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Pete Hegseth: “Enemies are gathering and threats are growing.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Sec Hegseth on border, cartels & beards

Published | Video Starts at 01:53

Right now this feels like a 1939 type moment, or hopefully a 1981 type moment where America needs to lead and rebuild to ensure that we maintain that peace through strength. Enemies are gathering and threats are growing. We have to prepare now. So if you're putting America first and the roadmap is peace through strength, the third ingredient President Trump has injected is good old fashioned Indiana common sense. (01:53–01:57)

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Asserts that there is an increase in enemies and threats.

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