Pete Hegseth: “The instinct of CNN, the instinct of The New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political…”

There is a cost to doing very difficult things, to going out and defending your country, and ensuring radical Islamist crazies don’t get a nuclear weapon.

That’s why we haven’t been trying to remake Iranian society, but simply in the realist America First way, ensure they never have a path to a nuclear bomb, full stop.

We are committed in working with Congress to get $1.5 trillion. But this is not the same way we’ve funded our department in the past.

The best way to create peace is to prepare for war, to deter it.