Senator Stunned as CNN Host Breaks Hegseth Move to Him Live

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Chris Murphy appeared stunned as he heard news from CNN Host Erin Burnett of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to turn the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan into a public spectacle.

The 53-year-old was on Thursday’s OutFront to talk about being barred from U.S. military bases in the Middle East.

Murphy, who visited the region this week on a congressional delegation trip, told reporters Thursday that he was barred from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. military installation in the region, which was damaged by drone strikes during the Iran war, according to Military Times.

Burnett then raised the Pentagon’s latest announcement: Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and injuring another 30 in 2009 at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Texas, will be executed by a military firing squad on Dec.

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The execution, Hegseth revealed, will be livestreamed.

Hegseth made the announcement to right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec on conservative network Real America’s Voice.

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there are serious consequences for these types of things.” Murphy was live on OutFront on Thursday when Burnett delivered the news.

“I actually hadn’t seen that video.

That’s the first time that I’m learning that he’s going to televise it.

I mean, that’s disgusting,” he said, appearing stunned.

“What is he mimicking? ISIS executions.” “I understand that in this country we have the death penalty, but public executions is medieval,” he continued.

“It’s frankly one of the things that we abhor about terrorist groups.” According to The Washington Post , the plan came from Hegseth himself.