# Hegseth Under Fire Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-this-morning-5778810/hegseth-under-fire Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-this-morning-5778810/hegseth-under-fire.md Podcast: [CNN This Morning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-this-morning-5778810) Published: 2026-09-03T13:29:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/2nzGkisFXQswLYT5s325/traffic.megaphone.fm/WMHY3065112784.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/2nzGkisFXQswLYT5s325/traffic.megaphone.fm/WMHY3065112784.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cnn-this-morning-5778810/episodes/hegseth-under-fire Duration seconds: 2909 ## Resource A Republican senator who voted to confirm Pete Hegseth now wants him fired for "inept management of the military." Could President Trump throw Hegseth under the bus? ... Senators are getting ready to return to DC. Will Mitch McConnell be one of them? Some of his closest confidants are now skeptical ... The president promises to hit the road to get Republicans elected. But wouldn't they rather have some of that campaign cash instead?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cnn-this-morning-5778810/episodes/hegseth-under-fire/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-this-morning-5778810/hegseth-under-fire.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.