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hegseth: yes, sir. sen. graham: if they stop buying cheap russian oil tomorrow, would that grind putin's war machine to a halt? sec. hegseth: it's a vulnerability, yes, sir. sen. graham: we have an ability through legislation to get china and india's attention if you keep buying cheap russian oil to empower ukraine and children you will lose access to our markets. i would urge you and the administration to use that tool to get the attention of china and india a. i'm end this. i'm a practical guy. but we have to end this war so we don't entice china to take taiwan, and we don't encourage iran to think we are all talk in stopping their nuclear ambitions. you live in very dangerous times. i want to help you. general canie, are you the right man at the right time. thank you. chair mcdonnell: senator reid, then senator moran. sen. reed: thank you you, mr. chairman. welcome, mr. secretary. mr. chairman. mr. secretary, you already ordered 4,000 national guardsmen into los angeles plus 700 active duty marines. that'

hegseth: sure. rep. houlahan: would be fair to say men and women are capable of operating a unmanned combat drone or pushing a button to cause death again? yes or no? sec. hegseth: i know what you are getting at. rep. houlahan: yes. sec. hegseth: women carry equipment differently. rep. houlahan: reclaiming my time. i asked about missiles and drones. chair rogers: it is the gentlelady's time. rep. houlahan: would it be fair to say both men and women are capable of piloting a jet or helicopter to cause death as a consequence? sec. hegseth: a lot of wonderful -- rep. houlahan: yes or no. while i agree that physical fitness is a very strong an important component of lethality, the war fighter you have written about in your books is but a very small piece of the overall lethality picture. we estimate only 10% of her military personnel are directly involved in the kind of combat you are referring to. rather 90% of our troops are doing other jobs that enable those 10%. lethality cannot be measured solely by the

hegseth: sure. rep. houlahan: would be fair to say men and women are capable of operating a unmanned combat drone or pushing a button to cause death again? yes or no? sec. hegseth: i know what you are getting at. rep. houlahan: yes. sec. hegseth: women carry equipment differently. rep. houlahan: reclaiming my time. i asked about missiles and drones. chair rogers: it is the gentlelady's time. rep. houlahan: would it be fair to say both men and women are capable of piloting a jet or helicopter to cause death as a consequence? sec. hegseth: a lot of wonderful -- rep. houlahan: yes or no. while i agree that physical fitness is a very strong an important component of lethality, the war fighter you have written about in your books is but a very small piece of the overall lethality picture. we estimate only 10% of her military personnel are directly involved in the kind of combat you are referring to. rather 90% of our troops are doing other jobs that enable those 10%. lethality cannot be measured solely by the

hegseth: i do. rep. tokuda: if the president told you to choose people in the legs, would you do so? during your confirmation hearing you failed to answer this question as well. sec. hegseth: i refuse to accept a false hypothetical. rep. tokuda: at a time where we have that national guard in los angeles, more there than in syria and iran, it is not a hypothetical. it is an actual situation we are dealing with now. the last 14 seconds i have. would you order our military to shoot at their fellow countrymen? if ordered by the president? sec. hegseth: it is interesting that for four years -- rep. tokuda: i yield back. >> the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from virginia, mr. mcguire is recognized. reppo maguire thank you mr. chairman and our witnesses and to all of our men and women who have served and are -- or are serving your mission is important and we would not have a country without you. sec. i last saw you on memorial day. we really appreciate your remarks as we honored and remembered our falle

senator hegseth -- secretary hegseth: the president said that.t's my understanding, although i would look at what comes out of the mou. senator murphy: but why would we ask the american taxpayer to spend upwards of a billion dollars on a plane that would then only be used for a handful of months and then transferred directly to the president? that doesn't sound like a wise use of taxpayer dollars. secretary hegseth: a lot of the capabilities, as you know, senator, of that particular platform are and should remain classified. so there are reasons why you might modify even for a short period of time an aircraft to ensure the safety and security of the president of the united states. senator murphy but when do you : believe that those upgrades would be made? how long would the president have it before it got transferred to his personal possession? secretary hegseth: that would be a determination of the air force that would take take hold of it and make those modifications within whatever time window they believe gets it to the place where it needs t

