00:00...now in this body are going to be considering their support for...
00:03...a few aspects of the acquisition transition, transformation that's been undertaken by Undersecretary Duffy in acquisitions and sustainment, so they're...
00:12Secretary Heseth, you have been lying to the American public about this war from day one, and so has the
00:19President.
00:20You have misled the public about why we are at war.
00:24You and the President have offered ever-changing reasons for this war.
00:29The President has got himself in America stuck in the quagmire of another war in the Middle East.
00:35He's desperately trying to extricate himself from his own mistakes.
00:39It is in America's...
00:40Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you.
00:43Calling this a quagmire two months in.
00:46The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that could create strategic opportunities,
00:52the courage of a President to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our
00:57enemies?
00:58Shame on you for that statement, and statements like that are reckless to our troops.
01:02Don't say, I support the troops on one hand, and then a two-month mission is a quagmire.
01:06That's a false equivalence.
01:08Who are you cheering for here?
01:09Who are you pulling for?
01:10Our troops are doing incredible work.
01:12They've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission, and achieved incredible battlefield successes.
01:18And you sit there, and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires.
01:23It undermines the mission.
01:24Your hatred for President Trump...
01:28Mr. Hexeth, I stand by what I said last time you were here.
01:32You were incompetent then, you're incompetent now, and you're the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence.
01:39With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
01:42Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over
01:48the next year because of the Iran war?
01:53I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb.
01:56I'm going to give you that opportunity.
01:57I would simply ask you what the...
01:58You're playing gotcha questions about domestic things.
02:01I'm not...
02:01You're asking...
02:02You're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the increased...
02:06Why won't you answer what it costs to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb?
02:09I give you that, sir.
02:10But let me...
02:10What would it cost?
02:11What would you pay to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb?
02:14Will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the American people for doing what you believe is necessary
02:22to make Iran denuclear?
02:24Will you acknowledge the economic cost?
02:26We have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than what the previous administration did to our economy,
02:33what the previous administration did with inflation, what the previous administration did with COVID,
02:39and you're going to lecture this administration about the economy?
02:42You know what is upsetting?
02:43Incredible.
02:43You didn't even do the analysis on how much it's costing the American people.
02:47It's one thing if you said, okay, it costs the American people $5,000, but we think it's worth it.
02:52That's what we've done in World War II and other wars.
02:54Here's what it costs.
02:55You got to pay for it.
02:56You don't even know what the average American is paying.
03:01General George, let's talk about a guy who's a patriot.
03:04Somebody who every single person here in this dais and down there in that audience and out there in this
03:09world has huge admiration for.
03:12Why did he get fired?
03:15Out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal, but every one of them,
03:20including myself, knows that they serve at the pleasure of the president.
03:22Why did you fire him?
03:24Ultimately, out of respect to these officers, we don't reveal it.
03:27However, I will note, it's very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the
03:31wrong perspectives.
03:32So you think General George destroyed a culture?
03:36There are many, we've gotten rid of many general officers in this administration because we need new leadership.
03:42You have no answer, sir.
03:43You have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who's ever served
03:47in the station.
03:47We needed new leadership.
03:48And so your answer is a very immature way of responding to my request.
03:54And so would you also agree that now another goal of ours is to make sure that Iran never blockades
04:04the Strait of Hormuz, never has control of the Strait of Hormuz?
04:07Would that be an objective of ours?
04:11What they're doing right now is effectively piracy.
04:14It's terrorism.
04:14It's threatening international shipping.
04:16And our blockade is signaling to the world that we actually control that Strait.
04:21And I would ask this committee, what would this effort look like if Iran had nuclear weapons?
04:26Imagine if not Iran had nuclear capabilities, what they would do to wield over any advantage they have from proxies
04:32to funding international terrorism.
04:35Mr. Secretary.
04:36Here's NDAA.
04:38So in addition to enacting this budget.
04:41And then they go higher.
04:41And they sort of stuff like that.
04:41So I was like, as a look, I got a good chamom рез you to steal and do this.
04:41And fried them.
04:41So I thought I didn't have enough energy for it like that.
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