>> Raymond: AS EVERY BRANCH OF
THE MILITARY IS REPORTEDLY IN
THE RECRUITING CRISIS, TOP BRASS
IS STILL DOING EVERYTHING IT CAN
TO DETER PEOPLE FROM WANTING TO
JOIN.
BACK IN NOVEMBER, DEFENSE
SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN MADE IT
MANDATORY FOR SERVICE MEMBERS TO
GET THE COVID VACCINE.
MANY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IT AND
TODAY WE LEARNED THAT ROUGHLY
40,000 NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AND
22,000 RESERVISTS THAT REFUSE
THE VACCINE WILL BE BARRED FROM
THEIR DUTIES, EFFECTIVELY
CUTTING THEIR PAY AND BENEFITS.
JOINING ME, FORMER SECRETARY OF
STATE MIKE POMPEO.
HE IS A FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
WHAT WILL GETTING RID OF MORE
THAN 60,000 SERVICE MEMBERS DO
TO OUR MILITARY READINESS?
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON
TONIGHT.
YOU MENTION THE RECRUITING
PROBLEMS WE ARE ALREADY FACING.
WHEN YOU MAKE MILITARY -- YOU
DON’T DO THE RIGHT THINGS BY
FOCUSING ON ITS WARTIME MISSION
AND THEN YOU ADD TO CUTTING
BETWEEN 10% AND 15% OF ALL
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN, THIS IS
REALLY DANGEROUS.
XI JINPING AND VLADIMIR PUTIN
AREN’T WORRIED ABOUT THE
VACCINES.
THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT MAKING
THEIR MILITARY’S MORE CAPABLE.
WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE SAME
THING.
THERE IS A REAL RISK TO
READINESS AND MAKING SURE THAT
WE HAVE UNITS CAPABLE OF
DEPLOYING SHOULD SOMETHING BE
REQUIRED OF THEM.
THIS IS NOT BASED ON SCIENCE.
IT MAKES NO SENSE AND I HOPE
THIS PRESIDENT WILL CHANGE HIS
WAYS.
AND IF THERE IS A PRESIDENT
AFTER HIM HE SHOULD REINSTATE
EVERY ONE OF THESE FOLKS.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SERVE
VOLUNTARILY ON BEHALF OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
>> Raymond: WHAT WE ARE
LEARNING ABOUT HERD IMMUNITY AND
SO MANY PEOPLE HAVEN’T BEEN
VACCINATED AND GOTTEN COVID AND
THEREFORE THEY ARE IMMUNE AT
THIS POINT.
I WANT TO TURN TO THE
ASSASSINATION OF FORMER JAPANESE
PRIVATE MR. SHINZO ABE.
THE MEDIA WAS DISGUSTING.
NPR TWEETED AND THEN DELETED
THAT "ABE WAS A DIVISIVE
ARCHCONSERVATIVE."
"CBS THIS MORNING" REMEMBERED
HIM THIS WAY.
>> A POLARIZING FIGURE, HE WAS A
RIGHT-WING NATIONALIST AND
CONSERVATIVE AND A FIERCE
SUPPORTER OF JAPAN’S MILITARY.
>> Raymond: MR. SECRETARY, WHO
EXACTLY WAS HE POLARIZING TO?
HE WAS THE COUNTRY’S
LONGEST-SERVING PRIME MINISTER
WHO WON BY HUGE MARGINS.
>> THIS IS SICK.
IT IS SICK TO SEE THESE
LEFT-WING MEDIA FOLKS GO AFTER A
MAN WHO WAS JUST ASSASSINATED.
HE WAS ASSASSINATED WHILE
CAMPAIGNING FOR HIS PARTY.
IDEAS THAT HAVE BENEFITED THE
JAPANESE PEOPLE FOR AN AWFULLY
LONG TIME.
THERE’S A REASON HE IS THE
LONGEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER.
THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN LOVED HIM
AND REVIEWED HIM.
HE WAS A GREAT PARTNER TO THE
UNITED STATES.
TO HEAR NPR AND CBS GO AFTER HIM
FOR BEING A WHITE RIGHT-WING CRA
HE WAS A GREAT PARTNER TO THE
UNITED STATES.
IT DOESN’T SURPRISE ME THAT
SOMEONE WHO WORKED ALONGSIDE US
IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
BEING ATTACKED BY THE LEFT, THE
SAME OLD TIRED STORY.
I WOULD REGRET THAT THEY WOULD
DO THAT AT A TIME WHEN THIS MAN
WAS ASSASSINATED.
>> Raymond: FBI DIRECTOR
CHRISTOPHER WRAY YESTERDAY TITLE
I OF THE GREATEST THREATS FACING
OUR COUNTRY, MR. SECRETARY.
WATCH.
>> WE CONSISTENTLY SEE IT’S THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT THAT POSES
THE BIGGEST LONG-TERM THREAT TO
OUR ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL
SECURITY AND BY "OUR," I MEAN
BOTH OF OUR NATIONS AND OUR
ALLIES IN EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE.
>> Raymond: I SEEM TO REMEMBER
PRESIDENT BIDEN HIGHLIGHTING FAR
GREATER THREATS.
>> DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE
JOINT CHIEFS TOLD US THE
GREATEST THREAT FACING AMERICA
WAS?
GLOBAL WARMING.
ACCORDING TO THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE, TERRORISM FROM WHITE
SUPREMACY IS THE MOST LETHAL
THREAT TO THE HOMELAND TODAY.
NOT RACIST, NOT AL QAEDA.
WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
>> Raymond: WHO IS RIGHT?
>> I AM WITH RAY.
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY HAS
BEEN ABUSING THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
THEY STOLE MILLIONS OF OUR JOBS.
THEY HAVE TAKEN AWAY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, STOLEN
OUR SECRETS IN OUR UNIVERSITY.
DIRECTOR WRAY HAS THIS RIGHT.
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, NOT
CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT
WHITE SUPREMACIST HIM, THE
PRESENT REAL RISK.
STILL THEY ARE PROBABLY
INCENSED, THE MEDIA AS WELL AS
PARTS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BUFFY "THE ABE MI
THERE IS A REGIONAL BALANCE WE
ARE LOSING.
WE MAY HAVE LOST AND ABE BEING
ASSASSINATED.
>> PRIME MINISTER ABE WAS
RELIEVED THE FIRST AND MOST
SIGNIFICANT ASIAN LEADER TO
CONFRONT THE CHINESE COMET’S
PARTY.
IT’S HARD WHEN YOU ARE IN THEIR
NECK OF THE WOODS IN THE
PACIFIC.
HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT IT.
HE PARTNERED WITH AUSTRALIA, THE
SOUTH KOREANS, THE OTHER ALLIES
AND WITH US.
TO DELIVER A CENTRAL
UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE CHINESE
COMMUNIST PARTY.
HE WAS FEARLESS IN SUPPORTING
THAT WE’VE LOST A GREAT LEADER
WHO WAS WILLING TO CHANGE THE
TRAJECTORY OF JAPAN’S
WILLINGNESS TO AFFECT ITSELF IN
THAT COUNTRY AND THE REGION AND
IS A REAL RISK.
WHETHER IT’S TAIWAN OR JAPAN OR
THE SOUTH-CENTRAL PARTS OF THE
PACIFIC.
ABE WAS A FIERCE DEFENDER.
HE’S NO LONGER THERE AND THIS
PRESENTS INCREASED RISK NOT ONLY