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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly been bringing his wife Jennifer with him to high-level meetings — and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" wondered what is going on.

Hegseth, already on the hot seat for sharing military plans in a group chat that included a reporter who had been inadvertently invited, brought his wife to a Pentagon meeting with UK Secretary of Defense John Healey and another at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels.

Conservative journalist Michael Warren told CNN on Monday that he believes Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) is not happy about President Donald Trump's plans to implement sweeping new tariffs on all imported goods this week.

After watching a clip of Lankford over the weekend comparing Trump's plans to a "kitchen remodel" in which "there's a bit of a mess at the beginning, but everybody has a long-term look at where we're headed," Warren said he could detect a hint of panic in the senator's eyes.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Monday ripped into Donald Trump's administration for doing nothing to address the Signal scandal and to reassure military families that their loved ones will be kept safe.

High-ranking administration officials discussed top-secret military operations in a group chat on a third-party app to which a reporter had been inadvertently invited, but the president still hasn't held anyone accountable for the security breach — and Attorney General Pam Bondi has said her office will not investigate whether any laws were broken.

Elon Musk shared a video of a woman yelling at a Tesla Cybertruck driver and called for "arrests" to prevent additional "attacks."

In a Sunday post on his X social media platform, Musk pointed to a video that showed several middle-aged women shouting at a man through the window of his Cybertruck.

During the panel segment on CNN's "State of the Union," Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow stunned a defender of Donald Trump with an accusation that he was engaged in an effort to pit Americans against each other.

This occurred during a discussion on the Signal chat scandal that is bedeviling the Trump administration after top White House officials engaged in banter on the Signal app prior to an attack on Yemen aimed at Houthi rebels while not realizing that a journalist was invited to listen in.

Of greater concern has been Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth detailing the attack plans before they happened that could have led to American military deaths.

That led CNN conservative regular Shermichael Singleton to reach back in the past to the Afghanistan conflict to diminish attacks on Hegseth and Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz, both of whom are at the center of the scandal as calls for resignations grow.

Fox News host Griff Jenkins confronted a Republican candidate running for former Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) vacated congressional seat after Democrats dramatically outspent him in the race.

"There's only two ways to run in a campaign, and that is either behind or scared," GOP candidate Jimmy Patronis explained to Jenkins on Sunday. "And we are running hard."

After watching a clip of a popular Fox News host attempt to blow off the "Signalgate" scandal currently afflicting Donald Trump's administration, a former Republican member of the House brutally ripped the excuses apart.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-Rep Denver Riggleman (R-VA) took his cue from co-host Michael Steele who referred to Fox host Jesse Watter's comments about Trump officials exposing war planning details to a journalist as a "bucket of stupid."

In the clip from Wednesday Watters complained, "No one outside of D.C. and in the news business really cares about this story. There's no video. There's no sex. there's no fraud –– no one even knows what a Houthi is!"

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"What say you, Denver?" Steele prompted his guest. "You know, you were an officer in our military. You served in very secret places. You served in Congress. You know what that chat was and what that chat wasn't."

That led Riggleman to smirk, "Thanks for that, Michael and everybody. That's a large bucket of stupid to navigate, so I appreciate that."

"When you're looking at when he says nothing outside of the Beltway, nobody cares outside the Beltway, there's a lot of military bases outside the Beltway. And when you are a former military officer, and you also did air operations, and you were in 9/11 and Operation Allied Force, and you know what those things were on those Signal chat, you start to get this idea that maybe they've made these mistakes in the past and they're going to make them in the future."


"Let me give you an example," he elaborated. "Everybody's time over target ––that's classified. The airframes that are actually going into that area? That's classified. The specific targets? That's classified."

"All I hear is what a bunch of idiots this crew is," he later added.

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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo pressed White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett about how President Donald Trump's "tariffs on screws" were "going to raise prices" for consumers.

During a Sunday interview, Hassett admitted that he had little idea what new economic policies Trump would impose in the coming week.

CNN's Scott Jennings was on the receiving end of a history lesson on Sunday morning after he praised the leadership of embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the wake of what is being called the "Signalgate" scandal that has Donald Trump's administration playing defense this week.

During an appearance on the panel segment of "State of the Union" Dana Bash, the controversial CNN conservative claimed Democrats are making too much of a fuss over Hegseth sharing battle details, before the attack began, in a Signal chatroom that also included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeff Goldberg and set off a firestorm.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed that Vice President J.D. Vance believes President Donald Trump "doesn't even understand what he's doing."

On Sunday, Goldberg told NBC host Kristen Welker that he observed Vance's opinion of Trump after being mistakenly included on a Signal chat about a U.S. attack on Yemen.

Fox News host Shannon Bream challenged White House trade adviser Peter Navarro after he insisted that President Donald Trump's tariffs were "tax cuts."

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Add Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) to the list of Republican lawmakers calling for an investigation high-ranking Donald Trump officials who engaged in a chat on the Signal app where they discussed an upcoming military attack on Yemen with a journalist mistakenly invited to listen in.

Speaking with CNN's Dana Bash, the conservative from Oklahoma didn't pause when asked if an investigation is warranted about comments made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who shared blow-by-blow assault plans with his colleagues that have since alarmed military officials.

"I want to get straight to this question of this potential national security breach," the CNN host prompted her guest. "The Senate Armed Services Committee chair, Roger Wicker, he said the incident, quote, 'Raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information.'"

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"He wants the Pentagon inspector general to investigate," she added. "Do you also want an independent investigation into how all of this happened? "

"It's entirely appropriate for the inspector general to be able to look at it and to be able to answer two questions," the GOP senator replied. "One is obviously, how did a reporter get into this thread in the conversation? And the second part of the conversation is when individuals from the administration are not sitting at their desk in a classified setting on a classified computer, how do they communicate to each other?"

"Currently, it's through encrypted apps , it's how that communication happens," he added. "The next question is, is that the right way to be able to do it? Obviously, that's the way it has been done for quite a while now while they're out on the road."

"The national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said it was a mistake to use Signal," Bash pressed. "He has taken responsibility. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has not, even though he's the one who shared this specific information about the timing and aircraft being used in this strike. Should he take responsibility as well, senator.?"

"I think he just joined into an encrypted app," he replied. "I don't see it as much of an issue because, again, they all believe that this was a closed circle of conversation. He was trying to give each other a heads up of what's about to happen, as we had given a heads up to our foreign partners overseas as well, to let them know what was about to happen as well. So this is this is normal communication on it. What's not normal is having a reporter in the middle of it."

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Reacting to a Wall Street Journal report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been dragging his third wife along with him to intel briefings, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) took a personal jab at the Donald Trump nominee.

On Friday, the Journal reported that the embattled Hegseth, already being scrutinized for sharing military plans in a Signal chatroom before an attack in Yemen on Houthi rebels, has been inviting his wife Jennifer to tag along to some of his meetings.