hegseth: everyone knows. rep. moulton: so when said to mentzen you just information, or was it a classified system or an unclassified system? sec. hegseth: as you know, having served yourself, and you make secretary provides information in and of itself is classified, not to be discussed. rep. moulton: so what was the classification marketing of the lunchtime when it was sent to you? d.o.t. regulations require them to be marked. sec. hegseth: what was the classification mark time? rep. moulton: yeah, what was the classification marketing. sec. hegseth: justifications of any are not things that we would be disclosing to the public. rep. moulton: you can very well disclose whether or not it was classified. it is not classified. dod relations states that any pacified information has to be labeled with its classification, with a classified secret or top secret. sec. hegseth: what is not classified is that it was an incredibly successful mission against the houthis. and 14 so are you trying to say that the information

hegseth: no, sir.i would add to that list the limitation of most usaid programs, which i do not hear anything about, because a lot of them were wasteful and look at you mentioned international organizations, the reduction. again, i hear nothing about that. those organizations are not serving u.s. interests. they are not serving u.s. in -- interests. i do not hear from them. these were not part of their calculus. >> if you talk to anyone of those countries, they will tell you they are deeply concerned and it will influence our presence and our contribution to your stated goal of peace and stability. gen. caine: -- sec. hegseth: i think they respect us on the ground. >> i have two questions. the first one, you mentioned recruitment at the beginning. during the last four years, we got used to the new reality. all of a sudden, that reality has changed. if you could comment on why that reality has changed, i think a lot of us know, but if you could talk to us a little bit about this new reality, which you d

hegseth: no, sir.i would add to that list the limitation of most usaid programs, which i do not hear anything about, because a lot of them were wasteful and look at you mentioned international organizations, the reduction. again, i hear nothing about that. those organizations are not serving u.s. interests. they are not serving u.s. in -- interests. i do not hear from them. these were not part of their calculus. >> if you talk to anyone of those countries, they will tell you they are deeply concerned and it will influence our presence and our contribution to your stated goal of peace and stability. gen. caine: -- sec. hegseth: i think they respect us on the ground. >> i have two questions. the first one, you mentioned recruitment at the beginning. during the last four years, we got used to the new reality. all of a sudden, that reality has changed. if you could comment on why that reality has changed, i think a lot of us know, but if you could talk to us a little bit about this new reality, which you d

hegseth: yes, sir. sen. graham: you could care less if they're libertarian, vegetarian, democrat, republican, as long as they can do the job? sec. hegseth: yes, sir. sen. graham: ok. all right. more people are joining the military now than any time in recent memory, right? so the situation described by senator murray is not being viewed by other americans because they're signing up in droves. sec. hegseth: senator, there's been a historic surge. sen. graham: you know why? because they think you're a winner. they think you're going to lead. they think you're going to have their back. that's why they're signing up. keep doing what you're doing. now, do you agree that the world kind of miscalculated hitler in the 1920's and 1930's? sec. hegseth: certainly did not understand the scope of the threat. sen. graham: like the guy wrote a book. i want to kill all the jews and nobody believed him. you remember that? general kaine, is that a fair statement that the military-industrial complex of the 1920's and 1930's ms

in 2017, a police report about pete hegseth being drunk in a hotel bar said that pete hegseth told the police, quote, that he was buzzed but not intoxicated during an encounter with a republican woman who, after spending time in pete hegseth hotel room, filed a complaint with monterey police claiming that she was raped. no criminal charges were filed after the police investigation, and none of that information bothered republicans in the senate in any way. when it came time to vote for donald trump's selection of pete hegseth as the secretary of defense. but all of those senators, all those republican senators, knew that as secretary of defense pete hegseth was going to sound like a character in drunk history. let's listen again to the stupidest public lie ever told by a secretary of defense. >> president trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. >> now, some secretaries of defense, particularly during the vietnam war, found themselves telling worse lies. more important lies about their plans to win the war that we lost decisively. but those secretari

