Vance suggests Fort Hood shooter’s execution won’t be livestreamed, contradicting Hegseth

NBC News, PBS NewsHour and CBS News report that Vice President JD Vance has cast doubt on the Pentagon's plan to broadcast the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday. Questioned by reporters during an Ohio trip, Vance said he did not know the broadcast would happen and would not watch if it did. He urged people to remember Hasan's victims, calling the 2009 attack "the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11." Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people; NBC News and PBS NewsHour say 32 were injured, while CBS News says more than 30, according to NBC News · PBS NewsHour.

PBS NewsHour adds that Vance is Catholic and that Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemned the broadcast. NBC News says Republican Sens. John Kennedy, John Curtis and Thom Tillis also objected. On the broadcast question, NBC News reports President Donald Trump said a determination was being made, though he insisted Hasan will die by firing squad; PBS NewsHour says Trump did not mention the livestream.

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