Will Cain Country - The Cognitive Decline Of President Biden, Plus The War On Warriors & Behind The Scenes With President Trump

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

Story #1: Will and his FOX & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth discuss Pete's new book, The War on Warriors. Plus, they give a behind the scenes look at their time with President Trump as well as reacting to Jon Stewart's comments about how handsome of a pair Will & Pete are. Story #2: Will shares stories and history from his trip to Normandy beach in France ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Story #3: The Wall Street Journal reports that 45 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle confirmed that President Biden is showing his age. Will explains why this is only the tip of the iceberg.   Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail]   Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show!   Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One. One, the War on Warriors with my co-hosts, a Fox and Friends weekend off the wall. and here on the Will Kane show, Off the Rails. According to John Stewart, one of the most sexually attractive individuals in news, Pete Heck said. Two, tomorrow, the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy, the turning point of World War II, my trip last week to Normandy. And three, when President Biden met with congressional leaders in January, he spoke so softly at times that Some participants struggled to hear him. He read from note cards, paused for extended periods, and closed his eyes for so long that some wondered had he tuned out.

Says the Wall Street Journal, the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden. It is the Will Kane Show, streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Make sure you hit subscribe if you're listening on Apple or Spotify so you can hang out with us here on the Wilcane show on your drive home or during your workout. If you're listening on Terrestrial Radio, go subscribe to the Wilcane podcast when you're not commuting to or from work. And if you're watching us on YouTube, make sure you hit subscribe so you can catch exclusive interviews with, for example, former President Donald Trump. an interview that is continuing to receive criticism and attention and drive the news. Let's get into that, plus one of the most dangerous institutions to lose to the prospect of woke ideology, the United States military. Let's get into all of that with story number one.

He is my Fox and Friends weekend co-host. He is my friend on Off the Rails. He's the author of a brand new book, The War on Warriors, and he is, as I mentioned, according to John Stewart, one of the most sexually attractive individuals in news. He is Pete Hegg said. I think it's all of us, right, Will? I mean, wasn't it a consensus verdict from John Stewart? It was a team award. It was a team.

It was a team insult compliment. What I'm talking about here for those of you listening or watching. is that John Stewart's returned to the Daily Show, that barely hit my news cycle. And the other night, Pete, Rachel, and my interview with former president Donald Trump hit the radar, specifically one instance where Donald Trump told us he never said lock up Hillary Clinton. The left seems very focused on that moment of the interview. Not that he may lock up Joe Biden in the future, or not that he declined to lock up Hillary Clinton, or not that Joe Biden just did lock up Donald Trump,

but that he says he didn't say it in 2016. John Stewart played a bunch of clips of Donald Trump, in fact, saying, lock up Hillary Clinton. And then he said this. And he said it a million times. And then the... I... And the Fox in front of...

Brent's B-team is just fucking sitting there. Tanned and fit and healthy and so f***able. How did they get so f***able? It's a good-looking bunch.

You know your vanity. You know your vanity swallowed the B-team insult and the attack on our journalism just to go, oh, nice, thank you. Good-looking. crew. Oh, that's great. I'm looking especially orange today in this light. I mean,

you're right. Tand hit the gym yesterday. One of your producers, I'll let him remain named. He was impressed. I was in the gym yesterday. I started with two plates on both sides. So, yeah, we're working out hard on the bench. We're getting tanned, GTL. And then, yeah, when we interview the president, I want the t-shirts made, Will. I want the t-shirts. Effable B-team. That's what, that's the name of our squad forever. Forever. Forever. I'll take it. JV, but effable. Effable B team.

Fox and Friends Weekend. Hey, by the way, that word did filter through to the Will Kane show text thread. You're throwing around two plates. Young establishment James was in the gym, and he did say, you're throwing around 225? I mean, you're fit, but I was a little taken aback, man, two plates. That's the first set, Will. That's 225 just to open up with the 10 rest.

All right, just to get going. And then I'm up to 245, and then I did 275, 275, but I only got a 4 times. Come on. Yeah. Yes, yes. Are you serious? I'm being serious right now. You did 225 10 times and worked your way up to 275?

Yes, sir. Absolutely. I've been lifting a long time, Will. I mean, it's just kind of, I'm not trying to, not trying to, you know, gloat. But, yes, I work out a lot. It's, I don't take HGH, and I don't take performance enhancers. I promise you, just weigh protein, brother. Wow, man.

I mean, seriously, I'm a little blown away. I did 225 once. In my heyday, I did 225. You know, I'm so happy that your producers witnessed it. I didn't have to bring it up. It's fully verified. It's not a claim. This is documented, and, yeah, so we'll keep going.

It's some serious weight. Shoulder issues and elbow issues, though, so we'll see if you have to back down on it at some point. Yeah, but you can swim, and I can't. I don't know if I can move on from this. That is a lot of weight. You don't look that big. I mean, you look in shape, but guys that throw around 275 are, you know, I mean, that's a lot of, like, farm boy strength or something you got in there

because you don't have the show muscles. I mean, I know you have, you, you do, I mean, I swam with you last summer, and you're definitely, you know, in shape. But, like, usually dudes that are doing 275 are Schmedium shirts and show muscles all for the girls. You must have some serious farm boy strength. I have a girl already, so I don't need to go Schmedium. And I don't do the Chris Cuomo, you know, I don't lift on set and try to show everybody else strong. Just let the suit hide it, you know.

so someone wants to challenge, they can try, but it's not going to go well for them. Yeah, I've got to get it together. I'm serious. This is going to cause some serious self-reflection. This is bad news. All right. I'm moving on from this. I think.

I'm going to try. I'm going to try to move on for $275 four times here with Pete Hegseth. All right, man. It's always the case I reference this every so often, but I had breakfast with my buddies this morning. And one of the things that was a point of conversation, Pete, and I don't expect you have seen this in the news cycle, but it was reported this morning in the Wall Street Journal, was that there is a new stock exchange being formed in Texas. I did see that. It's been venture funded, interestingly, by Citadel. Two of the big investors in it are Citadel and BlackRock. And that's worthy its own conversation because it's so much skepticism towards BlackRock.

