How do you make America less safe while also showing how unqualified you are for the job?

Pete Higsef did just that in one sentence. My name is Dina Saigdahl for the Midasstudge Network.

Let's break it down. So he apparently forgot that he wasn't still a cable newsacre when he decided to

spitball the idea of the United States operating military strikes in the sovereign

nation of Mexico, doing this spitballing with his former colleagues on Fox and Friends.

Take a look.

The drug cartels have been declared terrorist organizations.

And if you find that, and we know if there's al-Qaeda, we're going to hit him.

I don't care if you're in Somalia, Sudan, or in Syria.

If we find that they continue to fire out our border control and they continue to put fentanyl into our country,

as the Secretary of Defense, are you permitted now to go after them in Mexico or wherever they are?

Brian, I don't want to get ahead of the president, and I won't.

But that's ultimately going to be his decision.

But let me be clear, all options will be on the table.

If we're dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations

who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.

And we're finally securing our border.

We've been securing other people's border for a very long time.

The military is orienting, shifting toward an understanding of homeland defense on our sovereign

territorial border.

That is something we will do and do robustly. So we're already

nowhere in that conversation does Pete Hegeseth acknowledge that an order for the United

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