Zach Wahls

And I just, I think it's all fucked.

But this in particular, this war is so fucked and so not what the American public wants that to not even begin to try and sell it or explain what is happening is such a betrayal of the sort of foundational parts of our democracy.

And the other piece of it, I would say, Dan, is just the corruption inside that Pentagon is really obvious, right?

Like there are two lines of questioning that

Today, when he's up at the Senate, he's asked – or actually, I think yesterday as well – he was asked about his special advisor, Tim Parlatori, the president's former personal lawyer, who is clearly representing either unsavory people or foreign actors in his private law practice, but now –

through a sleight of hand, is a senior advisor at the Pentagon and has access to classified information.

Hegseth knows this is a liability.

He knows there's something very crooked in all of this and refused to really answer any questions or shed light on that arrangement.

And then Hegseth was asked from Elizabeth Warren today about stock trades that happened right before the Pentagon announced we were attacking Iran.

And Hegseth refused to answer any questions about people inside the DOD who might be profiting off of Trump's

catastrophic war in the Middle East, in Iran.

There's so much bad stuff happening at the Pentagon, it's hard to know where to begin.

I will say, I thought it was great that the Democrats, I mean, it's not that these people happen to be on these committees, so it's not like they were championed by leadership, but that you had so many veterans who know from combat

whether it's Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin or Jason Crowe, who were incredibly tenacious.

Pat Ryan.

These people know what war is, and they know what the battlefield is.

And for them to be going after and really pointed, and I think emotional, like they're clearly very angry.

For them to be exasperated and outraged...

with Hegseth I think is meaningful.

And it's also a different side of the Democratic Party, right?