Ever since Secretary of War Pete Hegseth began his testimony before Congress on Wednesday, he has arguably surpassed President Trump as public enemy number one in the eyes of the liberal media, especially after he pushed back on a claim by Democrat Rep John Garamendi, that the Iran War had become a quagmire, something he stated on Wednesday on CNN and again at the hearing. After Wednesday's hearing things went a giant step further, with Dem Rep Seth Moulton insinuating that Hegseth could face the death penalty, and CNN helped facilitate that outrageous claim.  Wednesday evening on Erin Burnett OutFront, the Host asked Moulton to weigh in on the quagmire accusations, ignoring Hegseth's lengthy military service, including in Iraq, in the process. BURNETT: You heard Congressman, Hegseth's response to the suggestion that this war is a quagmire, right? He said it's nothing like Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called quagmires. And of course, those wars lasted decades. This war, he said, okay, look, it started two months ago. Fine. Initially, they had said right before it started, it would be just a few days and then a few weeks. But you actually served in Iraq. So do you see an equivalency here? MOULTON: Absolutely. I mean, this is another war of choice in the Middle East that we're in very grave danger of getting drawn into further, because there's no exit plan, there's no way out. And remember, just before Hegseth said, it's not a fair comparison to compare Iran to Iraq, Iraq being a war that both Trump and Hegseth have decried for years as being a quagmire. Right before he said that, he said, actually, you've got to give us more time in Iran because look at how much time Iran or the Iraq war took, the Afghanistan war took and Vietnam took. So he's actually justifying extending this war longer, giving him more chance to turn it around because he's obviously losing the war right now. No way out, we are losing? No push back from Burnett on those claims, but the worst part was about to come. Burnett played a brief portion of an exchange between the Congressman and Hegseth from Wednesday's hearing, again, setting up Moulton, this time for an astounding statement.. MOULTON CLIP: You said we will give them no quarter, no mercy. An order for no quarter or no survivors is a war crime under the Geneva conventions. Do you understand that's murder. Do you stand by that statement? HEGSETH CLIP: The Department of War fights to win, and we ensure that our war fighters have the rules of engagement necessary to be as effective. MOULTON: So just to be clear, you called Democratic members of Congress to be tried for sedition, for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by yourself.  In the final 3 seconds of the exchange, before time ran out, Hegseth responded to that accusation, but CNN cut it out. He stated, "You're insinuating that the laws we are giving them are unlawful". (You can view that here at 1:56:40 into the video) Burnett's softball toss asked Moulton if he believes that Hegseth is guilty of war crimes, and he brought up the U.S. hitting drug trafficking boats, even defending those on board, with no proof offered, and non requested by Burnett. MOULTON: Absolutely. I mean, he's clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it's very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco terrorists, a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there's a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families.... We then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again. A double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. And then the warning to Secretary Hegseth. Moulton: Another historical analogy back in World War Two, the allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary. Moulton appeared to be threatening Pete Hegseth with the death penalty, and Burnett's response was to move on, "So let me ask you one thing that just posted here." You can't make this up. And in the next hour, Anderson Cooper defended Moulton's death penalty claim. Once again, this is CNN.