March 4, 2026 • 17 mins
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an update on the latest in the war with Iran. Hegseth had several prepared one liners describing how effective he says the U.S. military has been on destroying the Iranian military. The defense secretary also made it clear that America has unlimited resources to continue this offensive, and will do so for as long as it takes.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, there, folks, it is Wednesday, March fourth, and we
can do this all day long, so says Secretary of
Defense Secretary of War Pete Heseth. With that, welcome to
this episode of Amy and TJ. Rose. People kind of
chuckled and giggled and said, that's ridiculous. Change it to
Secretary of War. Well, I guess it's apt right now,
and it's a pretty tough talk from the Secretary who
(00:33):
is just a short time ago given another update on
the war with Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's right. Among the many headlines that he created, he
had a lot of one liners in describing the United
States strength and the Iranians weaknesses, But one of them
that stood out to me was they are toast and
they know it. In the whole umbrella of we can
do this all day. Yes, he made a lot of analogies,
(00:57):
but he said in under a week, we have complete
and total control, or we will soon have complete and
total control over Iranian skies. And he talked about destroying
the navy, destroying the military. This was a lot of bravado.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Al rato, a lot of blustery. And you remember when
George W. Bush got so much hell right when he
said bring it on. You remember that, Yes, you bring
it on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ad mission complete. I remember those two thens, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But the one the mission accomplished. They know that was
a mistake with the big banner that early on, but
he got hell for saying bring it on, essentially challenging
a fight from al Qaeda, I think it was at
the time, but it was not received well because you're like,
come on, let's fight. But there are American lives at risk,
don't You're not a bad ass, don't You shouldn't talk
(01:49):
like that. There are lives at risks. We don't want
to go to war. Heck, Seth has taken that language
and run with it, and it's almost expected roles. But
a lot of this was a bunch of tough talk.
We'll get into. But there were I guess a couple
of headlines we need to take out of this, including
history being made by the military, something that hasn't been
done since World War Two. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I didn't realize that we had not torpedoed a naval
battleship since World War Two, but apparently that's the case,
and apparently we have now done so, and did so
last night, taking at least eighty seven people on board
with it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh yeah, so that was one of the headlights. Highlights.
He and General Kane, raising Kane as President Trump likes
to call him the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. They
got up once again. Was it just yesterday they gave
the other briefing, so maybe it will be we might
get regular briefings. But he did another one just a
short time go. They don't go that long. They come
out and they make a couple of statements. Only took
(02:48):
questions for about fifteen minutes. But yeah, some of the
headlines are just how well this is going, how much
control the US has over the skies. He made a
reference robe to Iranian leaders literally look up and all
you we'll see is Israeli and the US warplanes in
your skies and there's nothing they can do about it.
He did mention as well that the new leadership is
(03:08):
possibly coming in. He said, yeah, there is no new
leadership because they can't meet and they're hiding and they
have no communication. So good luck with that. He said.
They're taking out their missile capability. He used just using
his hands, he demonstrated, our capability is going up, while
theirs is going down. He said they're having less and
less ability, the Iranians to fire missiles and protect themselves.
(03:30):
So I would say ropes. He gave us much of
what maybe we should expect with superior air force of
the Israelis and the United States. But certainly what jumped
out robes. There was a bunch bunch of tough talk.
Even in giving highlights or updates I should say about
what's going on with the war. He did it with
a You called it bravado. There was some tough dude talk.
(03:56):
It was broie.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I mean, it's weird to say that in the concept
or in the context of war, but that's a lot
of what we heard. And it is interesting. You bring
up the criticism George W. Bush received is it is
so fascinating, and perhaps it is under the leadership of
President Trump. But the rhetoric and the word choice coming
(04:19):
from even Christy Noome talking about ice agents in Minnesota
to now talking about US and Israeli military prowess in Iran.
But there is no there's no couching of terms or
softening of tone. This is all very boo yah. And
(04:40):
it's maybe something that maybe military members speak the way
they speak among each other to try and rev each
other up as they're going to war. And maybe that's
what Pete Hegseth is bringing to the Department of Defense
and actually truly making it the Department of War. He's
speaking like a soldier talking to his fellow soldiers, almost
kind of buoying them up. But he's speaking to the
(05:03):
American people and frankly to the world. And we're not
completely used to hearing this type of war speak.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And look, maybe some of the rank and file love it,
maybe some of the President Trump's supporters love it. Maybe
it's just not necessarily what we're used to. And fine,
we're gonna have to get used to it with this
particular group. Some of the tough talk he was talking about. So, yes,
you can give us You could say, yes, we have
air superiority and we have control over their skies, but
(05:31):
he says, is this what death and destruction from the
sky all day long? I mean that's I mean, fine, fine,
you could talk like that, but it's not the way
we're used to hearing. No, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Certain things that I would think we've told our children
not to speak like we're hearing now talking about us
being or this was never meant to be a fair fight,
and it's not a fair fight. We are punching them
while they're down, and that's exactly as it should be.
