Hi, everyone. How we doing? It's 4 o'clock in New York. Brand new and explosive reporting reveals a litany of controversies and scandals and deeply troubling incidents.

The call into serious question, Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary.

We're talking, of course, about Pete Hegseth. Reporting brings into question his ability to lead

any organization, much less the Department of Defense, one of the world's largest employers,

a pillar of our national security, and the linchpin of our alliances the

world over. The New Yorker is today reporting this, quote, a trail of documents corroborated

by the accounts of former colleagues indicates that Hegeseth was forced to step down by both of the

two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran, veterans for

freedom and concerned veterans for America, in the face of serious allegations of financial

mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct. Among those documents, a whistleblower

report compiled by multiple employees of the

conservative Koch brothers-funded concerned veterans for America in February of 2015 and sent to the

group. It says that when Hegset was the president of the CBA, he was, quote, repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity,

to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization's events.

The detailed seven-page report states that at one point,

Hexeth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club

where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegset, who was married at the time,

and other members of his management team, sexually pursued the organization's female staffers,

whom they divided into two groups, the

quote, party girls and the quote, not party girls.

In addition, the report asserts that under Hegsses leadership, the organization became a hostile

workplace, one that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a

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