Face The Nation(@FaceTheNation):Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the firing of Pentagon leaders and the removal of a full Pentagon press corps under Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth “concerns” him, but he noted, “I don't know the rationale for those changes.” “When you have a lot of changes like that, yeah, I think there is an obligation to explain, at a minimum, to the Congress, the rationale,” Gates told @margbrennan. Asked whether the systems are operating that way right now, Gates replied: “No.”

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the firing of Pentagon leaders and the removal of a full Pentagon press corps under Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth “concerns” him, but he noted, “I don't know the rationale for those changes.” “When you have a lot of changes like that, yeah, I think there is an obligation to explain, at a minimum, to the Congress, the rationale,” Gates told @margbrennan. Asked whether the systems are operating that way right now, Gates replied: “No.”