CNN Panel on Hegseth: ‘Who Knew a Weekend Co-Anchor Would Run the Military?’

EXCERPT:

LEON: "Listen, I want to start with this. In 2004 to 2006, I was a PA and a writer on 'Fox and Friends' on the weekend edition. So I worked on 'Fox and Friends.' If I had just stayed 20 years, I could be running the military. Who knew that a weekend co-anchor is running the military with Pete Hegseth? But listen, Audie, YouGov just has an unfavorable rating recently of Pete Hegseth of 45%. He went to South Carolina to campaign with Darline Graham. Now we see that that‘s going into a runoff. We have the military flyover stories that are becoming a big issue. We just saw the USS Lincoln story. Why would you deploy this person who has such an unfavorability rating with respect to the public — "

CORNISH: "Well, because the primary, it‘s a different voter. Maybe they like him. I don‘t know."

LEON: "I don‘t know."