Pete Hegseth

For insinuating that the laws that we're giving them are unlawful.

More cross-examination from Moulton right here.

Let's play it.

Okay, so let's just imagine.

Which, by the way, every previous administration, including the first Trump administration, prevented them from having a nuclear weapon.

So, listen, how is this war going?

Do you think we're winning?

Militarily, on the battlefield, it's been an astounding military success.

But are we winning the war?

Absolutely.

Well, I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn't allow anything to come in or out of Iranian ports.

So they blockaded us, and then we blockaded their blockade.

That's like saying, tag, you're it.

Or if President Madison had said, well, the British just burned down Washington, but don't worry, we're going to burn it down as well.

And we heard from another veteran on this committee, Democratic Congress member Deluzio from the Pittsburgh region.

Watch his cross-examination of Hegseth right here.

Play this clip.

About this earlier, you said in, I think, your press conference, essentially, and I'll quote you here, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

That's the end of the quote.

Is your guidance that you expect our troops in harm's way if there's a foreign enemy surrendering, laying down their arms, they're supposed to provide no quarter and kill them?