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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2116 - Hegseth KICKS ASS: Confirm Him Now

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:50.3

He needs to be confirmed because, let's face it, Pete is awesome. Reminder, the DailyWire will be live as DW goes to D-C for the inauguration of President Trump. Watch live, join the fight at Dailywire.com slash subscribe. So Pete Hegseth, who Democrats are determined that they are going to club his nomination to death. None of that's going to happen. Hegsteth is going to be confirmed. he's a military colonel who went to Princeton. The attempt to sort of say, well, he's just a Fox host.

1:28.3

That's not true. Obviously, Hexeth has all the right principles for DoD. He wants to come in. He wants to clean house. And he also happens to have all the right enemies. The people who despise Hegset the most are members of the far left, people who want to woke the military, people who want to weaken the military, the people who seem very happy with,

1:33.2

for example, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Well, the hearings began at 9.30 a.m. Eastern.

1:39.0

They began with a lot of fireworks because some of the code pink protesters showed up. They

1:42.8

literally have nothing better to do.

1:44.2

They go to every single hearing. When I did a congressional hearing last year, they showed up

1:47.7

and harassed me there. They all showed up, they lined up. They were all wearing idiotic uniforms

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