Fox News Panel Goes Off the Rails After Pod Save America Host Suggests Pete Hegseth Drunkenly Shared Classified Info

Pod Save America co-host and former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor suggested Defense Secretary — and former Fox host — Pete Hegseth of drinking on the job during a wild segment on the network Friday.

Vietor joined Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich and OutKick founder Clay Travis during the afternoon to discuss recent comments by former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.

Walz said Thursday that Democrats needed to double down on identity politics and also called for the left to operate a “shadow government.”

Heinrich played clips of the Minnesota Governor’s remarks and asked her guests to discuss them before Vietor attacked Fox News and invoked the ongoing Signalgate controversy.

Vietor questioned if Hegseth had been drinking alcohol when he and other Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military information in a Signal group chat with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg mistakenly added.

Heinrich said, “All right, Tommy, I just want to start with you between insisting that, you know, the Democrats didn’t do enough to own DEI and immigration, but now also calling for a shadow government. I mean, is this who you want as the face spokesman for the party right now?”

Vietor attacked Hegseth and Fox in his response:

Well, a shadow government doesn’t mean a scary government. I think he means the British version where you have like a person waiting for all the senior Cabinet positions going forward. But regarding DEI, let me tell you who would not have put classified information about the Houthi bombing campaign in the Signal group chat. CQ Brown, who was the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until Pete Hegseth fired him.

America doesn’t have a DEI problem right now. We have a competency problem because we have a Fox News Weekend anchor named Pete Hegseth, who, you tell me, may or may not have been tipsy at the time he was sending around this classified information, breaking all the rules, putting at risk service members, and making terrible decisions while Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, is adding journalists to the group chat.

Visibly vexed by Vietor’s comments, Heinrich accused him of deflecting.

She cut him off during his response and offered the floor to Travis before abruptly ending the discussion moments later.

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