U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responds to yesterday’s article by the New York Times, revealing a second controversy in the last few weeks involving him potentially revealing classified material to individuals without a security clearance over the messaging app Signal, with him telling a reporter, “What a big surprise that a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax, won't give back their Pulitzers, they got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies - This is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.”