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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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0:00.0 | So there has been a scandal at the Pentagon every single day since January 25th. |
0:06.0 | I mean, every single day. |
0:08.0 | Because every day since January 25th, Pete Heggseth has been the Secretary of Defense. |
0:13.0 | And some days, that scandal is more jarring than others. |
0:17.0 | Like today, when the country and the entire world, really, |
0:21.6 | turned to the Pentagon, tuned in this morning |
0:23.6 | for an update on the outcome of the U.S. strikes on Iran. |
0:27.6 | And instead, they got this meltdown. |
0:31.6 | In hunting for scandals all the time, |
0:34.6 | in trying to find wedges and spin stories, this press corps and the press |
0:40.5 | core miss historic moments. Because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in |
0:49.3 | your blood to cheer against Trump. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then |
0:57.5 | spin it. Classified information is leaked or peddled for political purposes to try to make |
1:03.0 | the president look bad. But just a little portion, just a little portion that makes it seem like |
1:07.3 | maybe the strike wasn't effective. If you want to know what's going on at Ford O, |
1:17.5 | you better go there and get a big shovel. That was Trump Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth, who I would note was until recently a Fox News anchor. I don't know what was in his coffee this morning, |
1:22.2 | because that took place at 8 a.m. Now, if he had behaved like that on Fox News, even many of their viewers, many of their loyal viewers, might have been alarmed. |
1:31.3 | But he's not a Fox News weekend anchor anymore. |
1:33.3 | He is the Secretary of Defense, and he was speaking from the Pentagon. |
1:37.3 | He was answering questions about a series of recent reports based on intelligence from inside Hexas' own agency that say Trump's |
1:45.5 | strikes on Iran did not obliterate Iran's nuclear sites like Trump has claimed. |
1:50.5 | Intelligence analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency, again, the Pentagon's own intelligence |
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