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Mar 19, 2026

Hegseth Gives Unhinged Pentagon Update While Trump War Gets Costlier

Pete Hegseth stormed to the podium to defend Donald Trump’s Iran war, attack the media, and demand billions more for the conflict, but the briefing quickly revealed the rising gas prices, growing protests, furious allies, and the dangerous ideology driving an administration that looks more desperate by the day.
  • 15 minutes

The Watchlist with Jayar Jackson: March 19, 2026

Behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Pam Bondi dodged a sworn deposition on the Epstein files and tried to hide in a secretive House Oversight briefing, but Democrats like Maxwell Frost and Melanie Stansbury say the locked-out briefing only made the cover-up around Donald Trump look worse than ever.
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  • 11 minutes
James Comer chaired what quickly turned into a sham briefing on Pam Bondi and the Epstein files, but when Summer Lee demanded he enforce his own subpoena and put Bondi under oath, Comer snapped, hurled insults, and the confrontation blew up into a walkout.
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  • 9 minutes
Donald Trump throws Israel under the bus after the South Pars gas field strike triggers a dangerous Middle East escalation, leaving the White House, the Pentagon, and U.S. allies forced to explain why his own statements keep contradicting what officials are saying about the war.
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Pete Hegseth stormed to the podium to defend Donald Trump’s Iran war, attack the media, and demand billions more for the conflict, but the briefing quickly revealed the rising gas prices, growing protests, furious allies, and the dangerous ideology driving an administration that looks more desperate by the day.
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  • 15 minutes
At a heated Senate hearing, Markwayne Mullin’s push for power inside Trump’s Republican Party spirals as Rand Paul confronts his past threats, Kristi Noem’s DHS shakeup raises alarms, and Capitol Hill erupts over what critics say is another dangerous nominee backed by the same MAGA machine driving Washington chaos.
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  • 11 minutes