CBS News: Trump Considers Firing Hoguest In the first fallout from the Republican defeat in the US midterm elections, Trump is considering firing Secretary of War Pete Heguest. Some White House aides predicted that some of the blame for the Republican midterm defeats would lie with Admiral Brad Cooper, head of CENTCOM's counterterrorism command, and General Dan Cain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of whom played a central role in managing the war against Iran.