Fox host Brian Kilmeade: Pete Hegseth sharing sensitive military information with his family could be part of a “learning curve”
Kilmeade: “Should you be saying that to friends and family? That's another thing.”
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From the April 22, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): The New York Times this morning has a little more background. Before the story broke on Sunday night, the president and Pete spoke on the phone before it was published, and the president told Pete that leakers were to blame and that the president had Pete's back. And then he told the team to defend Pete. Let's say it's the leakers, and that essentially is, those are the marching orders from the White House, from the president. He blames the leakers for smearing Pete Hegseth, who you will hear from exclusively in less than an hour.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Yeah. And by the way, totally accurate. If it wasn't for the leakers leaking out the Signal chat, then nobody would know this. Number two is, it was a secure line that they're talking. Should you be saying that to friends and family? That's another thing. It also could be part of a learning curve. And if this predated the whole thing with the Atlantic writer, then you have something that is a story that came out about something that happened during the confirm — as early as the confirmation process. So I think going forward, I think that people gotta help him out with staffing. And get people you can depend on. And it would help if everyone got in the same, same line. The other problem is there are people in the Pentagon that want to, very fervent that Iran can't be trusted and needs to have their weapons taken out. And other people are pushing for talks. And within the Pentagon, maybe people are jockeying for influence by going after people that disagree with them.