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Pete Hegseth: “Special operators, a lot of them tell me they're coming for…”

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But you're saying the rest of it is fundamentally not. I am. And that comes from, you know, my experience and my interview with a lot of guys now, hey, these Special operators, a lot of them tell me they're coming for us, too. Like, they. They don't want any aspects of the military not conforming to the social justice sort of woke aspect. But for now, those are the places where, because of the. (49:55–49:58)

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Asserts that special operators believe they are being targeted by social justice initiatives.

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