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I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Tuesday, January 14th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee today for a hearing to confirm his nomination.

Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips reports.

Throughout the hearing, Democrats routinely criticized HECSET's previous comments

regarding women serving in the military, particularly in combat roles.

Here's Senator Elizabeth Warren in one heated back and forth.

If you can convert so rapidly, your long-held and aggressively pursued views in just 32 days, that 32 days

after you get confirmed, maybe you'll just reverse those views and go back to the old guy

who said, straight up, women do not belong in combat.

I was talking about standards. Standards are what it's always been about, Senator. Let's not have this same side again. Warren also noted that

Hexeth had in the past supported banning retired military generals from lobbying and then asked

him to make the same pledge for himself, to which he replied, I'm not a general, senator.

Following Warren, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville jokingly addressed the nominee as General

Hegzeth.

Hexeth also committed to upholding the, quote, rule of law when grilled about whether he would

abide by the Geneva Convention.

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