Kennedy Explodes Over Diego Garcia Deal

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Senator John Kennedy delivered a fiery line of questioning as he pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on China, Iran, and the future of the strategically critical Diego Garcia base just hours before President Trump's major China trip.

[00:00:14]paying and turning him upside down and shook him that the African country of Mauritius would fall out of his pocket?

[00:00:26]I don't know if we can. But but I'd I'd like to indulge you on that.

[00:00:29]>> me try let me let me let me try it another way.

[00:00:33]Um Mauritius is good friends with uh China, is it not?

[00:00:40]I understand there's some level of a relationship there. Yeah.

[00:00:43]Yeah, like they're they're BFFs or whatever the young people call um Prime Minister Starmer wants to give uh Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands to Mauritius which has virtually no connection with Chagos Islands.