Geoff Bennett:
Now to new revelations involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Washington Post first reported and the “News Hour” can confirm that Hegseth had the unclassified messaging app Signal installed on a computer in his Pentagon office. That’s after reporting that Hegseth shared highly sensitive and detailed attack plans in a Signal group chat last month that included his wife, brother and lawyer, in addition to top national security officials, hours before a mission was launched against Houthi forces in Yemen.
All of this is unfolding as chaos is mounting at the Pentagon with the firings of top Hegseth aides.
We’re joined now by Dan Lamothe, who covers the U.S. military and Pentagon for The Washington Post.
Dan, it’s great to have you here.
So why the special computer setup? Why is Secretary Hegseth finding new ways to use this commercial messaging app Signal on his Pentagon computer?
