Peter Welch: “What distresses me so much about Mr. Hegseth is how he used…”

“And by the way, that is asking a lot of our soldiers to be restrained when they're in a combat zone and can be killed themselves. So What distresses me so much about Mr. Hegseth is how he used his very powerful form on Fox TV, in my view, to dishonor the soldiers who acted with restraint, in valor, in integrity. by taking up the cause of some of our soldiers. There's not many of them, but they do exist who killed people who used violence not in furtherance of our defense, but for their own reasons.” (06:14–06:39)

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