Roger Wicker actually said...

"Hegseth is going to be a great defense secretary, although he wasn't my choice for the job."

"But he made a rookie mistake in Brussels and he's walked back some of what he said but not that line."

"Everybody knows...and people in the administration know you don't say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won't agree to."

"I don't know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool."