The briefing began with Hegseth blasting reporters for what he described as their obsession with scandal. ‘You’re hunting for scandals all the time,’ he said, accusing the press of ignoring ‘historic moments’ such as stronger US military and increased European defense spending.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a press briefing Thursday to berate the media over reports that questioned the effectiveness of strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, without offering new information.

Tensions flared up when US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clashed with a Fox News reporter and his former colleague Jennifer Griffin at a press briefing on Thursday. Griffin asked Hegseth about the movement of enriched uranium from the Fordo site,

Griffin, the chief national security correspondent at the Pentagon, asked Hegseth whether he had “certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was in the Fordow mountain, or some of it, because satellite photos showed there was more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at a Fox News reporter on Thursday as he took questions during a Pentagon briefing about last weekend’s U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

President Donald Trump says defense secretary will speak up ‘for the dignity of our great American pilots’ after feud with media over extent of bomb damage continues

President Donald Trump said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will defend B-2 bomber pilots’ “dignity” in a press conference Thursday morning after a leak suggested the pilots’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites only set the country’s nuclear program back by months.