Hegseth on Signalgate "NO War Plans!" plus PBS & NPR Under Fire for Media Bias

Published Mar 27, 2025, 8:20 AM
  1. Scandal Involving Pete Headsets:

    • The media is focusing on a scandal involving Pete Headsets, who is under scrutiny for allegedly sharing classified information in a Signal chat.
    • Headsets denies sharing any classified information, stating that no units, locations, routes, flight paths, sources, or methods were disclosed.
  2. Defense and Military:

    • Headsets emphasizes the importance of re-establishing deterrence and reviving the military under President Trump's leadership.
    • He highlights the ongoing campaign against the Houthis and the importance of maintaining peace through strength.
  3. Media Criticism:

    • We criticize the media for allegedly misrepresenting the situation and changing definitions to fit their narrative.
    • It mentions Senator Mark Warner's criticism of the Trump administration and the alleged mishandling of classified information.
  4. PBS and NPR Funding:

    • There is a discussion about the potential defunding of PBS and NPR due to perceived bias and corruption.
    • Marjorie Taylor Green criticizes PBS for featuring a drag queen on a children's show and accuses the network of indoctrinating children.
  5. NPR Bias:

    • We highlight accusations of bias within NPR, citing an analysis that found a significant skew towards Democratic viewpoints.
    • It mentions the Hunter Biden laptop story and NPR's decision not to cover it, which is criticized as a mistake.
  6. Political Commentary:

    • We include various political opinions and criticisms, particularly targeting the Democratic Party and its handling of media and classified information.
    • It also discusses the use of Signal by Senator Warner and the alleged hypocrisy in his criticisms.

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Well, if there's one scandal the media wants you to go all in on, it is clearly that they believe that Pete Headsets should no longer be in charge at the DoD and that others should be fired because there was a journalist that was inadvertently put on a text thread. They're also changing the definition of what you know classified information actually is.

They claimed it was war plans.

Now they're also changing yet again what that actually means. Now, Pete Headgset has come out saying no units and no locations were shared on the signal chat. Fighting back about what is actually going on the media, he did say, change the definition of the lead Signal Group chat to quote unquote attack plans because they know it's not war plans again, saying no units, no locations, no routes, no flight pass, no sources, no methods, and no classified information. Now, he got off a plane in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was visiting obviously the bases of military facilities there, and here is what he'd had to say to the media.

Beautiful, Dave, when we're on the road talking to the troops and actually in real time re establishing deterrence. You see, that's what President Trump has charged the Defense Department with doing reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, which we're doing in real time, and re establishing deterrence. And that's why we're heading out into the Indo Pacific to talk to our allies and partners and meet with the troops and anybody that knows me.

For years and knows President Trump knows how much we love the warriors. That's what it's about the men and women who serve, who.

Do the tough, difficult, gritty, dirty work that most Americans will never know about. But we have the privilege of seeing and understanding the courage and skill of what they do.

I'm going to go see that for the next couple of days.

We also have seen it on full display and what's been done to the who the terrorists and what they're trying to do close freedom of navigation, So you see, under the Biden administration, we let our troops and our ships and both warships and commercial ships get shot at to no consequence.

What does that look like. That looks like weakness.

And what President Trump has said is peace through strength is back.

We will re establish deterrence.

That's not acceptable and our ongoing campaign against the Houthis has been devastatingly effective. Now, as I said to this group a couple of times on this trip, now, as we moved to the Indo Pacific.

To do our job, which is what we're here to do, nobody's texting war plans.

Well.

I noticed this morning out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of.

Fact, they even change the title to attack.

Plans because they know it's not war plans.

There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information.

You know who sees war plans.

I see them every single day.

I looked at them this morning. I looked at attack plans this morning. You know who does attack plans and war plans. Men like that Admiral right there, Caparo for the.

Indo Pacific, or Eric Carilla, our general in Sentcom.

They do attack plans and war plans, and.

Thank god we have those leaders who do it and do it well, and our enemies know it. My job, as it's said at top of that, everybody's seen it now, Team Update is to provide updates in real time general updates in real time keep everybody informed.

That's what I did. That's my job.

The warfighters will take the fight to the enemy, and I love what they do. And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice. We will have peace through strength, and we'll keep putting our troops first.

Thank you very much. We're heading off.

They so there it is.

You can hear him saying no units, no locations, no routes, no flight pass, no sources, no methods, no classified information. Never let a crisis go to waste, though, that's the Democratic Party motto. And they're now saying, well, we don't care what you actually say. We know for damn sure this is classified information. Senator Mark Warner going on CNN doing exactly that, trying to turn this into some sort of quote signal gate where people's heads roll.

