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Pete Hegseth: “We live in a dangerous world, which means if you're going to…”

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Pete Hegseth Speaks Out, On Media Smears, Responding to Accusations, and How He'd Reform Military

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:07

So these are all things I've said before and the President has said, but ultimately, yes, We live in a dangerous world, which means if you're going to have peace through strength, you need to have the perception and the reality of a hyper ready force ready to take on the next threat. There was a report today, it was yesterday, it was this morning by the Wall Street Journal and Fox News's Bill Malugian just confirmed it, saying that Trump had a face to face meeting at Mar A Lago Yesterday with Ron DeSantis. (1:04:07–1:04:18)

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Asserts the need for a hyper-ready military force to maintain peace through strength.

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