Pete Hegseth: “Standing here and saying, ‘You’re good, you’re bad; you’re a dictator, you’re not a dictator; you invaded, you didn’t.’…”

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.

I mean the Biden administration ignored hypersonics. They just decided to pretend like that technology didn’t exist and we shouldn’t invest in it.

We hope it doesn't have to go in that direction.

You — you don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war. Win the war! The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need leadership. When will you show leadership?