pete hegseth said it. i suppose it's a case of this is what the us administration is saying, this is what the experts are saying, who do you believe? that goes to the heart of pete hegseth's and get in that press conference in which he believes that the press should be on the side of the donald trump administration. that the press as he described it should the capturing these big moments and not ruining things is how he viewed it. of course reporters, that is our job to be objective ask those questions. pete hegseth i think so those questions as sufficiently insufficiently patriotic. he feels that by questioning the mission by the us it's not showing respect to the troops and soldiers that were involved. nonetheless, those questions will still be asked. thank you very much for that. three palestinians have been shot dead after dozens of israeli settlers attacked a palestinian village in the occupied west bank. it happened in the village of kafr malik, close to ramallah. our correspondent wyre davies is in

pete hegseth gave what was i can only describe.ust described it as a bit of a bizarre press conference this morning. what did you make of it? and why do you think that was? the approach from the pentagon? >> yeah, i mean. >> i worked there at the pentagon before. i've never seen anything quite like that. i mean, it was like a one man, one man show at broadway. i mean, honestly, it just came across as a lot of insecurity, you know, a lot of sense. >> of just trying. to prove. >> the macho ness. and, you know, i think that. >> that's. >> what i find, you know, turns off so many people. >> is like, right. >> now they're worried, you know, they're worried about what happens next. the anxiety about our country. striking another country and worried about whether that's going to pull us into greater conflict. and all he. >> can talk about is just. >> trying to brag. >> about. >> you know, just, you know, defending the president and whatnot. so it just it. >> was really bizarre. >> and it was something that just i think is just confusing.

we have a little bit of hegseth's comments. i would like to play it for you, sean and that's where he's making the point that basically only president trump could have gotten this done. watch here. >> many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to iran's nuclear program. and none could. until president trump. the operation president trump planned was bold and it was brilliant, showing the world that american deterrence is back. when this president speaks, the world should listen. and the u.s. military, we can back it up. >> sean, your thoughts? >> griff, by the way, good to see all of you. i'm watching every weekend so i feel like i'm just having coffee with my friends on a weekend. but in all seriousness, pete is 1,000% right. we could take this back to 1979. griff, our mutual friend, colonel oliver north actively involved in operations with iran, he went there, had a suicide pill with him. no president has been able to deal a blow like this to the number one state sponsor of terror. here's the president's calcul

pete hegseth gave what was i can only describe.described it as a bit of a bizarre press conference this morning. what did you make of it? and why do you think that was? the approach from the pentagon? >> yeah, i mean, i worked there at the pentagon before. i've never seen anything quite like that. i mean, it was like a one man, one man show at broadway. i mean, honestly, it just came across as a lot of insecurity, you know, a lot of sense of just trying to prove the macho ness and, you know, and i think that that's what i find, you know, turns off so many people is like, right now they're worried, you know, they're worried about what happens next. the anxiety about our country striking another country and worried about whether that's going to pull us into greater conflict. and all he can talk about is just trying to brag about, you know, just, you know, defending the president and whatnot. so it just it was really bizarre. and it was something that just i think is just confusing. so many of us that are just trying to get answers ab

that is pete hegseth continuing to take questions. we are also keeping an eye on the outgoing chief of general staff here in front of uk defence select committee. we will bring you the key significant statements from both of them here on today's verified live. we

pete hegseth has ordered the navy to rename the ship that's called in his honour. many other... they want to bring back some of the confederate leaders and the bases that are named after them as well. so there's a lot going on right across the military space, isn't there, in terms of trying to kind of change it? members of the trans community as well, changing the entry requirements for women versus men. and it just comes back to what they see as the strength of the military and how they can change it and how they can shape it to be more the way they want it to be. it's actually been really fascinating to see how that kind of plays out, in that hegseth kind of repeatedly says that the military needs to be kind of more...more lethal, there needs to be a bigger... ..greater warfighting ethos, in his terms, which i think is quite, from what i understand, quite popular in the military. but at the same time, i think it's a bit of a stretch in that the administration links that to recruitment, which is higher than it has been in quite some time, but we started to see it kind of climb

