Greg Jaffe

Trump cancels planned livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution.

This was written by Katie Rogers, Tyler Pager, John Ismay, and Greg Jaffe.

President Trump on Thursday canceled the Pentagon's planned live stream of the execution of the Army officer who was convicted in the two thousand nine Fort Hood mass shooting.

Pentagon officials said last week that the execution of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed thirteen people and wounded thirty-two others at Fort Hood, Texas, would be broadcast via live stream, a decision Mr. Trump initially said he supported.

Only the warrior ethos.

While Hegseth still champions the policies he came in with, our guest, veteran Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe, says Hegseth's performance is generating increasing blowback from members of Congress, including some Republicans.

Hegseth's firing and sidelining of senior military officers and his lack of communication about those moves and the nearly eight-month-old war in Iran has left many on Capitol Hill unwilling to approve his budget requests or confirm his nominees for Pentagon posts.

Unbowed, Hegseth has announced new initiatives.

Among them, construction of a massive new military base in the United States and Project Meridian, a study of the future of warfare with key roles for Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich.

Greg Jaffe covers the Pentagon and the United States military for The New York Times.

Before joining the Times, he spent 13 years at The Wall Street Journal and 15 years at The Washington Post.

He's also the author of The Fourth Star, a book about four Army generals who commanded US troops in Iraq.

I don't understand.

Greg Jaffe is a good piece.

I believe you had this one from the New York Times, that Hegseth is talking tough, but the New York Times couched this in the...

And this is what I mean about their headlines being crappy.