White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is going viral aft she crashed retired implicit a reporter's question astir Iran.
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The infinitesimal came erstwhile CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Leavitt for clarification connected comments made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the "fake news" was making Donald Trump "look bad" by reporting connected US work members killed during operations successful Iran.
To larn the White House's authoritative stance, Collins asked Leavitt, "Given what Secretary Hegseth said this morning, is it the presumption of this medication that the property should not prominently screen the deaths of US work members?"
And that's erstwhile things seemed to get heated.

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Leavitt responded: "No, it’s the presumption of this medication that the property successful this country and the property crossed the state should accurately study connected the occurrence of Operation Epic Fury and the harm it is doing to the rogue Iranian authorities that has threatened the lives of each azygous American successful this room."

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"If the Iranian authorities had their choice, they would termination each azygous idiosyncratic successful this room. And truthful we tin each beryllium precise grateful that we person an medication and that we person men and women successful our equipped forces who are consenting to sacrifice their ain lives for the remainder of america successful this country and for each American crossed the state and for each unit that is based successful the Middle East," she continued.

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Collins instantly pushed back, pointing out, "But Secretary Hegseth was complaining that it was beforehand leafage quality — astir these six work members who were killed."

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"That's not what the caput said, Kaitlan, and that's not what the caput meant, and you cognize it. You cognize you are being disingenuous," Leavitt responded.

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Collins proceeded to work Hegseth's afloat punctuation verbatim earlier continuing, "You cognize we screen the deaths of US work members nether each president."

To which Leavitt simply said, "The property does lone privation to marque the president look bad. That's it. That's a fact. Especially you."

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In effect to their back-and-forth, radical are calling Leavitt "unprofessional."

"Kaitlin Collins is the ONLY 1 successful that briefing country that pushes backmost connected ridiculous Karoline Leavitt," 1 idiosyncratic said. "Kaitlin Collins is the ONLY 1 not treating being successful that country arsenic a privilege, nary it's a occupation and she's doing it."

And successful presumption of the taxable astatine hand, idiosyncratic other wrote, "It's a bittersweet time erstwhile the White House is truthful acrophobic astir making the President look bully that it doesn't privation the property to study connected and grant our fallen soldiers."

YIKES. You tin ticker a clip of Leavitt and Collins's afloat speech below.
here's the afloat clip of Karoline Leavitt getting large huffy erstwhile Kaitlan Collins presses her connected Hegseth complaining astir property sum of US unit deaths pic.twitter.com/o1OBQh98yd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2026Fox News / Via Twitter: @atrupar

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