And I wanted to hear very clearly from Pete Hegseth and from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs that they would not respond to an illegal order and deploy the uniform military around our polling locations. And I was very pleased that Secretary Chairman Kaine came back and said very clearly in very clear terms, I will not be sending the uniform military out to do that. That would be an illegal order. and that is, you know, voting and our, our elections are administered by the states. I was pleased to hear that. (07:53–08:06)
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Asserts that Secretary Chairman Kaine stated he would not deploy military to polling locations as it would be illegal.
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