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Pete Hegseth: “Project Freedom, the idea of running ships through the…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 05:48

There's another thing that was revealed today by the president that the press has not been aware of, but certainly this building the US Central Command has known is that Project Freedom, the idea of running ships through the Strait of Hormuz, it never stopped. It just went underground. And so there's some things the public knows and some things the public doesn't know. (05:48–05:56)

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Asserts that Project Freedom continued covertly despite public perception.

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