Hi everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Happy Tuesday. In stacking his cabinet,

Donald Trump is proving that birds of a feather flocked together. The man found liable

for sexual abuse facing accusations of sexual assault or sexual misconduct

from at least 18 women has chosen multiple nominees facing allegations of misconduct themselves.

There's Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, Fox News host Pete Heggzeth.

He says he was fully cleared of sexual assault allegations, a claim repeated by his supporters.

Here's Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen over the weekend.

He wasn't charged.

He wasn't even kind of charging this.

There was no crime committed.

The police dropped everything.

It's what's unfortunate in today's world.

You can be accused of anything. And's what's unfortunate in today's world, you can be

accused of anything. And then if, especially if it's something like this, you're automatically

assumed to be guilty. If you read the police report from cover to cover, which I have, and I know

every reporter has too, it is clear there was nothing there. There was clear that there was no crime committed. And so that

doesn't prevent Pete from moving forward in this.

This friend of this show, Barbara McQuaid, notes, quote, the absence of charges is not the same

as being cleared, a term that suggests a finding of actual innocence. And the Washington Post sums it up like this,

quote, the allegation was investigated by local authorities who didn't press charges. The accuser

later threatened legal action. Hegset paid her and she signed a non-disclosure agreement,

according to his attorney. Hegsa's nomination comes, though, after years of scrutiny for the

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