Pressed on plans to livestream an execution, Mullin says Trump is ‘restoring American values’

MS NOW · CBS News and CBS News report on a widening dispute over whether the Pentagon should broadcast live the December firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the plan, but President Trump has since said no final choice has been made. The execution is set for Dec. 3.

CBS News says Republican unease is growing. House Speaker Mike Johnson relayed that colleagues fear a recording could help recruit future terrorists, and he intends to tell the White House. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Kevin Cramer and Thom Tillis objected, as did Reps. Ann Wagner and Rob Bresnahan Jr. Rep. Andy Ogles is the lone Republican in Congress it names as openly supportive. Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch and doubted it would happen.

MS NOW adds that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, pressed by Margaret Brennan on why the broadcast should go ahead, said Trump is restoring American values. It also notes Trump gave differing accounts of his own role, and that retired Adm. William McRaven criticized the idea in The Atlantic.

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