Pete Hegseth

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.

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.

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.

We will eliminate that threat and we're proud to do it.

But now... We're going to conduct oversight and we're going to try to get to the facts.

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

I watched that first strike live.

As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we've 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.

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

Defense Secretary Hegseth described his actions during the first U.S.

attack in the Caribbean on September 2nd.