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It must be difficult for a man like Pete Hegseth, a former cable news host accustomed to the positive feedback loop from producers and fans, to drop a zinger of a line and receive little to nothing back from the audience.
That was the defense secretary’s experience, multiple times, as he addressed the 800 or so general and flag officers who had been hastily recalled from every post around the globe for the in-person event on Tuesday morning.
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
