The Moment Pete Hegseth’s Story Fell Apart
The Philip DeFranco Show
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegset just faced public questioning from lawmakers for the first time since the war against Iran began. |
| 0:04.8 | And he cannot tell you how or when this war will end, but you should definitely take his word that it's just going great. Even as Trump just rejected Iran's latest offer, there's no sign that negotiations are moving forward, and the economic fallout only continues to grow. to grow. But starting with Heggsett, you had of appearing alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs' staff, |
| 0:19.7 | General Dan Cain and Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst before the House Armed Services Committee |
| 0:23.6 | to discuss the administration's 2027 military budget proposal. |
| 0:26.5 | A proposal that would boost defense spending to a record $1.5 trillion. And it's in connection to that you had members of Congress grilling Heggzeth on topics including the massive cost of the war against Iran, the military's dwindling stockpiles, a key munitions, and it's alleged bombing of a girl school in Iran that resulted in the deaths of more than 100 children. And so we'll start with the first one. How much has this war costs the American taxpayer so far? Well, yet Hurst, finally giving an answer, which was the first time that the Pentagon has publicly provided a cost estimate for the war. So approximately at this day, we're spending about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury. |
| 0:55.4 | You also had Kane revealing that 14 U.S. service members have died during the war, which is |
| 0:59.1 | very notable because the Pentagon's own official tally shows only 13 deaths as a recording. |
| 1:03.2 | But really, a lot of the attention was on Hegsa, who came out swinging in his opening statements. |
| 1:07.4 | The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, |
| 1:13.6 | feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans. |
| 1:19.6 | You also had hacks up taking aim at defense companies for not making various munitions |
| 1:22.6 | fast enough that we ignored the fact that under his leadership, the military's used record |
| 1:26.2 | numbers of these munitions over the past eight weeks. And then also it wasn't long before he had him taking on |
| 1:30.7 | Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the highest ranking Democrat on the committee, over the administration's logic for starting this war. |
| 1:36.3 | Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Underground, they're buried and we're watching them 24-7. |
| 1:42.4 | So we know where any nuclear material might be, we're watching at it. |
| 1:46.0 | We're watching a second here. |
| 1:47.0 | We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, |
| 1:52.0 | because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. |
| 1:56.0 | Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated? |
| 1:58.0 | They had not given up their nuclear ambitions, and they had a conventional shield of thousands |
| 2:03.7 | of- So Operation Midnight Hammer or a common moment, nothing of substance. |
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