Brian Kilmeade, one of the co-hosts of Fox & Friends, got things started during the interview by accidentally referring to Hegseth as the “former” defense secretary before correcting himself. Kilmeade asked Hegseth about “his thoughts” on new reporting from the New York Times that he had a second Signal chat where he discussed highly sensitive military information with about a dozen people like his wife,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brushed off former DoD chief spokesperson John Ullyot’s allegations that “total chaos” and “dysfunction” are occurring at the Pentagon during a Tuesday interview on “Fox & Friends.