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The mainstream media knows how it's covering the Pete Hegseth story. He's having a crazy time.

He's in over his head. The things are falling apart around him. His advisors are getting fired left

and right. Things are crazy at the Department of Defense. Conservative media, not quite so sure

how to wrap itself

around this story in such a way that it keeps cannons pointed in the correct direction, which is

at the enemies, whichever enemy, whichever particular conservative podcast or host or whatever,

has an ax to grind toward. We're going to talk about all of that. We're going to figure out

how conservative media is rallying around Pete Heggseth and agitating against his various enemies. Here to talk about it, Will, Summer, our great conservative media reporter, Will, what's going on? Pete Hegset, we all know he's having a bit of a hard time. We've talked about that a lot on his channel. How is this all kind of getting digested down at the level of right-wing media?

Yeah. I mean, so this is sort of a fascinating subplot for me that you mentioned the fired

aides. And so basically three kind of high-ranking officials last week in the defense department,

at least two of them were going to frog marched out by security. These are a long time Pete Hegsett,

associates, pals. and they were supposedly

ousted for leaking as part of this leak investigation. And so this has become this kind of like

big discussion point in conservative media. What did these guys do? Are they innocent? Are they

martyrs? Are they like sinister agents of the deep state, whatever. And so I

looked into this and there's sort of this interesting narrative that's broken out where Tucker

Carlson and Megan Kelly, who more or less politically, I think, are on the same page most of the

time, are now really at odds. Then three days ago, he was fired from the Pentagon.

But not for his views on Iran, no.

Dan Caldwell was fired because, reporters are told off the record, he had leaked classified documents to the media.

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