It was the greatest honor of my life to be able to serve my country. But I can understand people's hesitation right now and that the fact that We do have weak recruiting numbers [in the military] emboldens our enemies even more right now. So, you know, it's truly, truly unfortunate that that's where we stand our national security stage right now. We're speaking of Derek Anderson. He's a Republican nominee for Congress in Virginia 7. (04:44–04:50)
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