I understand where but there's just something about that that
feels slightly shocking to hear. And I know they even
(06:05):
talked about people clutching their pearls, but I actually felt
myself kind of clutching my pearls, Like is that okay
to talk like that about other human beings? I know
there are enemy at this point, given that we're at
war with them, but I just still feel it still
feels a little It just takes my breathway to hear
(06:26):
us talk about other humans that way. But again, maybe
I am clutching my pearls and when I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
At a time of war, it just seems to belye
the seriousness of the matter, this kind of talk. He
even use a football reference that we're gonna let you
hear here in a second that both of us kind
of looked over to each other and say, where is
this going? Because he set it up in such a
way that I liken it to football, And then he
went off into this thing it got our attention when
he said it. The other thing, Robes, we talked about
the sinking of the ship. This is another thing. It
(06:53):
sounded like we're getting revenge for something personal that was
done to President Trump, at least the way he said that. Absolutely,
there's no other way to put that right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's one hundred percent. I think he intended it to
be absolutely. When he talked about he said, we sunk
their prize ship, the Solomony, and then he added, looks
like potis got him twice. He went on to explain
that yes, they got this their prized warship to Solomony,
(07:22):
and they were able to sink it by a torpedo
and again the first time that we have sunk an
enemy ship since World War Two. And he was celebrating
the fact that, yes, we took out the leader of
the group that attempted an assassination on President Trump. And
so I believe he said something that President Trump got.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The last laugh. Yeah, I mean what the laugh? Yes,
hunt it down and killed quote Iran tried to kill
President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh. Okay,
that's badass. I mean that's tough talk from the Pentagon. Fine,
this is the Department of War, and this is the
new tone they have set. You remember him bringing all
(08:01):
the generals in, and remember how that whole speech went.
This is in line. We shouldn't be necessarily surprised by this.
But the Solomani he was talking about, this was the
ship that was actually named after the former head of
the Revolutionary Guard there in Iran, who was assassinated, who
was taken out, was at last it was within the
past year. Do I have that right? I would have
(08:24):
to check, well, anyway, but Solomony was taken out by
action by this president. This ship was named after that guy, Solomoni.
They sunk that ship. So that is the point of
what Hegseth was trying to say. And that looks like
Potis got him twice. Killed the man now killed the
ship essentially that was named after him. That's top thought.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I believe, yes, and I believe Solomoni was assassinated actually
in Trump's first term, so it was January third, twenty
twenty and so yes, Trump obviously was in power back
then and he was a part of leading that. I
guess that mission that ultimated that ultimately ended in Solimani's assassination.
(09:08):
So yes, Potis got him twice. But it just feels
like a flippant remark. Given the situation we're in.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There was a lot of flippant remarks, you could argue.
But he made a football analogy, and this is the
one that certainly got our attention. But explaining where the
Iranians are in this whole mess. Right now here, he
is talking football and the war with Iran.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who
scripted the first twenty plays of a game. The team
knew what plays to run because their first few drives
were scripted. But now that the game has started and
the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call,
let alone how to get in the huddle and call
(09:55):
those plays. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so called
governing council that might have selected a successor dead missing
or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the
same room.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's it's tough, taugh. I mean, it's it's an I guess,
apt analogy. I understood what he was trying to say. Hey,
look you it's plain speak. It's like a football team
you had your play scripted in the game started. Now
you don't know what to do. We're just not used
to it, he used. He was common speak. Actually that
was one of the lesser creatious. That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I think it just was shocking to your point that
it seemed so it just seemed comparing a war. And
he you know, he did acknowledge the six fallen soldiers
or a six fallen American military personnel who were killed
by the Iranian fire in Kuwait with there on a
Kuwaiti base. But still given the fact that Americans are dying,
(10:55):
more Americans will die according to our own government, and
certainly the numbers are growing of Iranians who have died
in this war already, and we're already on day four.
