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🗓️ 25 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Straasoft, no. |
0:05.8 | We're watching the last remaining Senate votes come in on the Senate vote confirmation vote for Pete Hegseth, the Fox News weekend morning co-host to be Secretary of Defense. |
0:19.3 | We're watching this live along with you, joining us now from |
0:22.8 | the Capitol's Julie Sirken, NBC News Congressional Correspondent, who's been covering this confirmation |
0:27.3 | process. |
0:29.1 | No. |
0:29.7 | Closely, Julie, we're trying to listen, as I know you are as well. Can you tell us what, anything |
0:34.7 | about how this vote is unfolding on the Senate floor right now, how it seems like this is going? |
0:38.4 | We obviously saw a yes vote there from Joni Ernst and no vote from Lisa Murkowski, |
0:43.0 | two closely watched female Republican senators. |
0:46.2 | And so far it is just Collins and Murkowski that have voted no on the Republican side of the aisle against Pete Hexed. |
0:52.3 | The two that I'm watching the most closely, |
0:54.4 | I have not yet seen on the Senate floor, and that is Tom Tillis and Mitch McConnell, the |
0:58.7 | McConnell had made his way to the floor a short while ago and might just be waiting over |
1:03.0 | there. I'm just keeping an eye on the screen here. And certainly Pete Hexeth can only afford |
1:08.3 | to lose one more Republican vote and still get confirmed. |
1:12.1 | I'm told J.D. Vance is in the building. He's close by just in case he needs to break a tie, |
1:16.6 | any potential tie here. But Rachel, my reporting all week on this has indicated that Republican senators |
1:22.3 | who have had concerns about Pete HECSett's nomination, not only because of the allegations in |
1:27.1 | the affidavit, but perhaps |
1:28.4 | most importantly, the answers that he gave during his confirmation hearing last week on how he |
1:34.1 | would handle potential war crimes, the Geneva Convention issues that are important for some Republicans |
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