Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was fact-checked live on the air by \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan Sunday after attempting to walk back testimony about American military weapons stockpiles.<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s conversation turned toward a previous appearance by Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky, who asked the world for the ability to produce interceptors, an idea that\u2019s been supported by some Republicans in the U.S.<\/p>\n
After Brennan asked if Hegseth also supports request, he answered, \u201cNobody makes better and more munitions than the United States of America. And we are open to co-production wherever we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd because of this administration, we\u2019re supercharging our arsenal of freedom, building more, building faster, opening up the Pentagon, ripping through the Pentagon bureaucracy, to force industry to move faster,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo our stockpiles are strong, and it will only get stronger in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brennan answered, \u201cThere is a crisis with those stockpiles right now in private industry,\u201d which prompted backlash from Hegseth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle!\u201d he insisted, to which Brennan noted Hegseth has testified in front of Congress to such a crisis.<\/p>\n
This year Hegseth testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee following a $15 billion request from the Pentagon. He insisted it could be \u201cmonths and years\u201d before the U.S. replenished its own military stockpile due to the prolonged war in Iran. Hegseth has denied that claim<\/a> before and after the testimony.<\/p>\n \u201cUltimately our stockpiles are great and they only get stronger because of the way this president has \u2013 \u201d he also said, to which she shot back: \u201cYou testified under oath that it would take years to rebuild those stockpiles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to read back to me what I testified,\u201d he said. \u201cI speculated some munitions take more time than others. We\u2019ve got lots of them, we\u2019re building more than ever before. The Biden administration gave away hundreds of billions to Ukraine. And so President Trump had to refill, and he has, and we have, in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Pete Hegseth Explodes After Margaret Brennan Live Fact-Checks Military Stockpiles Claim | Video<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was fact-checked live on the air by \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[38508,34128,18,64,55309,57965],"class_list":["post-113739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pete-hegseth","tag-margaret-brennan","tag-military-weapons","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-president-trump","tag-president-zelensky","tag-stockpiles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116750404175694396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}