Pete Hegseth

Secretary, my question was clear whether you thought they were liars or not.

You don't seem to want to answer it.

We can move on.

Then under questioning by the ranking member on this committee, Democratic Congress member Smith.

Finally, a DOD official in the Trump regime admits that the Iran war has already cost at least $25 billion.

Let's play this clip.

Drag you into the conversation here.

We have not yet received from the Pentagon the costs of the war.

So just for the record, we'd like to get that as soon as possible.

Certainly the munitions expended.

But also underreported is we've had a fair amount of equipment destroyed, including two C-130s with the rescue of our downed airmen.

So do you have either a cost estimate coming to us anytime soon or be a specific supplemental request?

So you're saying the full cost at this point is $25 billion?

that's our estimate for the cost okay interesting because we i'm glad you answered that question because we've been asking for a hell of a long time and no one's given us the number um so if you could get those details over to us that that would be great more cross-examination right here from congress member smith and you'll see that hegseth

really ran into trouble throughout this cross-examination.

He claimed that Iran's nuclear facilities were obliterated, but then when Smith pointed out, well, how are they obliterated, but you claim that their nuclear capabilities posed an imminent threat, to which Hegseth then compared to

Well, they have nuclear ambitions.

Their ambitions were an imminent threat, but they had all of these conventional ballistic and cruise missiles like North Korea.

Well, thanks for bringing up North Korea, where Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchanged love letters and Kim Jong Un ultimately was able to build nuclear weapons.

And now he's apparently bragging about producing 10 nuclear warheads like a month.