But the point of this stock exchange seems to be to directly take on the New York stock. Exchange. And the reason to take on the New York Stock Exchange is in no small part the board requirements for so many publicly listed companies. DEI and ESG is forcing Fortune 500 companies, publicly traded companies, to pursue things other than the point of a corporation, which is to make money, just like any other institution, to accomplish its objective and merit being the primary mechanism through which you accomplish your objective. whether or not Texas will be able to do that will be interesting and fascinating to watch. But what I am bringing this to you with today is it's an example of an attempt to escape an institution that has been co-opted by an ideology that gets in the way of something accomplishing its purpose.

And you have just written a book about that, the War on Warriors, where really the last institution we need to lose in pursuit of subjective is the United States military. Yeah. I mean, first of all, long live the Republic of Texas. I mean, only Texas could say we're going to take on the New York Stock Exchange. And again, count it as another blind spot for me. Well, I knew about the Black Rock stuff. I knew about the ESG stuff. But I guess I didn't know that the New York Stock Exchange itself had been captured by the, I mean, it's like you almost, you always find another institution that you thought was this imprimatur of, of, it was a fair arbiter of setting a marketplace. And it turns out businesses in America, America want an alternative that cuts red tape and gets out of that garbage and lowers these ridiculous regulatory thresholds that prevent companies from being a part of it and who better than Texas. So when I saw that, I thought, first I'm going to hear positively and rightfully so from Will on. It's a great Texas flex.

There's so much money in Dallas, and I didn't know this, but like, it could be that of all the places in America that could compete as a financial and wealth hub with New York city. It's Dallas, Texas. And I think if it catches on a business to start realizing it, it could become a real competitor. And I love when there's competition where you didn't know competition was possible for all the right reasons. I have no idea whether this would be viable or not. But I love it. Like if I had a chance to invest in a company on the Dallas Stock Exchange instead of the New York Stock Exchange, I would. And I bet a lot of Americans feel the same way. They just didn't know there was an alternative. Yeah. And just for what it's worth. And I think

there will be some very recognizable, very recognizable corporations that choose to list on the Texark Stock Exchange from what I am hearing. Well, your buddies, did they love this? Like, what was their response? Absolutely. And, I mean, you know, the, we can, we're going to tie this into the war on warriors, but what, what this is about is, you know, in order to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange now, there's all these different, obviously red tape bureaucratic requirements and regulations,

but one of them is, you know, board representation. In order to be listed, you've got to make sure you have this ESG policy or this DEI individual on your board. And all of that gets in the way of actually, not just gets in the way, but subverts the purpose of a corporation, which is to make money. And I don't know how skeptical we should be towards the fact that Black Rock is behind us, because BlackRock, as we know, has been a big pusher of ESG policy, environmental, social, and governance policy in public companies. But, you know, my suspicion is Black Rock, not unlike every other company, has as its primary objective, make money. And if they think that the money has been incentivized, if they think money has been incentivized to pursue ESG policies, they're going to do that. But if they don't have to do that, they're not going to do ESG policies. They're going to do what they were born to do.

And what's cool about this, money. This feels like a really quick whiplash. Like, you know, Black Rock was at the center of peddling ESG. And then I don't know what happened, where that moment was. but if they went not only rejected it but then said we want to be part of an exchange that rejects it, that's a good sign. And the reason I bring this up with you is because I find it directly comparable to your brand new book, War on Warriors, because unfortunately now, there is not a competition, there's no competitive market, there's no alternative to the United States military. But the United States military has been captured by that same ideology, that same loss of a sense of purpose as every other institution. United States. And if you have a military, as you have pointed out to me on various occasions,

who's not focused on killing its enemy, its primary objective, that is instead focused on how many different trans soldiers do we have in every unit, you are going to, as I said, not get in the way, but subvert the primary objective, kill the enemy, and you will be killed. Exactly right. Very well said, well, you got me thinking, though, I hadn't thought of this, but there are alternatives inside the military, right? You could join the Army or the Marine Corps, right you can join different services and the one service that hasn't seen a dip in recruiting is the Marine Corps why because the Marine Corps is perceived as being the least woke the most likely to maintain the standards they're running the ads that still say you know

I can't remember what the ad is the few the proud the Marines like yeah I want to be a part of that that's a mini micro reflection inside the institutions and it is different I mean I would have thought of the stock exchange as an entity of one but now there's competition there isn't the only competition to the United States military is other countries militaries. The only comp is this is not, you know, a bronze medal is not going to cut it. This is not the Olympics. This is, you know, we go into one war with a country and either we win or we don't. And the whole world changes as a result.

And you know what's been, we've talked about this a lot on the weekend show. You've been very generous with your time and the opportunity to talk about it. And I've started to get reviews and information coming back from people, even just in the last day who've been able to read it. and it's wonderfully affirming. It's not good to hear the stories, but to know that I'm over the target here, everyone's saying this is what my son is seeing,

this is what I'm seeing. And there's a reason for that, Will, you know this. I spend my Saturdays in my office doing work, okay? You don't know what that work is, okay, but I call it work, right? And it's plowing through my schedule and my inbox and getting back to people. And when I'm writing a book, it's writing a book. Well, part of what... TPS reports.

TPS reports. TPS for scheduling receipts. I mean, I'm on it, and we'll see it. I get focused. Well, one of the tasks over the last year that I've had on Saturdays was I would block out six hours of time, and I'd talk to seven or eight different vets or actively serving members.

And then I'd ask them to refer me to somebody else. And these are active duty people who aren't approved to talk to the media, and I talked to me under the condition of anonymity, and I'm able to record their conversations as long as I transcribe them, as long as I don't use their name. And I use that throughout the book.

So I'm not surprised by this response because I've already been in touch with this response with all those people across the country. I didn't want to write this book and throw it out there based on media reports of what we see as a woke military. I need to get under the hood, and I did. And so it's the disenchanted nature of morale.

It's the lowering of standards. It's the walking on eggshells. It's the prioritization of training. It's the skepticism of leaders based on where they put there because they're a first or because they're the best? Are we distracted as a unit? So thank you for the opportunity.

