'I can't even': MSNBC host stunned by latest 'embarrassment' staining Pentagon
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership has again been called into question after sources revealed he did not inform the White House before he paused a weapons shipment to Ukraine, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski wondered whether this might be the last straw.
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he hadn't ordered the pause, but sources told CNN that Hegseth had gone over his head and authorized it last week, which the "Morning Joe" co-hosts agreed was an astonishing act of insubordination.
"If he wants this war to end, he can't have the secretary of defense just going off on his own," Scarborough said. "Also, the secretary of defense, that's been a problem from the very beginning. [White House chief of staff] Susie Wiles runs a tight ship. Everybody you talk to going in and out of the White House will tell you that it's a massively different White House this time, as far as how things are run, than the first term, and, you know, they had problems with him during transition, when he wasn't straightforward with him time and time again, and they kept getting surprised."
"The Trump transition team kept getting surprised, and now it keeps happening," Scarborough added. "It's happened with Signalgate, it's the first thing that really got them off of their sort of pace fast pace when they started. So you had Signalgate, you've had you've had other episodes where you know, just real embarrassments coming out of the Pentagon."
"I just can't even," Brzezinski interjected, "think of a parallel to this historically."
"I can't think of a historic parallel," Scarborough agreed. "I do know that if this had ever happened before in another administration, the secretary of defense would be fired the next day. You don't you don't undercut a commander in chief on an issue this big."
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