'Staggering': MSNBC panel ridicules Hegseth's prior comments about securing data
In a panel discussion on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, along with her panel, compared and ridiculed Hegseth for his comments on securing data against his two Signal chat scandals.
“Apparently, the standard operating procedure inside the Clinton secretary of state office was to send emails that couldn't otherwise be printed to the maid to print them out of a secure area or from a secure area, and then hand them off. Any security professional, military government or otherwise would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information. The fact that she wouldn't be held accountable for this, I think, blows the mind of anyone who's held our nation's secrets dear, we've had a top secret clearance like I have, and others who know that even one hiccup causes a problem. Let alone a standard procedure like this,” Hegseth said in 2016 on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
“He knows so much about how it's important to be careful with our nation's secrets, not to chat about them with other people, except his wife, his attorney, his brother, and Jeffrey Goldberg. Katty Kay, your thoughts?” Brzezinski asked.
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“I mean it's pretty staggering listening to that tape. There is the video for everything, it seems. And listening to Pete Hegseth in that video from 2016 being so outraged about Hillary Clinton and then now turning that outrage against the media. And the leakers, makes you realize that perhaps there's a little disingenuousness to what he's saying at the moment. Just a little touch.”
Kay tossed it over to the Co-Founder and CEO of Axios, Jim Vandehei.
He said, “I mean, listen, there's a split screen, right? It's the bs. You hear in public, which is either supportive or silent. Or it's what they tell you in private. Right? Most of the Senators you talk to never thought he should be the Defense Secretary and think all of this is absurd.”
Vandehei wants people to sit back and think about three things.
“One. Every time that we talk about republicans finally speaking out. It's Representative Bacon. It's not the Republican Party. Almost nobody's speaking out,” he said.
“Two. We've not found a single person who's talked to Trump, who said Trump has talked about replacing [Hegseth]. Others seem to be reporting that, but we can't find anybody who's talked to Trump.”
Lastly, adding, “Then three is we're not 100 days in. Like, four people have left.”
“The leaking and the fact that this is the Defense Department having to talk about internal drama as opposed to protecting the American people.”
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