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Hegseth argues war isn't expanding

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed back on the notion that the war is expanding in the Middle East due to Iran's attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf or that there's "chaos."

"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said during Thursday's briefing. "If anything, what Iran is doing by targeting allied countries that would otherwise want to stay out of this, they've actually pulled them into the American orbit."

Hegseth argued it's "actually firming up the unity of the resistance."

"Now you've got UAE and Qatar and Bahrain and Saudi and Kuwait and others saying, 'Hey, we're with you here. We'll shoot with you. We'll fly with you,'" he said.