All right, third hour, Clay Ann Buck, kicks off now.

Clay in Israel, he'll be back with us Monday and, well, we're all next week from Israel.

And I'm here in South Florida.

And we will continue to bring you all of the latest and greatest and craziest and everything else here at home in this country and abroad.

So one note for all of you.

It looks like right now, it's not a done deal, but it's looking good for our friend Pete

Hegseth.

Donald Trump put out this on truth social, and now it makes its way to X very rapidly.

He wrote, Pete Heggseth is doing very well.

His support is strong and deep, much more so than the fake news would have you believe.

He was a great student, Princeton Harvard educated with a military state of mind.

He will be a fantastic, high-energy secretary of defense who leads with charisma and skill.

Pete is a winner, and there is nothing that can be done to change that.

So it's looking like Pete not only has the backing of continued backing, I should say, of Trump fully for this,

but also the noise you're hearing in the Senate is dying down,

from a few of them, from a handful.

That's dying down.

And I think that there's been a recognition that,

look, they're not going to hold them to a standard of, because it's viewed as irrelevant, I think, by a lot of people to his ability to do this job.

You know, he's had some challenges in his personal life in terms of marriages.

They're not, that's not the issue.

That's not at issue.

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