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Hakeem Jeffries: “I call for Pete Hegseth resignation back in the spring. The…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries Joins MS Now's The Weekend

Published | Video Starts at 04:25

Leader Jeffries, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered a military strike on Venezuela that legal experts are saying is tantamount, tantamount to murder. Are you going to call for Pete Hegseth's resignation? Yeah. You know what's interesting is that I call for Pete Hegseth resignation back in the spring. The guy is totally and woefully unqualified, the most unqualified so called Secretary of Defense in American history. And so it's long past time that he's got to go. Now the big challenge we have is, you know, what is the justification for what many people rightfully believe are extrajudicial killings off the coast of South America. (04:25–04:37)

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Asserts that Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in U.S. history.

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