{"id":202140,"date":"2026-01-01T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202140"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:23:28","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-democrats-slam-administration-over-attacks-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202140","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth says he \u2018didn\u2019t stick around\u2019 to watch second strike on alleged drug boat as Democrats slam administration over attacks \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary says he \u2018moved on to my next meeting\u2019 as sensitive military operation was under way; top Democrat calls Hegseth \u2018spineless\u2019 and \u2018a national embarrassment\u2019. This blog is now closed.White House \u2018selling out\u2019 admiral to shield Hegseth over strikes, officials sayTrump threatens strikes on any country he claims makes drugs for USJoseph Gedeon is a politics breaking news reporter based in WashingtonThe FBI director&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/02\/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-boat-venezuela-maduro-tennessee-us-politics-live-news-updates\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary says he \u2018moved on to my next meeting\u2019 as sensitive military operation was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202140-pete-hegseth-says-he-didnt-stick-around-to-watch-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-as-dem6956e5ee5b22c.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}