About ‘Wardy’: American defense sec Pete Hegseth ripped the former Fox News colleague on Iran’s question – clock

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday ripped the Fox News reporter and his former aide Jennifer Griffin, saying that he is “worst” in the media when it comes to reporting on American bomb blasts of many Iranian nuclear sites. Addressing the press briefing organized by the Pentagon on Operation Midnight Hunter, Hegseth said that Griffin was certainly the most high-profile journalist to incorrectly present “what the President says” about the operation.The comment came after Griffin, the Chief National Security Correspondent of Fox News, who has been with the channel for more than 25 years, questioned Hegseth how effective the strikes were and what was certain that during the US strikes had highly rich uranium in the Fordo Nuclear facility, given that satellite images had captured the truck two days ago.“Do you have certainty that all highly rich uranium were inside the Fordo Mountains?” Griffin asked. “Are you sure that none of highly rich uranium was transferred?”Hegseth, a former Fox and Friends co-mazan, looked clearly irritated by the question, causing him a sharp reaction. “Of course, we are looking at every aspect. But, Jennifer, you are about the worst. He who presents the most wrongly, intentionally, what the President says.”In response to Hegseth’s comments, Griffin stood by her reporting on Fordo, stating that she was the first time to expand the B -2 bombers, their midar fuel and the overall mission, “So I raise the issue with it.”He is not the first member of the Trump administration to attack and discredit the media on questions on the effectiveness of Iran’s attacks. After the initial assessment leaked by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, it suggested that the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites last week may have left the main components of the facilities of persistence to a large extent, and that Iran’s nuclear program has been essentially set back to months instead of “oblique”. President Trump expressed disappointment with media outlets such as CNN and New York Times to question the success of the operation, labeled them for their coverage.Other members of his administration, including Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, have dismissed the report as false, stating that the US intelligence confirms the information that the sites were “destroyed”.