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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s combative press conference at the Pentagon on Friday morning was on the mind of MS NOW contributor Sam Stein hours later when he made an appearance to discuss Donald Trump’s next overseas target.

Hegseth spent a great portion of his thirty-minute-plus appearance attacking reporters and dictating what headlines he thinks they should be reporting, while accusing them of a lack of patriotism.

Pro-MAGA morning show host Gina Loudon suggested President Donald Trump was using the Iran war to distract from the Epstein files.

During a Friday conversation on Real America's Voice, co-host Terrance Bates followed up Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's briefing by arguing the U.S. was in a "holy war."

The Pentagon confirmed that all six crew members aboard a KC-135 refueling aircraft were killed when it went down on Thursday in Western Iraq.

In a press release on Thursday, CENTCOM admitted that it was aware of the loss of the aircraft and insisted that it did not go down "due to hostile fire or friendly fire."

Two hosts on MS NOW called out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth immediately after he fled the stage following a Pentagon press conference that “Morning Joe” host Jonathan Lemire called “hysterical."

With the manic Hegseth repeatedly bashing the press, singling out CNN in particular, and dictating headlines he feels that should use to describe the unpopular war in Iran, Lemire and co-host Willie Geist both suggested that Donald Trump’s Pentagon head is feeling the pressure of a war gone wrong.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth interrupted his Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning to bash the press, taking particular aim at CNN and urging an ownership change.

After opening by complaining the press was not willing to “admit” the success of his Iran war planning, he later added, “They see headlines. I used to be in that business, and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, a banner or a headline ‘Mideast War Intensifies,' splashing on the screen the last couple of days, alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit. Because that's what they do.”

President Donald Trump’s team is gearing up to launch a multimillion-dollar “revenge campaign” against Indiana state Senate Republicans for having defied the president’s redistricting push last year, but multiple prominent conservatives say the effort may very well blow up in the president’s face, and on a historic scale.

The White House unsuccessfully pressured Indiana state Senate Republicans last year to approve a new congressional district map to help the party’s electoral prospects in the upcoming midterms. Now, those defiant Republicans have become a target for Trump’s team, with Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz telling Politico in its report Friday that he predicts they’ll “be crushed in their upcoming primaries.”

Donald Trump has repeatedly called his Iran war an “excursion,” which drew rolled-eyes on MS NOW on Friday morning, with one host claiming the president doesn't seem to know the true meaning of the word.

The “Morning Joe” segment began with a supercut of the president making statements like, “This is an excursion. We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They'll also come down,” and later claiming, “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.”

President Donald Trump insisted to other G7 leaders that the U.S. was on the verge of winning his war on Iran and insulted one of the leaders who offered his nation's assistance, according to sources.

The U.S. president took part in a virtual meeting Wednesday with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the EU, and three officials briefed on the call told Axios that Trump boasted Iran was "about to surrender" and claimed Operation Epic Fury had already been successful.

Donald Trump's Iran war is fracturing his inner circle, with fierce internal battles over whether to escalate military operations or declare victory and exit—a conflict that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to suppress as being "based on gossip and speculation."

According to a Reuters exclusive by journalists Nandita Bose, Matt Spetalnick, and Humeyra Pamuk, Trump administration officials are locked in a "complex tug-of-war" driving the president's shifting public statements on the conflict. Three weeks into the war, aides are still debating when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.