Pete Hegseth confronts media inconsistency regarding a recent military operation, citing CNN's contradictory reporting on presidential authority versus confirmed damage. He highlights the journalist's past ties to Hunter Biden laptop disinformation claims while asserting that intelligence from the President, State, and Defense Secretaries confirms the mission's success. Hegseth argues the press prioritizes undermining Trump over celebrating complex achievements like 36-hour flights, drone strikes from F-15s and F-35s, Patriot battery operations, and midair refueling. Ultimately, he condemns this biased coverage as irresponsible journalism driven by political agendas rather than factual accuracy about service members' sophisticated efforts. [Automatically generated summary]
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Flawed Logic in Media Reports00:02:45
Other questions circulating about just exactly what has happened here vis a vis Iran and the damage that was done.
So, there's some different reports.
And what I would just remind you of is everybody has a bias in this, okay?
There are some people that want to say it's contained forever.
And we know that, you know, look, you can always rebuild, et cetera.
So, it's not necessarily realistic to say that, but it's certainly not realistic to say, we got nothing, which is what the media has been saying.
I mean, unbelievable.
I do recall as recently as Sunday morning, they were flipping out saying the president did not have the authority to do this, number one.
And then, number two, they said, well, there's nothing there, right?
I mean, there's nothing there.
Remember what Tulsi said a few months ago?
There's nothing there.
So why on earth would we be doing this?
That was their MO.
And then, as soon as this leaked report came out of the likes of CNN, which incidentally, one of the writers on this thing also wrote the bit about Hunter Biden's laptop not being.
Anything but Russian misinformation, disinformation?
Yeah.
One of those reporters who's clearly hooked up with his deep state sources decided to write this little number saying that really, you know, that not a lot of good was done here and they did not destroy the nuclear sites.
I have seen myself intelligence suggesting otherwise, as has the president, as has the secretary of state, as has the secretary of defense.
So why is it that the media gets so stuck on this?
I mean, keep in mind like the flawed logic, all right, guys?
Because Hours before this report, they were saying, Well, there was nothing there, right?
There was nothing there.
Why on earth would we be bombing?
Because there was really nothing there.
We didn't need to do this.
But let's question his authority to do this because he doesn't have any intel suggesting there was anything there.
And then they get this one and they said, Oh, there was a whole lot there and they didn't get it.
It's like, guys, make up your mind.
I'll tell you this the market's made up its mind.
Look at how it's been soaring the last four days.
We'll get to that in a second.
But I'm only pointing out the inconsistencies that are really pretty darn spectacular that you're seeing in the media.
Pete Hegseth noticed these too, along with the president, along with Marco Rubio.
Everyone's noticing this, okay?
And he just let them have it.
He totally let them have it.
He actually let his former colleague at Fox have it too.
We'll get to that.
But first up, Pete Hegseth totally shredding the media over their inconsistent reporting.
But not only their inconsistent reporting, their refusal to actually do any kind of, you know, maybe nice reporting like, hey, think about these.
These men and women that achieved this, like, why not actually celebrate them a little?
Shredding Inconsistent War Coverage00:00:57
I mean, think about World War II days, back when we actually had war heroes, et cetera.
There's none of that.
It's all just immediately how do we take down Trump because we have TDS on steroids?
Here is Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense.
How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours?
Has MSNBC done that story?
Has Fox?
Have we done the story how hard that is?
Have we done it two or three times so that American people understand?
How about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from an F 15 or 16 or F 22 or F 35?
Or what it's like to man a Patriot battery?
Or how hard it is to refuel midair?
Giving the American people an understanding of how complex and sophisticated this mission really was.
There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that, because of the hatred of this press corps, are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful.