00:00Secretary Hegsett, tomorrow is two months since the war has begun.
00:04You've testified that it was $25 billion in cost
00:07in terms of the munitions we used and what we paid for it.
00:11But when you add to that the damage that was done to our bases
00:15and today's dollars for buying replacement munitions
00:19and replacement aircrafts, what has the total cost been over the last 60 days?
00:26That number right now reflects the total cost that we're seeing.
00:29Including buying today's dollars, the new weapons and replacements
00:34and including the damage there?
00:35That's your testimony?
00:36If there's adjustments to that, I would defer to the comptroller on that.
00:40And how much are you seeing in terms of, are you asking,
00:43in terms of supplemental funding just for the Iran mission from this committee?
00:48If and when a supplemental is submitted,
00:50the majority of it would not just be for, would not be for epic fury.
00:55But what would be the ballpark for Iran?
00:57Munitions related to the entirety of what we want to get done.
01:00A number.
01:00What would you submit?
01:02It would be within the, on Iran, it would be less than $25 billion.
01:06But there's a lot more we would ask for beyond just Iran.
01:08You're saying it's $25 billion.
01:09Okay, I would just, if you come back, you want to revise those numbers.
01:12Because all the experts are disagreeing with you
01:15when it comes to today's dollars and damage.
01:16But you can revise it.
01:18How much did it cost American taxpayers in terms of the strike to the Iranian school
01:22where kids were killed?
01:23Do you have that number?
01:25In terms of the missiles we used?
01:28As I've said, that unfortunate situation remains under investigation.
01:33You don't know how much it costs the taxpayers?
01:34But I wouldn't tie a cost to that, to anything.
01:37That's a reasonable question, no, sir?
01:38I mean, our taxpayer money was going there.
01:40Do you know how much it will cost Americans
01:42in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year
01:47because of the Iran war?
01:51I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb.
01:54I'm going to give you that opportunity.
01:55I would simply ask you what the...
01:56You're playing gotcha questions about domestic things.
01:59I'm not...
01:59You're asking...
02:00You're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be
02:03in terms of the increased cost of gas and food?
02:04Why won't you answer what it costs to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb?
02:07I give you that, sir.
02:08But let me...
02:08What would it cost?
02:09What would you pay to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb?
02:12Do you...
02:12What would you pay?
02:13Sir, can I reclaim my time?
02:14Do you not know?
02:15You had no one do the analysis of what the increased cost of gas and food
02:19on the American people are going to be?
02:21What is the cost of Iran holding that straight at issue with nuclear weapons?
02:25It's $631 billion,
02:27which means it's an increase of $5,000 a year for American households.
02:33Now, let me give you this point.
02:34You're saying that your operation is preventing a nuclear Iran.
02:37Will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the American people for doing what
02:44you believe is necessary to make Iran denuclear?
02:48Will you acknowledge the economic cost?
02:49We have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than what the previous administration did to our economy?
02:57You acknowledge there's a cost.
02:59You don't even know what the...
03:00You don't even know what the...
03:11You know what's upsetting?
03:12I reclaim my time.
03:13But we think it's worth it.
03:15That's what we've done in World War II and other wars.
03:18Here's what it costs.
03:19You got to pay for it.
03:20You don't even know what the average American is paying.
03:23You don't know what we paid in terms of the missiles that hit the Iranian school.
03:26You don't know what we're paying in terms of gas.
03:28You don't know what we're paying in terms of food.
03:30Your $25 billion number is totally off.
03:33It's the incompetence.
03:35It's the incompetence.
03:36Let me ask you this.
03:38Certainly, maybe here we'll find agreement.
03:40There were still 440 pounds of low-enriched uranium, correct, when President Obama, after the JCPOA?
03:46Is that accurate?
03:48The amounts and types are classified.
03:51Okay.
03:52Will you acknowledge that there were 970 pounds of uranium enriched after Trump tore up the JCPOA?
04:01The JCPOA was a terrible deal that allowed Iran a path to a nuclear bomb.
04:05You deal with vague platitudes.
04:08I'm asking you about numbers.
04:09You don't know what gas costs.
04:11You don't know what food costs.
04:12You don't know what the operation costs.
04:14You know, I get sound bites.
04:17But how about numbers?
04:19Do you know how much the enriched uranium was after you ripped up the JCPOA?
04:23Trump did.
04:24I'll give you a number.
04:25I know that, as was stated early on, the price of gas is twice as expensive in California.
04:30Your home state is anywhere else in the country because of the horrible policies your state pursued.
04:33You know what?
04:34It used to be that that type of stuff worked, and then you started to lose the people that
04:39you campaigned you wanted to be for because you said you won't get us into bad wars.
04:45You said you would bring down the prices.
04:48You know what I'm sad for?
04:49I'm sad for all the people who voted for Trump.
04:51I'm sad for them because you betrayed them.
04:54You betrayed a lot of that MAGA base.
04:56And you know who knows that?
04:57J.D. Vance knows that.
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05:07I'm sad for you.
05:09I'm sad for you.
05:10I'm sad for you.
05:10I'm sad for you.
05:11You
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