You've already given me more than enough time to promote this book. But the War on Warriors is out. It's currently number one on Amazon. People have been great. It's been a huge response and appreciate it. And we're going to talk about it some more here today on the Will Kane show.

So I want to talk about what's happened to the United States military in some specifics. But let's start with this, Pete. It sounds rudimentary, but I think it needs to be our starting point. And that is the purpose of the United States military. I mean, you and I touched on it, kill your enemy. But I do feel like over the past, maybe we could say half a century,

but we've lost some sense of actually the mission, the objective. And I think that that has been a bipartisan effort. What I mean by that is we think of the military as nation builders. We think of the military as a police force. We think of the military as a democracy spreader. We think of the military as an institution to reflect representation. We hear diversities our strength. It's applied to the military.

And what's completely watered down in that litany of things I just listed off is there's really one single primary objective to the existence of the United States military. Help us understand the objective of our military. Oh, you're exactly right. That's why in one little paragraph I mentioned, I'd love to change the name of the Defense Department back to the Department of War. which is what it used to be. The function of the military is, yes, to fight and win our nation's wars and protect our national interests.

But first and foremost, it's to deter wars. You don't want to have to fight wars because people don't want to mess with the American military. And so our diplomats, as I joked with Rachel on the show, our diplomats are effective in their diplomacy because we've got a division of tanks behind them who the enemy doesn't want to mess with. And yes, for reasons of politics,

for reasons of the way we wage our war, mission creep has been a signature of the last half century. You're exactly what I experienced it in Iraq and Afghanistan. This idea that the 82nd Airborne or the Marine Corps should be remaking remote villages in Afghanistan and delivering a quality of life to civilians that will then turn off all the instincts that culture has to fight an insurgency against a foreign entity landing on that soil. And part of that is our general classes end up going to places like Harvard Kennedy School and Yale and others, and they want to be more like this.

the students they're going to class with, then the textbooks they learned in the military about what their real function is. So there's a mingling of political, cultural priorities into the military ethos, and we certainly saw it on the battlefield. And what this book argues for is the military's best function is fighting and winning wars. We want people in position to do just that. Yes, we do have civilian leadership of that military, but the consult, the advice that military leaders are giving those civilians should be laser focused on what the military does well,

not dabbling in the cultural and diplomatic aspects of it. We're here to do one thing. If you need that tool, pick it up and that tool's going to be ready, but don't distract us with other things in the process. And we just don't have a sharp enough tool right now. We don't have enough of those tools in there. And we've got a lot of tool bags at the top doing the bidding of politicians that haven't had the backs of troops. and those are the names that we name in the book. And, you know, they won't like... I know for a fact, Will, that Mark Millie got an advanced copy of this book,

and he's none too pleased about it. And I don't have an axe to grind with Mark... Is that right? Yes. And I don't have an axe to grind with Mark Millie, the person. He's a perfectly fine guy. And I know a lot of guys who served with him when he was more of a junior officer, going through as a major or lieutenant colonel or colonel,

and they really liked him. He was a warfighter. But when it mattered the most at the pinnacle of his profession, He caved to the chattering class and gave into false narratives that he knew were false because it was easier to go along with the idea of white rage or CRT or patriot extremism in the ranks because he knew it would allow him to move into the next administration and be liked by the outside chattering class. So I take issue with those people and so do trigger pollers. And that's who the book's for.

Is there such thing as patriot extremism? Yes. Like, what is Patriot extremism? Well, by the way, we're talking about World War II, right? And D-Day, I mean, D-Day and World War II were won by Patriot extremists. Patriot extremists being defined as traditional Christian, heterosexual males. At that point, it was mostly all white males, unfortunately, although there were amazing black contributions in World War II for the American cause also. After that, soon thereafter, there would be full integration and rightfully so. But it was that ethos of patriot extremism that has won our wars.

Yeah, that was a leaked DARPA memo from the extremism working group came out where there was a new definition of potential domestic enemies and threats inside the military, and one of those was patriot extremism, defined by, you know, quoting the declaration and the Constitution, flying the Gadsden flag, which is no longer allowed on most military installations. Think about that, don't tread on me, which was a staple of left and right on military basis for years because I don't know. We love the country, and we believe in stomping out tyranny. But that's where we are. It's gotten that bad. Well, let's talk about, though, while I mentioned that there's been this loss of a sense of purpose or mission creep, there's something that, well, I would say in the last decade, but you've written an entire book on it, so you can tell us, just like you did with Battle for the American Mind, the origins of this, but particularly what's happened, I think, at least to our public eyes in the last decade, and that is this focus on, you know, representation, diversity is our strength. I would just think things that are just so not even extraneous but subversive to the idea of a cohesive military in pursuit of a single objective. So give me some examples of what has occurred, what has been the war on warriors recently.

Subversive is a great way to put it. And maybe it wasn't intentional but from all ranks at the beginning, but eventually that's exactly how it plays out. take a story that was told to me of a black couple that was serving together and one had bought in on the CRT aspects of it and the other had not and sort of wanted the military of the past was crossing marital problems for them or you've got a Hispanic female who felt like she'd been promoted based on her merit her entire career but now didn't feel like that was felt like the black-white divide was the issue and a lot of this came from matt lowmire who talks about this in the Space Force was the real defining issue and what that meant for her as a Hispanic female.

So the military has traditionally been a crucible whereby you and I arrive with our biases and our backgrounds and our assumptions. And then drill sergeants and the institution breaks those down. You're forced to work together with people you never would have worked together with before. And all those arbitrary distinctions fade away because of what you're being molded into. And that's why the military has historically for decades now been the least racist, least race-conscious, least biased institution in all of government, because it has this unique forcing function where people are forced to work together, which is why when Millie and others are peddling extremism, they know it's false. And when the studies came out years

later, it shows, yes, racism is a problem with 0.007% of service members versus 7% of the general population. It's not a thing. They knew it wasn't a thing, yet they pushed it to be politically expedient in the moment. So when you do that forcing function, and now at the other end, you're in your units, and now you're reminding people, no, no, no, it's not that we're the same here. It's that your skin color defines you and will define your career trajectory or whether or not you succeed or fail. Then it, just like everywhere else, it turns people back toward each other with different identities that are self-focused as opposed to unit focus. And I heard it time and time again. Not just, I mean, trans is the most extreme example of it, but lowering of

