Pentagon Blocks Media from Hegseth's Briefings

0:00This is Global News Today. Every region, every story, every day. The Pentagon has blocked photographers from defense secretary Pete Hegseth's last two briefings on the war in Iran. This breaks from years of standard policy, but no one from the department is saying why. Tensions between Hegseth's team and mainstream media have run high. Major news outlets pulled their Pentagon staff over new Trump administration rules that limit where reporters can go and who they can talk to. Those spots went to a new group for mostly pro-Trump outlets. Even with that, the Pentagon still lets the original reporters attend briefings. Hegseth called on Eric Schmidt from the New York Times during Tuesday session. The Times sued to fight the rules and a federal judge heard the case last week. The newspaper says photojournalists play a key public role in covering military briefings. The Associated Press has no comment so far, but video cameras remain allowed. Meanwhile, a New York Times report claims early findings from a Pentagon probe into a recent

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