Pete Hegseth: “I think that’s important, friends being honest with friends”

When will you show leadership and stand up to your fellow Democrats who won’t fund the troop, who play partisan politics while you don’t give us the money? You want to stand up here and talk about the troops?

A lot of our capabilities are classified, but if anybody in the world can reach anything on God’s green Earth, it’s the United States military, the most powerful military in the world.

What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it's incredible.

Standalone Article II authorities exist for us to conduct this operation on behalf of the defense of the American people.