U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as pressure mounts on Hegseth as the result of his handling of the ongoing Iran war.
“I think Pete works really hard. He’s incredibly smart,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Paris.
“The Department of War and the Pentagon in particular, has been responsible for many of the important things this administration is working on, whether it’s our counter cartel coalitions that we have going on in the Western Hemisphere.
“Look at the damage that was inflicted on the Iranian military structures, they have no navy, they have no air force,” Rubio explained.
“They’re deeply degraded from a military standpoint.
“They still retain capabilities, obviously, but they are very degraded from where they were a year ago,” he said.
“So, you know, I think from the perspective that I sit in and the seat that I’m in as the national security adviser and secretary of state, for that matter, Pete has done a very good job.
“He really has. And, you know, but obviously politics or politics and people can have different views,” Rubio added.
