Pete Hegseth

Like if Al-Qaeda had a nuke, what would they do with it?

They would use it.

Because the mullahs in Tehran, do they really believe that 70,000 martyrs in Iran is worth the destruction of Israel?

I don't know, but should we find out?

Or that the destruction of the United States or a major American city?

So I've taken very seriously for a long time this idea that we can't tolerate an Iranian bomb because I think Islamist with bomb is different than...

communists with bomb, even though, I don't know, but for different reasons.

I think, I mean,

Yeah, I'm with you.

I think our biggest threat is internal.

I think we're committing...

cultural suicide, and we've lost complete focus on the basics and building blocks of what made Western civilization in America exceptional, fruitful, prosperous, strong, free, and we've got groups of people inside our own country hell-bent and determined to tear them down.

And you see it in an immediate manifestation in the Pentagon, but the book I wrote before, Battle for the American Mind, was about the

progressive takeover of the K through 12 education system.

So what they've done over the last 100 years.

And when you really pull the curtain back on that, yeah, we're going to have to fight for it.

All of these other things are real, but if you don't, we're in totally uncharted territory where we're trying to keep a republic, keep a country while simultaneously raising up and training the youth of our country to believe that that country is bad.

And I'd like someone else to find me a historical comp to that.

Because in China, they're still teaching that China is good.

In India, they're still teaching India is good.