Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu/Getty Images Someone has started building an off-ramp for Pete Hegseth to vacate the Pentagon, and it’s not clear if it was the Defense secretary himself or frustrated officials within the Trump administration. As the Fox News personality turned Defense secretary faces mounting scrutiny over his term, especially over events such as Signalgate , Hegseth is said to have privately floated the idea of running for office in Tennessee, possibly for governor. NBC News