WATCH: Retired general reacts to Hegseth’s order to cut the senior general staff

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered senior Pentagon leadership to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals by at least 20% across the military, according to a memo signed by Hegseth obtained by CNN. As of 2023, there were 37 four-star generals and admirals across the entire military. Retired Major General James “Spider” Marks weighs in. #CNN #News

Watch: Trump Says Americans Will See Tariff Results ‘Soon’

President Donald Trump offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama on May 2 in a speech interspersed with complaints about his critics and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. But he quickly launched into a campaign-style diatribe, saying that the US was being “ripped off” before he took office and that the last four years, when he was out of power, “were not good for our country.”