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Pete Hegseth: “Nobody makes better and more munitions than the United…”

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He made a plea not just for more interceptors, but for the ability to produce them, for friendly governments to be able to produce patriots. Some Republican lawmakers support this idea. Do you? Nobody makes better and more munitions than the United States of America. And we are open to co production wherever we can. And because of this administration, we're supercharging our arsenal of freedom, building more, building faster, opening up the Pentagon, ripping through the Pentagon bureaucracy to force industry to move faster. (16:06–16:12)

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