Hegseth returns to Capitol Hill in latest attempt to salvage defense secretary nomination
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a key and controversial ally to assist him in his next term. |
| 0:08.4 | Peter Navarro, who served as a trade advisor to the president during his first term, will return in a similar role. |
| 0:14.6 | He spent four months in prison earlier this year for defying a subpoena from the House January 6th Committee. |
| 0:20.3 | Mr. Trump also named cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange |
| 0:26.4 | Commission and Daniel Driscoll, an advisor to vice president-elect J.D. Vance to serve as Secretary |
| 0:32.6 | of the Army. Meanwhile, one of the President-elect's most embattled nominees, Defense Secretary-designate Pete |
| 0:39.4 | Hegeseth, met with Republican senators today on Capitol Hill. Our Lisa Desjardin has been |
| 0:44.3 | following his meetings today. She joins us now from the Capitol. So, Lisa, bring us up to speed. |
| 0:49.1 | Where does that Hegeseth nomination, rather, stand right now? |
| 0:53.8 | It is in a precarious spot. |
| 0:55.9 | Our reporting, both mine and Laura Burroughs and Lopez's, is that this day and the next day |
| 1:00.2 | are the critical hours for Pete Hegseth and its nomination. |
| 1:04.4 | A reminder to our viewers that reports and also a police report have brought up a lot of allegations against Hegset. |
| 1:12.1 | That includes a sexual assault allegation, which was not charged against him previously. |
| 1:16.6 | And also reports, including from the New Yorker and the New York Times, allegations of mistreatment of women and including accounts of mismanaging two organizations that he ran, as well as reports of |
| 1:30.3 | alcohol-fueled bad behavior. Hegg Seth says those accounts are inaccurate. He denies around doing |
| 1:36.9 | his lawyer has said that these reports are wrong. But today, he said that he is going to keep |
| 1:42.8 | fighting for this nomination. Now, I want to show you how he's doing it. And in Wall Street Journal today, he said that he is going to keep fighting for this nomination. |
| 1:44.8 | Now, I want to show you how he's doing it. |
| 1:46.6 | And in Wall Street Journal today, he came out with an op-ed. |
| 1:49.1 | He defended his record. |
| 1:51.0 | He also went on Megan Kelly's podcast today. |
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