Radio presenter: No defeat in Trump’s world

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00:00What Hegsteth has said is that they are retrospective.

00:03So this is now looking back at something which occurred in March.

00:07What the administration has said is that this is, as we pointed out,

00:10it is former employees who are disgruntled,

00:12who are saying that this information was leaked in advance.

00:15There may be some truth to that.

00:18And then the question is, well, why is Donald Trump saying no?

00:20And I think his exact words are, Pete's doing a great job.

00:23You know, everybody likes Pete. There's no issue.

00:25And the reason is, I guess, that's the hill he's going to die on.

00:27This is his administration. He has appointed these people to this position.

00:30He has faith in him, in that position.

00:33And therefore, saying anything other than Pete's doing a great job

00:36is kind of admitting defeat.

00:38And if we've learned anything from this administration

00:39as we head on for almost 100 days,

00:41we've learned that defeat is not really part of the lexicon.