See it: Trump’s Pentagon chief on troops arresting Americans — Dem lawmaker on ‘nuclear’ options
MSNBC·2025-06-12 00:06
Defense Secretary Hegsth grilled over the military deployments. He's under oath here on Capitol Hill. And while some of this may still be a cross between dodging a question or trying to match the president's rhetoric, we are seeing again the normalizing or softening of the kind of lines that Pentagon chiefs in every administration and party would always be able to emphatically say, "No, of course we don't use troops domestically to arrest American citizens." But yet here was the version of the answer today. ...