Okay. The first thing I should tell you tonight is that Bob Woodward is here. Yes, that Bob Woodward, all the president's men, Bob Woodward, the reporter who toppled to President Bob Woodward. I can tell you that when you're working in government and

Bob Woodward's number pops up on your phone, which has happened to me, your heart rate

picks up a little bit, no matter what administration you're in. And he's going to be here at the

table in just a few minutes. But first, I want to show you something he said the last time we spoke,

because it was right after the election, just a few weeks after. And one of

the things we talked about was the glaring incompetence of the people Donald Trump was

picking for his cabinet. People like Pete Hexeth. I have known over the reporting time I've had

for five decades, 16 secretaries of defense, going back even before I was a reporter Robert McNamara.

And they have to know management.

They have to know what the responsibility is. They have to know where the levers of

power are. And in this appointee, I see none of that. Sixteen secretaries of defense. I see

none of that is what he said. And yet it didn't take an investigative mind like Bob Woodward's

to know that Pete Higgs said the Secretary of Defense might be slightly problematic. I mean,

before running the U.S. military, he was a weekend morning show host on Fox News with a reputation

for going years without washing his hands, which, by the way, is his admission,

just to make it even weirder.

And no shade to cable news hosts, obviously.

Even ones who get a little crazy on New Year's Eve, you can see there.

It's not a job that exactly prepares you to run the Pentagon as your next step.

There were also the countless allegations of Hague Seth drinking on the job, both at

veterans organizations and at Fox News. The New York reported he once got so drunk that he had to be restrained

from getting on a stage at a Louisiana strip club. There were the allegations that he ran those

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