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Pete Hegseth: “We've got to rebuild that arsenal of freedom.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth full speech at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth

Published | Video Starts at 14:36

I mean, President Trump's deadly serious about this. He feels the urgency of the moment and so do I. We've got to build. We've got to rebuild that arsenal of freedom. We've got to go fast. The war fighters need it, they deserve it. We've got new peer adversaries that are building at record speed. We have to. (14:36–14:39)

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Asserts the need to rebuild the U.S. defense capabilities, referred to as the 'arsenal of freedom.'

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