Hegseth calls for Sen. Mark Kelly to be investigated by Pentagon for second time

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated May 10, 2026, 10:59 PM ET
PUBLISHED May 10, 2026, 10:18 PM ET


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday called for Sen. Mark Kelly to be investigated over comments he made about US weapon stockpiles, marking the second time the Pentagon chief has opened a review into the Democratic senator.

Hegseth slammed the retired Navy captain and former astronaut for expressing concern on CBS’ “Face the Nation” over US weapons stockpiles amid the Iran war, saying Kelly was “blabbing on TV” about a classified Pentagon briefing. “Did he violate his oath…again? @DeptofWar legal counsel will review,” Hegseth posted on social media Sunday evening.

Kelly said earlier Sunday that following briefings by the Pentagon on munitions, including Tomahawks, ATACMS and Patriot rounds, he found it “shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.”

“We’ve expended a lot of munitions. And that means the American people are less safe. Whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted,” Kelly, who sits on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/politics/mark-kelly-pete-hegseth-pentagon-investigation

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Because of the war, depletion is easily deducible by anyone

including most members of the public.

[sop]

2. At least Kelly didn't reveal classified military information in a Signal chat.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Always projection with these guys.

[vapor2]

27. Then there's that

[GiqueCee]

3. Somebody's gonna...

... deal with that drunken loudmouth very harshly. Better update your resumé, Kegsbreath.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

6. He's begging for a fragging

And it would be well-deserved.

[GiqueCee]

7. I tried...

... to phrase it more delicately, but yeah, he'd deserve it. He's already done far more harm than good. And, by all accounts, he's a world-class prick.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. He may be "world class"

But it’s pretty obvious that his prick is tiny, since he’s constantly trying to compensate for it.

[travelingthrulife]

14. We cannot just fire these people. He needs to be prosecuted for war crimes and murder.

If we again let our criminals go free, we will never regain respect or authority in the world.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. So, stating

we "expended a lot of munitions" is something I know, and I have never sat in on any classified briefing.

Hegseth just confirmed what he has been denying, that they wasted a hell of a lot of weapons on Iran for no good reason.

[wolfie001]

10. tRUMP and this insane drunk killed a lot of Iranian schoolgirls

Vile pigs.

[travelingthrulife]

15. Don't forget the fishermen he whacked for no reason.

[wolfie001]

23. The list is so long. Children dying of disease and starvation worldwide

[BumRushDaShow]

12. "they wasted a hell of a lot of weapons on Iran for no good reason."

That's probably why we're not bombing right now and are instead hemming and hawing about the purported "ceasefire" still holding, and left doing big bad wolf huffing and puffing and threatening to blow their stone house down.. They apparently crossed the inventory red line.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. I think you put your finger on it

And Hegseth is looking for someone to blame (Yes, that makes no sense, but then nothing does in this maladministration).

[appmanga]

8. I recall this info being a newspaper headline weeks ago...

...and quoting published reports isn't sharing classified info. Whiskey Pete is a clown.

[canetoad]

33. Exactly

I read it too. Some 'secret'.

[Deuxcents]

11. Intentional harassment..is there such a thing against the law?

[angrychair]

16. Does realize

That Kelly isn't just some blogger but a sitting US Senator and he has the right to speak on any topic he wants unless it's expressly classified.

[malthaussen]

17. They'll keep running that play until they get it right. n/t

[niyad]

18. May he, and all his enablers and supporters, receive everything

they deserve.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. That dead horse is pulp by now

Go home Kegbreath, you're drunk again.

[Smackdown2019]

20. Bosses

1. US House of Representatives
2. US Senate
3. US President

All above are the Boss of Secretary of Defense.

It's just Trump he kisses the Asss each morning. Rest are impeachment overseers.

[republianmushroom]

21. How many time , in the future, will we be investigating Whiskey Pete ?

[tonekat]

22. Stop wasting my tax money on this crap!

Damn, all this failed administration can do is whine and seek some kind of "revenge" for law obeying citizens!!

[Pas-de-Calais]

24. Kegs breathe is a live version of SNL Jost version

[Owens]

25. Says the guy who shared military secrets on Signal chat app? That guy?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/hegseth-leaked-sensitive-attack-details-former-officials-say-00250518

[Skittles]

28. yes, the drunken rapist

that guy

[Skittles]

26. KEGSETH is the one who should be INVESTIGATED

[BadgerMom]

29. Sen. Kelly said he'd think over a Presidential run.

When Biden seemed as though he’d be the 2020 Dem candidate, Trump tried to bribe Zelenskyy to sully Biden. Trump was impeached. If Trump views Kelly as a strong Democratic possibility, he’s probably pressuring Hegseth every day to damage Kelly.

Just my thoughts.

[FullySupportDems]

30. Seems like someone ought to investigate Hegdeath for abuse of power

Isn't a political witch hunt by a secretary of defense against any law at all? Such obvious abuse of power. In your face abuse of power. Just crying into the void about it. So f'ed up.

[bluestarone]

31. These bastards time is coming. They (this whole administration) have tried to destroy

This HONORABLE American!! I'm hoping he goes after everyone of them that are involved in this BULLSHIT!!

[SWBTATTReg]

32. Hegseth is acting like a poor ol' baby, unable to take criticism from a standing member of Congress, who simply remarked

that ammo stocks are dropping low. What is criminal about that? Anybody in the world could see the US bombed Iran quite a bit, and thus, of course our ammo stocks dropped/dipped.

Whinny little baby, just like tRUMP is. No wonder that the two of them got together somehow.

Kelly is a hero, one who served also in one of the most deadly of occupations, being a astronaut and going into space.

tRUMP of course didn't serve as his foot hurt. Hegseth forgot that he investigated Kelly from before (or ignored it), probably due to too much alcohol or something...

[Kid Berwyn]

34. You know who the Pentagon should investigate?

America’s Gorbachev



MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported, the first known direct conversation between Putin and a U.S president since early 2022.

Trump, who has promised to end the war in Ukraine but not yet set out in public how he would do so, said last week that the war was a bloodbath and that his team had had "some very good talks".

In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday Trump told the New York Post that he had "better not say," when asked how many times he and Putin had spoken.

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Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, in his 2024 book "War", reported that Trump had direct conversations as many as seven times with Putin after he left the White House in 2021.

Asked if that were true in an interview to Bloomberg last year, Trump said: "If I did, it's a smart thing." The Kremlin denied Woodward's report.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-has-spoken-putin-about-ending-war-ukraine-new-york-post-reports-2025-02-09/