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Pete Hegseth told to resign on CNN: Abdul El-Sayed says "You have mishandled this war"

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Now playing on All Clips Pete Hegseth told to resign on CNN: Abdul El-Sayed says "You have mishandled this war" Abdul El-Sayed1.5K plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

In a CNN interview, Abdul El-Sayed speaks directly to Pete Hegseth: "You are failing your responsibility," and calls the war "actually illegal on its own terms." He tells Hegseth to "just resign, make it easy for everybody" rather than end up "getting taken out."

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Who
Abdul El-Sayed
Where
interview - CNN
Original footage
CNN · watch the full video from this moment
Length
38 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
1,477 on Instagram
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You imagine being Pete Hexeth right now. Like, why are you still in your job? I mean, it's an open question. Pete, like, really, just open question. Why are you still doing this job? You are really bad at this. You are failing your responsibility. You have mishandled this war. And nobody really actually understands what it is you're about every day. You're talking about fighting a new cultural war, but like, you're supposed to be waging an actual war that is actually illegal on its own terms. So just resign, make it easy for everybody instead of in the end getting taken out because that is clearly what's happening. So Pete, just take it from me like you're not good at this. I mean you're talking directly to Pete Egzeth. What do you say to those 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight?

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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