He said, I want a war fighter. I want lethality, lethality, lethality. I want readiness, accountability, standards, war fighting. Pete, that's you. That's me. Clean house of the woke crap. All that stuff, all the, the climate stuff and the CRT and the DEI and the genderism and the get rid of it. Bring the Pentagon back to the people, the people's Pentagon for war fighters. And that's the message he gave to me that I've projected back to senators. (06:21–06:35)
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Asserts a desire to remove climate initiatives, CRT, DEI, and genderism from the Defense Department.
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