Derrick Van Orden: “10 of them got together, sat around that roundtable, had…”

“I mean, it's like I think they finally are realizing, hey, if we actually want to talk the game on protecting each other, maybe we should live up to our obligations and look at our own national defense budgets. Yes. And you know what? 10 of them got together, sat around that roundtable, had apparently a very luxurious dinner, and said, we're going to take a more active involvement in our own collective defense. I applaud that. I do, too. You mentioned you, Sean. Ronald Reagan, Trust but verify. Right. So now these cats are like, hey, we're going to get together and we're going to participate in our collected defense more.” (18:20–18:30)

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