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Pete Hegseth: “The department was ill served under the previous…”

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Charlie Kirk and Pete Hegseth Discuss Military Recruitment and Leadership Under Trump

Published | Video Starts at 17:36

And we can either sit back and fight the way we think we should, or we wanted to, or we thought warfare was going, or recognize where it's going and outpace our adversaries. And, and we have the … The department was ill served under the previous administration and under, you know, Obama to Biden. … lots of red tape, lots of reasons why, I mean, I can go through two or three examples, but I'll spare you that held back our ability to make cheap, … (17:36–17:44)

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Asserts that the Department of Defense was poorly managed under the Obama and Biden administrations.

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