hegseth and. the administration. >> they want him. >> to be. >> talking about this topic during this hearing. >> i suspect we will. >> see a lot. >> of fireworks. >> but for them, it's a much easier topic to talk about versus. >> the litany. >> of other controversies that have. >> really characterized his time as secretary so far. >> yeah, i'm thinking about signal gate, and he hasn't testified since that happened either. danielle, the los angeles police chief, says they weren't formally notified about the arrival challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city. have you ever seen such a disconnect between local and federal leaders and law enforcement in such a high profile operation like this? and what are the risks? >> the only time i've seen it is in 2020, when donald trump did the same thing in d.c. you recall he mobilized federal law enforcement and the national guard against the mayor's wishes, to basically lock down washington, d.c. there's an established process by which stat

as far as defense secretary pete hegseth is concerned.spent the majority of his remarks really emphasizing his and president donald trump's stated belief that these military strikes on iranian nuclear facilities completely obliterated the country's nuclear capabilities and really deriding the media for recent reporting by cnn and confirmed by a host of others that a preliminary intelligence assessment did raise some questions and some uncertainty about the status of that nuclear program. and look, pete hegseth really leaning into what the president has said publicly, in fact, said immediately after these military strikes were conducted that that they were not only successful, but they completely obliterated the country's program. that is not something that is reflected in the facts and something that still remains a question even after today. we did we did pick up some new details, though, about what that confidence from hegseth and donald trump seems to be based on, and that is based on the capabilities of this mop. the massive ordnance

and this morning, pete hegseth knew exactly what the assignment was. i mean, maybe trump even told him directly. and trump has spent the past few days calling for journalists who reported on us intelligence to be fired, some of them by name, because that intelligence says his strike was not as successful as he claims, and he probably knew that he could get at least a few of his lackeys to go out there and do his bidding. last night and this morning, trump even promoted texas press conference posted about it, which is not something he normally does, saying that the fake news had been lying and hegseth would tell the truth. and then at today's press conference, hegseth didn't provide evidence that the strike had successfully destroyed iran's nuclear capabilities because perhaps it doesn't exist. but he did aggressively attempt to shift the definition of success that seemed to be part of his goal as well. maybe a directed goal. who knows? as the new york times put it, the briefing gave no new assessments of the state of iran's nuclear program or the damag

hegseth:r. chairman, i appreciate the question. how we evaluated dotne was a refection of how we approach the department. how efficiently do we operate? we are the bottlenecks? how do we get systems, platforms , future capabilities in the hands of war fighters as quickly as possible? a review, led by myself, the deputy secretary of defense, our friends at d.o.g.e. have helped us identify places where we might find efficiencies. i worked to ensure that, as we seek those efficiencies and reduce those redundancies, we are not doing so in a way that undermines our capabilities or safety for fighters in the future. after we got rid of a lot of the really low hanging fruit of tens of billions in contracts and things we reduced that were duplicate of, completely wasteful, creating powerpoint presentations no one was looking at, you start to look at things like testing and evaluation, which sounds quite significant, and can be in many ways. but when you ask the services, ask the joint staff, talk to t

and then the way that hegseth completely dodges? >> yeah. and that's another theme that we've seen on the hill this week. ali, yesterday in the senate appropriations subcommittee on defense, senator reid, who's the ranking member of the senate armed services committee, he was asking some of these questions, and he also touched on the cost of that qatari jet. secretary hegseth refusing to say the cost and saying that it was classified. well, you and i know in the previous administration, when they announced that there were going to be new air force one planes, it was unclassified about the total cost, about the timeline, about the company that was going to be providing it, even the company that was going to be doing the work, secretary refusing to give any real detail or fidelity on that qatari jet. so this is it's day two of that same questioning there. one of the issues that i'm still waiting to hear a little bit more about. and i'm and, you know, i think that there are still a lot of questions about is what happened at fort bragg this week

