House Speaker Mike Johnson has told the Trump administration he has doubts about its plan to broadcast the firing squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, warning that video of the killing could end up as “a recruiting tool for future terrorists.”
Johnson was asked about the plan by CBS News national correspondent Robert Costa, who noted that Vice President JD Vance had already said he would “not watch it.” The speaker said he hadn’t yet discussed the matter with President Donald Trump, Vance or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who announced last week that the December 3 execution would be public, but that members of his conference had raised objections.
