The Adam Mockler Show - Pete Hegseth FRANTICALLY tries to HIDE THE FOOTAGE!

Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, check this out. Donald Trump's handpicked defense secretary, Magapete Hagsatz, struggled to answer any questions about the alleged war crimes he committed in the Caribbean Sea. He repeatedly gets pressed at the Reagan Presidential Library in California about releasing the footage. The footage in question is that of the second strike on September 2nd, when the United States ordered a first strike, and we know this happened. The first strike they've released the footage of. Remember, that's going to be key. They've already released the footage of this first strike.

Starting point is 00:00:30 strike. But then we learned that there was a second strike where two survivors were laying there shipwrecked for little less than an hour, and then the United States ordered a second strike, which is likely considered a war crime as these were non-combatants. Many senators said that this footage was disturbing. Even Republican senators launched an investigation into Maga Pete Hegeseth, who was Donald Trump's defense secretary, picked off of Fox News. We'll break all of this down. We've got a lot of interesting. clips of Pete trying to squirm out. Just make sure you drop a like, subscribe.

Starting point is 00:01:03 We have another CNN debate that's going to be really good coming out tomorrow morning. So make sure you have post notifications on below. And the first question Pete Heggseth gets asked is when will we see the video? Keep in mind, we've already seen the first strike, but he can't really answer about the second strike. Of ensuring we meet the criteria, the decision's not at my level anymore. And then we take the strike. Now, after Admiral Bradley's meetings on Capitol Hill with the chairman of the joint chiefs,

Starting point is 00:01:30 President Trump said he would have no problem if the full video of the strike is released. When can we see that video? When will you release it? We're reviewing it right now to make sure sources, methods, I mean, it's an ongoing operation, TTPs. We've got operators out there doing this right now. So whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about. So we're reviewing that right now. Okay, the problem is they already released part of it.

Starting point is 00:01:54 when the strike was announced. So they've already released part of the footage. So the fact that Pete Higgseth is saying they still have to review it because this could put people in danger is a lie. He then gets asked further. So will you be releasing the video? Not hopefully.

Starting point is 00:02:08 It will make the American people safer in the process. So, Mr. Secretary, you will be releasing that full video. We are reviewing it right now. Is that a yes or no? That is the most important thing to me are... I mean, no, no, that's... He's squirming right now. That is not a yes or a no.

Starting point is 00:02:24 He's squirming, but it's likely a, no. Not hopefully. It will make the American people safer in the process. So, Mr. Secretary, you will be released in that full video. We are reviewing it right now. Is that a yes or no? That is, the most important thing to me are the ongoing operations in the Caribbean with our folks that use bespoke capabilities, techniques, procedures in the process.

Starting point is 00:02:46 I'm way more interested in protecting that than anything else. So we're viewing the process and we'll see. Listen, we want to protect American troops as well. we also want to have a standard of engagement. There needs to be a bar, a standard of engagement overseas. And when the United States is dragging that bar down to the depths of hell and just striking people randomly, arbitrarily with no due process, that could endanger U.S. troops who are overseas, who are maybe in striking area or striking reach of other countries, might as such as release the video should not be hard if you have got nothing to hide. To continue,

Starting point is 00:03:22 Pete Heggset gets asked, did you have a plan to deal with these survivors? Did you have a plan to deal with survivors? There was protocol for dealing with survivors, but in that... What was the protocol? Striking them again? A plan to deal with survivors? There was protocol for dealing with survivors, but in that... And frankly, there was a, I don't know, 10 strikes later, there was a semi-submersible that I think folks here, meaning a submarine,

Starting point is 00:03:45 you don't go fishing on a submarine, full of drugs, and in that particular case, the first thing, first strike didn't take it out. And a couple guys jumped off and swam from what I understand a ways away. When we struck the submarine a second time, it sunk. And then you had two people that you had to go get. And we had the ability to go get them. We gave them back to their host countries. That's a story that's already been out in the public. So we didn't change our protocol. It was just a different circumstance. So what people think is cavalier or cowboy about it is the exact opposite. These are the most professional Americans going through specific

Starting point is 00:04:18 processes about what they can and cannot do, understanding all the authorities, all the laws of war, all the capabilities, and applying it to deter our adversaries. And by the way, there aren't many people getting in boats right now running drugs, which is the whole point. You know, there is one fatal flaw in what Pete Heggseth is trying to say. When they're talking about the September 2nd boat strike, as we learned yesterday, the boat wasn't even headed to the United States. It was headed to Suriname, a country in South Africa. On CNN last night, I pointed this out and we got into debate. So shouldn't that matter too?

Starting point is 00:04:53 Well, the admiral said that Suriname boats do come to the United States with drugs as well. They don't know. They said they could. So we don't know where that particular vessel was going. That undermines? No, no, no. But we know that the terrorist organization that had the boat, that had the drugs on it that was hit, is a designated terrorist group.

Starting point is 00:05:09 One of the administration's primary arguments was that these boats were an imminent threat to the United States. They are. They're killing 5,000 Americans a month. They're not headed to the United States. They're not coming to us. killing 5,000 Americans a month. Also, I want to pose this question. So the Coast Guard said earlier that 212 ships were intercepted with no deaths. That means we do have the ability to do this. 25% of those ships had no drugs. Are you okay with striking boats with no drugs?

