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Pentagon Pete Blows Up at Hearing Before Being Shut Up by Republican

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth melted down after Rep. Jason Crow accused him of going behind Trump's back with a line of questioning about his legal adviser.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth melted down so badly during his congressional hearing on Wednesday that even the committee’s Republican chairman had to calm him down.

As the self-styled “Secretary of War,” 45, was grilled by Democratic members on the House Armed Services Committee about he and President Donald Trump’s highly unpopular war on Iran, one question prompted the hawkish former Fox & Friends Weekend host to fly off the handle.

Deluzio, a progressive Democrat from Pennsylvania, prompted Hegseth's meltdown. / Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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