00:00Jane and Acting Comptroller McDonnell, as we review the past five months.
00:07Take the most direct guidance from the president.
00:10Everyone in the department has to support the president's decisions once those decisions are made, correct?
00:17Correct, Senator. As I've said, there's only one person that was elected president of the United States.
00:23The American people elected him to make these decisions on their behalf.
00:26And if and when those decisions are made, the department is prepared to execute.
00:31Secretary, Iran's military and leadership is in complete disarray right now because of the bold actions by Israel, which we did under the Biden administration.
00:41We know right now that Tehran understands exactly what the president is saying.
00:46He said 60 days. The world can believe it. The world cannot believe it.
00:50He said 60 days. They had an opportunity to make a deal.
00:54They should have made a deal. President Trump's word means something.
00:58The world understands that. And at the Defense Department, our job is to stand ready and prepared with options.
01:04And that's precisely what we're doing.
01:05So is this an opportunity now to reestablish deterrence the way it was done in the first administration?
01:11Senator, I think we already have in many ways in this environment reestablished deterrence.
01:15The question is in the coming days where exactly what exactly what direction that goes.
01:20Finally, Golden Dome.
01:23That it was very impressive to see the innovation and technology from our.
