CNN NEWSNIGHT WITH ABBY PHILLIP
11/12/24
10:06 PM
SCOTT JENNINGS: Does anybody have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon and the way the defense situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean- from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We’ve had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt which wound up killing an American service member. I’d say I’ve had just about enough of the so-called insiders running the Defense Department and I think we ought to give Pete Hegseth a chance.
CARL BERNSTEIN: You think that’s about- that’s about insiders?
JENNINGS: All the criticism of him is that he’s not the expected Washington pick and I am just saying to you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So I- he’s got 20 years in service. Afghanistan, Iraq. two Bronze Stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he’s on TV but so are the rest of us, and I think he ought to be given a chance.