And just to kind of make this football analogy, like
we're all just playing a strategy game, a game where
we've got crowds cheering, and wins and losses aren't life
(11:15):
or death. So that's why I think it just felt
a little, well a lot uncomfortable to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I don't know how most Americans are, the majority
of Americans what they feel about it, but it is
different from what we're used to in past administrations. I
guess This is part of the course with this one.
Also par for the course is the questions that will
be asked of this secretary, that will be asked of
the Admiral standing up there. Those questions are coming to
(11:44):
them from a press corps that looks a whole lot
different from the Pentagon press corps of old. We continue
here on Amy and TJ. Robe. Something we have noticed
and we will continue to notice as we wrap up
(12:04):
here is that, look, the questions coming from the press
corps at the Pentagon are different. It's different because the
press corps is different. I cannot remember Robes. Do you
remember a main a big time mainstream outlet. I mean
even Fox News got out of there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think the only news outlet that we heard today
and we actually re listened to it to make sure,
was the BBC was the only news outlet asking a
question of the Secretary that I even was familiar with,
and they actually were the ones or that reporter was
the only person who asked a question actually that challenged hegseth,
(12:45):
or at least asked a question about a topic he
most likely didn't want to answer and certainly avoided answering.
And that was about whether or not this girls' school
if the United States has been able to get any
sort of intelligence on whether or not this girl's gooo
where it's reported as many as one hundred and fifty
have been killed by a strike because that school was
(13:06):
near a military base, and he avoided it, said we
were investigating. The BBC reporter notably had a follow up,
which we haven't heard a lot of in these press briefings,
and we can explain why in just a moment. But
he also just completely avoided and dismissed the question.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Dismissed. I mean he was dismissive all of the guy
who asks a follow up. I think it was a
very legitimate question. It's been this many days, or do
you have essentially, do you not have any capability? I mean,
what does that say that after four or five days,
you still don't even know who hit this school, If
the school was hit, who might be dead? That was
the follow up, and he was it was a condescending direct.
(13:45):
We're looking into it, is all he said to him
and moved on. Yes, some of the questions coming from
outlets that we are not that familiar with, but yes,
full on right wing outlets are asking questions that sometimes
go along with the same line of the narrative of
the administration. And that's exactly what Pete Hegseth wanted, and
(14:06):
that's what they said they wanted. Robes told the press corps,
you only report on what we tell you to report on,
or you are going to have your credentials taken away.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Correct And so I think it's just important to reiterate
for anyone who is listening, to, reading about, or even
watching these press briefings that we're seeing at the Pentagon,
they are so vastly different than any other press briefing
you would have seen during a time of war or
whenever the Pentagon needed to actually have a press briefing.
(14:37):
Usually these are very serious and dangerous times. And notably
you had reporters from all sides there and some of
the more aggressive questioning, which is a lot of times
the jobs of a journalist to question authority, to ask
those important follow ups, to make sure that you're getting
the correct information, not teeing them up for more information
(15:01):
that they want to give, rather than asking them questions
about maybe information we need to know more about. And
so that is the distinction. So yes, to hear members
of the Press from the Daily Wire, Lindell TV, The
Washington Times familiar with, but again a conservative paper and
a conservative outlet.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But it is just it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's shocking to not have CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, those
folks asking tough questions.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I mean, the mainstream fake news, yes, but I have
them in there. They're the mainstream fake news.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It makes our country a democracy, don't we want they're
tough questions, even if they're hard questions, and maybe even
if you think they're unfair questions, why shouldn't our administration
be forced to answer them in front of the American
people and the world, especially at a time like this,
when decisions are being made that are life and death decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It's interesting and it's something to keep in mind. At
every pressing at the Pentagon that you watch, every single
one of those people asking a question signed an agreement
with the Pentagon to only report on exactly what the
Pentagon tells them they can report on.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It would be so true, yes, and that is an important,
important fact to remember, And it would be so interesting
just to even see how Pete Hegseth reacted to the
BBC's follow up, just to imagine what how different of
a press conference. It would be if you actually had
members of the media who represent not just conservative leaning outlets,
how different that press briefing would be and those that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Follow those updates. Folks, Yes, we had a briefing, but
this story, as you know, is changing by the minute.
