Half-Ass Hochul | 01-15-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid offers his reaction to Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State Address yesterday, where she touted her so-called "accomplishments" and introduced a handful of ideas that'll only bankrupt New Yorkers more. In other news of the day, Secretary of Defense hopeful Pete Hegseth survives his Senate Confirmation Hearing before the rest of his hopefully future colleagues sit on the Senate Floor themselves in the coming days leading up to President Trump's Inauguration on Monday, a ceasefire deal between Israel and the terrorist organization that is Hamas is reportedly agreed upon, and liberals freak out over country music star Carrie Underwood agreeing to perform at the incoming President's inauguration. Alex Traiman, Curtis Sliwa, Mike Lawler, Peter King, Scott LoBaido and Bruce Blakeman join Sid on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	This is Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:37.5	77 WabC.
0:40.7	A Capitol Hill contentious confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's pick for Secretary
0:44.1	of Defense.
0:45.0	Pete Hagsett faced hours of intense questioning from senators, many of whom are concerned
0:49.4	about his fitness to lead.
0:50.8	In an intense confirmation hearing that went on for more than four hours,
0:54.8	Pete Hegseth addressed tough questions about his past and whether he would be able to serve
0:59.4	as Secretary of Defense in charge of a huge department of three million employees with an $849
1:05.8	billion budget. Now, former Army National Guard officer and Fox News host Pete Hegseth publicly faced senators for the first time after weeks of questions from Democrats about sexual abuse allegations and his traditional views on masculinity, as well as praise from Republicans for his military service and boots on the ground perspective. He replied to a barrage of tough questions about his past negative comments about women serving in the military from New Hampshire Senator Jean Shaheen.
1:36.5	If on the one hand, you say that women are not competent, they make our military less effective.
1:42.5	And on the other hand, you say, oh, no, now that I've been
1:45.6	nominated to be the Secretary of Defense, I've changed my view on women in the military. What do you have
1:51.7	to say to the almost 400,000 women who are serving today about your position on whether they should
1:58.8	be capable to rise through the highest ranks of our military.
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