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Who is Pete Hegseth calling ‘Pharisees’?

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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — At an April news briefing on the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth digressed from taking a dig at Iranian leadership to take a dig at American news media. The “relentlessly negative coverage” of the war, Hegseth said, evoked a sermon he’d heard in church about the “Pharisees.” Describing a passage from the book of Mark in the New Testament, he relayed a story about Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath. The “Phar…

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Who is Pete Hegseth calling ‘Pharisees’?

The defense secretary complained about “Pharisees” in a briefing about the Iran war. CNN’s Word of the Week talks to biblical scholars and rhetoric experts about what they say Hegseth gets wrong about the original Pharisees and how to understand his remarks.

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