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s caused a lot of people to be talking about World War III and how close we are to a nuclear confrontation because Russia's doing things that look like they're teasing a nuclear preparation, and we're doing things back that look like, you know, if you nuke us we'll nuke you. And I remind you again, you've never been safer. You're in the safest moment of all of American history because waiting for…

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n't have any personal experience. But I would say if given the names and the reputations of the people who backed him, I think I'm going to go with them. Now I can't know everything, so I don't know what's true. But if I had to choose in terms of credibility, the Fox News people who went on the record strongly, including Ben Domenech, ex-Fox News person, I feel like I trust them. So I'm going to say that that should not be the reason that he might not get it.

However, there are several senators who have not committed: Senator Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune. Does that group of people worry you at all? Is there anything about that group of people that they have in common? Because Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, I don't know. I feel like maybe they're trying to protect the defense people more than they're looking to reform things. So I don't trust those senators. And I don't trust anonymous sources. But I do trust the people from Fox News and the people who worked with him, including a producer who had tons of exposure, and are putting their names, they're putting their own reputations on the line for another person. That's a pretty gutsy thing to do. So I'm going to go with the guts. I'm going to go with the brave people of Fox News who said, I'm going to put my reputation on the line and I'm going to back this guy because he's been solid the whole time I've known him. So can't know for sure. That's where I think it's going.

However, of course there's some worry within the campaign, not campaign, but within the future Trump administration. And according to Just the News and also CNN, people are saying that Ron DeSantis's name has been raised as maybe a safer, easier nominee for Secretary of Defense. And other names are floating: Bill Hagerty, senator, and somebody else. Maybe somebody else. Here's my take. Ron DeSantis, have you noticed that he seems capable for almost every job? Have you not

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iced that? When he was running for president, I remember thinking, well, I prefer Trump, but you know, clearly DeSantis is qualified. When we talk about being a senator or something, of course. Of course if we talk about him to be the Secretary of Defense, yeah. We talk about him if he had been nominated for attorney general, yeah. How about if he had been nominated to be the head of the FBI? Yeah…

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