US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a round table with US President Donald Trump about foreign fraudulent cryptocurrency investment schemes and the Trump administration's efforts to prevent them, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 21, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
CNN's Kaitlan Collins was stunned Thursday after a reporter revealed the extent of the damage caused to a priceless globe on her show.
The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff damaged a World War II-era globe that was used by former President Dwight Eisenhower when they tried to move it into Hegseth's office suite. Collins asked reporter Dan Lamothe, who reported the story, about what happened on Thursday's broadcast of "The Source," and his answer left her nearly speechless.
"Rather than waiting forhistorians, curators, or somebodywho has a background and trainingexpertise in handling rareartifacts, they sent the team ontheir own, a handful of militarypersonnel ... and attempted tomove it, dropped it, and smasheda part of it, basically impaledit," Lamonte said.
"Whoa!" Collins interjected,
"And many months later,it's still broken," Lamothe said, adding that the Pentagon did not acknowledge the extent of the damage until after the story was published.