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'What's he afraid of?': Veteran Pentagon reporters rip Pete Hegseth's media restrictions
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October 19, 2025
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9:23Now PlayingBarbara Starr, former Pentagon correspondent, and Nancy Youssef, staff writer at The Atlantic, join The Weekend: Primetime to discuss the impact of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new press restrictions at the Pentagon and what they means for journalists and the public. "There was no security breach by anybody in the press corps that led to these changes," Youssef says. "In fact, the biggest security breach that has happened is by Hegseth himself."
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