Hegseth on the Hill, Bondi on the Calendar, the Court Turns the Clock Back, and Cole Allen Never Fired a Shot

FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev · Apr 29, 2026 · 1h 4m

5️⃣ Hegseth Grilled — “Obliterated” Doesn’t Add Up

Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine took chairs in front of the House Armed Services Committee at ten this morning to defend a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. Hegseth told the chamber that Iran’s nuclear facilities had already been “obliterated” before Trump launched the war, then told Adam Smith the war was justified anyway because “they had not given up their nuclear ambitions.” Pentagon finance chief Jules Hurst III put a $25 billion price tag on what he called “Operation Epic Fury,” with two destroyed C-130s in the bill…