All right, Senator, let's turn back to what, of course, I know you have been focused on over the last forty eight hours since we learned about this group chat. It's like more than forty eight hours now. You heard what Trump administration officials have been saying across the board that there was no classified information that was in this chat. Are they lying to the American people?

I don't think they're telling the truth and it doesn't pass the smell test. Let me give you the two pieces of this that are so obvious.

The policy dispute.

Between the vice president and the president and the back and forth. That's the kind of information that intelligence services literally Russia or China would kill for having that kind of exposure to private conversations. Second, but even more trying, the idea that the specific plans of when an attack was going to be launched against the Hooties and the ramification to them.

There is no way.

In hell, but that's not classified information, and anybody who denies that.

Is either ignorant or trying to obscate. And let me just bring it home.

I mean, we've got the USS Truman is the aircraft carrier that's deployed in that region. It deploys from Norfolk, Virginia. We've had outreach from family members who say, my son or daughter safe flying in that region. If that information had been given to the Hooties and they could have turned their defensive mechanisms they have shot down American planes or drones in the past, you know, we could.

Have had a tragedy here.

The mission in terms of the bombing was successful, granted, but the idea that we would put American soldiers in harm's way because this crowd was so careless and so sloppy that they didn't communicate this on a secure channel is jaw dropping.

And again, let's be clear, this is not the first time.

Two weeks into this administration they inadvertently revealed the identities of about two hundred new CIA agents. How many of those agents going to be able to be posted a broad We've seen them, the Doge boys post.

A series of properties they thought the government should sell. Well, one of those happened to be a classified sites.

Almost daily there's information that leaks out either from ignorant rants or malfeasons from.

Those guys that don't always.

Make the news but are about violating Americans privacy rights. So this administration's careless, sloppy towards the classified and frankly, Americans private information is ranking.

Competence there it is, So it's just total incompetence, it's ignorance, it's it is just something that no one can deny.

Now again, you go back to the reality.

I'm sure everybody agrees that it's not a good thing to have a scumbag journalist on this text message threat, but at the same time, was or classified information that was shared. The answer is no, In fact, it was real time information, which meant in essence that what you're hearing about is going to be almost old news by the time this journalist gets it, because it's like, hey, here's where we are.

This is what we just did.

You look at the text messages again, which a scumbag reporter has put out there for the world to see. And I'm actually glad he did it, because after you read it, you're actually like, that's it, Like, this is where we are, and this is why, like you guys are freaking out and losing your minds over this, We understand it, but.

This is all there is to see here. And the answer is yes.

Now, am I glad that this happened early on and that hopefully it don't never happen again. Yes, but I also know human beings do, in fact make mistakes. Are you allowed to use signal this app with this type of information? We also know from the CIA director that yes, you are in fact allowed to use it. So here's what I'll tell you. The Democrats are trying to get something to stick right now. However they have to do it, They're going to try to keep doing it.

Chuck Schumer today he.

Was out there attacking Donald Trump and Elon Musk, saying they're eroding the American dream. The Senate Dems on the Trump administration trying to make real changes that will make an impact for all Americans on the issue of security, yet again lying about that, going out there and saying that Donald Trump is eroding the American dream.

Here Schumer, in his own words.

Trump and Musk are just eroding the American dream. They're rigging the system for billionaires while stealing from the elderly, from the disabled to cut taxes for their billionaire club.

So there it is right. Everybody else is evil. We're the brilliant ones. Even though we've lost Americans. They're not paying attention to us. They don't think that we're making sense. It doesn't really matter we everyone else is evil. So they're going to keep doing this. This is part of what you need to understand. They are going to keep doing this over and over and over again, hoping that something will actually stick.

That is the plan, all right.

I want to move now to another big issue, and that is the real chance that PBS and NPR could be defunded because of the just total corruption and extreme bias from these two organizations, and it's costing you hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Marjorie Taylor Green blasted PBS, for example, for what they're putting to try to indoctrinate your kids on public broadcasting. All right, so this is your tax dollars going for this.

This was all during the.

Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing at the Rayburn Office building where now they're looking at PBS and NPR. This exchange between Marjorie Taylor Green blasting PBS for their programming where it features a drag queen on a kid's show. Let me say that again, a drag queen they featured on a kids show, clearly trying to indoctrinate kids with the LGBTQ plus IA, A dot whatever the hell they want to identify them, the he she whatever it is, you know, pro programming. They want to get this in your kid's minds at a very early age. I want you to hear what she had to say in the back and forth.

