On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth landed in Hawaii to meet with civilian and military leaders from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and to travel throughout the Pacific Theater to Guam, the Philippines, and Japan. The press corps on the tarmac first asked Hegseth about the purpose of this trip. Hegseth addressed Trump’s command to re-establish deterrence, and urged that this trip was of “critical importance.”
We’re out here to talk tour commanders and most importantly, to meet with the troops all across the Indo-Pacific, and our allies and partners too.
Earlier on Monday, The Atlantic broke a major story when editor Jeffrey Goldberg alleged that he had been accidentally added to a Signal text group with Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration national security team, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The writer claimed that…
