Pete Hegseth doubles down on Iran war in new video despite election losses

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[0:00] Defense Secretary Pete Hgset spoked out

[0:02] today in a defiant video amid questions

[0:04] swirling around his future at the

[0:06] Pentagon. Yesterday, CBS News was first

[0:08] to report that President Trump was

[0:10] making calls about potentially replacing

[0:13] Hegathth. The president blamed the Iran

[0:15] war for Republicans catastrophic

[0:17] election losses on Tuesday, but today

[0:20] the president said he had every

[0:22] intention to keep him in his job. So, in

[0:25] this video posted on X, Hegsithth vowed

[0:28] to keep on fighting.

[0:29] >> You see, because rega

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