PBS News is not just left leaning, but it is actively uses taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions, like featuring a drag queen on the show Let's Learn, a show targeted toward young children ages three to eight years old. I want you to know I grew up watching children's programming on PBS, and as a mother who raised three children, I felt confident that I could leave the room while my own children were watching children's programming on PBS. But I can tell you right now, Ms Kirger, specifically, as a mother, if I had walked in my living room or one of my children's bedrooms and seeing this child predator and this monster targeting my children, I would become unglued. And that is how most parents feel all over this country. This is not the only example of them sexualizing and grooming children. They've been doing it for over the last decade. In twenty fifteen, PBS produce Frontline put out a documentary Growing Up Trans that takes viewers on an intimate and eye opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families. This means that PBS is one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry, all while taking taxpayer money. Brainwashing and transing children is an issue so hated by parents across the country that it was a driving force in the landslide Republican and Trump victory in the twenty twenty four election cycle and presidential race. The news that these entities produced is either resented or increasingly tuned out and turned off by most of the hard working Americans who are forced to pay for it. They no longer view NPR and PBS as trusted news sources. As a matter of fact, with these people, they're a threat.

So let me just be clear about what Margley Taylor Green is saying here. If you're in the private sector and you're a broadcast company and you want to put drag queens in infant and children programming, knock yourself out.

That's your right. You can do that.

My tax hours shouldn't go to that at PBS. And PBS again, is not the only place that isn't insanely biased in being run by the radical left. I'll give you another example of where your tax hours are going.

MPR.

That's a taxpayer funded arm of the Democratic National Committee. That's what they are at state sponsored media. You want to know how biased they are, well, one Republican Congressman exposed it all while talking to the CEO, the president of MPR, and I want you to listen to what he said to her face.

The former senior business editor friend PR, how long you work at MPR. I believe he was there just over twenty five years?

Twenty five years award winning journalists? Do you win any awards? Are time to anybody?

Award?

That's pretty important, isn't it? That is a pretty distinguished journalist right certainly? And I wrote, he wrote a long story about what you do at MPR is MPR.

Biased, Congressman.

I have never seen any instance of never of pro political bias determining editorial decisions.

Now, well, mister Berliner in his story A couple last year wrote, I've in the DC area editorial positions at MPR. He said he found eighty seven registered Democrats, zero Republicans.

Is that accurate?

We do not track the numbers or the voter registration, but I find that was.

Award winning journalists who worked twenty five years at MPR. Mister Berlinner was he lying when he wrote that?

I am not presuming such. I just don't have We don't track that information about our journalist eighty seven to zero, and you're not biased. I think that is concerning. If those numbers are accurate, it's concerned.

I mean, it wasn't forty four, forty three, wasn't sixty twenty seven, It wasn't seventy seventeen, It wasn't even eighty to seven. It was eighty seven Democrats zero Republicans. And you say MPR is not biased. How about the big stories over the last few years. According to mister Berlinner again, he wrote on the Trump Russia story, he wrote, at MPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonists, representative Adam Shipp. They said the interviewing twenty five times that accurate.

I was not there at the time, but those numbers sound accurate. Those sound accurate.

But then he said, when the Muller report came out, and they said Mueller said, Robert Muller said he found no evidence of collusion. He said, Russia Gate faded from our programming.

Is that accurate? Again, I was not there at the time. I couldn't say. You couldn't say I was not at unpeer at the time. You didn't prepare for that.

You knew we were going to ask you about this guy didn't you. It's come up like six thousand times already into hearing.

I just wouldn't say whether it faded from our coverage. How about this story.

October twenty twenty, New York Post had the Hunter Biden laptop story, and one of those editors, I guess one of those eighty seven Democrat editors said this, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. We don't want to waste the listeners and readers' times on stories that are just pure distractions. With that a pure distraction story.

Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake, as do I.

Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake.

Definitely impacted the election, or I think it certainly impacted the election.

How about the COVID origin story.

That's pretty big story too, right, mister Berliner said, we became fervent members of the team natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak was debunked by scientists. Turns out, though the lab leak is what most people think actually caused the COVID virus.

Sorry, sorry, sorry question there there is.

You guys were zero for three on the three the three of the biggest stories in the last five years, you guys were zero for three, and yet you maintain that MPR.

Is not biased.

Congressman, I do not believe we are politically biased. To know, we are a non partisan organization.

Non partisan organization, nonpartisan organization.

Let's just go back to the numbers there.

MPR has eighty seven editoral positions, all of them filled by registered Democrats in DC, so not even independents like you can't even get in these editoral positions as an independent, as a like I'm not registered as a Republican or a Dimocrat because by the way, I'd be.

