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Pete Hegseth: “The first thing we did was set up a defense and make sure…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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In full: Pete Hegseth holds a briefing on Iran

Published | Video Starts at 23:52

What I witnessed where I went was a completely locked in discipline of bunker use and bunker improvement. So from the beginning, as we stated very clearly, The first thing we did was set up a defense and make sure our defensive capabilities were maxed out before any of this even started. That included fortifications as much as possible, but it also included disbursement. If all of our people are in one place, you could imagine why that's a big problem. (23:52–23:59)

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Asserts that defensive capabilities were maximized before the current situation began.

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