Player Embed Code: Download Embed Share Defense Officials Hold COVID-19 Briefing Defense.gov Nov. 24, 2020 | 51:06 Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman; Kenneth R. Rapuano, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security; Thomas M. Muir, Washington Headquarters Services director; and Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee E. Payne, assistant director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency, spoke with reporters at the Pentagon about COVID-19-related issues, Nov. 24, 2020.