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## Transcript

Of the two dozen officers that you have fired for reasons unrelated to performance, since you have not indicated any cause, 60% are black or females. Now, did the president direct you to single out female and black officers to be dismissed? Um, Senator, of course not. And as we've emphasized at this department from the beginning, the only metric is merit. Uh, this this members on this committee and the previous leadership of this department were focused on, you know, social engineering, race, and gender in ways that we think were unhealthy for the department, focusing on those things, making decisions based on those things.

In President Trump's War Department, we make decisions based on only one thing merit. There's no evidence that we are safer because of this war. We did not have any evidence that Iran intended to imminently attack this country in any way, shape or form. So I disagree with your assessment that we were under threat. Do you not believe them when they say Death to America? Listen, our adversaries use rhetoric all the time. What I'm concerned about is we are not safer. And I would just like to know why you have not sought the support of the American people. And three out of five Americans are against this war today.

I believe we do have the support of the American people, and we have briefed regularly what this mission looks like and why it's critically important that we undertake it. And I would remind you and this group that we're two months in to an effort. And many congressional Democrats, as I pointed out, want to declare defeat. Two months in Iraq took how many years? Afghanistan took how many years. And they were nebulous missions that people went along with. This is different. This is a defined mission set. Every resource necessary at every echelon is available. Legal, Intel and otherwise, to ensure that we minimize at every extent possible civilian casualties.

And the suggestion was made that somehow AI might be used without a human in the loop, which is a classic anthropic talking point, which is half of what we talked about previously. There is a human in the loop on decisions that are made.

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