On Wednesday, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to answer questions about the war with Iran, and as you might expect, things got heated particularly when Rep. John Garamendi, Democrat called the two month old war a quagmire, evoking an angry response from Hegseth. But as Hegseth indicated, it wasn't the first time he had heard the Congressman use the term quagmire, he saw him use earlier Wednesday morning on CNN's News Central, with no pushback at all. CNN's Kate Bolduan sat through all of Garamendi's anti-war and anti-Trump Democrat talking points -- as CNN viewers like it -- before bringing up the latest alleged Democrat plot. BOLDUAN: His handling of the war is one reason that some Democrats are pushing for impeachment again. Axios has reported that there are house Democrats who want to start building a case against Trump now, in anticipation of a day one impeachment vote if Democrats retake the house in the midterms. Do you support that? GARAMENDI: I think we need to be prepared for every eventuality. We have no idea what Trump's going to do tomorrow, but we do know what he has done thus far. He has plunged the United States into an unnecessary war. BOLDUAN: So you support an impeachment vote again? GARAMENDI: What I do support is that we begin talking about why Trump is not fit for office.... The bottom line is he is not fit to be president. Is that an impeachment issue? It could turn into that. It's not there today, but we need to be prepared for it.  And then came the claim that would enrage Hegseth. GARAMENDI: Bottom line is, we're stuck. America is stuck in another Middle East quagmire. Thank you Mr. Trump, thank you Mr. Secretary. This is what you've done for the American people, brought us back to a Middle East war. No surprise that Bolduan allowed the quagmire claim to go unchallenged, even though a two-month war is hardly in the same category as the 20-year wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, which are commonly referred to by that term. Later on CNN's Situation Room, co-Host Pamela Brown played a clip of Hegseth responding to Garamendi at the hearing for her panel. The Secretary began with a short reference to his opening statement. HEGSETH: I hope you appreciate how reckless it is. When I said reckless, feckless and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning. That came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning, a quagmire. My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing.... Shame on you, calling this a quagmire two months in. The effort, what they've undertaken, the success on the battlefield that could create strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran. And you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies? Shame on you for that statement. Hegseth was just getting started. HEGSETH: And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don't say I support the troops on one hand, and then a two month mission is a quagmire. That's a false equivocation. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for?... Your hatred for President Trump blinds you....I know the American people support that mission despite your loose talk and words like quagmire. Brown then turned to CNN contributor Sabrina Singh -- the former Pentagon press aide for Biden -- and pitched: "Clearly, the Democratic Congressman hit a nerve there with Hegseth calling the war a quagmire." Singh agreed and seemed to be enjoying it all, as she responded to Brown. SINGH: It's getting under Hegseth's skin and they're clearly pushing the Secretary on when does this war end? You said we don't want endless wars, and yet here we are, we've blown past that four- to six-week timeline that you initially said at the outset, and here we are, nearly 60 days in. So what's the plan? And clearly that bothered Pete Hegseth. Pamela Brown might have responded like a journalist, by noting that wars are unpredictable, and traditional use of the term "quagmire" might not apply here. But like Kate Bolduan before her, she had no issue with the term being used and abused. This is CNN.