standards for females in combat units where the men become very disgruntled by it, an example of a trans soldier who transitioned, who was a high performer, who now is absent for the better part of a year, and the other soldiers have to pick up the slack because he or she is now non-deployable. Or the one we heard a lot of, and I've experienced this personally, unfortunately, Will, commanders or leaders in your units who are put it plucked and placed into a position who underperform and the question is where they placed there because of their skin color or their background and you don't want to have that skepticism but when you look at their performance certainly doesn't feel like they're a high performer who should be a battalion commander of a unit at this level but they're there and they're

not going anywhere even though they can't perform because someone put their thumb on the scale and said this is the person we need there all of that affects morale creates cynicism and skepticism which undermines the mission. Do I want to go and fight and die for that person who's kind of an idiot? Or if someone did earn it, did earn it, and now there's skepticism of whether they earned it because they look like a first,

but they really aren't because they really did achieve it and they are the best. That's unfair to them. You know these examples from across culture, across institutions. But when it's life or death, bullets are flying, none of this crap matters.

And I write it in the book. That's why I detail some missions that we go on. Because to give people a sense of the brotherhood of people that you work with, and you don't eat, none of that, you don't think about that one bit, and you shouldn't be before and you shouldn't be after. And we are now, and it's poisoning the ranks. And I hear from it from guys all over the place. I told you this last weekend that I just, I just rewatched Band of Brothers. It's on Netflix right now, and I'm falling down the obsession rabbit hole of Normandy and World War II yesterday at large. I've been watching documentaries on World War II.

But in Band of Brothers, you know, it's about easy company, the 1001st Airborne paratroopers. And one of the things that they did, they actually led a mutiny in effect at one point against their commander, their commanding officer, because they didn't believe in his combat effectiveness. He was like an incredible drill sergeant. He prepared them well, you know, in basic and in camp. but they, they, all the NCOs, um, got together and, and went to headquarters and like, we're not going to follow this man into battle. And it was a huge deal and some of them got busted down the ranks for it and all that. But to your point, it just showed like, believing in the competency of your commanding officer is core at your ability to

wage a war. And whether or not it's, you know, race or gender or there are other instances, which have been as old as the, as old as time in the military, which is just like, like who are you connected to? Nepotism. But you're laying this on top of, you're laying all this on top of that problem already. You can't be wondering whether or not your leader

is incompetent on the battlefield. Yeah, and then somehow you're racist for having those skepticism when your life is in this person's hands and you know it has nothing to do with this color of their skin, never has, won't. But that environment is why

the types of questions that were raised in that film, will, which are real. Often don't make the light of day in today's institutional and bureaucratic bureaucracy because it's never going to be listened to. It won't be welcomed. You will definitely be busted down and that person will definitely stay in their position. And now we don't fight wars the way we did in World War II, which is you fight from start to finish and you're not done until the war's over. We fight it in six to nine month increments. And so, well, you can just survive your six to nine months with that commander, then he washes out, you wash out, a new set of troops are in and they have to fight the war all over again.

It also creates a much more bureaucratic application of war fighting. We're not doing everything we can to get this war over with because this war is going on whether we are successful or not for the next nine months, and so we're going to do the minimal. Some units don't. A lot of units go right at it, and I was a part of units like that, but it doesn't create a healthy cultural institution. So the part that I said as old as the tale of time for every institution, but also clearly the military is careerism.

I mentioned who you connected to, but, you know, the incentive structure of the military is to rise in the ranks, right? That's how you succeed is you get promoted and you rise and you rise and you rise. So you pointed out Millie and people knowing who he was when he was a junior officer and a warfighter. And I just wonder, like, what role careerism plays in this? when is that inflection point? Do you know what I mean? Like, when is it that a lieutenant colonel is like, I've got to start echoing this nonsense in order to become a general? You know, whatever it is, if you go to from two to three stars, I'm just curious, how much you think is ideological versus how much is just careerism? As always, as often, I shouldn't give you too much.

You're right over the target. Like, careerism is the other word that pops in time and time again in all the interviews and some people put it at different points brigade command division command one star general two star general but it's not as simple as saying oh they just they just devolve into becoming ideologues or devolve into becoming politicians yes that's true careerism starts you know when you're a captain like if you're attached to this battalion commander who's successful then you hits your your wagon to him and now he's a brigade commander and now you get to be one of his in his in his operations shop and then you move up when he's a division commander to being a battalion commander

and he's got his guys and they're good. But usually most of that is tied to effective people, right? Effective senior leaders want effective junior leaders because they succeed when everyone succeeds. So they're pulling the good ones up with them. And you see this with McChrystal. You saw this with Petraeus. You would hear it.

You're like, well, that's a Petraeus guy. That's a McChrystal guy. That's an Odeerno guy. And those guys were always the top block high-flying guys. But that's part of, in many ways, a healthy institution. It's when you get to a rank where the political class is having an impact on what you do or do not do, or you're pulled into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and usually that's one-star, two-star level, where you're having to make the decision, all right, the prerogatives coming from,

you're no longer in touch with the guys pulling triggers, is a simple way to put it. You're not out there kind of accountable face-to-face with the impact of your decisions. okay, we need to meet a certain threshold of environmental readiness, okay, my career is around pushing and peddling that. Well, how does that impact downstream? I don't really see it, but I know that if I create this PowerPoint presentation and push this new initiative and it's successful or perceived as being successful, that's my track to a second star and then my track to a third star.

And they're no longer thinking about that core issue we talked about, which is war fighting, deterring, and winning wars. It's what is the political class telling me is important. And that's where I think it clashes with your oath to the Constitution, which is defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic. And too many generals just sort of start to abdicate or miss that. And then you get garbage getting pumped down to the lower level. One of the interesting parts about writing this book will is I've had a couple of occasions

where I've been able to talk to two or three star generals since the book's been public. And they're very sheepish conversations. because I go in pretty, these are, these are vets, they're out, retired. I go in pretty confident. I don't have anything to lose at this point. I'm a major, you know, I mean, and I'm not, your rank doesn't apply post-service, and I respect your service, and I, but, you know, where they'll sort of admit they were a part of these initiatives, yeah, we were there when we did this thing, and so why did you

do that, sir? Like, it's clear. And they're like, well, it's just had, had to do it. Just the future of the Marine Corps, just the future of the Marine Corps, you know, it's gender integrated. That's the future. And I integrated basic training. Like there's, it was just what you did because that's what the political class was telling you.

