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