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(NewsNation) — Retired four-star Army Gen. Wesley Clark believes overmuch is to play retired before, and during, President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Pete Hegseth arsenic the adjacent caput of defense.
Clark joined "Morning successful America" to sermon Hegseth's elevation, which has been criticized by the media.
In an interrogation connected “The Shawn Ryan Show” past week, Hegseth unequivocally said "We should not person women successful combat roles.
“It hasn’t made america much effective, it hasn’t made america much lethal, has made warring much complicated," helium added.
Clark believes women are much than susceptible of serving successful combat. He noted that Hegseth volition person to reply questions regarding the taxable and more.
"He's got to person a grade of open-mindedness," Clark told NewsNation.
"Things look antithetic erstwhile you're a skipper looking up astatine a large organization, particularly erstwhile you're successful counterinsurgency operations, and erstwhile you're looking done the organization, you whitethorn find that your opinions are different, and if you bent connected to them and effort to enforce those prejudices, yeah, it could beryllium immoderate difficulties."
Hegseth was portion of an investigation into a intersexual assault successful 2017, according to the Monterey Police Department. Few details about the lawsuit person been released.
"You know, if he's got these incidents down him, does helium correspond the benignant of morals that we request of our leaders successful the military? And if helium doesn't, that's a problem," Clark added.
