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Pete Hegseth: “We didn't eliminate them. We made sure that those things…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Don't you think that that goes actually counter to what you just said? Would these children not still be alive if you had not eliminated all of these staff working within centcom? We didn't eliminate them. We made sure that those things that they normally accomplish are at the field level, which they are. And all of these processes are in place at every level. But you know that something clearly has failed, whether it's implementation of AI, whether it's understanding our human dependence on AI. (04:34–04:41)

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Asserts that civilian harm reduction staff were not eliminated but their functions were moved to the field level.

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