The Harry Sisson Show - Hegseth PANICS As Leak Exposes EVERYTHING

Episode Date: September 19, 2026

Harry Sisson breaks down the latest leak on Pete Hegseth and Trump.

This right here is truly one of the most disgusting leaks I've seen from the Trump administration. I think every American probably feels the same way or you will feel that way after we go through this story. It's something that you should absolutely know about and it's part of the ongoing cover-up that the Trump administration is engaging in. Specifically, Donald Trump, Pete Hagseth, Markerubio, J.D. Vance, all those guys are participating in this. We are now learning that more U.S. troops have died in the Iran war than the Pentagon has

disclosed publicly. Pete Hagseth is out there saying that the war has gone great. Donald Trump is out there saying that the war has gone great. Meanwhile, there are Americans dying that the Pentagon has not confirmed. So we're going to get into the story. We're going to talk about this exclusive from the Washington Post. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about the story. And let's be clear about something before we get started.

This is not the first time that Pete Hagseth has been caught covering something up. We know that they've also withheld dozens of U.S. military injuries in the Iran war. I mean, check out some of these numbers. In the week leading up to the Iranian attack, this was back in July, by the way. In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday, that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan. Iran carried out three other strikes against U.S. forces in the country. Those attacks injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters,

according to several U.S. officials who spoke anonymously. The Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and the damage they inflicted. Yet later on Monday on social media, its chief spokesman said that the number of U.S. military casualties from Iranian strikes since July 7th has raised to nearly a hundred. So this is not new for Donald Trump and Pete Hegsef. They've done this in the Iran war. They continue to do it in the Iran war because Donald Trump doesn't want the numbers going higher. He will not honor our fallen service members, by the way, who are fallen because of a war that we did not have to be in that he got us into because he doesn't want the numbers to go up. And that is appalling. It is

disgusting. It is every word you can possibly think of, so let's get into it. This is from the Washington Post, and Pete Hggseth. I'm going to show you his response in just a moment, has already raged about the report. More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing war with Iran than the Pentagon has disclosed, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department's internal casualty accounting data. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities, which is four more than what appears in the Pentagon's public database. Right now, it's 18. According to these officials, it's 22. A sixth official, who like others spoke anonymously, said 23 service members have died

since February 28th when the Trump administration, in concert with Israel, initiated the Iran war. Not all of the undisclosed deaths are directly tied to the conflict, but have involved U.S. personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities, the person said. Additionally, the official said three U.S. contractors who were based in the region have died since combat operations began, bumping numbers just generally in this war up even further. As a Friday, the Pentagon's DCAS database lists 18 U.S. military fatalities, including deaths caused by hostile and non-hustile action dating to the start of the Iranian conflict. Like, think about this for a second. I always have to pause when I read stories about this because it's so easy to get numb to the many

different scandals, leaks that come out about the Trump administration every day. It's really easy to just like have them be brushed over in the constant 24-7 news cycle. Donald Trump is covering up the deaths of American service members. This is a man who has never touched a uniform. None of his family members have ever touched a uniform. Matter of fact, Donald Trump has dodged the draft five times. He doesn't know what it means to serve. He has no concept of what that is. And he has no idea what it means to honor those who have served and continue to serve. And so he's focused on the politics. He's saying, I don't want the numbers to be 22 or 23, according to that sixth official. Let's keep it where it is. And Pete Hegseth is right there. I mean, he's the head of the Pentagon.

He's right there in covering this up. Details surrounding the undisclosed deaths, including the service members' identities, as well as when, how, and where they died remain unclear. Officials familiar with the higher casualty number expressed frustration that the additional loss of life is not reflected in the Pentagon's public casualty portal, as I think every American should be. The Pentagon declined to address questions about the accounting discrepancy, but Pete Hegseth made sure to issue his response on social media, saying, this is disgusting and fake, a complete lie, shame on the Washington Post, they're worse than the Iranian state media. That is how our government is responding to concerns that they are covering up the deaths of American

service members by ranting and raving on social media. Notice how there is no debunking in here. Pete Hegseth does not provide any receipts, any facts or reports or anything backing up his claim here, that it's a lie. It's completely fake and it's disgusting. He doesn't provide any of that. He just rants at the Washington Post and hits them with a, well, you're no better than Iranian state media, which almost is like a confirmation from this administration. Whenever Trump does that same thing, he insults a reporter, it ends up being true. And that's why, you know, this is part of the many different reasons. But one of the many reasons is to why Heggseth is on the verge of getting impeached. Democrats recently had the votes to impeach beat Hegseh,

And then in response, what did Mike Johnson do? He immediately canceled all congressional votes until after the midterm elections. That's what he did. There is a top-down cover-up in this government where they all kind of look out for each other. You know, Mike Johnson has Pete Heg-Seth's back. Heg-Seth has the back of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson and all these different Republicans, it's a top-down cover-up of like a you scratch my back, I scratch yours, and that is not the way the government should be working.

But it is the way that this government under Donald Trump and these Republicans is working, and that is really concerning. But the good news is that, well, they can protect each other. They can engage in this cover up and we can get the reporting after it's already happened and we'll talk about it on the show when we get it. The good news is the American people see this for what it is. And that's why Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump and all of these different officials are completely underwater when it comes to their approval ratings.