We are keeping a close eye on all things related
to Roan. We will keep you updated as those as
that breaking news dictates. So we appreciate you spending some
time with us on TJ. Holmes on behalf of my
dear Amy Robot. Here we will talk to you also
(17:00):
the patent, thecations, the pat
Hey, there, folks, it is Wednesday, March fourth, and we
can do this all day long, so says Secretary of
Defense Secretary of War Pete Heseth. With that, welcome to
this episode of Amy and TJ. Rose. People kind of
chuckled and giggled and said, that's ridiculous. Change it to
Secretary of War. Well, I guess it's apt right now,
and it's a pretty tough talk from the Secretary who
(00:33):
is just a short time ago given another update on
the war with Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's right. Among the many headlines that he created, he
had a lot of one liners in describing the United
States strength and the Iranians weaknesses, But one of them
that stood out to me was they are toast and
they know it. In the whole umbrella of we can
do this all day. Yes, he made a lot of analogies,
(00:57):
but he said in under a week, we have complete
and total control, or we will soon have complete and
total control over Iranian skies. And he talked about destroying
the navy, destroying the military. This was a lot of bravado.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Al rato, a lot of blustery. And you remember when
George W. Bush got so much hell right when he
said bring it on. You remember that, Yes, you bring
it on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ad mission complete. I remember those two thens, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But the one the mission accomplished. They know that was
a mistake with the big banner that early on, but
he got hell for saying bring it on, essentially challenging
a fight from al Qaeda, I think it was at
the time, but it was not received well because you're like,
come on, let's fight. But there are American lives at risk,
don't You're not a bad ass, don't You shouldn't talk
(01:49):
like that. There are lives at risks. We don't want
to go to war. Heck, Seth has taken that language
and run with it, and it's almost expected roles. But
a lot of this was a bunch of tough talk.
We'll get into. But there were I guess a couple
of headlines we need to take out of this, including
history being made by the military, something that hasn't been
done since World War Two. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I didn't realize that we had not torpedoed a naval
battleship since World War Two, but apparently that's the case,
and apparently we have now done so, and did so
last night, taking at least eighty seven people on board
with it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh yeah, so that was one of the headlights. Highlights.
He and General Kane, raising Kane as President Trump likes
to call him the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. They
got up once again. Was it just yesterday they gave
the other briefing, so maybe it will be we might
get regular briefings. But he did another one just a
short time go. They don't go that long. They come
out and they make a couple of statements. Only took
(02:48):
questions for about fifteen minutes. But yeah, some of the
headlines are just how well this is going, how much
control the US has over the skies. He made a
reference robe to Iranian leaders literally look up and all
you we'll see is Israeli and the US warplanes in
your skies and there's nothing they can do about it.
He did mention as well that the new leadership is
(03:08):
possibly coming in. He said, yeah, there is no new
leadership because they can't meet and they're hiding and they
have no communication. So good luck with that. He said.
They're taking out their missile capability. He used just using
his hands, he demonstrated, our capability is going up, while
theirs is going down. He said they're having less and
less ability, the Iranians to fire missiles and protect themselves.
(03:30):
So I would say ropes. He gave us much of
what maybe we should expect with superior air force of
the Israelis and the United States. But certainly what jumped
out robes. There was a bunch bunch of tough talk.
Even in giving highlights or updates I should say about
what's going on with the war. He did it with
a You called it bravado. There was some tough dude talk.
(03:56):
It was broie.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I mean, it's weird to say that in the concept
or in the context of war, but that's a lot
of what we heard. And it is interesting. You bring
up the criticism George W. Bush received is it is
so fascinating, and perhaps it is under the leadership of
President Trump. But the rhetoric and the word choice coming
(04:19):
from even Christy Noome talking about ice agents in Minnesota
to now talking about US and Israeli military prowess in Iran.
But there is no there's no couching of terms or
softening of tone. This is all very boo yah. And
(04:40):
it's maybe something that maybe military members speak the way
they speak among each other to try and rev each
other up as they're going to war. And maybe that's
what Pete Hegseth is bringing to the Department of Defense
and actually truly making it the Department of War. He's
speaking like a soldier talking to his fellow soldiers, almost
kind of buoying them up. But he's speaking to the
(05:03):
American people and frankly to the world. And we're not
completely used to hearing this type of war speak.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And look, maybe some of the rank and file love it,
maybe some of the President Trump's supporters love it. Maybe
it's just not necessarily what we're used to. And fine,
we're gonna have to get used to it with this
particular group. Some of the tough talk he was talking about. So, yes,
you can give us You could say, yes, we have
air superiority and we have control over their skies, but
(05:31):
he says, is this what death and destruction from the
sky all day long? I mean that's I mean, fine, fine,
you could talk like that, but it's not the way
we're used to hearing. No, it's not at all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Certain things that I would think we've told our children
not to speak like we're hearing now talking about us
being or this was never meant to be a fair fight,
and it's not a fair fight. We are punching them
while they're down, and that's exactly as it should be.
