communities as hypocritical or morally corrupt. You doubled down again and said it. Words matter.

Words matter. What you choose to say, how we choose to say it. How do you justify using this language as

Secretary of Defense? Words matter, it's a historically hurtful term. Why do you continue to use it?

And what actions are you taking to prevent

rhetoric like this from permeating throughout the department that is going to target specific groups

or individuals of people based on their religion?

Senator, I feel like it's a pretty accurate term for folks who don't see the plank in their own eye

and always want to see what's wrong with an operation as opposed to the historic success of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

So I stand by it.

You stand by calling people Pharisees.

Sir, I cannot stand for that.

That is wrong. It is not respectful to people.

And I expect anyone who is in leadership, in our country,

to be respectful and use respectful terms and not be an anti-Semite.

Well, Pete Hexsed is an incompetent fool.

He is a misogynist and he's been trying to get rid of women's role in our military.

He obviously must have lost out a promotion to a female service members at some point and is, you know, on a personal vendetta.

But bottom line,

in the testimony, he said, we are doing this to the highest male standard, as if there were only

two standards in the military. And in fact, the physical fitness standards are actually

graduated based on age as well. So a 40-year-old serviceman

does not have to run the two miles as fast as an 18-year-old serviceman.

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