a strong response from china following those comments from esther hegseth. that's right.ordinarily, the chinese would have spoken on sunday morning, the last day which is today of the shangri-la dialogue but china has not sent a high-level delegation and that's why we've had statement from the foreign ministry today and from the chinese embassy here in singapore. as you mentioned, very strong response from both places, china has protested to the us over quite vilifying the fama cherry and false remarks by pete hegseth and has accused the us of deliberately ignoring calls for peace for regional nations. as you set as well, the chinese embassy in singapore yesterday saying that his speech was steeped in propagation and instigation and that he smeared an attack china and the foreign ministry also talking about a cold war mentality as a result of that speech was not a lot of people are talking about pete hegseth's speech and they were the strongest remarks from the us defence secretary since he took office in january but as i said, without a high chinese allegation here, not

but again, hegseth making it clear this is not about a regime change.s is about making promised retaliation. we have seen some missiles already heading towards israel and some damage and casualties so far this morning. >> yeah that's right, multiple strikes. we think something in the region of 25 ballistic missiles were fired to ian pannell, who's in tel aviv. ian, we that iran has promised retaliation. we have seen some missiles already heading towards israel and some damage and casualties so far this morning. >> yeah that's right, multiple strikes. we think something in the region of 25 ballistic missiles were fired from iran towards israel. this was just hours after the u.s. strikes in the region. this is a site of one of the strikes. in actual fact, the missile landed behind us. the air is too dangerous. we're not allowed to kind of get in there. but the buildings there have been totally razed, the facade blown out, massive destruction on the ground there trying to make that site safe. this actually was a retirement home for the elderly. and as you

we heard pete hegseth described the operation is focused, powerful and clean. he said it had devastated the iranian nuclear programme. we don't have independent verification of that at this point, but that is how the us secretary of defence, pete hegseth, is describing it. he said it had taken months and weeks of planning, positioning, and pre-positioning. and he said it was the first deployment of these massive ordnance penetrators, the so-called bunker busters, that we have been talking about all week. and he said it had been done, closely arranged with the allies in israel. we then heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, dan caine, who said this had been carried out with exceptional skill and discipline and had severely degraded iranian weapons and infrastructure. he said the whole operation had to began at 5pm eastern time yesterday, 10pm in the uk, it began with a us submarine launching two dozen tomahawk missiles. he then described aircraft that had flown ahead of these b2 aircraft to run a deception, he also said not a single shot had been

so hegseth knew. >> who he was performing for. his job was to attack the media and to defend this as the most successful operation. but i was incredibly impressed with general cain. i think many of us were kind of concerned when he leapfrogged over four stars, who were more in line to become the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and he conducted himself exactly how he should. he focused on the pride he had in the troops, the success of the operation. and he pointed out something we shouldn't forget in this. there have been plans for about 15 years, spanning multiple administrations to hit fordow. so this is not something that was out of step with things that have been considered by previous presidents. it's that there was a target of opportunity, and donald trump chose to do it. and i would encourage the white house take a beat. you're going to get more assessments. you're going to hear from the israelis. the europeans will very likely do their own assessments. we've heard from one of 17 intel agencies with this dia repo

we heard hegseth reiterate that today. we also had heard and he hegseth reiterated this as well from the head of the international atomic energy agency, who had said that on the basis of satellite images and given the power of the bombs and technical characteristics of the centrifuges, that they we know that they are no longer operational. so those are the facts that they were trying to present, and they kept emphasizing specifically hegseth, that there's so much more intelligence that still needs to be gathered. of course, though still raising questions on what exactly they mean. then when they say that they were obliterated while we're still trying to learn exactly what happened at these different sites. >> we saw some of that incredible video of training mission showing exactly what those bunker buster bombs can do. but i should mention that this is the first time, and this is the video here. it really gives you a view from each point from outside. and then what happens inside. but this is the first time that they have

you see hegseth absolutely supporting that idea.ge difference and a break. >> aishah: really quickly, just a quick question for the entire panel. do you think the troops will be used? >> i think they have been positioned and hopefully they won't have to be used. again, the insurrection act, a dozen presidents have used the insurrection act, including ulysses s. grant. ivan, kennedy this is not anything that's unprecedented. and it should be the governor asking for it. >> aishah: i don't think this president wants to use these troops. i don't think that's his desire, meredith. is that what you are hearing? >> you know, in my conversations it's definitely an option that's on the table but not something that i think any leader would want to use. but, it's also potentially a deterrent for future bad actors. >> aishah: looks like protesters have now made it on to the 101 freeway. they were trying to prevent that from happening yesterday that is the latest breaking news just coming in is that those protesters have now made it on to that v