I understand where but there's just something about that that
feels slightly shocking to hear. And I know they even
(06:05):
talked about people clutching their pearls, but I actually felt
myself kind of clutching my pearls, Like is that okay
to talk like that about other human beings? I know
there are enemy at this point, given that we're at
war with them, but I just still feel it still
feels a little It just takes my breathway to hear
(06:26):
us talk about other humans that way. But again, maybe
I am clutching my pearls and when I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
At a time of war, it just seems to belye
the seriousness of the matter, this kind of talk. He
even use a football reference that we're gonna let you
hear here in a second that both of us kind
of looked over to each other and say, where is
this going? Because he set it up in such a
way that I liken it to football, And then he
went off into this thing it got our attention when
he said it. The other thing, Robes, we talked about
the sinking of the ship. This is another thing. It
(06:53):
sounded like we're getting revenge for something personal that was
done to President Trump, at least the way he said that. Absolutely,
there's no other way to put that right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's one hundred percent. I think he intended it to
be absolutely. When he talked about he said, we sunk
their prize ship, the Solomony, and then he added, looks
like potis got him twice. He went on to explain
that yes, they got this their prized warship to Solomony,
(07:22):
and they were able to sink it by a torpedo
and again the first time that we have sunk an
enemy ship since World War Two. And he was celebrating
the fact that, yes, we took out the leader of
the group that attempted an assassination on President Trump. And
so I believe he said something that President Trump got.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The last laugh. Yeah, I mean what the laugh? Yes,
hunt it down and killed quote Iran tried to kill
President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh. Okay,
that's badass. I mean that's tough talk from the Pentagon. Fine,
this is the Department of War, and this is the
new tone they have set. You remember him bringing all
(08:01):
the generals in, and remember how that whole speech went.
This is in line. We shouldn't be necessarily surprised by this.
But the Solomani he was talking about, this was the
ship that was actually named after the former head of
the Revolutionary Guard there in Iran, who was assassinated, who
was taken out, was at last it was within the
past year. Do I have that right? I would have
(08:24):
to check, well, anyway, but Solomony was taken out by
action by this president. This ship was named after that guy, Solomoni.
They sunk that ship. So that is the point of
what Hegseth was trying to say. And that looks like
Potis got him twice. Killed the man now killed the
ship essentially that was named after him. That's top thought.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I believe, yes, and I believe Solomoni was assassinated actually
in Trump's first term, so it was January third, twenty
twenty and so yes, Trump obviously was in power back
then and he was a part of leading that. I
guess that mission that ultimated that ultimately ended in Solimani's assassination.
(09:08):
So yes, Potis got him twice. But it just feels
like a flippant remark. Given the situation we're in.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There was a lot of flippant remarks, you could argue.
But he made a football analogy, and this is the
one that certainly got our attention. But explaining where the
Iranians are in this whole mess. Right now here, he
is talking football and the war with Iran.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who
scripted the first twenty plays of a game. The team
knew what plays to run because their first few drives
were scripted. But now that the game has started and
the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call,
let alone how to get in the huddle and call
(09:55):
those plays. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so called
governing council that might have selected a successor dead missing
or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the
same room.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's it's tough, taugh. I mean, it's it's an I guess,
apt analogy. I understood what he was trying to say. Hey,
look you it's plain speak. It's like a football team
you had your play scripted in the game started. Now
you don't know what to do. We're just not used
to it, he used. He was common speak. Actually that
was one of the lesser creatious. That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I think it just was shocking to your point that
it seemed so it just seemed comparing a war. And
he you know, he did acknowledge the six fallen soldiers
or a six fallen American military personnel who were killed
by the Iranian fire in Kuwait with there on a
Kuwaiti base. But still given the fact that Americans are dying,
(10:55):
more Americans will die according to our own government, and
certainly the numbers are growing of Iranians who have died
in this war already, and we're already on day four.
