Mark Esper: “The National Guard has become integral to our operational readiness.”

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

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.

It`s important to our country. It`s important to the Republic, the American people that they understand what was going on in this very consequential period, the last year of the Trump administration and to tell the story about things we…

I think it's out there. I think there are too many have been cowed by fear of Donald Trump, humiliating them, calling them names, whatever the case may be, and we need to give them the space to grow.