Being secretary of defense is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. But after Pete Hegseth was plucked from a part-time Fox & Friends gig, Republican senators could only kiss his ass and act starstruck during his confirmation hearing—all to ensure he takes their calls when they need military equipment or contracts in their states. Meanwhile, Nancy Mace has been a con artist from the beginning, Trump nominated Nazi-curious Joe Kent to run the National Counterterrorism Center, and Tulsi thinks Edward Snowden is a hero. Sen. Mark Kelly and Rep. Adam Kinzinger join Tim Miller. show notes Tim's piece on Joe Kent courting the racist fringe vote when he ran for Congress
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Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. As we're recording right now, the Pam Bondi confirmation hearings are happening. There'll be much more on that tomorrow. Today we got a Hegseth doubleheader. In segment two is Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona. But first, he was a Republican congressman from Illinois. He served in the Air Force during Iraq and Afghanistan.
He's a senior political commentator for CNN, founder of Country First, and he's got a Substack newsletter like everybody else. He's Adam Kinzinger. What's going on, bro?
I'll tell you what, man, I am I'm happy to be here. I'm so sad. I'm missing the grilling that Pam Bondi is going to get from the Republican senators. I'm sure they're just going to be going through her statements and and and just tearing them apart, doing their oversight job for America.
Do you think Tim Sheehy will ask her how many push-ups she can do? Or is that just, is that only a question for dudes? I think it's just for dudes, but they'll ask her. How many push-ups can you do actually? Now we're right here. How many push-ups can you do these days? I don't know, man.
Like I think without stopping. So we used to do, we do the PT test in the air force, which I'm out now, but I could probably get up to, I think like 60 something before I was like toast. Right.
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what what'd you think about eggs it's 47 five five rounds of 47 you think that's that's happening that was his claim he's one of those dudes that like you see when you're scrolling through instagram and he's like uh here's what amino acids i'm 50 but you know i look like i'm 12 and my wife was just born six minutes ago and i do amino acids that's him you know those people like and they're you
And you're like, listen, it's good to be in shape. I try to be in shape as a 46-year-old man. When you're obsessed with how you look at 50-something, something is missing in your life. Something.
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