you got kristi noem, pete hegseth and a couple of others at the pentagon. underneath them are a lot of officials who have worked here for a long time, tom, and are well-versed in history we are discussing here. so whether these top officials change things up operationally as opposed to culturally is something we are about to find out. they've not been operationalized with the exception of mass deportations until now. >> i interviewed an author and former marine corps earlier, great conversation. and he called out in his opinion the over politicalization some of the opening comments from secretary hegseth. is that a concern in washington, that something that should be really apolitical like the pentagon appears to be a little less so? >> it was certainly different. you think that the blowback for donald rumsfeld got for his style of the podium, this was a whole different level of bluster. it was very on brand donald trump but i suspect that the audience they had in mind. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, much more traditional pentagon military offic

i will interrupt you because pete hegseth is there and about to speak. good morning. i arrived last night back from nato, two days apart from might battle buddies. where there was a historic outcome, and to start with that. i think there is so much news, so many things happening that often times big momentous moments get missed. what president trump accomplished in nato was game changing and historic. a shift in burden sharing to european responsibility in nato, that most would have said was impossible at the beginning of his term. but he said nato needs to pay up, they started in the first term, and here in the second term we have accelerated that. 32 nato countries committed to spending 5% gdp on defence. on actually investing in the nato alliance. so i hope with all the ink spilled, all the tablets find the time to properly recognise this historic change in continental security. that other presidents try to do, they talked about, president trump accomplished it. it is a huge deal. we are here this morning because in hunting for scandals, in trying to find wages, in

with secretary hegseth on and others here. this was a tremendous. success for what it was. >> it probably took. >> weeks. and weeks and weeks. >> of planning. >> these aren't just things that you stand up right away. the pentagon. >> is a planning organization. >> there's meetings that go. >> into this all the time. >> i'm sure the. >> the. >> strike forces that were a part of. >> this had been training for similar scenarios. the thing about. >> fordo is the bunker busters. >> and the. >> b-2s are. >> some of the. >> only capabilities in. >> the. >> entire world. >> that are. >> capable of. >> going in and destroying them. so they. >> knew and that's. >> what they're designed for, right? >> so they've probably planned for this. scenario many, many times over the years, as general. >> cain sort. >> of mentioned. >> and pete hegseth, you know, a lot. >> of planning. >> had been. going on. >> as they. >> awaited the decision from the political leadership. >> so this is something that. >> has probably been. >> baked for. >> some time. they're just waiti

what did we actually learn from pete hegseth? >> yeah. well, specifically, i think it's what tim was just talking about. you had the defense secretary playing a little bit more of the political role, going out there and putting on a bit of a show for the president and talking about this in the broader terms. they did talk a little bit more about some of that information that the cia director had put out overnight that was essentially backing up the president's initial assessment that these structures had been so severely damaged that it could set back iran's nuclear program for year, again, in contrast to the initial assessment. but we got actual details from the chairman of the joint chiefs, dan cain. he was far more specific, and he even said in his remarks, which i thought was really notable, that he has never been susceptible to political pressure, that he has never felt this outside influence of needing to tell the president something that he wanted to hear, that he simply has been presenting him just with the information so that he

to hear president trump and secretary of defense hegseth tell it, any criticism of their decision to attack iran is somehow a criticism of the american military. this is garbage, and they know it. our service men and women performed their mission flawlessly, and they did it with courage and with resolve. it's especially rich to see donald trump, who so often insulted and belittled our military heroes now try to hide his own failings behind them. let's be clear. while we owe our servicemembers a debt of gratitude, we do not owe that gratitude to president trump or members of his cabinet, for their decisions or their current efforts to manipulate the narrative about the results of the attack. i have to say, as my colleague senator kaine mentioned, that the spectacle of president trump and secretary hegseth berating the press for questioning their claims that the iranian nuclear program had been, quote, obliterated, only reveals their manic desperation to hide the truth. remember when president george bush declared, with respect to iraq, mission accomplished? what president trump and se

