Has Trump's Pentagon “trial run“ blown up?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It's not the first time America's Defense Secretary has leaked Pentagon battle plans. Last month he shared details of a strike attack against the Houthis with an Atlantic journalist by mistake. This time another Signal group has been discovered with sensitive contents - this time including his wife, brother and...his lawyer. So why hasn't he been fired? And is Pete Hegseth proving too chaotic even for Trump?
We speak to Trump's former Director of Communications, Michael Dubke, about what is really going on in the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | This is what the media does. |
| 0:14.4 | They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations. |
| 0:21.6 | Not going to work with me because we're changing the Defense Department, putting the |
| 0:26.6 | Pentagon back in the hands of war fighters, and anonymous smears from disgruntled former |
| 0:31.6 | employees on old news, doesn't matter. |
| 0:34.6 | That is an embattled Pete Hegeseth, the US Defence Secretary, once a Fox News anchor. |
| 0:41.3 | And some predicting it won't be long before he's sending his CV back to Fox News to see if he can get his old job back. |
| 0:50.0 | Because as Defence Secretary, his days look numbered. |
| 0:54.7 | Pete Hegeseth is blaming journalists, the Deep State, |
| 0:58.6 | the Russia investigation of eight years ago, |
| 1:00.8 | and colleagues who worked with him until they were fired just last week. |
| 1:04.8 | The person he's not blaming is Pete Hegeseth. |
| 1:07.7 | But is he becoming too much of a problem for Donald Trump? Welcome to the |
| 1:12.7 | Newsagents USA. |
| 1:19.9 | It's John. It's Emily. And the Pete Hegseth story is quite remarkable. Because, let's face it, |
| 1:25.9 | when his name was put forward as the nominee to be |
| 1:29.5 | defence secretary and all this stuff came out about him and drinking and his behaviour towards |
| 1:36.2 | women and the fact that he'd never run anything in his life but had been a weekend TV host on |
| 1:42.0 | Fox News. A lot of people say, is this guy really fit to run a trillion dollar budget? |
| 1:48.2 | No, they were saying, is this guy really fit to run a news agents? |
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