Pete Hegseth

But going forward, why in the world would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody, what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective?

We fight to win.

We fight to achieve the objectives the President of the United States has laid out.

And we will do so unapologetically.

Thank you.

No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do.

I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do.

Here's exactly how long we'll go.

Here's exactly how far we'll go.

Here's what we're willing to do and not do.

It's foolishness.

And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to go to advance American interests.

But we're not dumb about it.

You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.

We've proven that you can achieve objectives that advance American interests without being foolish about it.

I had a question about four weeks.

It's the typical NBC sort of gotcha type question.

President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take.

Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks.

It could move up.