Fox’s Brit Hume says Pete Hegseth’s attacks on Jennifer Griffin "was unfair”
Hume: “Her professionalism, her knowledge, and her experience at the Pentagon is unmatched and I have had and still have the greatest regard for her”
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From the June 26, 2025, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
BRIT HUME (FOX NEWS CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST): Well, I was very impressed especially with General Caine, whose description of how the, as Jennifer has just outlined, of how the targeters in the Pentagon going back what, 15 years, have planned for this moment. The B-2 had been built for this moment and the bunker buster bombs had been too, for this very moment. And I think it's fair to say that the problem with that earlier report that leaked out of the Defense Intelligence Agency was that it wasn't really plausible that ordinance of this capacity that had been tested to the extent it could be by the U.S. Military and that so far as we could tell struck the target precisely, would have done only limited damage. It was obviously a preliminary report and as Jennifer pointed out in her reporting when it first came out it was low confidence and it seems to have deserved low confidence based on all we've heard since. Final reports are yet to be heard but it was an impressive briefing especially by General Caine. And I'd like to say a word if I may, Dana, about Jennifer griffin who was attacked by the Defense Secretary today. An attack she certainly in my view did not deserve. Her professionalism, her knowledge, and her experience at the Pentagon is unmatched and I have had and still have the greatest regard for her. The attack on her was unfair.