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Pete Hegseth: “Common sense means putting war fighting, lethality, as the…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Sec Hegseth on border, cartels & beards

Published | Video Starts at 02:13

So if you're putting America first and the roadmap is peace through strength, the third ingredient President Trump has injected is good old fashioned Indiana common sense. Common sense is back at the White House and it's back at the Pentagon. Common sense means putting war fighting, lethality, as the Senator mentioned, training, discipline, accountability, readiness at the forefront of everything we do. At the Department of War. That means no more social justice, no more political correctness, no more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department, as I've said before. (02:13–02:24)

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