The anchor appeared on Howard Kurtz’s show and gave a critical take on the secretary of defense.

Fox Business host Liz Claman on Sunday urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to leave press conferences to the generals if he’s going to get so “triggered” over fair questions. (Watch the video below.)

Claman, appearing on “MediaBuzz,” took Fox News alum Hegseth to task for snapping at Jennifer Griffin, a former colleague at the conservative news channel, last week.

Host Howard Kurtz introduced a clip of Hegseth lashing out at the media for reporting on a legitimate early Pentagon appraisal that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S bombing of Iranian nuclear sites obliterated the country’s nuke program.

He called Griffin “the worst” in distorting Trump’s words after she asked about concerns that highly enriched uranium was transported away by trucks before the strikes.

“I don’t think that Secretary Hegseth was good at communicating there,” Claman said in a rebuttal to guest Rich Lowry’s supportive take on Hegseth. “He had a script; he was ready to go on attack,” she added.

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“He just got extremely triggered. … It was like ‘insert reporter’s name here who challenges me.’ And he seemed to have a very sensitive nerve that was somehow touched by reporters who were simply asking questions,” she said.

“Maybe leave these types of news conferences to the generals who are calm, collected and almost professorial in explaining things to the press,” she continued.

“He really kind of got triggered there,” she added. “I think it didn’t help. It made it look like he wasn’t ready to answer a question that was quite obvious.”

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Fast-forward to 1:55 for Claman’s remarks:

Fox News veteran Brit Hume previously defended Griffin, the news network’s chief national security correspondent. He called Hegseth’s attack “unfair” and said Griffin’s professionalism was “unmatched.”