And just to kind of make this football analogy, like
we're all just playing a strategy game, a game where
we've got crowds cheering, and wins and losses aren't life
(11:15):
or death. So that's why I think it just felt
a little, well a lot uncomfortable to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I don't know how most Americans are, the majority
of Americans what they feel about it, but it is
different from what we're used to in past administrations. I
guess This is part of the course with this one.
Also par for the course is the questions that will
be asked of this secretary, that will be asked of
the Admiral standing up there. Those questions are coming to
(11:44):
them from a press corps that looks a whole lot
different from the Pentagon press corps of old. We continue
here on Amy and TJ. Robe. Something we have noticed
and we will continue to notice as we wrap up
(12:04):
here is that, look, the questions coming from the press
corps at the Pentagon are different. It's different because the
press corps is different. I cannot remember Robes. Do you
remember a main a big time mainstream outlet. I mean
even Fox News got out of there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think the only news outlet that we heard today
and we actually re listened to it to make sure,
was the BBC was the only news outlet asking a
question of the Secretary that I even was familiar with,
and they actually were the ones or that reporter was
the only person who asked a question actually that challenged hegseth,
(12:45):
or at least asked a question about a topic he
most likely didn't want to answer and certainly avoided answering.
And that was about whether or not this girls' school
if the United States has been able to get any
sort of intelligence on whether or not this girl's gooo
where it's reported as many as one hundred and fifty
have been killed by a strike because that school was
(13:06):
near a military base, and he avoided it, said we
were investigating. The BBC reporter notably had a follow up,
which we haven't heard a lot of in these press briefings,
and we can explain why in just a moment. But
he also just completely avoided and dismissed the question.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Dismissed. I mean he was dismissive all of the guy
who asks a follow up. I think it was a
very legitimate question. It's been this many days, or do
you have essentially, do you not have any capability? I mean,
what does that say that after four or five days,
you still don't even know who hit this school, If
the school was hit, who might be dead? That was
the follow up, and he was it was a condescending direct.
(13:45):
We're looking into it, is all he said to him
and moved on. Yes, some of the questions coming from
outlets that we are not that familiar with, but yes,
full on right wing outlets are asking questions that sometimes
go along with the same line of the narrative of
the administration. And that's exactly what Pete Hegseth wanted, and
(14:06):
that's what they said they wanted. Robes told the press corps,
you only report on what we tell you to report on,
or you are going to have your credentials taken away.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Correct And so I think it's just important to reiterate
for anyone who is listening, to, reading about, or even
watching these press briefings that we're seeing at the Pentagon,
they are so vastly different than any other press briefing
you would have seen during a time of war or
whenever the Pentagon needed to actually have a press briefing.
(14:37):
Usually these are very serious and dangerous times. And notably
you had reporters from all sides there and some of
the more aggressive questioning, which is a lot of times
the jobs of a journalist to question authority, to ask
those important follow ups, to make sure that you're getting
the correct information, not teeing them up for more information
(15:01):
that they want to give, rather than asking them questions
about maybe information we need to know more about. And
so that is the distinction. So yes, to hear members
of the Press from the Daily Wire, Lindell TV, The
Washington Times familiar with, but again a conservative paper and
a conservative outlet.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But it is just it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's shocking to not have CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, those
folks asking tough questions.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I mean, the mainstream fake news, yes, but I have
them in there. They're the mainstream fake news.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It makes our country a democracy, don't we want they're
tough questions, even if they're hard questions, and maybe even
if you think they're unfair questions, why shouldn't our administration
be forced to answer them in front of the American
people and the world, especially at a time like this,
when decisions are being made that are life and death decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It's interesting and it's something to keep in mind. At
every pressing at the Pentagon that you watch, every single
one of those people asking a question signed an agreement
with the Pentagon to only report on exactly what the
Pentagon tells them they can report on.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It would be so true, yes, and that is an important,
important fact to remember, And it would be so interesting
just to even see how Pete Hegseth reacted to the
BBC's follow up, just to imagine what how different of
a press conference. It would be if you actually had
members of the media who represent not just conservative leaning outlets,
how different that press briefing would be and those that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Follow those updates. Folks, Yes, we had a briefing, but
this story, as you know, is changing by the minute.
We are keeping a close eye on all things related
to Roan. We will keep you updated as those as
that breaking news dictates. So we appreciate you spending some
time with us on TJ. Holmes on behalf of my
dear Amy Robot. Here we will talk to you also
(17:00):
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