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Pete Hegseth: “America's best went into the most fortified house, inside…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Secretary Hegseth remarks to the Rakkasans of the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell.

Published | Video Starts at 08:30

Because the world has seen that when he speaks, he means business. The words he speaks are real. They're grounded in action. Which the world again saw about six weeks ago in Caracas, Venezuela, when America's best went into the most fortified house, inside the most fortified compound, inside their most fortified fort, think the Fort Campbell of Venezuela inside their capital city against so called Russian and Chinese air defenses and radars and grabbed their nominal president, indicted by the United States. in the middle of the night out of his bed. And Caracas didn't know until three minutes before the helicopters landed when 44 simultaneous missiles landed before those birds landed. (08:30–08:54)

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Asserts that U.S. forces conducted a mission in Venezuela to capture an indicted president.

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