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Trump weighing Hegseth dismissal, Turkish broadcast reports, citing CBS

Yunus Paksoy's Washington dispatch also describes Vance's post-election message as a challenge to Trump's approach to war and household costs.

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0:16Paksoy cites CBS reporting that Trump is considering firing Hegseth; no dismissal is announced.
2:08Paksoy describes Vance's account of pollsters examining why former Trump voters switched to Democrats.
3:31The reported voter demands include ending the war, addressing living costs and changing relations with Israel.
5:54Paksoy contrasts Vance's message with Trump's defense of higher gasoline prices as a necessary cost.
7:31Hakan argues that entering the Iran war and aligning with Netanyahu were Trump's major mistakes.
12:06Paksoy reports White House pool journalists being called inside for a possible unannounced presidential appearance.

Pete Hegseth's future as defense secretary is in question, according to a Turkish broadcast examining divisions inside Donald Trump's administration after Republican midterm losses.

Reporting from Washington for Turkey's CNN TÜRK, correspondent Yunus Paksoy cites CBS News as reporting that Trump is considering firing Hegseth. The segment does not announce a dismissal. Instead, it places that report alongside what Paksoy describes as an unusually critical statement from Vice President JD Vance following Democrats' victories in both chambers of Congress.

Paksoy says Vance's social media post recounts conversations with pollsters about people who supported Trump in 2024 but switched to Democrats in 2026. He presents four demands attributed to those voters: end the war, concentrate on living costs and inflation, put America first, and change the United States' relationship with Israel.

The sharpest contrast concerns gasoline prices. Paksoy describes Vance as confronting Trump's earlier argument that higher fuel costs were a small price to pay for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities. In the correspondent's reading, the vice president is identifying the war as a reason Republicans lost, rather than accepting its domestic costs as politically unavoidable.

Studio anchor Ahmet Hakan takes that argument further. He argues that entering the Iran war was Trump's central mistake and characterizes US foreign policy as excessively aligned with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda. Those are the anchor's assessments, not an announced change in administration policy.

The discussion also draws a comparison between Democratic voter disillusionment over Gaza policy in 2024 and the Republican backlash over foreign conflict described in this election. Paksoy cites polling on dissatisfaction with inflation, gasoline prices and corruption as part of that explanation.

Near the end, the live report shifts from analysis to activity at the White House: Paksoy says pool journalists have suddenly been called inside for a possible unannounced Trump appearance. The segment then returns to archive footage of Vance and Hegseth, with the reported personnel decision still unresolved.

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