Mark Kelly

The two appearances came hours before President Donald Trump announced a peace deal had been signed between the United States and Iran, reshaping the long-term debate about the issue.

The Brennan and Hegseth dispute stems from a verbal exchange that occurred between Kelly and the senior official during an April Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the Department of Defense’s budget request.

Hegseth said it could take “months and years” to rebuild certain stockpiles, depending on the type of weapon, while responding to a question from Kelly about how long it would take to replenish the country’s defense systems.

Kelly said during the hearing that a lot of the strikes in Iran “use our best weapons, and we’re using a lot of them… open-source reporting has estimated the military has used an outrageous number of Patriots.”

Hegseth partially blamed the Biden administration for depleted stockpiles, saying “we’re dealing with the reality under the previous administration of what they sent to Ukraine and what they allocated elsewhere,” an idea he reiterated on the show with Brennan.

HEGSETH SAYS TRUMP HAS ‘COMPEL OPTIONS’ IF IRAN FAILS TO DESTROY ITS URANIUM

“The Biden administration gave away hundreds of billions to Ukraine, and so President Trump had to refill, and he has, and we have, in real time,” he said Sunday. “We’re supercharging our arsenal of freedom – building more, building faster, opening up the Pentagon, ripping through the Pentagon bureaucracy, to force industry to move faster.”