Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended his military record Tuesday amid a potential impeachment in Congress, arguing the effort was over mere "policy disagreements" and high crimes and misdemeanors.

Hegseth held his first Pentagon news conference in six months, a day after Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky reintroduced eight articles of impeachment.

Hegseth called the effort "a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment."Massie's resolution cites U.S. military action in Yemen and Venezuela, but the case centers on the war with Iran, which Massie says the Trump administration waged without congressional approval."There's no argument in these impeachment articles that he's ineffective," Massie said.