Trump stated, 'I called a lot of our great people, and I said, Let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that, for 47 years, has been just a purveyor of terror, and they're close to a nuclear weapon.'
The attack on her was unfair. Hume's sentiments were echoed across the industry in a flurry of posts on X: Hegseth very inaccurately attacks the excellent and professional Jennifer Griffin.
Hegseth pushed back on claims that he shared military plans via private channels, asserting they were informal and unclassified, despite strong contrary opinions from military experts.