00:00Just for, you know, for American service members who are going to have to carry out these missions
00:04in the future, what I guess the message that's coming from the response to all this that
00:11we're hearing is that, you know, nothing sensitive happened.
00:15And I guess the logical conclusion of that is that if these messages had gone out publicly
00:22prior to the launch, that that wouldn't have been a risk to service members.
00:26I don't know that they're comfortable with that.
00:28Can you explain, you know, had these messages been published, would the plans have moved
00:35forward?
00:36Would the launch have still taken off?
00:37What I can tell you is that the President, as the Commander-in-Chief of our United States
00:41Armed Forces, and Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is an incredible man and a war fighter
00:46himself, take the lives of our American service members with the utmost responsibility.
00:52And they would never do anything intentionally to put their lives at risk.
00:58And again, they are working hard on that every single day, and we are protecting our service
01:02members while also restoring peace throughout this globe.
01:06It's something the previous administration has not done.
01:08And I would just add one more point.
01:11We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats
01:17and the mainstream media who turned the other cheek when the Biden administration, because
01:21of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan, and not a single person
01:27in the previous administration was held accountable for that botched withdrawal.
01:31Joe Biden said, in fact, it was a great operation.
01:35That is despicable.
01:36It's unacceptable to this President and this Secretary of Defense.
01:39The National Security Advisor has taken responsibility for this inadvertent number being added to
01:44the messaging thread.
01:45But above all, we take the lives of our troops, safety, security, prosperity around the globe
01:50with the utmost seriousness.
Comments