Alex Griffing

3 days ago | mediaite.com | Alex Griffing

CNN’s Pamela Brown spoke to Rep. Carlson Gimenez (R-FL) on Monday about the latest scandal engulfing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, which Gimenez conceded is concerning. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly used a second Signal group chat to discuss sensitive military plans with members of his family, his lawyer. You called the first leaked Signal chat a, quote, ‘huge mistake.’ Do you have confidence in Secretary Hegseth’s judgment?” began Brown.

3 days ago | mediaite.com | Alex Griffing

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) became the first House Republican to suggest that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is no longer fit to keep his job, in scathing comments made to Politico’s Rachel Bade on Monday. “I had concerns from the get-go because Pete Hegseth didn’t have a lot of experience,” Bacon told Bade, following the bombshell revelations over the weekend that Hegseth had shared national security details in a second Signal group chat – this time one that included his wife.

3 days ago | mediaite.com | Alex Griffing

The New York Times defended its reporting on Pete Hegseth’s second Signal group chat in a statement that appeared to hit back at both Hegseth and President Donald Trump dismissing the bombshell revelations as disgruntled coworkers trying to smear the defense secretary.

3 days ago | mediaite.com | Alex Griffing

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) sat down with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream over the weekend to discuss his recent trip to El Salvador, where he met with wrongly deported and indefinitely imprisoned migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia’s case has roiled U.S. politics in recent weeks as President Donald Trump’s administration has bucked court orders to help return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. amid alarm that the U.S. deported and jailed migrants in El Salvador without any kind of due process.

6 days ago | mediaite.com | Alex Griffing

CNN legal correspondent Katelyn Polantz called a recent appeals court ruling “the starkest warning that we have ever seen” from a federal judge regarding executive overreach. CNN anchor Sara Sidner introduced the subject Friday, saying, “Katelyn Polantz is joining us now from Washington with more. You’re really looking at the legal aspect of all of this because whether or not Trump and what he says about Van Hollen and all of that, it is the courts that have some power here.