Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Monday said President-elect Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is “vulnerable” to blackmail from U.S. foreign adversaries and reiterated her stance that he is not “qualified” to run the Pentagon.

“It would sow confusion because our leaders in the military would not know to what they could talk to the secretary of defense about," Duckworth, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during her Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “Reid Out.”

"And by the way, for our allies, I would be reluctant to share information with the United States military, our leadership information that would keep us safe and keep our troops safe because they........

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