Sen. Warren Forgets Lloyd Austin, Says Defense Sec. ‘Has To Be Ready To Go 24 Hours a Day, 365 Days a Year’

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WARREN: "You know, look, I never want to speak for someone else, but tonight has got to be a real soul-searching night for people to be saying, 'I could vote to make that guy secretary of defense.' But remember, secretary of defense is a very, very special role in our government. This is the person who gets the call when things are truly spinning out of control, when really scary data has come in, when information, when something around the globe has really gone in a bad way, because it is the secretary of defense who makes the call on, 'Is now the time to call the president? If so, what am I going to tell the president? Is now the time to call in other experts to get our allies involved?' Secretary of defense has to be ready to go 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Look, I understand there are people who have alcohol problems, but we cannot trust the safety of our country to someone who has demonstrated repeatedly using very bad judgment with alcohol and doing it in ways that truly have incapacitated him. This is not a moment to take that kind of risk with our national security, and I hope that all 53 Republicans are thinking very hard about that."