The Adam Mockler Show - Hegseth LOSES CONTROL as WAR BACKFIRES!!

Episode Date: May 9, 2026

Chris Mowrey filling in for Adam Mockler breaks down growing signs of chaos surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as criticism mounts over the Iran war, internal paranoia, and increasingly defensive public appearances. From tense exchanges with reporters to reports of isolation inside the Pentagon, the pressure appears to be taking a toll. Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: [e-mail] Business inquiries: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And I feel like lately that has caused Pete Hegseth to lash out, also considering the fact that the Iran war is a complete disaster. And we recently had like a really interesting story about Pete Hegseth and Pete Hegsett's wife. I'm about to play this video. And then after that, we'll talk about it and play some other clips from Pete Hegseth of recent. Before we get into all of this, our secret.

of war, the former Fox News host who is probably an alcoholic. This is, what a great time in America. I want to let you know that my name is Chris Maurer. You've never seen me here before. You clicked on this channel and you're like, who? I thought it was Adam Mochler. That's all right. Adam's here.

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two million subscribers, which is absolutely unbelievable. Adam and I appreciate each and every one of you guys so, so, so much. When you hit like and subscribe, it really helps the video, helps us push out into the outrun. So let's start here with Pete Hegseth recently. This is, this is a fascinating one. Take a listen. I broke the news about Pete Hegss's wife wearing a sheen dress to the White House correspondent's dinner. Now, I'm the subject of a large-scale right-wing smear campaign. Let's talk about it. The wife of Peth Hegeseth, the Trump-appointed Secretary of Defense, wore a dress listed only on Sheen and Timu to the White House Correspondence Dinner.

I reverse image searched it and I found the listings. Besides the ethical implications of buying from sites like these, if you're married to the guy who takes an aggressive America first position and anti-China stance in foreign policy, you should not be wearing clothing imported from China. I thought Maga was supposed to support American manufacturing, but clearly not. This story is picked up by press, and the right wing feels so threatened by what was a simple observation of mine that they feel the need to attempt a smear campaign against a teenager in the right wing press. It's not working because I look really cool on this. That is absolutely nuts.

And again, I feel like this is such a good example of where the Republican Party is at. No values, no morals. Just attack, attack, attack, whoever attacks Donald Trump and the leadership of the cult, they must be taken down. at all cost. There is no, hey, maybe Pete Excess shouldn't be doing this and his wife, if they actually consider themselves America. First, and it's very similar to Donald Trump. I actually remember before the 2024 election making a video in Trump Tower in, maybe that was Las Vegas, I think, or Trump, whatever the stupid, he's got a lot of buildings. That's like Trump International, something, something. And like 70% of the stuff in his store was not made in the United States

as he was running on this hole. We need to make things in the United States and tariffs. I got kicked out of Trump Tower. But it was a lot. fun video. Let's go to some more videos of late of Pete Agsat, just lashing out. I mean, I cannot believe sometimes that the American people accept this and accept this type of behavior from our leadership. It is, it's atrocious. March 1st, six army soldiers, including a constituent of mine, were killed by an Iranian drone strike. Do you take any responsibility for those deaths? I was there at Dover when they came back. Of course, I take responsibility for every aspect

of this mission. Well, I appreciate that. Because you also complained about the fact. that tragic things happen. The news makes it front page news. The press only wants to make the president look bad. Is it about the soldiers or is it about the president looking bad? It's not just the president who wants, or the media that wants to make them look bad. It's you. It's actually about the soldiers and it's frankly reprehensible that you would make that statement. Yeah, exactly. We're being led by a bunch of children. And Pete Hegseth, again, just like the rest of them, is we'll make it about Trump at any level.

And Donald Trump and all of these people, they don't care about any of us. They certainly don't care about the soldiers who have lost their lives. And the fact that right here he has an opportunity to say something else about the soldiers, but instead decides to say the media wants to make Trump look bad is insanity.

