On Friday's broadcast of NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports," Darin Hoover -- whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 -- stated that the Pentagon's announcement on Friday that it will finally conduct interviews with some soldiers who were in Kabul during the airport bombing but are not re-opening their investigation into the bombing is "tone-deaf" and noted that the Pentagon had two years to do these interviews and didn't. Hoover also wondered if the Pentagon is only acting because they're getting pressure from the Gold Star families and Congress.