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Simon hankinson is a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and joins us now. simon, you looked under the hood at what's happening at the state department, and you say they're obsessed with dei. why? >> they're obsessed with it because they have bought into this concept of equity, that all outcomes have to be equal across racial groups, across sex. and anytime you don't see that exact representation the way it is in the general population. the only explanation as has to be discrimination of some kind, racism, structural racism, white supremacy, whatever you want to call it. their tr...

Doing it properly it will get a commander or ju junior leader fired. not doing a real field training becomes secondary. they say the reason for this is to make people feel safe, included. everyone knows them a people mandating the stuff of the bullets start flying this approach is going to make everybody less safe. simon talked about free and fair competition and meritocracy. that is what you need in the military. our best people in the best places. one example we talked about in the book i'm going he fired up your, it's one of our commands you have sent, and self calm with south america did w...

The Heritage Foundation urged the State Department to dismantle it's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and to prioritize standardized testing as a means of determining qualified candidates.