Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent at the New York Times joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the fallout from the firing of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown along with other generals and JAG’s at the Pentagon,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got short with a reporter on Monday after he was asked about replacing former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown with an “underqualified” replacement. Hegseth fired back and called the reporter’s question “unqualified” before fielding a question from another journalist.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream about the recent firing of top lawyers for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force—a move that has sparked backlash and raised concerns over the potential politicization of the country's armed forces.
Several viral social media posts claim that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drinking alcohol during a NATO press conference.
Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family was targeted by the outgoing Biden administration with an audit from the IRS. “Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham,” Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and his wife.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he will immediately begin shifting billions of dollars away from nonlethal programs in connection with a broader reorganization of military priorities.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joins ‘Fox News Sunday’ to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war and changes at the Pentagon.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a picture to X of what appears to be a tax notice showing he owes more than $33,000 in taxes.
Hegseth, 44, demanded a proposal that would include annual 8% cuts to the Pentagon’s roughly $850 billion budget, according to a memo.
Hegseth has a history of supporting controversial policies, including using the US military to put down domestic riots, speaking in favor of enhanced interrogation methods such as waterboarding, pardoning US soldiers convicted of war crimes, targeting cultural institutions in drone strikes and banning women from combat roles.
New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is proposing radical changes in the Pentagon. Here's what you can expect from him.