Lawfare Daily: Anna Bower on the Confirmation Hearing of Pete Hegseth
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
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In a live conversation on January 14, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower about the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth by the Senate Armed Services committee on his expected nomination to be secretary of defense, the first confirmation hearing for one of President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominations in his second term.
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| 1:06.7 | There are some people who are kind of really embracing Pete Hegsteth and embracing the idea that he might be someone who in their view could shake things up, even though he does not have the traditional background of someone who would typically be nominated as Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:28.0 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes Lawfare's editor-in-chief with senior editor, Anna Bauer. |
| 1:36.2 | That, to me, is a really kind of disturbing anecdote for someone to tell is about to be the |
| 1:43.3 | Secretary of Defense because instilling, you know, |
| 1:47.5 | the belief amongst people in the military that rules of engagement matter and that the laws of |
| 1:54.8 | war matters seems really important. |
| 1:57.5 | In a live recording on January 14th, we discussed the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegeseth by the Senate Armed Services Committee, which considered Hegset's nomination as Secretary of Defense on Tuesday morning. |
| 2:14.1 | Let's start, as we always do, Anna, with the line. How is the line to get into the Pete Hegsseth hearing? |
| 2:24.0 | Well, actually, so Ben, what I've discovered is that being a congressional reporter who has a |
| 2:30.6 | reserve seat in a committee confirmation hearing room, it means that you don't have to do |
| 2:38.9 | crazy things like show up 24 hours before the events and start a line. |
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