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‘Full Bondi’: Joe slams ‘immature’ Hegseth for combative remarks at Iran hearing

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Joe slams ‘immature’ Hegseth for combative remarks at Iran hearing

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0:00.0

I look forward to sharing the incredible successes of our military, achieved in a matter of weeks.

0:08.7

President Trump, unlike other president, has had the courage to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear

0:14.5

weapon, and he's ironclad in that. We have the best negotiator in the world driving that deal.

0:27.1

The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless,

0:33.0

feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.

0:35.9

How sad.

0:41.8

How sad, first of all, that a child is allowed to hold that position, an immature child,

0:44.9

that doesn't even understand.

0:46.8

There's so many things he doesn't understand.

0:50.2

But the first thing he doesn't understand is that the people that are on that committee are members of the Armed Services Committee.

0:52.3

And as a former member of the Armed Services Committee,

0:54.6

I can tell you most of those people have military bases in their district. Most of those people

1:01.5

represent the men and women in uniform that fight for this country, that are deployed across the

1:08.1

world, that are deployed across the Middle East. And their first concern is the safety and the security of those soldiers and sailors,

1:17.6

airmen, Marines, Coast Guard members. That's their concern. And this guy acts like a punk,

1:25.2

a little punk, saying that those members of the Armed Services Committee,

1:31.9

who, mind you, who mind you, are actually fulfilling the oath before country and God that they

1:40.2

gave and following the orders,

1:46.1

not of one president,

1:47.6

but of our founding fathers in the Constitution

1:50.8

in Article I, to have oversight over an administration,

1:56.3

any administration, just like we did

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