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Pete Hegseth: “We have a plan to escalate if necessary.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Do you have a Plan B? Ranking Member I would say we have a plan for all of that. We have a plan to escalate if necessary. We have a plan to retrograde if necessary. We have a plan to shift assets. (40:02–40:05)

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