00:00We're reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, and you have to reestablish deterrence
00:05if you've lost it. Whether it was the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, a sin and a shame
00:12on our country, or what happened on October 7th with Hamas and Israel, or the war in Ukraine that
00:19never would have happened if President Trump was president. Radicals who shot at our ships
00:24and we didn't respond, or the invasion of tens of millions of illegals. The world saw
00:32an open invitation to challenge America under the previous administration. It didn't feel
00:39like America was prepared. Biden was asleep and Lloyd Austin was AWOL. So the first thing
00:48we did at the War Department was reestablish deterrence. It started on day one. We locked
00:54down the southern border. We've gone eight months with zero crossings at the southern border.
01:01Turns out we didn't need new authorities, we just needed a new president. Credit to Customs
01:10and Border Protection, our law enforcement partners, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and others
01:15who do a very difficult job every day. The War Department was proud to stand beside them
01:20since day one. We also reestablished deterrence through our efforts with the Houthis, Operation
01:26Rough Rider. Now from the beginning, some people thought, the Houthis? Why do we have to deal
01:33with the Houthis? Well, it's because the Biden administration allowed Islamists to shoot at
01:38our commercial and military ships. And we didn't respond. All the way back to the presidency of
01:45Thomas Jefferson. We've understood that free navigation of the seas is a core tenant of the
01:51United States of America. You don't shoot at American ships. Yet Joe Biden allowed those attacks
01:57to go on as if it was a new normal, a new status quo. Well, we responded. And after 50 days of relentless
02:05bombing, the Houthis cried, uncle. They said, okay, we won't shoot at your ships anymore. They were dying,
02:13literally and figuratively, to make a deal. And American ships now in that region and all around
02:20the world sail freely. Look at Iran and what President Trump said about their nuclear capabilities.
02:27Iran will never have a nuclear bomb. They didn't want to pay attention or believe him. So seven beautiful
02:35B2s flew 37 hours and dropped 14 precision munitions on top of their nuclear facilities undetected,
02:44flawless, in the middle of the night, something only America, the United States of America can
02:50do. Peace through strength, deterrence in action.
02:54in action.
02:55in action.
02:56in action.
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