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Pete Hegseth: “President Trump made this a priority on day one.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Secretary Hegseth presides over a Mexican Border Defense Medal Ceremony at the Pentagon

Published | Video Starts at 15:27

And the cartels are having to deal with the realities that they can't cross our border and can't bring the drugs and the death and the human trafficking that they brought for far too long that killed way too many Americans. So President Trump made this a priority on day one. This department made it a priority on day one. We had incredible partners across the interagency, and then it took Americans to deliver. (15:27–15:31)

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Asserts that securing the southwest border was a priority for President Trump from the first day of his administration.

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