Cain, who made no effort to challenge Hegseth, had teed up the moment by calling the Signal messaging app controversies ― which saw Hegseth share sensitive military information in a group chat to which a journalist had been accidentally added, and also reportedly share intel with another group including his wife and brother ― as “nothing scandals.”

MSNBC editor Steve Benen couldn't believe the words that came out of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's mouth Tuesday regarding his handling of classified information. Hegseth spent part of the morning on Fox News defending his use of the unsecured Signal chat app to disseminate the timing and coordinates of a Houthi airstrike in Yemen.

Pete Hegseth and his former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host accidentally matched during a softball segment in which the defense secretary gave a tour of the Pentagon Monday. He also repeatedly insisted to his former Fox News colleague Will Cain that he takes operational security “seriously.

The defense secretary’s decision to select his chief spokesman to lead the inquiry into the chaotic end of the war was highly unusual.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are set to make an announcement from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. Defense Department officials told The Hill and NewsNation that the

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new probe into the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, vowing accountability for what he called the Biden administration’s “disastrous and embarrassing” handling of the events that led to the deaths of 13 US troops.

NASCAR fans were less than happy to see that Pete Hegseth had been announced as the grand marshal for the Coca-Cola 600.

The Air Force is drawing up plans to convert a Qatari luxury jet into an Air Force One at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—despite bipartisan concern that accepting a foreign government’s plane is both dangerous and unethical.