Puck News Chief Political Columnist John Heilemann and Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama Ben Rhodes join Nicolle Wallace to discuss new reporting from the Washington Post that the White House has ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to stop polygraphing staff,

The White House was forced to intervene to put an end to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s routine use of polygraph tests on his own staff. According to The Washington Post, a top aide to the Defense chief complained to the White House that he could be subject to a lie detector as Hegseth’s campaign to stamp out the endless Pentagon media leaks raged.

A current adviser to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth alerted senior officials in the Trump administration of the use of polygraphs to find leakers at the Pentagon.