Hawley: Biden & His Democrats Turned America's Military Into A Giant DEI Seminar

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is with us. Senator, your colleagues Mike Lee and Rick Scott just introduced legislation to officially rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Will you be joining them on this? Oh absolutely, of course. I see this as about getting back to mission, Laura, which is about recruiting war fighters who are going to fight the wars that protect America. And you know what Biden did for the last four years by turning the military into a giant DEI seminar has got to end. I mean you think about it. They were conducting transgender surgeries in the military and military facilities. We were paying for abortions for military members, service members, for you know who knows who else that were getting this kind of funding for these kind of projects. It's outrageous. It's totally outrageous. They should be defending America. To me that's what this is all about. I welcome the change. This idea that we have to interpret this somehow as diplomacy is out, soft power is out. Respond to that because that is the drumbeat we've heard all day long. Well this is why we have the Department of State as you pointed out just a moment ago. I mean this is why we have Marco Rubio and whole teams of ambassadors all across the world who are doing a great job. And of course as you also said the president is a skilled negotiator. He loves to negotiate. He's done it already to great effect in his first few months of this second term. So listen the idea that we're not going to go negotiate is ridiculous. But here's the thing. You have to have a credible threat in order to make the negotiations real. And people need to fear the United States again. They need to see that we have the most lethal military on the face of the earth and that when we make a threat we're serious about it. I think Trump is demonstrating that. I think this change is going to put a fine point on it. Now Adam Kinzinger is not happy about this name change. Senator watch this. The words do matter. So Department of Defense actually seems to say this is as much as a war department. It's a department for telling people that we're going to defend our country for deterrence. And it just feels like it's kind of an old man reminiscing about the days of old. You know the Department of War and trying to cover for weakness. So weakness Senator. And this is just like nostalgia for a time that's long past. And your reaction. Yeah well the only nostalgia involved here is the left's nostalgia for their DEI woke garbage that the whole country has rejected. And by the way Adam Kinzinger I just can't help mentioning last time I heard that guy he was in my state busy shooting a reporter and then running off before the police could question him about it. No lie. Almost a year ago. I mean this is not a guy who's famous for his strength under pressure. I don't think you should be giving Donald Trump any pointers about strength standing up taking a position or standing firm. Now Senator on to another topic. Chris Van Hollen is known for making Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia his number one issue. Remember he flew down there to the supermax prison and so forth. But I think he said he has a new set of constituents now. The Venezuelan cartel members. Watch this. What this was was an extrajudicial killing. Pure and simple. It was illegal. We only have the Trump administration's word to take for who was on that boat. But even if they were right we're not in a war with Venezuela. Even people on this boat we don't know exactly who they are. And presidents should not just be ordering a hit. Your response to your colleague is the administration on shaky legal ground. They seem very upset that drug traffickers are dead. Yeah exactly. I mean they want the drug traffickers here in America. That's what Biden did for the last four years. Listen I mean here's a stark contrast in approaches. Trump is calling the Defense Department the Department of War. Meanwhile the Democrats want to use our soldiers to go read Miranda rights to possible suspects before we do anything to them. Who are not even in this country. Not American citizens. I mean it's ridiculous. It's totally ridiculous. The president was totally within his constitutional authority to order that strike. I am glad he's taken these people out before they get into our country. And I have to tell you Laura once again he's demonstrating strength. Well I guess he should have let them into the country process them and heard their credible fear claims and then release them into the country and give them a notice to appear for eight years. That would have made Van Hollen very happy. Hey Senator it's great to see you. It's been a while. Thanks so much.