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A discussion about Donald Trump's pick of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth's nomination to be Secretary of Defense on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning turned to questions about the president-elect wanting to clean house at the Pentagon.

With Hegseth having made comments on a podcast, stating, "First of all, you got to fire the Chairman Joint of the Chiefs and obviously going to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any general that was involved -- general, admiral, whatever -- that was involved in, any of the DEI woke s---, has got to go," co-host Joe Scarborough said plans by the incoming administration for remaking the military will blow up in his face.

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"Do you know what happens when you fire a general? You create a legend," Scarborough told his panel. "When you create a legend you start lawsuits, you start about a three-year war against this general or that general."

"It all sounds great, everybody's got a plan until what does Mike Tyson say, 'Everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the face the first time.' All of these things that people are flexing about, ''I'm going to go in, and I'm going to fire this' -- you know, you do that, you create a legend, you create a political opponent that has the entire country behind him and it makes things tougher."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed she was "very disappointed" after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general — and called for releasing a secret list of other sexual harassment lawsuits against other lawmakers.

During a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene reacted to Gaetz dropping out just minutes before CNN reported that a woman told the House Ethics Committee the former lawmaker engaged in sexual misconduct with her at least twice when she was 17.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed rare frustration Thursday as he shouted and openly laughed at a conservative commentator on live television.

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