it correctly doesn't

mean cheerleading for it. But it doesn't mean denigrating it either. Just tell everybody what happens.

Bring us the opinions of those who support it. Bring us the opinions of those who don't.

And bring us the images, the actions, the thoughts when you can get them from the men and women

who are fighting it. Is that too much to ask? Hear it from me. One of hundreds of thousands who

fought in Iraq and Afghanistan who watched previous foolish politicians, like Bush, Obama,

and Biden, squander American credibility. This is not those wars. President Trump knows better.

Epic fury is different. It's laser focused. It's decisive. Our objectives, given directly from

our America first president, remain exactly what they were on day one. These are not the media's

objectives. Not Iran's objectives. Not new objectives. Our objectives. Unchanged on target

and on plan. Here's your secretary of war. All right. So there's an opinion of the Iran

operation. What in the world? What in the world? What bug got into the brain of this

Joe Kent person on day three of talking about him, Banjino last night on Hannity,

properly brought up because he has become as any Trump critic. Well, I was listening to some NPR

this morning. Well, how noteworthy is it, Maggie, that somebody in the actual Trump administration?

Now, now disapproves of what the president is doing. Well, it's not significant at all

in that this person has suddenly decided to strip off the veneer or or or or or reveal

his sea change in attitude because during his confirmation, he was all about recognizing

Iran as a threat. All about recognizing the the wisdom of working towards some kind of

of regime in Iran that didn't, you know, wake up in the morning figuring out how to kill us

every morning for 47 years. He was on board for that until he wasn't.

Dan Banjino last night on Hannity had questions.

Why has no one else from the administration? If his case is legitimate that this was not an

imminent threat, don't worry about the death to America. Mullahs with 440 kilograms of enriched

uranium that could create 10 or more nuclear bombs while you got to feel a lot of a theocracy

chanting again, death to America, even if that was correct. How come no one's backed him up?

Sean, listen, I've got no dog in the fight anymore outside of the fact that I just love the

country. I was proud of my service here. I'm not in the administration anymore. I promise you

no one, absolutely no one. You have my word on my eyeballs. No one has called me and said, hey,

can you go out there and like back us up? I have no dog in this fight other than the truth.

I saw the entire body of intelligence up until I left. Nobody kept anything from me. I don't know

what he's talking about. Let me, can I just make a quick analogy for people having a hard time

understanding this because I've seen it in a lot of media coverage and it's understandable. We're

getting lost on the word imminent. There's a whole bunch of like euphemisms games going on right here.

Think of it this way. You've got, I live in Florida. You've got a hurricane brewing off sure, okay?

Is it imminent? Well, maybe like four or five days away. You've got 99 percent of meteorologists

telling you it's going to be a cat five. We deal with this like every year, right? What do you do?

Do you prepare for it? You just say, ah, you know what? I'm going to trust that one over 100

guy who says it may be a cat three because no one's saying it's not going to happen. That is what

we're getting lost in this word and it's just insane. I mean, if you were in a criminal case trying

to prove intent, they're screaming death to America. They have nuclear material. They told Steve

Whitcoff, they they're not backing away. They have no intentions of surrendering. They were offered

a civilian nuclear program by Donald Trump. They were offered a thousand exits off the Long Island

Expressway and they took none of them. That was bad. That's and that's how you wind up on a war

footing. All right. Let's pause. Come back. Speaking of the war, there were people who it was big

day of testimony. I think another one is slated for today of Intel experts, Tulsi Gabbard at DNI

Chief among them and the Democrats went after her or tried and so the little little audio from

that and some thoughts about that and some thoughts from you. Always welcome at 866-660-5759,

Mark Davis 847.

853 on a Thursday.

866-660-5759. So as our Intel people, Tulsi Gabbard Chief among them gathered and having

these people show up for Congressional oversight every once in a while is understandable and

appreciable and inherently good thing in a vacuum. But that vacuum is soon filled with Democrat wishes

to condemn the mission of Virginia Senator Mark Warner. If the president, if he starts a war of

choice, that the likely result would be that Iran would strike adjacent Gulf nations and close

the straighter for news. Did you brief him on those two facts that I think have been consistently

the, the assumptions of the intelligence community? I have not and won't divulge internal conversations.

I will say that those of us within the intelligence community continue to provide the president

with all of the best objective intelligence available to inform his decisions.

This, this was an interesting thing because it's like, is it the intelligence communities

job to make these conclusions or simply to present information to the president and

and have him make the decision. So Tom Cotton had a thought after that, after that clip played

last night. And a smashing success of a military operation. There's a lot of work left to be done,

but we are systematically, methodically and deliberately dismantling Iran's military.

We've pummeled its army. We've sank its navy. We're steadily degrading its missile forces and

its drones, as well as its manufacturing ability to reconstitute those forces. Now it's going to

take some time. It's a big country with a large military, but the in-state is going to be

Iran is defanged and neutered and can no longer threaten Americans. But for Democrats to criticize it

just two weeks in as some kind of quagmire to say that we've already failed is akin to criticizing

Eisenhower two weeks after D day for not already being in Berlin. Yeah, let's go better. It's

better than criticizing America. Not long after Pearl Harbor in 1942. I don't even go to the summer

in 1944. I mean, listen, I don't want to quibble with Tom Cotton's historical analogies,

but yeah, this is a wish to fail. This is naysaying on purpose and it is driven by Trump hatred.

Can't deny the facts. You got 7,800 Iranian targets have been blown up. The leaders

obliterated. Iran's missile capabilities are close to zero and they may never be able to build

a nuke again. Let's hope. Well, never say never. So as we take a look at what has happened and

what is likely to happen, there are a few layers. There's first what is happening quite literally

on the ground. What is happening quite literally in the air and that has been an undeniable military

success. So we have the military phase of this. We have the blowing things up phase of this.

The big question and it is a good one and it is a hard one and is a vexing one and is a

challenging one is what does happen next when the deck is cleared of of these theocratic mullahs

and their ability to well, first of all, not just their ability to terrorize the region,

to try to kill us, to launch some type of of terror cell that's even on American soil already

as we speak, but when they are no longer able to to make life hell for their own people,

no longer able to kill their own people for protest. You know how many thousands,

where where are all the crocodile tears from the media folks who are so caught up with the American

war deaths, pardon me for questioning their sincerity when I didn't see anything from them about

about what Iran, the regime is doing to its own people. So selective attention to tragedy

is one of the first things you can take a look at and wonder what people's motivations are.

So as we get past probably as some time in the spring, I would think we're going to be done

making the rubble bounce in Iran and it will be time to see what kind of effect we can have

on turning the page and getting to a next chapter of Iran as a country that is less

dangerous, less hazardous, less threatening than they have been for nearly 50 years.

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