Overnight Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth removed the security detail protecting former

chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Millie. Millie had that security not only as a former chairman,

but because he faces ongoing threats for his involvement in a 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed

a top Iranian general. Heg Sethh also pulled Millie's security clearance

and opened an investigation that could end with demoting Millie in retirement. Here's Nick Schifrin.

In the Pentagon today, where the portrait hung of the 39th Army Chief of Staff, there is a blank

wall. Where the portrait hung of the 20th chairman and the Joint Chiefs, there is a blank wall.

But now the Trump administration is doing more than painting over Mark Millie's legacy.

It's threatening to punish him for comments like this.

We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.

Today, Secretary of Defense Pete Higset directed the Defense Department's inspector general

to consider an investigation into Millie's, quote, conduct, despite a previous report that

exonerated him.

If you actively undermined the chain of command, as General Millie did under the previous

Trump administration, we are going to review those actions administratively inside the

Defense Department.

The Pentagon also stripped Millie of his security detail, even though the threat against him

from Iran for his role in the death of Kud's Force commander Kassam Soleimani is still active.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton confirmed this weekend.

I've reviewed the intelligence in the last few days.

The threat to anyone involved in President Trump's strike on Qasem Soleimani is persistent.

It's real.

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