And none of it was like, but you knew, sir, that the females couldn't perform the same way men could. And if your job is to put the best fighting force out there, then how did you improve the Marine Corps or did you make it worse? You know, and so there's, I think there's a lot of guilt amongst senior leaders who've left the military and didn't do enough when they could have to stem the tide of some of this stuff. I went ahead and one or two more things after the World Warriors, but I don't know that you and I've ever talked about this. Where are you on compelled service? Where are you on a draft? I mean, I think it has always been a point of pride for the United States military that it's a volunteer service. It shows a reflection of a commitment within the culture, right?

But also, I think we both have talked about without any commonality, like any ties that bind us as a people. I don't know. We lose cohesion as a society. And I just wonder, I don't know, what do you think? What do you think about maintaining voluntary status of our military versus I've thought a lot about this. I'm out on mandatory service. I think most mandatory, because anytime we talk mandatory service,

it quickly turns into all government service. And so you get young people, you can choose the military or the State Department or the EPA or the National Park Service and suddenly you just have a bunch of people that are growing government and you automatically grow government and I don't want to grow government. So I'm out on that.

I wrote in American Crusade one of the things I would very much be for is sort of a Minuteman Corps. Almost this idea that, hey, Will, when you come out of high school or you come out of college, you're not choosing the military, but if you do this four-week course

where you get basic weapons training, you're sort of registered as a case you get basic military etiquette maybe a uniform fitness standards that kind of thing then you'll be on a list in perpetuity as long as you maintain those fitness standards for 10 or 20 years and as a result you get a tax break or you get some student loan relief or you get whatever it is that comes out of it but will cane you're a patriot and between your 20s and 40s, if America goes to war, you've said I will raise my hand in that conflict. And I've got

just a baseline of training that creates that forcing function. But it's not mandatory. You can choose it and there's a bet. I kind of like the idea of a minute man. Because I know a lot of guys that would jump at that. Oh, I'll do a month. I'll do that. I'm ready to go. Yep, I'm in if my country needs me, but I'm going to go, you know, build a career and raise a family and hopefully I never

have to, but if I need to, I will. That's kind of where I'm at on it. I like that idea, a Minuteman Corps. Okay, you and I were with Donald Trump last weekend, and he said, when asked, I think, by Rachel Campos Duffy, you may have asked, what can be done about the war on warriors? And there was some questions about, you know, will you fire these generals? And he said yes, by the way. So, but my question to you is, what can be done? You know, this is a gigantic institution, and, you know, ships don't turn on a dime. So what can be done to save the military? No, they don't. You'd want multiple terms, by the way. So, you know, you're, you know,

You need a Trump presidency and then you need a follow on, I think. But Trump's going to have 15 fires to fight, and I think the DOD needs to be atop that list. You've got to fire the secretary of fence. You've got to have a new chairman of joint chiefs. You've got to have very strategic firings of particular generals who are very heavy pushing DEI and CRT and environmental stuff, extremism, stuff. Oh, you're done. And you don't have to fire everybody. You have to make example of some high-profile folks who are invested and involved in this,

so that the institution recognizes the new incentive structure is not to peddle these things. Then you ban DEI, you ban CRT, you take women out of combat units, you ban transgenderism, and you're going to have a whole chunk of the military that says, oh, finally, sanity's back. I'm ready to go, let's do this.

And then you just have to change the way you recruit. Now, you recruit, you go back to, you write ads like we used to, motivating people to want to serve for the right reasons. Now, that's a very oversimplified approach. You've got to change the way we procure weapons systems. You've got to change the way we promote. You've got to change the reporting structure. There's a lot of other things to change, but there's a lot that Trump could do and quickly.

And I think he gets the extent of the problem. It's just it's easy for an officer in a uniform to look like, yes, sir, I'm going to do your, when you have to look harder at what they've really done and what they've really pushed. and I think a Trump administration would have to do that. The women in military thing, women in combat units, you know, I was, again, I was watching this documentary on World War II, and I was watching about the Battle of Stalingrad, which in the West is really not given its full attention on what it meant for World War II. I mean, the Russians and what happened on the Eastern Front are really what allowed D-Day and Normandy to take place in many ways. That's not to take anything away from the heroism of the American, British, and Canadian soldiers.

on D-Day, but the Russians kept the Nazis occupied for years on end with all of their resources in human capital. But Stalingrad was just awful, awful. And if Hitler had taken Stalingrad, the theory is he might have easily cut off Moscow and won his war of the Soviet Union. And it was horrific, the battle of Stalingrad. I mean horrific. Urban warfare, snipers, just huge human attrition. But the Russians, they mobilized women. some point and all women core and manning huge heavy machine guns but i mean i only bring that up because i was thinking about you talking about women in combat and it's an entirely different world because today we create a military that basically works as a scalpel you know it's like

highly specialized highly effective highly targeted they were a sledgehammer i mean they were throwing bodies and the russians have always been that way they don't care how many bodies stack up they'll win the war but they just threw everything the entire sledgehammer including women at the Nazis? Well, there's moments of necessity. There, I think another moment, a reality necessity is the state of Israel. They just don't have a lot of people and they're surrounded. And so women serving in combat units is more commonplace. I'm not saying no women in the military. Like there's a ton of amazing women that have done great things for the country. It's by pushing women into elite combat units or just top performing regular infantry units, what has happened

standards have lowered because you can't have enough women meeting the male standards. And so we start to lower the standards to get more women in. And now you just have less effective units. And the studies of all the book lays out studies that were done that were thrown out by the military between all male units and male female units. It's clear. It's lung capacity. It's bone density. It's 245 plates on the side. Like they're not doing that, you know? We are. And so let's have those dudes out front and women will play other very important roles. All right. This is the last thing I want to ask you.

