Fox News An animated Pete Hegseth bristled through a Pentagon press conference, snapping at journalists who asked seemingly innocuous questions. The defense secretary went live to the nation from the Pentagon to address concerns about Donald Trump’s muddled war in Iran , which the president launched over the weekend with a series of air strikes. The address started with the so-called ‘Secretary of War’ doling out platitudes and victim-blaming in a pre-prepared statement, before he and Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced the press pool regarding the war that has split opinion among Republicans. Read more at The Daily Beast.