The Pentagon Scandal: Inside the Push to Impeach Pete Hegseth

What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment. Time for one man's final days in Congress to try to do damage to this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it. It's a farce, and it's a stunt. And that is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. House of Republicans who are house led by Republicans turned back an effort to impeach him. The articles of impeachment were voted down. He is safe for now. Now this. The campaign was led by a Republican who wanted him impeached and removed from office, but the US House of Representatives led by the Republicans voted down. Are you surprised, State Representative Ron Reynolds? No, I'm not surprised. That's the main reason why these Republicans got their butts kicked this past Tuesday, because they're out of touch with the American people. They don't wanna hold this guy accountable. President Trump, he could do it on his own, but he doesn't wanna do it because he is complicit Secretary of Defense, this guy is responsible for many, many deaths in an unnecessary war in Iran. This person should be held accountable. And I pray that when the Democrats are in the majority in January, that he will be impeached and then held for trial in the Senate with the Senate majority. This guy is corrupt. He should not be the Secretary of Defense. And I believe that the Republicans that didn't have the balls to stand up to President Trump, many of them have already lost their offices. And the rest of them hopefully will be held accountable in the future because everyone should be held accountable. No one should be above the law. And I think this person is despicable and a disgrace to this country. All right, Angela, let's hear from you on this topic. I mean, I don't even know where to start. Okay. Pete Hegseth is the one person standing in the breach between a total color revolution that the Democrats are trying to achieve. As I mentioned, the 20 million magic votes that suddenly reappeared. They went away in 2020, excuse me, 2024. They were there in 2020, then they disappeared in 2024, and now they're back with these registrations that are all unvetted. 20 million votes throughout the country. That's why we had this calamity of an election last week. Now, Pete Hegseth has not done anything to be impeached for. But the Democrats who all ran on, we're going to make gas prices lower and we're going to make eggs work, how? How, when you literally don't want to drill in our country, are fighting Trump every step of the way to make things affordable. We've got John Thune over there, 700 bills that would have landed on the desk of President Trump to be signed, that would have worked for the American people. We have backstabbers on our own party. Hegseth is not going to be impeached, it's not going to be impeached. All right, Dr. Bratton, let's hear from you. I think there's a there's a problem with this impeachment of a lot. First, everything that Pete Hegseth has done, it's been approved by the president. So why aren't you impeaching the president? The president's his boss. The president's telling him everything to do. Now, they're even going back to on things that he did before he was confirmed, like this sexual assault case in 2017. They're going back on that as a reason to impeach him. This was already covered before. So this seems like a reach to me. What he's been doing, What they're doing is something that secretaries of defense have been doing for many, many decades where they go in and, you know, they conduct war without declaring war. I mean, there's examples from Vietnam on. So this is a reach. Dr. Bratton, I don't think he's going to be impeached because I don't think we've got the unity. And again, 11 Democrats didn't even show up for their work. Again, $174,000 a year. And you've got over 20 House of Representatives members who didn't show up. It's on us, the voters, at the end of the day, we can talk about the president or Pete Hegseth, but it's the voters who tolerate this level of absenteeism. So I don't think he's gonna be impeached. I think some of the offenses are questionable, again, attacking Senator Mark Kelly, very partisan and offensive, but that's the tone and tenor of our current climate. So Representative Massey's sort of trolling of the president and Hegseth, humorous, but Very diplomatic or statesman-like, it's not so much, but that's the tone of today's partisanship. All right, thank you guys for joining us tonight. We'll be back with more politics, what's in the future for MAGA. Stay with us here on The Factor.