Pete Hegseth

It's just patently ridiculous.

It's meant to create a cartoon of me and the decisions that we make and how we make them.

It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

The days in which these narco-terrorists, designated terror organizations, operate freely in our hemisphere are over.

These narco-terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al-Qaeda.

We are tracking them, we are killing them, and we will keep killing them so long as they are poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons.

Here, again, we've been focused and here we've been clear.

If you're working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you.

These narco-terrorists are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted al-Qaeda.

Did you at any time...

say that everybody on board should be killed.

Does anybody here from the Washington Post?

I don't know where you get your sources, but they suck.

Of course not.

A couple hours later, I was told, hey, there had to be a reattack because there were a couple of folks that could still be in the fight.

Did you at any time say that everybody on board should be killed?

Before combat operations. I don't live with any regrets. It's not a healthy way to live. And I know exactly where my compass is on these troops, which is why you've seen, and same with the president, the revival of the spirit inside our military. I would encourage some reporters here to spend some time with actual formations of units, Marines, soldiers out there, combat arms folks.

Video of the strike is released. When can we see that video? When will you release it? We're reviewing it right now to make sure. Sources, methods. I mean, it's an ongoing operation. TTPs. We've got operators out there doing this right now. So whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about. So we're reviewing that right now.

full of drugs and in that particular case the first strike didn't take it out and a couple of guys jumped off and swam from what I understand a ways away. When we struck the submarine a second time it sunk and then you had two people that you had to go get and we had the ability to go get them and we gave them back to their host countries. That's a story that's already been out in the public. So we didn't change our protocol, it was just a different circumstance.