Ken Harbaugh

It is infinitely more complicated.

It is a nation of over 90 million people, a Muslim nation, by the way, that we are talking about waging a holy war against.

Every time I see Pete Hegseth at another Pentagon prayer service, he

And let me just establish for the record, there is nothing wrong with praying at the Pentagon.

There is nothing wrong with praying in uniform or being a person of faith in the military.

But when you invoke the way Hegseth does, the violence of the Old Testament and no mercy for your enemies and

dashing their skulls in, or I think it was smashing their teeth from a podium with the seal of the United States Department of Defense on it.

During a war like the kind of war we're in, it sends a pretty demotivational signal.

It is a kind of bloodlust I don't think we've ever seen out of this country.

Look, we've had a Pentagon that lies before, but the systematic lying of Hegseth's Pentagon feels new.

The banishment of the professional press corps, even after the courts have said that's unconstitutional, sending them across the street to a different building, that should be a warning flag for every American.

The fact that the Pentagon and the Trump regime does not want the American people to know what's happening should alarm us all.

My first reaction is to hear what the Iranians are saying, which is crazy.

Imagine if during, and look, I'm no fan of George W. Bush, but imagine if our fact check on George W. Bush was to go hear what Saddam had to say.

That would have been crazy.

Today, you kind of have to do it.

And what makes us think that this supposed new regime is any less fanatical than the previous one?

The guy who's in charge now, we killed his parents, we killed his brother, we killed, as I understand it, his wife.

one of his children.

You think that's going to bring him to the table in a spirit of negotiation?