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Pete Hegseth: “The Biden administration allows our commercial shipping and…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth full speech at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth

Published | Video Starts at 07:49

We also did it through our effort with the Houthis in Operation Rough Rider. From the beginning, some people thought, well, what? What are we doing there? Why the Houthis? Because The Biden administration allows our commercial shipping and other shipping, military ships to be shot at. I mean, all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. We've understood that free navigation to the seas is a core tenet of the United States of America. (07:49–07:57)

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Asserts that the Biden administration permits attacks on U.S. commercial and military ships.

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