News Summary

• U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth convened a meeting of top generals at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia.
• During the meeting, he gave a speech to the assembled officials in which he purportedly criticized "fat" troops and generals.
• We obtained footage of him making the statement as well as transcript of his speech from the Department of Defense's website.
• We reproduce his full comments below (emphasis ours): "Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops"