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Elizabeth Warren: “The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Watch: Warren presses Hegseth about insider trading on Iran war developments

Published | Video Starts at 03:35

I take that as a no. Properly safeguarded. All right, well, obviously you're not. I'm also concerned about recent reporting on your own financial dealings with regard to profiting from the war in Iran. The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy hundreds of shares in a BlackRock fund invested in defense companies just before the war began. The law clearly prohibits the Secretary. That entire story is false, has been from the beginning and was made up out of whole cloth. (03:35–03:45)

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Asserts that a broker attempted to buy shares in a defense-related BlackRock fund before the war began.

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