Pete Hegseth

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.

You sit in your air conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody.

phrases on anonymous sources not based in anything, not based in any truth at all.

And then you want to throw out really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.

I wrote a whole book on this topic because of what politicians and the press does to war fighters.

President Trump has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark and difficult things in the dead of night on behalf of the American people.

We support them, and we will stop the poisoning of the American people.

I watched that first strike lot.

As you can imagine, at 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.