Hard Truths With Congressman Mike Waltz
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Whenever I have been asked what best prepared me for serving in elected office, I usually quip that before I got into politics, I served in a unit that specialized in unconventional warfare and counter-insurgency, and I'm amazed at how well that prepared me for domestic politics. It's, of course, half tongue in cheek, but there is no question that my time as a Green Beret taught me a lot about leadership. Mike Waltz is the first Green Beret elected to Congress, and he has served with distinction both in the military and as an elected official. He wrote a book, "Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret," where he explained what is unique and compelling about the Special Forces style of leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, hello and welcome back to Making the Argument. |
| 0:02.5 | We have a very special guest with us today, and that's not just a pun there. |
| 0:08.3 | This guy actually served in special forces. |
| 0:10.8 | In fact, we were in the same, well, the same regiment, you could say. |
| 0:15.3 | We were in different groups with the same regiment. |
| 0:17.2 | But with us today is Congressman Mike Waltz. |
| 0:20.4 | And not only does Mike have a very distinguished |
| 0:23.1 | career with respect to serving in the military and specifically special forces, colloquially |
| 0:27.7 | known as Green Berets, but he's also been a very distinguished member of Congress. I don't say that |
| 0:33.1 | about a lot of members of Congress. No, you don't. No, I do not. No, I do not. |
| 0:38.8 | But the reason why I have a mic on today is because not only is the congressman |
| 0:43.0 | serving on several very, very important committees, especially when you look at the |
| 0:45.8 | things going on in the world right now. |
| 0:47.7 | And not only has he been a very, very outspoken voice in favor of trying to save |
| 0:52.4 | our military from, I would say, the, you know, demasculinization |
| 0:56.7 | that's taking part of it and certainly the wokeification that's attempting to take part |
| 1:00.3 | within our military. But he's also, finally, finally we have somebody as the first Green Beret elected |
| 1:05.8 | to Congress. We have a Green Beret writing a book so they don't all go to the Navy SEALs. |
| 1:11.9 | And I'm very, I'm very grateful for that. |
| 1:14.3 | We didn't need another coloring book. |
| 1:15.9 | We just didn't. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, right. |
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