Mark Esper: “To me to be president United States or any elected official, you have to have some core, you know, a core base there. It…”

We owe it to our soldiers to provide them the weapons and equipment they need to win decisively in future battles.

Not everybody who served in the Trump administration was a bad person... We need good people to serve.

the president was 'unfit' for office, a national security threat and a 'threat to democracy.'

If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired, number one. And secondly, I had no confidence that anybody that came in behind me would not be a real Trump loyalist, and Lord knows what would have happened then.