Henrietta Treyz

There are reasons for Hegseth to be very concerned.

One of the biggest things I'm going to be watching when the Senate gets back into session on Monday night is whether Republican leadership feels compelled to call Hegseth or other Defense Department officials to the Senate for hearings.

There are three Republican senators who got obviously very perturbed by the president's commentary, his sort of end of civilization talk.

over the last couple of days.

That would be Senator John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, Lisa Murkowski, and the tried and true efforts of Rand Paul.

But what I think really stands out and we should be watching for is whether Hegseth gets called up to brief the committees in public.

I think that's a real risk.

I mean, my question is, you had seven more days to wage this war.

Why did you box yourself in?

The strait is closed.

The president's talking about a joint venture, which seems preposterous and would raise taxes on gas globally if ultimately it comes true.

He had all the way until at least midway through next week to continue perpetuating the war.

I want to know why there was an early drawdown.

He talked himself into this, you know, massive escalation after 48 hours.

And it was totally unnecessary politically has all the way until, you know, at a minimum Wednesday of next week before a war powers resolution would come up before any kind of political leash would be put on him.

And I think they had until five dollar gasoline.

So he stopped this pretty quickly.

He didn't need to.

I think that's really interesting.

It's really strongly suggestive of the very negative numbers that Republicans are seeing in polls nationwide.