Pete Hegseth: “We're sitting on four years of deferred maintenance from Joe…”

“Just like in his first term, President Trump had to deal with the weakness of President Obama and get rid of isis, and he did it more quickly than anybody else. We're sitting on four years of deferred maintenance from Joe Biden, where in particular, when you talk about the Houthis, they were allowed for over 100 times to shoot at US ships, to shoot at commercial shipping. Four months ago when we sent a ship through, it was shot at 17 times. Ships haven't been able to go through for over a year without being shot at.” (02:18–02:31)

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