Hegseth's Pentagon political purge draws attention to his incompetence, Trump's dereliction
About this episode
Jen Psaki examines Pete Hegseth's leadership failures and the impact on the U.S. military under Donald Trump's administration.
Jen Psaki takes a closer look at how former weekend right-wing cable news host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's defense secretary, is gutting the top tiers of the U.S. military while doing a poor job handling Donald Trump's inexplicable war on Iran, and running down the U.S. military with wasteful, ill-considered decisions. Rahm Emanual, former Obama White House chief of staff, discusses the crisis of Pete Hegseth's leadership.
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