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b'This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.\\xa0\\nWhen I worked for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and President Reagan a lifetime ago, it would have been unimaginable for \\u201cCap\\u201d to be AWOL in an ICU \\u2013 or for any other reason \\u2013 for even\\xa0an hour, let alone as Lloyd Austin recently did for\\xa0three days. His deputy was on vacation and unaware she was effectively acting Secretary.\\nNot least, such misconduct constitutes a potentially perilous severing of the nuclear chain of command.\\nThat\\u2019s arguably never been more true than now, when\\xa0we must deter China\\u2019s Xi Jinping from igniting his next act of \\u201cstrategic arson\\u201d\\xa0here.\\xa0\\nEven before this dereliction of duty, Lloyd Austin has been a disastrous Secretary of Defense, with his contribution to the abject surrender of Afghanistan, his purges of patriotic warriors, forced jabs and Marxist transformation of the U.S. military.\\xa0\\nIt\\u2019s time for him to go.\\nThis is Frank Gaffney.'