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Pete Hegseth: “President Trump said no more. We will re establish…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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BREAKING Hegseth responds to Atlantic article 'Nobody was texting war plans'.

Published | Video Starts at 01:40

Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets our ships couldn't sail through. And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said no more. We will re establish deterrence. We will open freedom of navigation and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis. which is exactly what we're doing as we speak. From the beginning, overwhelmingly. Why were those details shared on signal? And how did you learn that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? (01:40–01:52)

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Asserts that President Trump committed to reestablishing deterrence, ensuring freedom of navigation, and decimating the Houthis.

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