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00:00The European continent deserves to be free from any aggression, but it ought to be those
00:12in the neighborhood investing the most in that collective, individual and collective
00:17defense.
00:18That's common sense, as the president talks a lot about.
00:21Common sense is you defend your neighborhood and the Americans will come alongside you
00:25in helping in that defense.
00:27If and when that happens, and I believe it will, because of President Trump, most NATO
00:32countries are already close to 2%.
00:34We believe that needs to be higher.
00:36The president has said 5%.
00:37I think he's right.
00:38You mentioned earlier that President Trump wants NATO countries to spend 5% of their
00:39GDP on defense.
00:40Do you think the U.S. should also spend 5% of its GDP on defense?
00:53I think the U.S. needs to spend more than the Biden administration was willing to, who
00:57historically underinvested in the capabilities of our military.
01:00The president is committed, as he was in the first term, to rebuilding America's military
01:06by investing.
01:07You're going to see that in the conversations on Capitol Hill.
01:09We've already been intimately involved with the folks on Hask and Sask and the appropriations,
01:15talking about the capabilities we're going to need, not just next year and the year after
01:19that or for the next four years, but for power projection going forward, and then the reforms
01:23needed to make sure that every dollar goes further.
01:26At a minimum, we should not go below 3%.
01:30That's a view I know the president shares.
01:32But as far as going forward in that, those are decisions he will make based on my consultations
01:37with him.
01:38Would you be open to sending U.S. troops into Ukraine to track weapons shipments?
01:48We are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine.
01:56We welcome Doge to the Pentagon.
01:59And I hope to welcome Elon to the Pentagon very soon and his team, working in collaboration
02:04with us.
02:05There are waste redundancies and headcounts in headquarters that need to be addressed.
02:10There's just no doubt.
02:11Look at a lot of the climate programs that have been pursued at the Defense Department.
02:15The Defense Department is not in the business of climate change, solving the global thermostat.
02:21We're in the business of deterring and winning wars.
02:24So things like that we want to look for to find efficiencies, and many others, the way
02:27we acquire weapons systems, procurement.
02:30There's plenty of places where we want the keen eye of Doge, but we'll do it in coordination.
02:35We're not going to do things that are to the detriment of American operational or tactical
02:40capabilities.