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Giles Snyder· Host0:24

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday asking Congress for tens of billions of dollars to fund the Iran war. It was the first public hearing on the war since the ceasefire collapsed. Here's NPR's Quil Lawrence.

Quil Lawrence0:44

Straight from their opening statements, I have to say that neither General Kane nor Secretary Hegseth mentioned Iran at all in their opening. And Secretary Hegseth, I didn't hear him mention the, the casualties over the weekend. The senators who opened the hearing and, and General Kane did offer their condolences. When the questions started, they were pretty bluntly dodged by the secretary and even the chairman. Democrat Patty Murray asked Hegseth about President Trump's proposed toll on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, asking who talked the president out of it, and Hegseth's answer was that the US is blocking Iran's ports. Uh, Murray quoted Hegseth himself saying a few months ago that Iran's missiles were destroyed, um, and Hegseth's answer to that was that, uh, Iran is at its weakest point in forty-seven years. So they were fairly well talking past each other.