Legendary Pentagon Reporter Warns Pete Hegseth Is About to Run Into a ‘Buzzsaw of Trouble’

Legendary retired Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr spoke to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s latest defense of his press crackdown at the Pentagon, putting in place new restrictions on journalists that have led to every outlet but one being forced out of the building.

Collins noted Hegseth defended his new rules, which restrict journalists for soliciting or obtaining any information not explicitly cleared by the Pentagon, during a press event at the White House on Tuesday. “And to what Secretary Hegseth had said about how these new rules would affect that,” Collins said, introducing the clip.

Hegseth says in the clip, “Maybe the policy should look like the White House or other military installations where you have to wear a badge that identifies that you’re press, or you can’t just roam anywhere you want. It used to be, Mr. President, the press could go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world.”