Margaret Brennan on Pete Hegseth

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Margaret Brennan

As posted by @FaceTheNation on X

Compared on: what Pete Hegseth has said on the record.

THE CLAIM · NOV 8, 2026

“call being transgender a mental illness”

Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan), as posted by @FaceTheNation · Read the post

THE RECORD · NOV 8, 2026

The post's own video plays these words at 1:16: “Went on to call being transgender a mental illness.”

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The clip names no speaker on screen, and the recording it was cut from was not located. Checked as of Nov 8, 2026.

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