Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Holds Media Engagement in Honolulu, Hawaii

View Online Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Holds Media Engagement in Honolulu, Hawaii March 26, 2025 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEGSETH: Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. It's always a beautiful day when we're on the road talking to the troops and actually, in real time, reestablishing deterrence. You see, that's what President Trump has charged the Defense Department with doing, reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, which we're doing in real time, and reestablishing deterrence. And that's why we're heading out into the Indo-Pacific, to talk to our allies and partners and meet with the troops. And anybody that knows me for years and knows President Trump knows how much we love the warriors. That's what it's about, the men and women who serve, who do the tough, difficult, gritty, dirty work that most Americans will never know about. We have the privilege of seeing and understanding the courage and skill of what they do. I'm going to go see that for the next couple of days. We also have seen it on full display in what's been done to the Houthi terrorists and what they're trying to do to close freedom of navigation. You see, under the Biden administration, we let our troops and our ships and — both warships and commercial ships get shot at to no consequence. What does that look like? That looks like weakness. And what President Trump has said is peace through strength is back. We will reestablish deterrence. That's not acceptable, and our ongoing campaign against the Houthis has been devastatingly effective. Now, as I said to this group a couple of times on this trip now, as we move to the Indo-Pacific to do our job, which is what we're here to do, nobody's texting war plans. Well, I noticed this morning out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they even changed the title to attack plans, because they know it's not war plans. There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information. You know who sees war plans? I see them every single day. I looked at them this morning. I looked at attack plans this morning. You know who does attack plans and war plans? Men like that admiral right there, Paparo, for the Indo-Pacific, or Eric Kurilla, our general in CENTCOM. They do attack plans and war plans. And thank God we have those leaders who do it and do it well, and our enemies know it. My job — as it said atop of that, everybody's seen it now, team update, is to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time, keep everybody informed. That's what I did. That's my job. The warfighters will take the fight to the enemy, and I love what they do. And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice we will have peace through strength and will keep putting our troops first. Q: Mr. Secretary, you shared strike plans— SECRETARY HEGSETH: Thank you very much. We're heading off. Q (SHOUTED): — before they launched? Mr. Secretary how do you square what you said with what your messages show? Mr. Secretary, did you share classified information? Mr. Secretary, did you declassify that information before you put in in the chat? Are you using Signal for sensitive operations? Why? Sir?

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