Robby Soave said “the media are absolutely out to get” Pete Hegseth after the New York Times reported he set up another Signal group chat, sharing details of an impending bombing of the Houthis with his wife, brother and personal lawyer, and added that “Hegseth has been combative with the media for years and years and that’s affecting him.” He also said, “I’m not going to be sad about the departure of someone who’s presiding over the decline of a journalistic product” after the longtime executive producer of CBS’s “60 Minutes” resigned over corporate interference as the head of the network’s parent company looks to settle a suit President Trump levied over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview.

Meghan Hays said of Pete Hegseth creating a Signal group chat including his wife, brother, and personal lawyer in which he shared details of bombing plans against the Houthis, “it’s not that the media are out to get him … if I did this having a security clearance, I would have been fired immediately.” She also said of the “60 Minutes” executive producer resigning over corporate interference about half a year after Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS for the show’s editing of a Kamala Harris interview, “we are dangerously close to state-run media when we start having the government interfere with the First Amendment.”

Charlie Gasparino said of Trump toning down his rhetoric about tariffs, “if you’re going to really upend a huge portion of the economy, there’s going to be some pain … and the American people generally hate pain,” adding that “Wall Street has been told [by the White House] that there are deals coming” involving trade. He also said “there’s a real civil war” going on in the Democratic Party, and “it’s so lame” for Representative James Clyburn to blame the media for the party’s low popularity, adding that “if someone like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] becomes the frontrunner and someone like Josh Shapiro can’t because he’s Jewish and might upset a certain part of the democratic base, this is a party that in my view can’t survive.”

Greg Burke, a former top aide to Pope Francis, said that when the Pope was elected he thought he’d be “a mess with the press” because he hadn’t given a lot of interviews, but he did “a great reset in terms of how people perceive the Church” and was “very, very open to talking to journalists of all sorts.” He also said that Pope Francis appearing in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday was him “soldiering on until the end” and was “the last surprise he gave us.”