MSNBC host Chris Hayes issued a disclaimer on Thursday after one of his guests claimed Fox News host-turned-Trump nominee Pete Hegseth was “known to be a white supremacist.”
Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill cornered Hayes into providing viewers with “the full side of the story” after she called President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense a “white supremacist,” citing his opposition to diversity and inclusion initiatives in the military.
After Hayes criticized President-elect Donald Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary and Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Ifill said, “I’m gonna add the secretary of defense nominee, Peter Hegseth, the Fox News commentator as well.”
She claimed:
This is someone who, you know, is known to be a white supremacist, known to be an extremist. Whose platform, whose book is basically about his opposition to the advancement of black officers to the top brass, and the military …