Fox News hosts call for “military mindset” to get people to enter public spaces despite COVID-19 threat
Pete Hegseth: “We have to reopen, guys, right now, even in some of the more difficult places”
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Citation From the May 11, 2020, edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Real quick, Pete just your thoughts in 20 seconds, about 78,000 are dead, we understand how many got the virus and will. I get it. But at the same time, can you get the military mindset with the masses of, take on the enemy because we have no choice — sitting on the sideline will destroy the country. How do you get the military mindset for the everyday American?
PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST, FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND): The military mindset is a patriotic mindset. It's what forged and founded this country. It is courage. We can be responsible, we can follow guidelines — while also reopening. We have to reopen, guys, right now, even in some of the more difficult places, or the livelihoods of people is going to crush more folks, or as many — I'm not talking in a statistical sense — as the actual virus itself. So, I think we can muster it. We've done it before, guys, and I think this is another chance to rise to that challenge.