Pete Hegseth grilled during Senate confirmation hearing
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was grilled by Democrats during an intense senate confirmation hearing.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump wants him to be the sec death, the Secretary of Defense. |
| 0:03.3 | Pete Higseth went through the Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, |
| 0:06.0 | and during the hearing, senators questioned him about his past comments on women in combat. |
| 0:10.7 | Also accused accusations of his personal misconduct, his overall views on military leadership. |
| 0:17.6 | But despite all that, he was backed by a lot of veterans, |
| 0:21.8 | and a lot of people thought that he did a really good job during the hearing. Do you think he's good looking? I do. |
| 0:26.8 | Really? Yes. Okay. All right. That was very quick. You were very quick on the draw on that answer. |
| 0:31.7 | Okay. I thought he did wonderful yesterday. I did try to listen to some of it throughout the course of |
| 0:36.9 | day I was out running errands, |
| 0:38.3 | but one of the things he did very well, and this is a real art, and I'm sure his years in |
| 0:43.7 | television have helped him, but he did not take the bait, and he did not respond to their, |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, look, the whole plan, Tony said this driving in today and he's absolutely |
| 0:55.9 | right they've the Democrats failed yesterday because there were a bunch of areas where you could |
| 1:00.4 | probably hit him and actually like land some blows and maybe potentially sway these |
| 1:06.4 | goobers like Murkowski and Collins but they were so over the top. The Democrats were so over the top |
| 1:15.6 | in their approach with him. And he sat there so calmly. He was calm, cool, collected. And, you know, |
| 1:21.8 | clearly he wants to do this. And he was he was coached very, very well on what the quote quote unquote undecided or fence setters are going to |
| 1:30.4 | want to see and they you know he he handled it marvelously like yesterday but these democrats almost |
| 1:35.9 | no conversation with him whatsoever about how he's going to run the u.s military other than they got |
| 1:41.7 | into some obsessive thing about if trump unleashes the military on U.S. citizens, |
| 1:46.7 | would you go along with it? |
| 1:47.9 | No plan on how you would lead in the Middle East or, you know, potential protection of our various ally. |
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