Fine with some of those. Nope, can't have any of those.

So you got any seven editorial positions, None of them go to independence, none of them go to register Republicans.

You guys are out for three on the big stories.

You clearly were pushing out them shift left and right in Russia, Russia, Russia. You clearly are taxpayer funded arm of.

The Democratic National Committee. Everybody knows it.

And this lady who's in charge like, oh no, no, we're not, we're not by we are we are just we are not biased at all. We don't do bias. We are not biased. There's nothing bias about us. We're just we are just totally normal. We are a completely non biased organization. We are a non political organization.

Are you kidding me? Are you? Are you kidding me?

This is what they're doing now, and I hope that they will defund gosh, I hope they will defund the MPR n pvious.

By the way, they can both.

Make it, I think on their own, and if they can't, then they probably shouldn't be in business. And just be honest about who you are. Hey, no Republicans allowed. We got eighty seven editorial people that are democrats. Is a democratic communist organization. Come on in and if you're gonna be that, then be intellectually honest about it. But don't take my damn tax hours to push your state sponsored media. There was one thing a moment ago that I played for you, and I want to go back to it because it was you heard it there and Jim Jordan's questioning he mentioned NPR branding the hunter Byden laptop story is a waste of time. I want to go to Representative Fallen and I watched this hearing so that you guys, I know many of you didn't, but I wanted to pull these highlights in there, and I want you to hear the back and forth on this issue. Specifically, this is Representative Fallen questioning the NPR CEO, and listen to how quickly she stops basically answering the questions with everything, like with facts or anything that It's like, I don't know, I'm not sure, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Listen, missus Kerger.

In twenty twenty three, when PBS had a program Washington Week with the Atlantic, and when President Biden's mental acuity was questioned, one of the reporters claimed the GUP was lying. Another reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, who's been in the news of late, described Biden as quote mentally acute. Were you aware if there were any discending opinions on that program that day?

I don't know from that day there were not.

But fortunately there was a debate, and I believe June of twenty twenty four where the American people in the world found out just who was lying the Democrats, Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS. Miss Marr, I'm sure you're aware that Hunter Biden had a laptop. I am sure, yes, okay, And there were many stories written about said laptop, yes, sir. And in twenty twenty, unfortunately, and PR's managing editor for News refused to cover the story and he branded it a quote waste of time, not a real story, and a distraction. And instead of, unfortunately of NPR investigating, they ran a puff piece that led with experts say attack on Hunter Biden addiction deepened stigma for millions. It's an unfortunate that MPR ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story. But y'all did talk quite a bit about the debunked Russia collusion. Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff about.

Congressman I would love to say that we actually believe we made a mistake on the Hunter Biden left.

Ok. That's sorry and I appreciate that. Thank you.

How many times did y'all interview Adam Schiff about the Russia collusion?

I'm sorry, sorry, I don't have that number.

It was twenty five times. You know how many times MPR interviewed Chairman of this committee Oversight Committee, Jamiekomer, about the Biden impeachment inquiry, the Hunter Biden tax evasion, and Elysia business seelings of the Biden family.

I'm sorry, sorry, I don't know.

I believe that's zero, So it's twenty five to zero, Miss Kerger. You're aware there's a political spectrum goes all the way from the far right to the far left and everywhere in between. Would it trouble you to hear that for six months? There was an analysis done on PBS's News Hour from June to November of twenty twenty three where they found that far right was that term was used one hundred and sixty two times and far left was only used six times. Do you find that troubling?

I don't know the study that you're referring to, and I'd love I'd be very interested in seeing it and understanding how they came up with those number.

Media Research Center did a six month analysis, and it's not how you find it you say far right, it's terms. They use the term far right one hundred and sixty two times, far left six times. That's a ninety six to four percent skew. You're also aware that you covered the GOP and Democratic National Conventions in twenty twenty four. Yes, we did, okay, Interestingly, seventy two percent of the coverage of the GOP convention was negative. Eighty eight percent of the Democratic Convention was positive. Shouldn't be surprising when you have anchors like I'm the noat who described the Republican rhetoric as quote outright racism end quote, echoing white supremacy, mis mayor NPR. You believe your reporters are fair. You said you're fair, and they're working at it.

I believe that they work to be every day sir. They're non biased. And yet you have the voter registration issue. I mean, we're all human beings. We're all going to see through the world through a certain lens.

And are you aware of any Republicans, any registered Republicans in your newsroom?

I couldn't say registered, but I know we have conservatives in our newsroom.

