Pete Hegseth defends track record as impeachment vote looms

What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment. Time for one man's final days in Congress to try to do damage to this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it. It's a farce, and it's a stunt. And everybody knows it. In the 250 years of our American Republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations. And in our case, Successful ones at that. He went on to make this really interesting point that this is mere policy difference, that we're not really talking about high crimes and misdemeanors. What we're talking about here is a policy difference that should be addressed by, you know, legislation or by debate or by elections. When you go through those eight articles of impeachment. Three for illegally waging war against Iran, contrary to the War Powers Act. One for civilian casualties, specifically to do with that school that was hit in the opening day of the Iran war. Those extrajudicial killings, he spoke specifically about them and how successful they've been. But there has always been this question about whether they needed congressional authority to carry that out. There is real debate. About whether this ran counter to the rules that set out how and where and when and in which conditions a secretary of war and a president are allowed to take what they love to call kinetic action, but basically when they're allowed to kill people.