The Warring Factions In The Department Of Defense
The Big Ben Show
Fox News Radio
4.5 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:44.6 | This was a difficult week for the current Defense Secretary of the United States, Pete |
| 0:49.3 | Heggseth, who saw the departure of numerous top aides, criticism from one of them openly in the pages of Politico, |
| 0:58.0 | and various long knives out in the anonymously sourced press about his future as Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:07.0 | For his part, he gave a significant pushback to this while appearing at the White House Easter egg role, of all places. |
| 1:14.6 | And he also seems to be supported by the president vociferously, who pushed back against reporting in the Wall Street Journal about an additional leakage of information potentially |
| 1:27.8 | on other signal chats that Hegsteth had potentially done |
| 1:32.0 | or been a part of. |
| 1:33.8 | I wanted to just unpack for a second |
| 1:35.4 | what I think is going on after talking to numerous people |
| 1:40.0 | who are within the orbit of these different factions of the current Trump administration. |
| 1:46.5 | And one thing that I think is being left out, really, is that this has mostly been a conversation |
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