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Gary Peters: “The fact that we haven't done that yet and we're 60 days in…”

Featuring: Gary Peters, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Michigan

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Watch: Sen. Gary Peters presses Hegseth on the need to reopen of Strait of Hormuz

Published | Video Starts at 05:03

And I'm running out of time here, but the central of leverage is the Strait of Hormuz. That that is bottom line, we have to open that up. We have to take that away from Iran. The fact that we haven't done that yet and we're 60 days in, we're just now bringing minesweepers from the Pacific in there. we have some unmanned opportunities, but we've got to have the capacity to do that. (05:03–05:12)

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Asserts that the U.S. has not yet taken control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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