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Pete Hegseth: “Let's bring the Pentagon back to the people, the people's…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth Speaks Out, On Media Smears, Responding to Accusations, and How He'd Reform Military

Published | Video Starts at 06:35

That's me. Clean house of the woke crap. All that stuff, all the. Climate stuff and the CRT and the DEI and the genderism and the get rid of it. Let's 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. And it resonates when I get a chance to sit down, especially with these senators from the Senate Armed Services Committee. (06:35–06:40)

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