{"id":2319549,"date":"2026-03-09T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2319549"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:50:12","slug":"60-minutes-pete-hegseths-explosive-interview-with-major-garrett-sparks-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/60-minutes-pete-hegseths-explosive-interview-with-major-garrett-sparks-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201960 Minutes\u2019: Pete Hegseth\u2019s Explosive Interview With Major Garrett Sparks Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Defense Secretary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2886912\/\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> caused a stir on Sunday (March 8) when he sat down with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0123338\/\">60 Minutes<\/a> reporter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1833073\/\">Major Garrett<\/a> for an interview about the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran. The former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0033579\/\">Fox News<\/a> host was called \u201cgrotesque\u201d and \u201cpsychotic\u201d for his latest rhetoric about the Iran war. One particular controversial comment came after Garrett asked Hegseth whether Russian involvement could put U.S. personnel \u201cin more danger than they otherwise would be.\u201d \u201cNo one\u2019s putting us in danger,\u201d Hegseth responded. \u201cWe\u2019re putting the other guys in danger. That\u2019s our job. So we\u2019re not concerned about that. The only ones that need to be worried&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth caused a stir on Sunday (March 8) when he sat down with 60 Minutes reporter Major Garrett for an interview about the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran. The former Fox News host was called \u201cgrotesque\u201d and \u201cpsychotic\u201d for his latest rhetoric about the Iran war. One particular controversial comment came after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2319549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/60-Minutes-Pete-Hegseths-Explosive-Interview-With-Major-Garrett-Sparks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319551,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319549\/revisions\/2319551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}