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secretary of defense hegseth yesterday signaled just. that in his testimony to congress that this could become more normalized using national guard. >> troops and the. >> military to quell this kind of, you know, violence, which, you know, we're not really seeing the violence that they're suggesting. >> what worries you about that? >> well. >> i'll tell of it. >> you know, first of all. >> us military troops in a us city is foundationally anti-american. so we are the, you know, the united states of america, because there are 5000 or so british troops stationed in boston. it led to the boston massacre, which was somewhat accidental when it happened. but then that led to political violence, which the boston tea party was political violence. and that grew the sons of liberty all came out of this grievance, in this frustration from an occupying force, from a tyrannical procedures and policies, and then the presence of foreign invaders, which is what the british were considered putting us marines again, i was a marine gunnery sergeant. second

hegseth is overseeing at the department of defense. katie, at the same time, this is a guy who we're entrusting with our national security. we want him to make sure that he's taking care of the health and well-being of our troops. and he is consistently prioritizing cheap shots in the culture wars over our national defense. so, you know, i personally am confused asrities are right nowf he's trying to succeed in the ss that i would have if i was in that job. >> yeah, it's not just harvey milk. it's potentially a ship named after thurgood marshall. ruth bader ginsburg. i mean prominent figures in american history. but he's talking about needing to prioritize a warrior ethos. how does that not align, allison? >> i mean, the warrior ethos has been around since i was serving in uniform, and i think all of these soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are embodying a warrior ethos that's not something that is just came to the department of defense, with pete hegseth becoming the secretary of defense. and, you know, honestly, his actions like c

the defense secretary, pete hegseth, saying the u.s. attack in iran was, in his words, historically successful. those new comments come as iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei, is now reacting to those strikes. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. pamela brown is off today, and you're in the situation room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this hour with the breaking news, new details emerging this morning from the pentagon on the u.s. military strikes on iran's key nuclear facilities. the defense secretary, pete, is calling the attack historically successful. and the chairman of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff, general dan cane, is also revealing new details about the operation at the fordo nuclear site, explaining just how the mission used vents inside the facility to deliver six bunker buster bombs. cnn correspondent natasha bertrand is joining us right now. natasha, what more did we learn from today's pentagon briefing? >> yeah, well. >> as. >> you said, wo

joey: they were asked pete hegseth and secretary hegseth asked if in direct public contact with iran they said they know exactly what steps they need to take for peace. didn't say what steps are. what do you think those steps are? >> well to give up enrichment has been bars to start, and i think there's a long list they've been talking about with -- the europeans, that has circulated around that iranians turn their back on in geneva. they may turn their back the other way go back to the table considering what they just saw last night but we'll see. the question really is the iranian leadership and how, when we hear from them. so far it's been a lot of bluster online a lot of social media saying you know, the response is yet to come. it is going to be devastating for israel and the u.s. clearly we'll see. and we mention the terrorist cells that we have to be careful of. >> i was struck by secretary hegseth talking about the desire for peace, desire to make sure this does not go beyond strikes that donald trump, the president wants them at the negotiating table to end this that was ver

pete hegseth faces questions on capitol hill. he has justified sending the national guard to los angeles. saying immigration officials had to be protected. and uber will begin trialling driverless taxis in london next year. more on that in a moment but now we have the sport. good afternoon. we start with tennis and day two of the women's event at queen's club in london - where katie boulter has just won in the last few moments. the british number one beat australia's alja tomljanovic in the first round, she took the first set in a tiebreak but lost the second 6-1, however she came through to win 6-4 in the decider. you can follow all the action at queens on the bbc sport website and app. england round off their international break with a friendly against senegal in nottingham later, and given how few games thomas tuchel has with his england team until they potentially play in the world cup, this game has extra significance. and he wants to see more of this - smiling during matches. tuchel says training is fun, but the real thing