{"id":28207,"date":"2026-08-05T06:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:18:34","slug":"shame-on-you-pete-hegseth-declares-cnn-reporting-on-iran-is-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=28207","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shame on You\u2019: Pete Hegseth Declares CNN Reporting on Iran Is \u2018NOT TRUE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5716537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5716537\" class=\"wp-image-5716537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hegseth-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Pete Hegseth\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5716537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Defense Secretary <strong>Pete Hegseth<\/strong> lashed out at CNN on Tuesday over the network&#8217;s reporting that U.S. military stockpiles had fallen to &#8220;dangerously low&#8221; levels following strikes on Iran, declaring on X, &#8220;Shame on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s post focused on a Tuesday chyron, covered on-air by CNN&#8217;s <strong>Kasie Hunt<\/strong>, that read, &#8220;Sources: U.S. has used nearly 80% of key missile interceptors in Iran war, top commanders warn stockpiles &#8216;dangerously low.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That banner is NOT TRUE,&#8221; wrote Hegseth. &#8220;Shame on you. We don\u2019t hate the Fake News media enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"4ccb6d856da0c3ace670209b9f7d4e19\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That banner is NOT TRUE, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a>. Shame on you.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t hate the Fake News media enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QCwEoykQZR\">pic.twitter.com\/QCwEoykQZR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteHegseth\/status\/2084753545639739445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the network&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/04\/politics\/us-iran-key-missile-interceptors-low\">written story<\/a> on the matter, CNN&#8217;s <strong>Zachary Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Sciutto<\/strong>, and <strong>Haley Britzky<\/strong> cited multiple sources familiar with Pentagon assessments who said the U.S. has depleted large portions of its missile inventory during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran conflict<\/a>, including nearly 80% of its THAAD interceptors and about half of its Patriot missiles. The sources added that senior military leaders have warned President <strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> administration that stockpiles are &#8220;dangerously low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report mentions that these concerns were voiced before Trump&#8217;s Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-halts-strike-on-iran-after-perimeters-of-a-deal-agreed-to-but-warns-us-is-locked-and-loaded-if-talks-crumble-yet-again\/\">announcement<\/a> that he plans &#8220;to hold off any attack&#8221; because &#8220;the perimeters of a deal ha[ve] been agreed to,&#8221; while still promising, &#8220;The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday, seemingly backing up CNN&#8217;s reporting, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/iran-war-has-drained-virtually-all-long-range-missiles-in-u-s-stockpile-report\/\">cited<\/a> multiple sources who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-2026-08-04\/\">said<\/a> the U.S. has burned through &#8220;virtually all&#8221; of its inventory of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The White House pushed back on concerns, telling Reuters the U.S. has &#8220;far more munitions than anyone in the world&#8221; and &#8220;far more than we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They gave a similar statement to CNN, with White House spokesperson <strong>Anna Kelly<\/strong> telling the network that the U.S. military \u201chas more than enough munitions, ammo, and stockpiles to serve all of President Trump\u2019s strategic goals and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/shame-on-you-pete-hegseth-declares-cnn-reporting-on-iran-is-not-true\/\">\u2018Shame on You\u2019: Pete Hegseth Declares CNN Reporting on Iran Is \u2018NOT TRUE\u2019<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at CNN on Tuesday over the network&#8217;s reporting that U.S. military stockpiles had fallen to &#8220;dangerously low&#8221; levels following strikes on Iran, declaring on X, &#8220;Shame on you.&#8221; Hegseth&#8217;s post focused on a Tuesday chyron, covered on-air by CNN&#8217;s Kasie Hunt, that read, &#8220;Sources: U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hegseth-1-scaled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}