I don't really, it's not like our normal off the rails here today because we're focused on the Royal Warriors. And I don't know that this even, I don't even know that this is tied to that. But so I was scrolling through sort of my normal morning routine. I read my different things I check in on. One of the places that I go to is CNN.com because I like to see everything that everybody is talking about. And one of their headlines at the top of CNN.com right now is like something about, this is the hottest year ever and it only is going to get worried.

I'm like, oh my God, they're talking about climate change. They're still, like, the way they think and maintain focus on this, it's clearly characterized at all times as an existential threat, which it's not. Not even the experts believe it's an existential threat. The definition of an existential threat is something that can end humanity, right? or we could we can lower the threshold and say something that could end the United States of America truly represents a threat to the existence

of something, right? Whatever that thing may be. Humanity, the nation state, whatever. I'm curious, what do you think is an existential threat to the United States of America? I think it's mostly internal at this point, Will. I mean, first and foremost, I think

it's our complete loss of faith in a creator God. And I think nations have risen and fallen based on the blessings of God, and I think we've turned our back on that. That's an existential threat. I think our education system is an existential threat. I mean existential, I guess what I mean existential. It doesn't mean we're all going to be exterminated here. It means our place atop the world. I guess I'm thinking of America as the apex predator or America as the superpower of the world or the main currency or the chief

Navy maintaining shipping lanes or the top, you know, finance capital of the world, entertainment capital, whatever it is, there will be a moment, we are being challenged in multiple places and these are our vulnerabilities, teaching people to not believe in their country, $34 trillion in debt. And then our military, you mentioned the worship of climate. Like, our military industrial complex is heavily focused on delivering electric tanks and electric humvees. Why?

Not because they believe that they're good. technology because that's where the money's going, because the politicians have told them that. So they don't believe this stuff, but they'll move in that direction. Yeah, I think most of our threats are internal, but hey, if China decided to turn on the war machine, the Pentagon has a perfect record in the last 10 years in war games against China, and it's that we lose every time. They're building a military that's built to defeat us, and ours is not built, is built to fight the last war, as is often the case because of the administrations and turnover. I'm not saying they're better than us.

They're not. And an EMP could change anything, Will, not to get conspiratorial, but the wrong weapon in the hands of the wrong regime could send any country backwards very quickly. So there's a lot of them, but I tend to focus internally right now. Well, I don't think you're wrong. Again, it's what are you defining the existence of? And internal division, a lack of national cohesion,

a common identity under God or under the stars and stripes. Whatever it may be, we are losing the sense of what it means to be an American. And if you've lost that, then there is no – I mean, there's a husk, there's the shell of the United States of America, but it's not in existence. I think you're right. Until some real external threat presents itself that forces some unification, we are our biggest threat. We are the biggest existential threat to America. All right, War on Warriors, number one on Amazon, foxnewsbooks.com, Pete Heggseth, his latest bestseller.

You got to get it. You got to go check out War on Warriors. All right, man, I appreciate you. Brother, thank you. It was a little bit more on the rails this time. We'll bring it back off the rails next time when I'm not promoting a book. I appreciate it. Thank you.

I agree. I agree. We'll go off the rails. All right, buddy. See you later. There goes Pete Heggseth. Check out War on Warriors, Fox NewsBooks. While we're speaking of that, talking about war,

tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Last week, I took my two boys and my wife, and we visited Normandy. I want to share with you that experience next on the Will Kane Show. You know, if you look at any poll as we approach this 2024 presidential election, If you look at the list of concerns for Americans, number one is almost invariably inflation. And it's really no wonder why. I mean, in the last 18 months alone, the cost of groceries and basic necessities for a family of four has gone up $11,000 a year. As would be the case when you print money like a drunken sailor, as is in any basic economic understanding supply and demand.

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the Fox News Facebook page. Always on demand by subscribing at YouTube, Apple, or on. Spotify. Last week, took a little vacation with my family. We try to do this every year or so and go explore someplace new. We do a little history, a little sightseeing, a little relaxing. And this year, really by no plan other than cheapest available airfare, we ended up going to France. I wasn't very excited, like, to go to Paris.

I don't know why. Like a lot of Americans, what do I want to do with French Paris? But then I realized, I've never been in Normandy. I want to go up and see the D-Day invasion landing sites. I want to go to the cemetery. It's on my bucket list for my life to go see this. And so my wife, I think he's like, yeah, let's do that. Tomorrow, June 6th is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

I got to go there a week ahead. And I just want to share with you some of my experience, what I saw. And, you know, I've fallen down the rabbit hole as I often do. This marks a good vacation for me or even a good movie. Do I want to learn more or read more? So before we went, I showed my boy saving Private Ryan. I think it's a good, you know, entertaining entry point into understanding what happened. But since then, I mean, I've watched, I don't know, as I mentioned talking with Pete Hegseth, I rewatched Band of Brothers.

I've been watching some Netflix documentaries on it. And it's just, before I even get to what I saw, The scale of the operation, Operation Overlord, is incredible to comprehend. The Allies landed two and a half million soldiers in a month's time. Really, no foothold in Europe. Now, I say really, because that carries a lot of weight. The Allies had pushed up through North Africa. They'd pushed the Nazis out of North Africa and begun an invasion into Italy.

A somewhat successful invasion through Italy. The Italians laid down their weapons pretty quick. They weren't very devoted to Mussolini. But the Germans were in Italy, and they cut off and held up bay. The British and the Americans and the Canadians a good while up about halfway through the boot of Italy before reaching Rome. This was the approach that Churchill wanted all along. He was a skeptic when it came to invading France. He was a skeptic.

he thought the soft underbelly of Europe was the way to attack the Germans. But his generals, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the leaders of the Allies thought, no, France. That's the place that we're going to land. Now, France is big. And for that matter, the Germans had fortified the entirety of Western Europe from Norway, all the way down to southern France, with what they called the Atlantic Wall. The Atlantic Wall, in name, sounds like, in penetrable fortress, you know, Fortress Europe. But in effect, it really wasn't. You can't man that amount, that expansive geography.