For example, this is Harry Nten, CNN chief data analyst breaking down just how unpopular Pete Hegseth is. And this is not good for him. Where is HECS's popularity right now? You know, we start off the title slide asking, who hates Hegseth? And basically everyone, if you're in the American public, no wonder, no wonder the speaker sent everybody home

because just take a look here. Okay, Hegs SET's net approval. You know, back before the Iran War started back in January of 2026, right? It was minus nine points. You think that's, though. Look at this. He's more than twice as unpopular, nearly three times as unpopular now in his net approval rating,

minus 25 points. How about among Indeastern? You think that minus nine is all? How about minus 20 before the war started? You think that minus 20 is off? How about minus 43 points among independents now? No wonder, no wonder, no wonder, Speaker Johnson did not want his Republicans' representatives to actually have to vote on this because if they voted with the president, they'd be voting against the American public because the bottom line is Pete Hegsett is hated by basically everyone. How does that line up with other defense secretaries, though? Yeah, okay. So, you know, all of a sudden, the wheel. started turning. The wheels started turning. I went into the spreadsheets, Cape Ball, when I said, how does this compare to other defense secretaries? And you know what? Go back 20 years ago, because that's

really the only comparative case. Look at this. Okay, worst net approvals for secretaries of defenses. This minus 25 points for Pete Hexed. You know who that matches? That matches Donald Rumsfeld back in October of 2006, just before that midterm elections in which Republicans were absolutely crushed. Of course, he was dealing with the Iraq War. These are the two who were. are tied for the second lowest, and then Donald Rumsfeld just after that midterm election in which Republicans lost both the House and the Senate, that is the all-time low. Pete Hugg says ain't there yet, but he's certainly on the road to an all-time low based upon this Donald Rumsfeld comparison, and that is not a comparison that Republicans can possibly like.

Look, I'm going to be honest. I don't think there's any area of which you want to be compared to Donald Rumsfeld. But if you're thinking electorally, like how is my party going to do? especially not electorally. You do not. Your numbers should not be really in line with Donald Rumsfeld. And that's exactly where Pete Hegseth is sitting. And the thing is, it's not only the American people who don't respect him, who don't trust him, who no longer want him in the job.

It's his own subordinates. I mean, there's been a lot of leaks within this Pentagon. There's been a lot of conversation about people not liking Pete Hegseth, about it being complete and utter chaos behind the scenes. But Pentagon Pete's staff has now been mocking his wife, his wife and his family with brutal nicknames. Now, I'm not one to go after somebody's family. I try to stay away from that kind of stuff in politics.

That's just not who I am. But this is pretty bad. His own staff. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is being mocked by his own Pentagon staff, who have reportedly given his wife a brutal new nickname. Heg Seth met his third wife, Jennifer Rache, 49, when she was a producer on Fox and Friends, and he was co-hosting the show in 2017.

The pair started an affair that year. At the time, Hegsteth was married to his second wife, with whom he has three children. Heg Seth and Jennifer had a daughter in 2017 the same year Deering filed for divorce after marrying in 2019, Jennifer took Hegset's surname. Jennifer Hegset has inserted herself into her husband's professional life, sitting in on high-stake meetings at the Pentagon and even appearing with Donald Trump in the Oval Office last month. Now, an explosive new report claims that Pentagon Insiders are not only leaking about Heg-Seth's faltering capabilities, but also reveal a telling nickname for his wife. After allegedly roughing them the wrong way,

staffers are calling Jennifer Yoko Ono behind her back. Quote, now there isn't a woman with an extremely tight leash on the man that she's married, according to the Daily Mail. The nickname is a dated reference to Japanese artists and musician Ono, whose protective behavior and major personal influence over John Lennon saw her blame for the breakup of the Beatles. So quite a throwback nickname there for Pete Hegseth's wife, but that's what his own subordinates are calling him.

And also, congressional Republicans don't even want Pete Hegseth to be here. He had Republican Senator Tom Tillis calling for the removal of him saying he needs to go, whether it's impeachment or the most expedient route, is just the president replacing him. So he wants him gone. Congressional Republicans want him gone. And I think the dagger for Pete Hexeth will inevitably be the fact that Donald Trump is not coming to save him. Now, we can know this for a number of reasons. History tells us this.

Whenever a member of the Trump administration or somebody around Donald Trump is in trouble, what does he do? Well, you know, I didn't know them that well. you know, I didn't know about any of this. He was doing this completely separate for me. Donald Trump is quick to throw them under the bus. Donald Trump is quick to save himself and let them drown in the deep oceans. And I imagine that that's what Trump is going to do when Heggseth inevitably has to come in and testify about many of these things when Democrats, hopefully, fingers crossed, knock on wood, take control of Congress back again. And I'm hoping for the House and the Senate.

But we know that Donald Trump also has kind of a rocky relationship with him despite publicly claiming that it's great. We know that back in August, Donald Trump kind of lashed out at Pete Hegeseth for lying to him about the ammunition stockpile and how depleted it is right now. And then back in May of this year as well, Donald Trump called up Hegsef into the Oval Office, into the White House to scold him for his behavior at the Pentagon. So a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. But the main thing I wanted to talk about in this story is the fact that this administration is covering up the deaths of American service members. They do not care about them. they do not want to think about them.

And that is appalling to me as an American, and I imagine it is to you at home as well. So look, I will leave the video there. Thank you so much for watching. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about everything we just discussed. Let me know if there's anything I missed

that you wanted me to cover in this video that I didn't feel free to leave that in the comments as well. But have an amazing rest of your day, and we will talk soon.