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Pete Hegseth: “Matt Goldstein was an Army Green Beret, Clinton Lorenz was…”

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Who specifically are you talking about, Pete? What? Who? I didn't include much of this in the book. There was, there were, you know, Matt Goldstein was an Army Green Beret, Clinton Lorenz was the first lieutenant in the army and then Eddie Gallagher was a Navy SEAL. And then there were four contractors in called Raven 23 who were Blackwater contractors, all of which had different dynamics and situations, but ultimately killed bad guys in a manner in which somebody politically didn't like. (53:36–53:44)

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