But Hitler put in charge Erwin Rommel of the Atlantic Wall, and he did a lot to fortifying the entirety. They had pillboxes. They had mines on land and in the sea. I'm forgetting the name of the things that looked like big X's, multi-dimensional X's up and down the beach and the sea. You saw that in saving Private Ryan, all to repel a sea invasion. But the Germans didn't know where the allies, they knew it would happen. They knew it was going to happen. They didn't know where it was going to happen.

And the incredible amount of secrecy and misinformation, the Allies embarked upon, was integral in the success on Normandy. The most obvious place was Calais. You know, that's where the British left, Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, because it's the narrowest channel from England to France. And that's where the bulk of the German defenses were focused. I mean, they had considered it could be Normandy and Brittany and other parts of France, but it wasn't where they primarily thought. And the Allies were feeding misinformation to the Germans.

They thought they'd crack the code and had spies, but the British knew about it, and they were feeding misinformation to the Germans to make them think they'd come through Calais. what more patent was the hero general patent was the hero of africa and the germans all thought well whoever does this it's going to be patent so we got to mark and focus and track patent well the allies put patent in charge of what became known as a ghost army a fake army was inflatables and cardboard cutouts in in western england southwestern england eastern i'm sorry southeastern england and to make the Germans think, oh, they are massing forces there because it's directly over the English Channel to Calais,

when in reality we were massing forces to come across the channel and land at Normandy. Now, when you get to Normandy, it's beautiful. Like, Northern France is farmland, rural, still to this day, little villages that you can't tell. now if they're inhabited or not some nicer cities and it's a trip i mean we took a red-eye flight landed in paris took a cab to a train station then a two-hour train station up to can france where you rent a car and drive another hour up to normandy we did all that in one day and my boys were troopers i've got a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old everybody was a trooper falling asleep on trains of course and that kind of thing but once you get there all in

on learning it and here's dad you know like i've got as many monologues on history and podcast just it's just eye-wateringly boring podcasts on all this i'm forcing everybody to listen to but i targeted i did a self-guided tour we didn't have time um and i'm a bad planner to get any type of professional tour probably a mistake but we did pretty good uh considering what i already went in knowing in the places that we want to target so um before i'd share we with the exact where we went, what we saw. I mentioned earlier in my conversation with Pete, so much of the German forces were focused on the Eastern Front in fighting the Russians. The Western Front was a place where the Germans put young soldiers, they put old soldiers,

they put soldiers on relief from the Eastern Front to go convales and get better on the Western Front, and they put conscripts. They forced Polish soldiers and Turkish soldiers, anybody they conquered, brought them into the German army, and they put a lot of those guys. on the western front. There's a scene in saving Private Ryan where the American troops scale the bluffs at Omaha Beach, and they get there and they get the Germans out of the pillbox, and it's a small scene, but you'll see the Germans come out, and they're not Germans. And they're saying, we're not German, we're not German, they're not speaking German, it's a small scene, and then the guys shoot them down anyway. That's some of what we encountered. Now, there were also

very effective combat troops scattered throughout as well, German Panzer divisions. But Hitler didn't give his military everything they needed to repel this attack. Who knows why? He had some up on the beachfront, some divisions back by Paris to march forward because they didn't know. They didn't know where the allies would land. So he's like, we've got to deploy them wherever they do land. He also kept, I think, two divisions back in Germany. So the German troops thought on Atlantic Wall they were going to receive much more support than they ever ended up receiving. And that meant something to me when I went to first, of all, point the hawk. Now, I don't know if two days back in the studio is going to be able to

share photos with you guys for anybody watching on YouTube in the order that I'm going to tell this story, but I'm going to try. But point de hawk is atop a 98-foot cliff. It's where they built German pillboxes. These are the concrete bunkers with slits out the front. And the allies had to land. In this case, it was a regimen. It was 225 U.S. Army Rangers commanded by a guy from Texas and I was proud of that and I'm going to tell you why but anybody's watching on YouTube you can see the view from inside of one of these pill boxes looking out over the ocean the Germans fortified well into these bunkers um but I also thought about the mindset of the Germans sitting there because reports are the Germans looked out over the ocean and they saw

an endless horizon of ships coming directly at them I mean how fearful would you have to be like you know it's on and it's on right here where I They're all headed right towards me in overwhelming force. The Germans had the tactical advantage. I mean, they were up high. They had to reinforce structures. They had the heavy machinery. Now, ahead of time, we had aerial bombardments ahead of the landing.

And I took pictures and saw the craters to this day, 80 years later, are massive, massive craters all around these bunkers. I'm talking drops of 15 feet down into the ground. Can you just imagine that? landing all around you. And then these army rangers arrive and with ladders and hooks and they scale a 98-foot cliff, these 225 Army Rangers, to ultimately take point to Huck. And when they take point to huck, you can see to this day when you're in the bunker, all the wood paneling on the ceiling is just charred.

It's burned wood. And you're like, why would that be? Well, grenades, flame throwers. The end for these German soldiers, horrific. But I think it was something like out of 225 soldiers at the end of this, Rangers, something between like 60 and 90 made it to the top and took Pointe to Hawk. After that, we went down to Omaha Beach. Now, there's not a lot to see at Omaha Beach.

Omaha Beach is famous, the most famous, perhaps, beach of the entire landing. Pointe to Hawk is in the middle, between Utah Beach, Omaha Beach. These were the beaches that Americans were in charge of. Gold, Sword, and Juno were British and Canadian beaches to take it. And the worst of the fighting, what you see in saving Private Ryan, is Omaha Beach. On D-Day, I believe it was 20,000 Americans were killed in action, another 10,000 missing in action, which obviously means killed as well, lost to whatever. which we don't even know what that means anymore.

