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It appears that Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth has been talking to President Trump to try and get him to pardon some war criminals.

The Daily Beast writes that over the weekend, news broke that President Trump is preparing to pardon several U.S. servicemen involved in high-profile cases of gunning down civilians or killing detainees, with the White House having already ordered that the necessary paperwork be drawn up ahead of the coming Memorial Day.

The Beast writes that Hegseth has repeatedly pressed the president to support the accused and convicted servicemen.

Among those Hegseth—himself an Iraq War veteran and formerly the head of the conservative group Concerned Veterans for America—has advocated for is Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL platoon leader set to stand trial on May 28 for allegedly shooting civilians, including a school-age girl, and knifing to death a captured ISIS fighter receiving medical treatment in Iraq in 2017.

Fox News has not responded to Hegseth’s actions, but when your anchors start lobbying the President, I’m thinking someone might need a talking to.