Pete Hegseth: “And the evidence of our department is that we've worked…”

“Yes or no? What you're trying to insinuate is that the president would give unlawful orders and we would somehow deploy troops as a result. And the evidence of our department is that we've worked alongside law enforcement very effectively for 15 months. Los Angeles would have been on fire for the summer had we not come across. I humbly disagree with that. But this is not a hypothetical situation that I'm inferring on.” (01:34–01:40)

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