And we're going to get to in a second. Like he's paranoid. Just like Cash Patel, we have the reporting, so scared that he's going to lose his job. We've seen Cash Patel at the FBI starting to essentially do, what's the word? When you hook someone up to a machine, like a lie detector, there's a word for that. If you made it this far in the video, give me the name for the test. I'm blanking on the name. Regardless, just trying to, you know, basically make the inner circle smaller, trying to get

rid of leaks. Pete Hague Seth is paranoid. Cash Patel has been drinking and is paranoid. And it's all at the past of Donald Trump. It's all about making sure you keep your job. And then unfortunately, I called Pete, I called General Kane, I called a lot of our great people. We have great people. And I said, let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that for 47 years has been just a purveyor of terror. And they're very close to having a nuclear weapon.

We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60 is no end. Or we can take a stop and make a little general weapon. journey into the Middle East and eliminate a big problem. And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, let's do it because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon. So we are now having really good discussions. They started last night, a little bit, the night before that. So Pete Hague Seth was, I guess, the first one, according to Donald Trump, to speak up, demand we do this. Donald Trump, you know, again, no, can't take any responsibility. Let's throw Pete Hegset under the bus, especially as this war has, you know, gone from, oh, it's going to end in two to

three weeks. Now it's been eight weeks. Obviously, oil prices are exploding. It's unclear that we've really made any progress in whatever goals the administration has lined out, uh, outlined, excuse me, which those goals are still incredibly confusing. Um, let's listen to Tim Dillon here. I think it's interesting how the culture has shifted so much on this and it might not seem like a big thing, but it really is in terms of where the kind of average person is at, Tim Dillon, a very well-known comedian slash kind of right-wing figure, and he has been going off on this administration. He was recently talking about Pete Heggseth. Take a listen to this. Get Pete Heggseth up. This guy, he's coming out every few days and going, we're winning this

war, and there's no evidence of that. Every few days Pete Heggseth comes out and says something more ludicrous about what we're going to do to the Iranians. He's like, we're gonna we're gonna skin them and you're like well we're not doing anything actually he said something um that was uh he's like we uh we're sharing the ocean with the iranians to we're giving we're giving them the floor tonight they're getting the floor of the ocean it's like this guy doesn't talk like a secretary of defense i'm sorry secretary of war which i don't know how good he is at And yeah, I mean, the whole thing is an embarrassment. And the reason that America is not just going to walk away from this

is because, you know, it would really show the world that the American Empire is in a stage of terminal decline. And our dollar would probably be in trouble. Here's Pete Heggsath saying we hold the cards, which, by the way, that means like nukes. What are the cards? Pete Hegseth, everyone, friend of the show. Yeah, not only has Pete Hegseth and the administration, and continue to say, you know, we've won. Donald Trump's declared victory, like over 20 times now.

I know that for a fact. And they say, we've won, we've won. You know, we're going to, you know, threaten to eliminate them from the face of the planet if they don't do what we want. And then, you know, just moving the goalposts as, again, we threaten war crimes on another country. It's just all such a disgrace to the United States.

But also, when it comes to the cards, like if you're in Iran's position right now, objectively Iran has the card. So Iran is the one with an incredible amount of leverage. I mean, they've gone through eight weeks of this. Their regime is not toppled. They're making tons of money because they control the straight of Hormuz, which is the main leverage point of all of this. Iran obviously controls it. So they have an immense amount of leverage, and they're making more money than they did before the war started. The U.S. lifted oil

sanctions because oil supply has obviously become such a problem. So now Iran's making more money. The regime hasn't collapsed, and they have the one piece of leverage, the main piece of leverage. again, you start to question, and I don't even know if Donald Trump is like how competent, well, we all know he's not competent. My question on a daily basis whether he actually has any understanding of what's going on on the ground. Is he knowing that he's lying about it all the time, or is he like at least partly in complete delusion and being told that, like, victory is here?

We know he's been, you know, his administration has shown him like briefings of just like 60-second montages of things blowing up because he's a little child, and that's how you have to explain things to him. But things are not going well, and we don't have somebody who can explain the American people at any level where we go from here. This is Pete Egg's at thing as about Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson has spoken out extensively on this war in Donald Trump. And again, I don't think Tucker Carlson is someone we should trust, but they were former, you know, Fox News host together. In parts of the party, particularly from your fellow Fox News alum, Tucker Carlson, he called the war disgusting and evil and then set of unconditional surrender, which the president has called

for, means foreign troops get to rape your wives and daughters. Have you heard these comments, and what's your reaction to them? We're busy executing on behalf of great patriotic Americans with a clear mission that's 47 years overdue. We're going to execute on that regardless of what people say about it. Yeah, right here. This talking point is so absurd to me. I keep like this is the only PR they can run on this. Again, the judge. justification for all this is confusing. The only PR we can run on this is it's 47 years overdue. It's like if it was 47 years overdue, it's crazy that Donald Trump didn't want to mention that for the entire time he was running. In fact, he said he wasn't going to get into any new wars.

