00:00on that because this is going to be very important because there's several people who right now in
00:04this body are going to be considering their support for a few aspects of the acquisition
00:10transition transformation that's been undertaken by undersecretary duffy in acquisitions and
00:15sustainment so they're secretary headseth you have been lying to the american public
00:20about this war from day one and so has the president you have misled the public about
00:26why we are at war you and the president have offered ever-changing reasons for this war
00:33the president has got himself in america stuck in the quagmire of another war in the middle east
00:38he's desperately trying to extricate himself from his own mistakes
00:44congressman you should know better shame on you calling this a quagmire two months in the effort
00:50what they've undertaken what they've succeeded the success on the battlefield that could create
00:54strategic opportunities the courage of a president to confront a nuclear iran and you call it a
00:58quagmire handing propaganda to our enemies shame on you for that statement and statements like that
01:04are reckless to our troops don't say i support the troops on one hand and then a two-month mission
01:08is a quagmire that's a false equivalence who are you cheering for here who are you pulling for
01:13our troops are doing incredible work they've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission
01:18and achieved incredible battlefield successes and you sit there and go on tv for your clickbait
01:25about quagmires it undermines the mission your hatred for president trump
01:31mr hexeth i stand by what i said last time you were here you were incompetent then you're incompetent
01:39now and you're the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence with that mr chairman i yield
01:44back do you know how much it will cost americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food
01:51over the next year because of the iran war
01:56i would simply ask you what the cost is of an iranian nuclear bomb i'm going to give you that
02:00i would simply ask you what the you're playing gotcha questions about domestic things i'm not
02:04you're asking you're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the
02:09increased why won't you answer what it costs to prevent iran from getting a nuclear bomb
02:13but let me what would it cost what would you pay to ensure iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb
02:17will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the american people for doing what you
02:24believe is necessary to make iran uh denuclear will you acknowledge the economic cost
02:30we have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than
02:33yeah but what the previous administration did to our economy
02:37what the previous administration did you don't even know what the you know what's upsetting
02:41administration did with covid and you're going to lecture this administration about the economy
02:45you know what is upsetting incredible you didn't even do the analysis on how much it's costing the
02:49american people it's one thing if you said okay cost the american people five thousand dollars
02:53but we think it's worth it uh that's what we've done in world war ii and other wars here's what
02:58it costs you got to pay for it you don't even know what the average american is paying
03:04general george let's talk about a guy who's a patriot somebody who every single person here in
03:09this dais and down there in that audience and out there in this world has huge admiration for
03:15why did he get fired out of respect for these officers we never talk about the nature of their
03:22removal but every one of them including myself knows that they serve at the pleasure of the president
03:27ultimately out of respect to these officers we don't reveal it however i will note it's very
03:32difficult to change the culture of the department that was been destroyed by the wrong perspectives
03:36so you say general george destroyed a culture there are many we've we've gotten rid of many
03:42general officers in this administration because we need new leadership you have you have no way of
03:47explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who's we needed new leadership
03:52and so your answer is a very immature way of responding to my my request and so would you
03:58also agree that that a a a now another uh goal of ours is to make sure that iran never
04:06blockades
04:07the strait of her moves never has control of the strait of her moves would that be a an objective
04:12of ours
04:14if what they're doing right now is effectively piracy it's terrorism it's threatening international
04:19shipping uh and our blockade is is signaling to the world that we actually control that strait and i would
04:25ask uh this committee what would this effort look like if iran had nuclear weapons imagine if not
04:31iran had nuclear capabilities what they would do to wield over any advantage they have from proxies
04:36uh to funding international terrorism mr secretary years in daa so in addition to enacting this budget
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