{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kelly-highlights-how-hegseths-incompetence-puts-servicemembers-at-risk/", "ICYMI: Kelly Highlights How Hegseth\u2019s Incompetence Puts Servicemembers at Risk", "2025-12-03", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Mark Kelly", "K000377", "www.kelly.senate.gov", "markkelly", "https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThis is the result of incompetence at the highest level.\u201d\n\nIn case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly joined CNN\u2019s The Lead with Jake Tapper and MS NOW\u2019s Morning Joe to discuss the follow-up strike on a vessel in the Caribbean and highlight the dangers of Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s leadership at the Pentagon.\n\nSen. Kelly speaks on The Lead with Jake Tapper.\n\nWatch the full The Lead with Jake Tapper interview here and the full Morning Joe interview here. See key excepts below:\n\nFrom The Lead with Jake Tapper, on the consequences of confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense\u2026\n\n\u201cThis is what happens when you put an incompetent individual in perhaps the second most important job in our country. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had no business being nominated. Republicans in the Senate should not have confirmed him. And he\u2019s been there for less than a year now\u2014maybe seven or eight months\u2014and this is the result of incompetence at the highest level.\u201d\n\nFrom Morning Joe, on the lack of transparency coming from the White House\u2026\n\n\u201cThis president has said they\u2019re going to be the most transparent White House, and Pete Hegseth has said DoD is going to be transparent, but then he kicks out or requires members of the press to leave. We need to shine a pretty bright light on what happened here and get to the bottom of it and people need to be held accountable.\n\n\u201cI feel awful for members of the United States Navy. I served in the Navy for 25 years. I\u2019ve been involved in operations like this. I\u2019ve sunk two ships myself, in the first Gulf War. Stuff like this should not happen. It\u2019s pretty obvious that you do not execute survivors who are clinging on to a side of a ship.\u201d\n\nSen. Kelly speaks on Morning Joe.\n\nFrom Morning Joe, on how Hegseth\u2019s incompetence puts servicemembers at risk\u2026\n\n\u201cRules of engagement are what the U.S. military lives by. This stuff is not new. The Geneva Conventions specify how we have to treat survivors. So, the U.S. Navy got into this situation because of the incompetence of Pete Hegseth.\n\n\u201cThere is no reason why you execute survivors in the water. That is against the law.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kelly-highlights-how-hegseths-incompetence-puts-servicemembers-at-risk/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0438640601933002, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}