Brett Meiselas

ambitions.

It's the most ridiculous talking point imaginable.

And Hegseth really isn't used to getting challenged on that sort of level.

I want to remind everybody, because think about the press who he speaks to every single day.

He's kicked out any sort of real journalists from those briefings.

He has these fake pro-MAGA press that ask him softball questions.

And so he's never challenged until he comes into these congressional hearings.

which is why these congressional hearings are actually important.

But what I've noticed across all of the Trump administration, no matter what the topic is, it comes down to a simple concept, which is you can't solve a problem unless you acknowledge the problem exists.

And when the Trump administration,

across the board is constantly lying about everything that is going on, and it is refusing to admit reality, whether it's the on the ground situation in Iran, whether it's high gas prices, whether it's the affordability crisis that Americans are feeling at home, then they can never fix it because they don't think there's a problem to be fixed.

And we see that as we, you know, we had Pablo Manriquez and Scott McFarland on the Hill today.

And they were asking very simple questions about gas prices to Republicans.

And they were like, actually, I give Donald Trump, he's doing great.

He actually brought down the prices.

He brought down the prices and everyone's happy.

And I give Donald Trump an A on the economy and an A on gas prices.

He's just doing incredible.

How can you expect that person to work on your behalf as a legislator to actually do things that lower gas prices if they think everything is amazing right now?

You can't.