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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to brief reporters at 1 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday as questions swirl around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the Pentagon. Hegseth took aim at “leakers” during a Tuesday morning interview on Fox News amid a deepening controversy stemming from his use of Signal,

Kilmeade pointed out Tuesday that many of the employees let go from the Pentagon were people that Hegseth brought on as close allies and were shown the door without even being asked to show the contents of their phones, something you’d expect in any leak investigation.

President Trump and Vice-President Vance are standing by Hegseth despite the swirling controversy over his handling of the Defense Department.

Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appearing for an interview Tuesday morning on Fox News, his former employer, amid a deepening controversy stemming from his use of Signal, an encrypted but unclassified messaging application,