国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯表示，他计划于周二上午在五角大楼举行新闻发布会，并辩称他对肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西本周计划重新提出的针对他的弹劾条款“并不担心”。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to hold a press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday morning and argued that he is “not worried” about the impeachment articles Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plans to reintroduce against him this week.
“我们对此不担心，”赫格塞斯周一在罗德岛州纽波特回答记者关于马西弹劾攻势的提问时表示，马西最早于9月首次提出该弹劾条款。
“We’re not worried about that,” Hegseth told reporters in Newport, R.I., on Monday when asked about Massie’s impeachment salvo, which he first introduced in September.
“我要告诉你们，其实我希望你们都能参加。我们明天上午将在五角大楼就这一话题举行新闻发布会，”这位五角大楼负责人补充道。“所以我将把我的发言留到那里。”五角大楼证实，新闻发布会将于美国东部时间上午8点开始，这是赫格塞斯六个多月来首次举行新闻发布会。上一次五角大楼新闻发布会是在5月5日。
“I’ll tell you this. Actually, I hope all of you will join us. We’re going to do a press conference tomorrow morning at the Pentagon on that very topic,” the Pentagon chief added. “So I’ll save my remarks there.”The Pentagon confirmed the press conference will start at 8 a.m. ET, the first one Hegseth has held in over six months. The last press conference at the Pentagon took place on May 5.
此次新闻发布会召开之际，马西的弹劾推动在国会山获得势头，甚至一些共和党众议员在民主党在中期选举中大获全胜后，正权衡是否支持该决议。
The press conference comes as Massie’s impeachment push is gaining steam on Capitol Hill with even some House Republicans weighing whether to support the resolution following the Democratic Party’s dominant showing during the midterm elections.
众议院监督和政府改革委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党众议员詹姆斯·科默周五在《国会山报》姊妹网络NewsNation上表示，共和党会议内部“对赫格塞斯有很多疑问”。
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Friday on The Hill’s sister network NewsNation that “there’s a lot of questions” in the Republican conference about Hegseth.
“但我可以非常有信心地告诉你们……对赫格塞斯有很多疑问。我们完全不知道在伊朗问题上今后的战略是什么，”科默说。“没人对伊朗局势感到满意，我认为共和党选民对伊朗发生的事情比民主党选民更愤怒。”众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（民主党-纽约州）周日表示，就弹劾赫格塞斯而言，他是“坚定支持”。杰弗里斯预计将于明年1月成为众议院议长。
“But I can tell you with a high level of confidence that … there’s a lot of questions about Hegseth. We have no idea what the strategy is moving forward in Iran,” Comer said. “No one’s happy about Iran, and I think the Republican voters are more upset about what’s going on in Iran than the Democrat voters.”House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is likely to become the House Speaker come January, said on Sunday that he is a “hard yes” when it comes to impeaching Hegseth.
“我是坚定支持海格塞斯弹劾决议的，”杰弗里斯在ABC新闻的《本周》节目中说。“这位所谓的国防部长滥用职权，破坏了我们的国家安全，并策划了这场鲁莽且代价高昂的选择性战争。”
“I’m a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran,” Jeffries said ABC News’s “This Week.”
特朗普总统公开支持海格塞斯，但《国会山报》此前报道称，这位总统曾向顾问和盟友询问过国防部长的地位。
President Trump has stood publicly behind Hegseth, but the commander-in-chief has asked advisers and allies about the defense secretary’s standing, The Hill previously reported.
海格塞斯周四抨击弹劾条款是由一名“心怀不满、落败的众议员”起草的。“就像他们针对特朗普总统试过两次一样。你看，他们的政策行不通，所以他们对权力的痴迷伪装成政治表演，驱使他们试图摧毁对手。这全都是个人毁灭政治。对特朗普总统不起作用，对我也不会起作用。你们可以放心。”这位五角大楼负责人周四表示。
Hegseth lambasted the articles of impeachment on Thursday as being authored by a “disgruntled, defeated congressman.”“Just like they tried against President Trump twice. You see, their policies don’t work, so their obsession with political theater disguised as power drives them to try to destroy their opponents. It’s all about the politics of personal destruction. Didn’t work against President Trump, and it won’t work with me. You can rest assured of that,” the Pentagon chief said on Thursday.
马西将于周一美国东部时间下午3点30分亲自举行新闻发布会，讨论他的弹劾条款。
Massie will hold a press conference himself at 3:30 p.m. ET on Monday to discuss his articles of impeachment.