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'Take responsibility': Ex-general says Hegseth 'endangered our airmen' in text scandal

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One former military leader who now serves in Congress took Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to task over his recent scandal involving yet another disclosure of classified information via text message. During a Tuesday interview on CNN, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) emphasized that the embattled Pentagon chief was not only reckless when texting highly sensitive attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen to his wife, brother and attorney using his own unsecured device, but that he was actively endangering U.S. military personnel by doing so. Bacon -- a retired one-star Air Force general -- told host Jake Tapper that if he were president, he 'wouldn't tolerate' what Hegseth did and would fire him.

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