A month before the election, he was on a podcast, I'm not how we couldn't possibly initiate regime change war in Iran because we can't even quote, we can't even take care of our people here. So it's like no one I took, no Trump supporter I talked to, and I talked to a lot of them. It's about TikTok live, you know, in person traveling around the country. No one. mentioned to me a 47-year overdue war with Iran. It's just such, such on it. It's no shame. No shame. No morals, no values. Was our concern that something- I'm going to pause you there. I'm going to give a chance. I'm going to give you a chance. I'm asking you whether you think they're liars or not. You and you are disparaging me that I don't care about the passing of our troops. Nope. I asked you

thought they're liars. That's disparaging and smearing in every way. Nobody cares more about the fate of our troops. Nobody cares about the health of our troops. Mr. Secretary, nobody wants to bring them all whole more than I. Mr. Secretary, I understand, but he controls the time. He controls the time. You get to control your answer. And the gentleman's ready. If we're allowed to answer. Mr. Chairman, thank you.

Secretary, my question was clear whether you thought they were liars or not. You don't seem to want to answer it. We can move on. Yeah, like, again, this says at the top here, Pete Hexth is so out of control while being questioned about his illegal behavior. The bar for leadership at any level in this country is in hell. It's below hell. I mean, this person is acting like a child when he's being asked really objectively hard questions. This isn't about you and whether you feel disparaged or need to prove to other people that you care, which you certainly don't.

You're willing at any level to suck up to Donald J. Trump and to keep your job. But frankly, that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We're here talking about what's going on overseas that you have so much control over. like can you, you know, be a grown adult and stick to the topic? I don't know, maybe swallow your ego for just a second. No, because again, the bar for leadership is in hell. And again, like I said earlier, he's so paranoid. Check out this article from this week. Pete Egg Seth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings after he ousted top officials. And we scroll down here. Secretary of

Defense Pete Heg Seth is now bringing his wife to meetings with Pentagon staffers and his inner as his inner circle grows tighter according to a report. The move comes as Hegset has faced increased criticism and ousted more than two dozen Pentagon officials in recent weeks. It also comes as Hegseth leads the nation's efforts in the Iran war and constantly promotes the success the U.S. has had in its attacks. Hegset has now grown increasingly isolated within the Pentagon, according to The Guardian. Hexeth has also expressed fear and paranoia about Donald Trump firing him. The report noted, and we have heard this pretty much exact line for multiple different reports about multiple different administration officials. I mean, obviously Donald Trump demands loyalty,

and if he feels like things aren't going the right way and you're not being absolutely loyal to him at every level, you are out. And if you bring him trouble, you are out. And so now Hegg Seth, with this paranoia, firing people, who brought his wife, Jennifer, a former, also former Fox News producer, or excuse me, a former Fox News producer, obviously Pete Egg Seth was a Fox News personality, to some meetings as she sits in the back of the room. It's unclear if Jennifer had any role at the meetings or was just there to observe. I guess in this instance would not be out of the realm of possibilities for Pete Hegst's wife to have some role in the meeting, even though her only qualification is being a Fox News producer. But again, that's his only real qualification, especially at this level in government. So, I mean, what are we talking about here?

Hegsef has also filled his inner circle with his brother, Phil, who was appointed a senior advisor and attorney Tim Perator, I believe, Perletor, who has represented both Hegset and Trump, according to the report. So we will see what happens. I will keep you updated here on the item Ockler channel and also on my YouTube channel. I mean a lot if you hit like and subscribe down below. Let me know what you think of all of this in the comments down below. And I just remember, the word I was looking for earlier was polygraph test. He submitted, I don't know why that just popped in my head. Cash Patel and I know Pete Heggseth and a lot of these other people administering polygraph test

to the people highest up to try to stop the leaks. They are paranoid. If you enjoy this video, let me know in the comments down below. And like and subscribe. Make sure you check out my YouTube channel. And I will see you in the next video.