00:03The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives shall have the sole power
00:08of impeachment, and that civil officers of the United States, including the Secretary
00:12of Defense, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason,
00:18bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:38Because of President Donald Trump, this is a new era.
00:42The big concern there is if the train stops, people cross the barrier and they can't be
00:47trained.
00:47We pray today, this Thanksgiving.
00:50Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
00:56On February 28, 2026, Secretary Hegseth directed and caused United States Armed Forces to be
01:03introduced into hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
01:08Notwithstanding that, Congress had not declared war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Congress
01:14had not enacted any specific statutory authorization for the introduction of United States Armed
01:21Forces into hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
01:25And no national emergency had been created by an attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran upon
01:32the United States, its territories, or processions, or its armed forces.
01:37Wherefore, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will
01:45remain a threat to the Constitution, if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner
01:50grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.
01:53Peter Brian Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification
02:00to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
02:07Secretary Hegseth abused the powers of his office through the following means, directing, authorizing,
02:13and sustaining hostile United States military actions in Iran after both chambers of Congress
02:19agreed to House Concurrent Resolution 86, thereby disregarding Congress's express and lawful
02:26direction that the United States Armed Forces be removed from such hostilities.
02:32While doing so, Secretary Hegseth also cultivated a war-making culture at the Department of Defense,
02:38which he boasts as being dismissive of, quote, stupid rules of engagement, unquote, with preference
02:45for, quote, maximum lethality, not tepid legality, unquote.
02:55Do you have enough Republican support to defeat impeachment articles this week?
03:00Well, we're not worried about that.
03:02I'll tell you this.
03:03Actually, I hope all of you will join us.
03:05We're going to do a press conference tomorrow morning at the Pentagon on that very topic.
03:08So I'll save my remarks there.
03:09I hope you'll all come loaded for bear with your questions.
03:13We are very proud of the President's America First agenda, of our peace through strength posture.
03:19We know the world is a better and safer place as a result.
03:21And so if we want to litigate that, the success of those things, I'm happy to do it all day
03:26long.
03:27I couldn't be more proud of what our President has done, the decisions that he's made, the
03:32courageous calls that he's made, the bold nature of our military leadership, the skill
03:38and courage of the troops on the ground.
03:39So if you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or NAB and
03:46Nicolas
03:46Maduro, you're taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished, which is historic.
03:51Everybody in the military knows that.
03:52Anybody paying attention knows that.
03:54These are the kind of partisan political games Democrats have been playing for a very long time.
03:59The President points out so clearly, you can't let crazy Islamists have a nuclear bomb.
04:04And so the choice was don't act and wish it away or take a bold move, which the President
04:10did with Midnight Hammer, which we've done with Epic Fury.
04:13And I think it was the right step.
04:15History will judge him very kindly and the military deliverance.
04:18I think he's done a great job.
04:19I mean, I've worked with him every single day on many of these topics.
04:23I've seen the work he does and the professionalism he brings to it.
04:27He's very smart.
04:28He works very hard.
04:29He puts a lot of hours into this.
04:30And on all the policy issues we've worked on together, I think he's done a very good job.
04:34On the topic of AI or SI.
04:36Just one question on that.
04:37How concerning is it to you, however, that it was a Republican who introduced these articles
04:42of impeachment against?
04:43I think it's unfair.
04:43Yeah, look, I think Pete's done a good job.
04:46I really do.
04:47Again, I work with him.
04:48And so I see perhaps a side of him that the media doesn't see and members of Congress may
04:52not see.
04:53But I think Pete works really hard.
04:54He's incredibly smart.
04:56I think he's not just on the issues that we've worked on together and the execution of it.
05:00But if you think about it, I mean, he's carried out multiple – the Department of War and
05:04the Pentagon in particular has been responsible for many of the important things this administration
05:08is working on, whether it's our counter-cartel coalitions that we have going on in the Western
05:12Hemisphere.
05:12He's done a great job with that.
05:14I think the performance, like the damage that was inflicted on the Iranian military structures,
05:18they have no navy.
05:19They have no air force.
05:20They're deeply degraded from a military standpoint.
05:22They still retain capabilities, obviously, but they are very degraded from where they were
05:26a year ago at this time.
05:27I think the operation they conducted to capture a fugitive of American justice, Nicolas Maduro,
05:33was carried out impeccably.
05:35So I think from the perspective that I sit in and the seat that I'm in as the National
05:41Security Advisor and Secretary of State, for that matter, Pete has done a very good job.
05:46He really has.
05:47But obviously, politics are politics, and people can have different views, but I can tell you
05:52my perspective from where I sit.
05:55All right, guys.
05:56What a marathon.
05:58I'm hungry.
