Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream about the recent firing of top lawyers for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force—a move that has sparked backlash and raised concerns over the potential politicization of the country's armed forces.

Hegseth is hardly the only prominent Republican official who has dodged the question since President Donald Trump outrageously claimed that Ukraine “started” the war. Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, also repeatedly refused to answer the question.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took questions from reporters after a meeting with Saudi Defense Minister Khalid Bin Salman.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commented on reports of a "list" of officers he plans to remove from the Pentagon during an interview on "FOX News Sunday." SHANNON BREAM: OK. I got to ask you about this rumored list of people that you allegedly put together that were all going to be cleaned out.

If you fire the people in charge of telling you that you’ve asked the military to do something illegal, it makes it seem like you might be up to something ... illegal.

Fox News host Shannon Bream confronted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to take a "victory lap" because the Kremlin believes President Donald Trump "abandoned Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth firings of Army, Navy and Air Force JAGs as ensuring "they don't exist to be roadblocks to... anything that happens."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz both refused to call Russia the aggressor in the Ukrainian war, in separate interviews three years after Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there is "nothing unprecedented" about President Donald Trump firing and replacing Department of Defense officials, during an interview on "FOX News Sunday." "There are lots of presidents who've made changes from FDR to Eisenhower to H.

Pete Hegseth revealed the dismissal of top military lawyers was intended to remove “roadblocks” to the Trump administration’s agenda and shake up the way the armed forces are run. In an interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday,

Jonah Goldberg argues that the question of whether Russia invaded Ukraine is straightforward, yet complicated by political dynamics, particularly within the GOP, due to Trump's influence.