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Well, folks, a lot is going on.

Senator Marco Rubio, who is the nominee of her secretary of state.

He is having his hearing today, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General nominee, she's having her hearing today. But the big story of the day is what Pete Hegsett did as Secretary of Defense nominee in front of. A Senate committee yesterday during his Senate hearing, we'll get to all that in a moment. First, remember, history is happening. You can watch it live with us here at the Daily Wire.

We will be live in Washington, D.C. for Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. Do not miss a second of it. Plus, celebrate with 47% off your DailyWire Plus annual membership, join us at DailyWire.com slash subscribe using code 47. So Democrats thought that they were going to be able to get Pete Hegesseth in the crosshairs and then they were going to be able to do surrogous damage to Pete Hegseth and to Republicans for having nominated Pete Hegseth. Boy, were they wrong. The Wall Street Journal writes, during a Senate hearing, Hegseth pledged to restore the U.S. military's warrior culture declaring his service as a national guard junior officer in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. military prison at Gitmo would bring a

needed refocus to a Pentagon he claimed was concerned more with diversity and equity than

lethality and readiness. And Hegeseth was great. Like, not just good, great, iconically great

yesterday in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Democrat after

Democrat lined up to attack him, particularly on his personal life, and Higgs-Seth weathered it like a

champ. He came back at them where they said particularly stupid things, and he said some things that

need to be said. This is a very different Secretary of Defense nominee. Not only is he a person who actually

served in the infantry, not only is he a person who's quite bright, obviously, he has degrees

from both Harvard and Princeton, but Hegeseth also has the perspective of the guy on the

ground who actually has to do the fighting. He is not a political general who is elevated through

the ranks for being able to get along with his superiors. That's not who Pete Hegset is. He's an outsider who's being brought in to shake things up because guess what? The Department of Defense needs a good shaking up. He's had a lot of things yesterday. Many of them were quite wonderful. Here, for example, is Pete Hegeseth yesterday who's being questioned about his adherence to things like the

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