Pete Hegseth

No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.

Just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.

Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.

So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike.

That was September 2nd.

There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that, building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.

I watched that first strike live.

As you can imagine, the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do.

So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.

So I moved on to my next meeting.

A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete authority to do.

And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.

He sunk the boat.

sunk the boat and eliminated the threat and it was the right call we have his back and the american people are safer because narco terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually on land if necessary to the american people we will eliminate that threat and we're proud to do it so you didn't see any survivors to be clear after that

I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire.

It was exploded in fire or smoke.

You can't see anything.

You got digital.

This is called the fog of war.

This is what you and the press don't understand.