Pete Hegseth

Did you explain that to your constituents when Joe Biden was asleep at the wheel and he had an AWOL secretary of defense?

I'm not here to explain posts.

We have an incredible commander-in-chief who puts our troops first.

I'm here for a budget hearing about our troops.

It's a historic budget that's giving us a chance to defeat our adversaries, and President Trump is doing that in world-class fashion.

But Hegson says, oh, Donald Trump is the sharpest commander in chief we've had in generations.

Play this clip.

Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years?

And I won't even engage with the level of disparagement that you're putting on the commander in chief, who indeed is, I mean, every single day.

He's the sharpest, most insightful commander in chief we've had in generations.

And you want to compare, I mean, you want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn't know what day of the week it was?

Mr. Secretary, as you know, as you know.

He governed through an auto pen.

He had a secretary of defense who went AWOL for a week.

I can't keep on for 10 days, for 10 minutes.

I will reclaim my time.

Thank you so much.

There was some other line of questioning also to some of the other individuals at that table that's worth pointing out, like when the undersecretary of defense, basically the comptroller, wouldn't answer if he had signal.

And then General Kane said that he had signal on his phone, but wouldn't say.

But then he wanted to change his answer.