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Mr. Secretary, Vice President J. Dee Vance says the Iran war was the main reason Republicans lost the midterms, do you agree?
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:
I have a lot of respect for the vice president and I'm certainly not going to trade any votes, and luckily, politics isn't really my thing. I do the war department and make sure we are ready and prepared. So a lot of people are going to look at the conflict and evaluate it, and the vice president has been a critical member of the team in every aspect of it, and we're grateful for all the contributions he's made to me personally and to our department.
And I think going forward, we're going to learn all these lessons and apply them. But I agree with what the president said when he said, hey, if I had to do it again, would we do it again? definitely. This is done for the right reasons to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
As Marco Rubio said, I think it's not necessarily popular. But maybe it was necessary, and it's certainly what I feel it was a necessary task.