Starting point is 00:05:30 Listen, the Coast Guard is patrolling off the coast of the United States. Are you okay with a 25% chance? Wait, wait, that's not a 25% chance off the coast of Venezuela. This is what happens. They strike boats with no due process when we already have the processes in place to intercept and interdict boats overseas. The Coast Guard, reported 212 interceptions of boats that they suspected of being drug boats, the same type of boats that we are suspecting now, and out of those 212 boats, 25% didn't have drugs, meaning they sometimes get it wrong, meaning due process is very, very important, and this guy refuses to admit it on CNN the same way that Pete Heggseth refuses to admit it.

Starting point is 00:06:10 Hegsteth then gets asked about the signal report that came out. It's important to preface this by showing you what the signal report actually said, quote, What the IG report said, the secretary's actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harmed U.S. pilots. Pete Higgseth has put our military in danger in multiple ways, not only putting our Navy in danger by lowering the rule of engagement, lowering the bar for how you can engage with other countries, but he's also put pilots at risk by repeatedly sending in a great,

Starting point is 00:06:48 group chat, directions, hours before a bombing happened on the Houthis. Time, we're running short, but I know the IG report cleared you with signal. If you had to do it again, would you have used it before combat operations? I don't live, I don't live with any regrets. Not a healthy way to live. You don't live with any regrets, dude. It says that you put U.S. missing objectives and U.S. pilots in danger actively. You can't just own up to it.

Starting point is 00:07:18 My compass is on these troops, which is why you've seen, and same with the president, the revival of the spirit inside our military. If you spend, I would encourage some reporters here to spend some time with actual formations of units, Marines, soldiers out there, combat arms, folks. Why is he so condescending? It's insane. You know, the Republican Party tries to act like it's changed so much from the Bush era. It's pro-worker. It's now anti-war. But really, Republicans get in a power and they do the same things. First of all, they cut taxes for the rich, they cut benefits for the poor, and then right after

Starting point is 00:07:54 that, they tried to go to war with either Venezuela or any country they can find with oil. And they do illegal strikes, likely war crimes. Now, of course, the Trump admin is different in many ways. It is more extreme. Bush did not commit his own January 6th. Trump committed the fake elector scheme and much, much worse. So it's not a direct comparison, but as much as Trump wants to act like he's different, he really does follow in a lot of the same footsteps in the key policy proposals,

Starting point is 00:08:20 like benefiting the rich and fucking over the poor, over and over and over and over again. Again, as Pete Higgset says, he doesn't live with any regrets, he put people in danger. He then says we are prioritizing our fight, cartels. And that's why we're prioritizing our fight against cartels throughout the Western Hemisphere. You can just look at the news. The news says that you killed shipwrecked survivors. who were waving something, apparently flags, and they weren't headed to the United States.

Starting point is 00:08:50 They weren't headed to the United States. Not all of the news. The days in which these narco-terrorists designated terror organizations operate freely in our hemisphere are over. These narco-terrorists are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted al-Qaeda. Notice how Pete Hexat said not all of the news.

Starting point is 00:09:14 Kind of joking around. Not all of the news. You mean the only news you led into the Pentagon, like Tim Poole and Benny Johnson and other propagandists? That's the news that you want us to face. That's the news he wants to follow. Pete Heggset then ends us off by attacking the Washington Post. Take a listen to this one. Did you at any time say that everybody on board should be killed?

Starting point is 00:09:38 Does anybody hear from the Washington Post? I don't know where you get your sources, but they suck. Of course not. Anybody that's been in the situation room or there's been in the war room there, the secretary's office, no, you don't walk in and say, kill them. It's just patently ridiculous. It's meant to create a cartoon of me and the decisions that we make and how we make them. I mean, to be fair, you are just a cartoonish version of yourself. Remember when he was on the White House front lawn and one of his sideburns was shaved and one was not? And it was just a really awkward scene where he obviously was likely hung over.

Starting point is 00:10:13 But at the end of the day, the reason why this issue is so tough, obviously, we can have moral clarity about it, about not killing people with due process. But to people who are apolitical, they see it as a fight between the United States and drug traffickers. And the arbitrary due process doesn't ring for most Americans. So we're fighting on this asymmetric battlefield. Just think about January 6. We're all disgusted by January 6th. If you're watching this video, you likely understand the gravity of the situation. and what happened with the fake elector scheme.

Starting point is 00:10:46 But obviously, that didn't ring with a lot of Americans. Like, it's quite arbitrary. And the inflation that followed during Biden's era, not because of him, but during his era, outweighed any arbitrary January 6thness. So you have to think about this. The asymmetric battlefield that we're finding on when we're debating this issue is that most Americans think, oh, drug traffickers coming to the U.S., many Americans know someone who may have overdosed or may have died from certain types of drugs.

Starting point is 00:11:12 It's very common. and they think, yeah, strike those motherfuckers. I've heard so many my friends from, like, high school, people I used to know posting, yeah, strike those people, strike those people, where the due process argument is morally and legally correct, but it's hard to make. So what you have to do is help people understand this is a broader battle to do regime change in Venezuela, go to war for oil,

Starting point is 00:11:36 and essentially not be too different than the Bush administration. So when we're playing on their battlefield and talking about drug boats, kind of seeding ground when we're playing on our battlefield and talking about endless wars that Trump is starting that he promised against, that's how you win the messaging on that. That's just what I've learned from debating it the past few days. Great CNN debate coming out tomorrow morning. Drop a like, subscribe. Make sure you have post notifications on or be coming out early 6.30 a.m. CT.

Starting point is 00:11:59 Love you all. Peace out.

The Adam Mockler Show - Pete Hegseth FRANTICALLY tries to HIDE THE FOOTAGE!

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