Pete Hegseth

Stood and watched people stand in the Senate and declare the war is lost before it even started.

Who was that?

It was Harry Reid.

That was the Democrats and the media working hand in glove.

Back then it was three years into a war.

Now we're three weeks into an operation.

A couple of the indices, I mean, the Russell's already in correction territory, and the Nasdaq was very close to recession, to, I'm sorry, to correction territory.

Has the market not come down enough?

Have valuations of stocks not come down enough?

And do you think that there's going to be some trigger where we see another leg down?

Okay, so things work out then?

The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly.

And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his warfighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one.

And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well.

We negotiate with bombs.

You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future.

The president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon.

The War Department agrees.

Our job is to ensure that.

And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard, as it's necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.