I got to tell you, we actually have a breaking news story. We are going to bring you this hour

that relates to Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's embattled nominee to be the new defense secretary.

Mr. Hegseth is scheduled for a confirmation vote tomorrow in the U.S. Senate.

We are going to break some new news tonight about his nomination. This is a story that I would be bringing you right now if it was ready to go.

I'm not just stringing this along, stringing this out pointlessly.

We are finishing that reporting right now, but we are going to have this story for you

before the end of this hour.

So again, breaking news about Pete Heggseth's very controversial nomination

to be Secretary of Defense. The vote on his nomination is supposed to be tomorrow. We're going to

have that story for you later on this hour. We are just finishing up the last reporting on that

right now. But stick with me on that. All right. So one thing that's

going on in the new administration is that the new president is acting very quickly to do a lot of

things that are very unpopular, things that you wouldn't say run on as your platform if you were actively running for office.

This week, U.S. veterans, including the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Paul Reikoff,

started reporting publicly on what appears to be Trump's new hiring freeze at the VA, at the Veterans

Administration.

Quote, job offers to new employees that have a start date after February 8th are now being

rescinded.

This includes some folks who've already moved to new cities with their families, doctors, nurses,

counselors.

This is throwing a massive hand grenade, Rykoff says, into the largest health care system in America,

one which serves millions of American veterans.

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