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Hegseth says Iran war has cost $37.5B so far and Pentagon needs $67B to restock arms · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the news Hour. Today, the president's top military
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  Speaker 1: advisors were.
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  Speaker 2: On Capital Hill to make the case for the war
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  Speaker 2: in Iran and additional money to fund the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General
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  Speaker 3: Dan Kain argued for an additional sixty seven billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: what Hegseth called an urgent and necessary injection of Fundsnik
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  Speaker 3: Shipfre's been tracking this all and he joins us now,
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  Speaker 3: So Nick, what did Hegseth and Kain say about why
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  Speaker 3: those funds are needed? And powded Centers respond.
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  Speaker 1: Heg Seth and Kane requested the additional money to restock
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  Speaker 1: weapons that have been used against Iran and to avoid
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  Speaker 1: budget shortfalls, and there are apparently military shortfalls right now.
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  Speaker 1: Subcommittee Chairwoman Susan Collins of Maine said that there were
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  Speaker 1: quote near term solvency challenges in some of the military services.
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  Speaker 1: So the Pentagon says this money is especially needed, especially
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  Speaker 1: after the war Iran, which Hegseth said cost thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: point five billion dollars up until today. That's up from
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine billion last estimate, but frankly, thirty seven point
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  Speaker 1: five is probably an under account itself. Democrats question their request.
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  Speaker 1: They said that many of the weapons requested today had
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  Speaker 1: already been requested by the Pentagon, and that the money
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  Speaker 1: was earmarked frankly for administration priorities that had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with Iran as Americans prices were rising. So take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to New York Democrat Kristen Jilibrand.
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  Speaker 4: You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people
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  Speaker 4: can't feed their families. And I don't know how this
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  Speaker 4: administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Not unlimited bombs, Senator, I'm asking for the right bombs
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  Speaker 2: at the right time to ensure we can deter our
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  Speaker 2: adversaries into the future. And that's why this is a
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  Speaker 2: generational investment. And if the previous administration hid this department set.
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  Speaker 4: Why they are so upset with you and this administration
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  Speaker 4: is because the words you have used in the past
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  Speaker 4: don't add up.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans argued Amna that the war in Iran is necessary,
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  Speaker 1: and that if the US were to pull back right now,
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  Speaker 1: Iran would charge tolls in the straight upfore moves and
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  Speaker 1: likely reconstitute its nuclear programs. So take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: South Dakota Republican Microwns.
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  Speaker 5: I think the decision to take out Iran's nuclear program
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  Speaker 5: and their missile production capacity was the right one and
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  Speaker 5: it should have been done a long time ago. But
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  Speaker 5: when the President did that, we also assumed that there
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  Speaker 5: would be risk involved.
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  Speaker 1: And on that point, today the Pentagon identified that Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Michael Swinton, thirty years old from Fayetteville, North Carolina, was
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  Speaker 1: killed over the weekend in Iraq, in addition to two
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  Speaker 1: other Americans killed in Jordan, first Lieutenant twenty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Tyler Fihan and Private nineteen year old Isabella Gondales Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Because we've been reporting those service members were killed as
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  Speaker 3: that war with the Run as essentially restarted. Now where
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  Speaker 3: is it now? Is it just continuing to escalate?
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely expanding the war. The UN has finished its
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  Speaker 1: tenth straight night of strikes, not only on military targets
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  Speaker 1: but also on infrastructure targets, including bridges across southwest Iran
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  Speaker 1: and Iran intact. In the last twenty four hours, three
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  Speaker 1: tankers transiting the Straight of Horror moves, but also civilian
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  Speaker 1: targets inside of the Gulf. Allies along the Persian Gulf,
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  Speaker 1: including Kuwait. A desalinization plant was struck. You see it
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  Speaker 1: there multiple times in a row. Kuwait needs that plant
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  Speaker 1: in order to have water for its population. Now that said,
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  Speaker 1: both sides are saying diplomacy is still open. We saw
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  Speaker 1: Iranian officials in Pakistan one of the mediators, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but today President Trump took a dim view toward diplomacy.
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  Speaker 6: I will tell you they want to desperately meet, and
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  Speaker 6: until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way, we
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  Speaker 6: have no interest in even.
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  Speaker 1: No interest in stopping, no interest in diplomacy what he
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  Speaker 1: finished there. Another threat is the Iranian Bak Huthis in Yemen,
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  Speaker 1: and this is another example of the war expanding. They
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  Speaker 1: are now threatening to close the Babel Mandeb. You see that,
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  Speaker 1: twelve hundred miles to the southwest of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: The Baba Mondes is the gateway to the Red Sea. Today,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump referenced a previous US military campaign against the
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  Speaker 1: Huthis and said it could be repeated.
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  Speaker 6: That was about forty five days of very powerful action
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  Speaker 6: we took against the Utes. And we've had no problem
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  Speaker 6: with the Jutes. They've had no problem with us. For
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  Speaker 6: a long period of time, including during this conflict. I
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  Speaker 6: think that if there is something like that, we'll just
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  Speaker 6: have to take care of business now.
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  Speaker 1: Today, the Huthis did claim that they warned six ships
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  Speaker 1: heading toward the Babel Mandeb and that those ships rerouted themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It's not clear that's true, but even the threat omna
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  Speaker 1: of the Huthis closing the Babel Mandeb will force ships
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  Speaker 1: not to try and go there. And if the Strait
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  Speaker 1: of Horrmus and the Baba Mandeb are both closed, it
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  Speaker 1: is clear that prices around the world will increase if
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  Speaker 1: that happens, especially gas prices here.
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  Speaker 3: All right, next sure from the beginning our coverage tonight, Nick,
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  Speaker 3: thank you