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Pete Hegseth: “We've been protecting commercial shipping going through the…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 05:59

It just went underground. And so there's some things the public knows and some things the public doesn't know. But ultimately, We've been protecting commercial shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz, as the President announced, to the tune of over 100 million barrels. that have moved through and more in the middle of the night, protected by the United States in a way that Iran can't stop, they can't see it, and they can't stop it. (05:59–06:09)

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Asserts that the U.S. protected over 100 million barrels of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

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