A war of attrition, like you're going to accept a certain amount of losses. You're going to accept a certain amount of death. I mean, we talk now, and I'm not saying we've gotten softer, just our mindset as a culture has changed on our willingness to accept the sacrifice of war. And roughly 3,000 of our losses were right there at Omaha Beach. That's where they met the heaviest German reinforcements. That's where they were the most exposed. my boys and I walked up and down the beach there's not a lot to see there's a memorial

a piece of like artwork that represents wings of an angel represent I think bravery and brotherhood and freedom but even though there's not a lot to see you just look out across the English channel and you think about what happened there I mean the the water ran red with blood bodies were stacked up and down the beach and this is happening as wave after wave of Marines are making their way an army making their way onto that beach it's I just again I just I think every American every American if you can this should be on your bucket list of places to go of things to see by oh it was really nice village and you know nice getaway as well while you're up there I mean the French countryside is beautiful but then ultimately that day we met our way to

the American cemetery and there's a German Cemetery. There's a British Cemetery, but of course, we went to the American Cemetery. And, I mean, it's like what you see in the pictures. You've all seen the pictures. Fields and fields of crosses, some stars of David. American and French flags planted at every grave site. And it's just, it's just so humbling, man. It's just incredible to look at, to put your eyes on the sacrifice. These were kids. These were kids. These were kids. These were 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds, yeah, and older as well, walking into certain gunfire, walking into probable death, retaking a foothold on Europe to win back against Nazi Germany.

It is absolutely incredible. And for me, I mean, pride, you're going to walk away. You can't help, but be proud to be an American. I was also proud that there was a house with an American flag and a Texas flag, you know, honoring the Texans who played a large part in that incredible, incredible battle. And then, by the way, there's the paratroopers. That's what I've been back in on with Band of Brothers

that dropped then ahead of time to secure locations for the Allies landing on the beach. I don't know. I don't know. I know what I do know. I'm sure I have not done justice in communicating this to you. And I'm sure many of you listening are watching no more than I do. I love it. I love falling down the history rabbit hole.

And this is a moment in history where you see a level of devotion and sacrifice to the United States of America that I know, I think, I think does still exist, but is not exhibited as obviously as it once was. There's a reason this was called the greatest generation. And to pay homage, to visit, to understand, to share it. with my sons and my wife, I would encourage you, if you have a chance, every American, visit Normandy. Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of that landing. At the very least, take some time, think about it, read about it, learn about it. It will make you richer.

It'll make you proud to be an American. Coming up, the Wall Street Journal reports that people say Joe Biden spoke so softly that no one could understand him in meetings, 45 different Republicans and Democrats. reporting to the Rolls Street Journal about the decline, the cognitive decline of President Biden. That's next on the Will Cain Show. Book Club on Monday. Jim on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday.

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bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Biden displays signs of decline in private meetings with congressional leaders report. That's the headline at Fox News.com. It is the Will Kane show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and Fox News Facebook page. Always on demand in audio format at Apple or on Spotify and available for a subscription on YouTube at Will Kane Show. Fox News.com sharing a report from the Wall Street Journal that says President Biden has shown signs of poor cognitive performance

in private meetings with congressional lawmakers as his age and mental acuity continue to come into question ahead of November's presidential election. I'll read directly from the, Wall Street Journal's report. This is what they write as of this morning. Quote, when President Biden met with congressional leaders in the West Wing in January to negotiate a Ukraine funding deal, he spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting. He read from

notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods, and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out. It's a report that quotes 45 different anonymous, Republican and Democratic congressman on the private meetings they've had with President Biden and the signs of cognitive decline that he has shown. It's something that we all know. It's something that everyone can see.

There is a concerted effort to say, don't believe you're lying eyes and your lying ears. We had a debate some time ago here on the Will Cain Show with David Pacman, a liberal streamer on YouTube. That's going viral, by the way, over the last 24 hours because he played whackamol with me and creating straw men about Adderall wears off. I didn't say it didn't. Pro Vigil can't help dementia.

Whatever whackamol theory you want to run, it doesn't absolve us from what we can see with our eyes and our ears. The president of the United States is in severe cognitive decline. There are quotes in here from people who met with him when he was vice president. They say, he's not the same man. And in a sense, we're also going, well, yeah, obviously, because everyone can see it. We can all see it, falling downstairs, trailing off in sentences, saying things that make no sense whatsoever. You know, we just sat down with President Trump for an hour and a half.

And there's also an effort to do some sort of. of like equivalency with President Trump. Like he's made some verbal mistakes here and there. So, oh, he's 77. Biden's 81. I stood an hour and a half with President Trump. I'm going to tell you, objectively, no, nothing. You think Biden could do this?

I don't think he could do this. Sit it with you guys for this long. Talk like this. No, I don't think he could do this. He said that at one point in our interview. He's exactly right, to be honest. And all of us know it. You can't gaslight us.

my favorite I think it's a lefty term at this point you can't pull some fraud on us that it's not happening by saying oh you know it's not Adderall it's not provisional I don't know fair I'm not prescribing him medications I don't know what gets him up on some days and leaves him so trailing on other days

and by the way I don't even care if it is drugs what if he just got 14 hours sleep that night is it good for the United States of America that the President of the United States needs to rally for this big moments and he's asleep on the job in order to have enough energy to do a state of the union? Whatever it is, don't you need somebody with an even level of energy, an even level of cognitive ability to run the United States of America? It seems pretty

intuitive and common sense. In that debate, as we've talked about Pacman, he said, oh, why didn't it show up in the polls? It does over and over again, as we've pointed out. In March, the Wall Street Journal conducted a poll of who has concerns of, or what not you think, the presidential candidate has the mental capability to hold the office. 28% felt confident about Joe Biden, 46% about Donald Trump. Everyone sees it. Everyone sees it with Joe Biden. They don't think they're the same.

They don't think he's on top of his game. And as we have reporting this morning from the Wall Street Journal, this is a serious threat to the United States of America. Okay, set aside from an ideology, set aside corruption, set aside anything else. The leader of the free world needs to be of sound mind. That seems to be a fairly low bar, a low threshold that we should be able to clear. And you can't gaslight us. You can't tell us not to believe our eyes and our ears and tell us, oh, no, he's all good at 81, sharp as attack, day in, day out, capable of running the United States of America.

This right here is a voting issue alone, enough, that should sway independence, should sway anybody, regardless of the opponent. Again, feels like standing the obvious. He should be of sound mind, the president of the United States of America. All right, that's going to do it for me today here on the Will Cain Show. I hope you will jump into the comments section, participate in our community, subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or Spotify. And that's going to do it for us today. I will see you again. Next time.

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