'Frustrations run deep' as Republicans' Hegseth pleas get ignored by Trump: conservative

Republicans hoping to get questions answered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are getting impatient with his stonewalling and are finding Donald Trump’s White House to also be unresponsive, conservative journalist David Drucker reported Monday.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Drucker claimed GOP lawmakers are desperately seeking guidance as they fend off questions about the attacks on so-called narcoterrorists — but they're not getting their calls returned.

Drucker pointed out this has led to growing anger and impatience within the party.

Asked by co-host Jonathan Lemire about a growing desire among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for the Pentagon to release all video from the attacks, including the so-called “double-tap” clip that has lawmakers bickering about what they saw when it was shared with them, Drucker claimed there are ominous rumblings.

“One of the things that I learned was that there's a lot of simmering distrust and unhappiness with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,” he reported. “He does not communicate with Republicans on Capitol Hill. The administration has been very opaque with these operations in the Caribbean and what's going on vis-à-vis Venezuela. And so, you know, this frustration runs deep in this way.”

"I've had Republicans tell me that, look, I'm on the same team as President Trump. I want to help his defense department succeed and I can't get any information or anybody to talk to me over at the Pentagon. And I think that if the administration were more communicative with Republicans on the Hill they, number one, might know more and might conclude from the information that this isn't what it appears to be or what it could be. Number two, and obviously this is this is a different political issue here, they might not give the administration such a hard time about this because they'd feel like they were looped in.”

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