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Pete Hegseth: “We shouldn't be tolerating any other country, putting…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Hegseth talks 'hitting Iran hard' at CENTCOM

Published | Video Starts at 15:57

Credentials at the Pentagon. There's a lot of things that the American people and the public don't necessarily need to know. All I know is 90 miles away from our shores, We shouldn't be tolerating any other country, putting systems that just think about what you know. We see it playing out in centcom. When you have weapons that can range like that, it creates factors you have to deal with. So our message to Cuba is don't get into that game. (15:57–16:04)

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Asserts that the U.S. should not tolerate other countries placing threatening systems nearby.

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