'It's the incompetence!': Hegseth roasted by Democrats in congressional hearing
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So today, you probably saw, maybe you saw all of it, maybe you saw some of it, I watched all of it. |
| 0:06.6 | Today, the Secretary of Defense testified to Congress for the first time since his boss started a war with no stated purpose, no strategy, and no clear endgame 58 days ago. |
| 0:17.6 | And during that testimony in front of the House Armed Services Committee, Pete |
| 0:21.9 | Heggseth reminded all of us that during this time of war, we have the most unqualified, |
| 0:28.0 | the most unprepared, and the most clownish person ever to serve in that role. Do you think |
| 0:36.6 | we're winning? |
| 0:41.1 | Militarily on the battlefield, it's been an astounding military success. |
| 0:46.5 | But are we winning the war? Absolutely. Okay, so do you call Iran closing the straight of Hormuz winning? Well, I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn't allow anything to come |
| 0:51.7 | in or out of Iranian ports, Okay, so always, so we've |
| 0:54.6 | blockaded their blockade. So they blockaded us and then we blockaded their blockade. That's like |
| 1:00.1 | saying tag, you're it. I mean, what? I mean, good on Congressman Moulton for keeping a straight |
| 1:07.0 | face during that exchange, of course. But it didn't stop there. There's much more. |
| 1:12.1 | And before I play this next one, remember for months now, months, Hegset and the entire Trump |
| 1:17.6 | administration have justified the need for the war with Iran by saying that Iran was dangerously |
| 1:22.5 | close to developing a nuclear weapon. That's been their mantra. Now, today, Hegset couldn't seem to keep that story |
| 1:28.8 | straight. Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Underground, they're buried and we're watching |
| 1:36.0 | them 24-7. So we know where any nuclear material be-climbing my time for a quick second here. |
| 1:42.5 | We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, |
| 1:47.2 | because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated. |
| 1:53.8 | They had not given up their nuclear ambitions. I mean, the look on Adam Smith faces at all. Okay, so with that logic, bombing is not about |
| 2:04.0 | destroying the facilities. It's about making them give up their ambitions through bombing. |
| 2:09.9 | How does that work exactly? And then there was what he had to say about the cost of the war. |
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