Pete Hegseth: clean out all social justice, politically correct garbage; Baier: optimism & light

Pete Hegseth: “Return the Pentagon to the warfighters. Get in there and clean out all the social justice, politically correct garbage on top, and get back to lethality, war-fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness… Address the recruiting crisis, address the retention crisis.”

Senator Scott: “Pete Hegseth is going to get confirmed.”

Bret Baier: I think there is this growing optimism with the President-elect and his team that they are making progress and that Pete Hegseth is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Pete Hegseth: clean out all social justice, politically correct garbage; Bret Baier: optimism & light

Key Points

Pete Hegseth: “Return the Pentagon to the warfighters

• Get in there and clean out all the social justice, politically correct garbage on top, and get back to lethality, war-fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness
• Address the recruiting crisis, address the retention crisis

Senator Scott: “Pete Hegseth is going to get confirmed

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• First of all, you salute the commander in chief who got those 76 million votes and he’s going to chart the way and I’ll give him advice and counsel along the way
• Return the Pentagon to the war fighters, Pete
• Get in there and clean out all the social justice politically correct garbage on top and get back to lethality, war fighting, accountability, meritocracy and readiness
• 75% of the people in that building in the Pentagon and that wear the uniform, that’s all they want to do anyway
• And so we’re going to, when you return to that, it changes the culture of an institution that now stands up straight
• Sean, I can’t tell you how many families have reached out to me and said my son or daughter wasn’t going to join and now they are after President Trump was elected and you were chosen to be in sec debt, same with retention
• And then the rest of the world takes notice of that, Sean
• So I’m not going to get ahead of the president on policy or what our posture will be
• But we will be strong and we will have peace through strength as Donald Trump has said and we will put America first
• That’s what he’s asked me to do at the Pentagon and that’s my promise to the American people and our war fighters led by President Donald Trump

Full transcript: 580 words transcribed via Whisper AI.