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Pete Hegseth: “We took every effort possible at the commencement of this…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 00:46

I'm not calling our troops liars. And I don't know if what you're representing is. Is correct or not. I'll take you at your word on that. But all I know is that We took every effort possible at the commencement of this campaign to ensure the defense of our troops. to include more moving them off of known bases to places that were not known. And we had until. Understood, Secretary. And then those were fortified with bunkers and other fortifications, with theater air defenses. (00:46–00:52)

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Asserts that all possible efforts were made to defend troops at the start of the campaign.

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