Pete Hegseth

Under the leadership of President Trump, America will lead the charge on this technological transformation by revolutionizing the way we win.

Does anybody here from the Washington Post?

I don't know where you get your sources, but they suck.

Of course not.

Anybody that's been in the situation room or been in the war room there, secretary's office, no, you don't walk in and say, kill them.

It's just patently ridiculous.

It's meant to create a cartoon of me and the decisions that we make and how we make them.

It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

The days in which these narco-terrorists, designated terror organizations, operate freely in our hemisphere are over.

These narco-terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al-Qaeda.

We are tracking them, we are killing them, and we will keep killing them so long as they are poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons.

Here, again, we've been focused and here we've been clear.

If you're working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you.

These narco-terrorists are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted al-Qaeda.

Did you at any time...

say that everybody on board should be killed.

Does anybody here from the Washington Post?

I don't know where you get your sources, but they suck.

Of course not.