Yes, Okay, So the recent registration when it was looked at eighty seven Democrats and zero Republicans.

Register, I found that very concerntive.

Yeah, I would not even forty to thirty or fifty to twenty eighty seven to zero. But it shouldn't be surprising when their own CEO says things like I'm so done with Late States capitalism or cause the President of the United States a deranged racist sociopath, or that America's addicted to white supremacy. So billions have gone into both of your coffers over the last several decades. And I understand why Democrats on this committee are going to viciously and vehemently defend you all because you become a propaganda wing of the Democratic Party. Sixty seven percent of your viewers and listeners identify as Democrat, with only twelve percent conservative, and you've become a sandbox for leftists propag and is to frolic on taxpayer diamond no more. And when you said in the beginning you're going to promote a symphony of ideological viewpoints, yeah you do. If you're left leaning left far.

Left there remarkably watch and stay, you'll back.

You look at how this is all just coming out, and it's a breath of fresh air now to see these individuals have to answer questions that they've never had to answer before. They're having to answer these questions because their funding is about to run out. There are consequence for an election, and so they show up only because they have to, because they're afraid they're going to lose the money and if they lose the money, then what happens, and what happens their power and their influence and their state sponsored media, and it's over. It's game over. This is incredible. You look at again. I go back to the message thread for a second. We started the show with Jeff Goldberg and this whole thing and the Atlantic and everything else. John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, this is what he said about it today, and it just goes back to like, we're not afraid to have these conversations. We're not afraid to talk about saying. And by the way, Democrats, it's amazing. If they wouldn't have overplayed their hand on this signal conversation and they wouldn't have said it was classified information, they wouldn't have said it was war plans, and they wouldn't have lied so much to build the story up. They may have actually gotten more traction out of it. But now they lied so much about it and said things that just aren't true. That is in these text threads, it is actually taking away from the story because they're so thirsty to end someone's career, they're so thirsty to try to destroy people. By Pete Headseth listen to the CIA director talking about this member he was on this threat.

Okay, it's on this signal threat. Listen to what he said.

You know, there's so much Let's talk about this Atlantic article and about things that were said and that could have happened, instead of a focus on what did happen. So my responsibility as CIA director, one of its responsibilities is to kill terrorists, and that's exactly what I did along with President Trump's excellent national security team. That's what we should be focused on with regard to that article. I also would appreciate the opportunity to relay the fact that yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from senators.

As a result of that article that.

Were intimating that I transmitted classified information because there were hidden messages. Those messages were revealed today and revealed that I did not transmit classified information, and that the reporter, who I don't know, I think, intentionally intended it to indicate that that reporter also indicated that I had released the name of an undercover CIA operative in that signal channel. In fact, I had released the name of my chief of staff, who is not operating undercover.

That was deliberately false.

And misleading, and I appreciate the opportunity to reflect that my answers haven't changed. I used an appropriate channel to communicate sensitive information it was permissible to do so. I didn't transfer any classified information. And at the end of the day, what is most important is that the mission was a remarkable success. Is what everyone should be focused on here, because that's what did happen, not what possibly could have happened.

I love John Ratcliffe for this job because he's so smart.

I've known him for years. He's one of the smartest guys I know. And the way that he just.

Responds there making it very clear that you guys are talking about all these things it didn't happen, all these scenarios that didn't happen. You're doing all of these things saying all of these things that did not actually happen. You're over playing your hand by the way the White House pressinger Terry Caroline Levitt exposing Senator.

Warner I played him earlier and his fake outrage.

She blasted him for using signal to set up a contact with a disgraced Steel DOSSI, a author as there said, no one should be using signal.

The White House throwing facts out today.

Listen, and here's just one example of how bad faith the Democrat's criticisms are. Democrat Senator Mark Warner is hysterical over the use of Signal, which is an approved acryptid app in the killing of who they terrorists, But Senator Warner himself used signal to work with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch to connect with it, to connect the disgraced Steele dossier author who's he arded the Russia hoax, which Jeffrey Goldberg later reported on how ironic. We're not going to lose focus of the bottom line, which is that Joe Biden's weakness enabled and emboldened hoothy terrorists, and President Trump's strength and resolve eliminated those terrorists.

Yeah.

I love the way that she also describes it there.

Not only is Warner like a scumbag and full of blank for actually using signal to set up a contact with a disgrace still D'SCIA author, but they also don't care that, oh, by the way, we were actually killing terrorists that you guys should have killed when you were in charge, but refused to kill. So if you want to know who's side they're on, if you want to know it side they are on. This is what you need to know, Like, this is it.

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