Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, Senate confirmation hearings began for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, starting with defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. The Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Hegseth for over four hours, with Democrats pressing Hegseth on his previous comments about women serving in combat roles, allegations of sexual abuse and infidelity, and his qualifications for the position. While these moments produced several tense exchanges, Senate Republicans appeared satisfied with Hegseth’s performance, indicating his nomination is likely to succeed.
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| 1:32.5 | episode, we're going to be talking about Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing that happened yesterday. |
| 1:38.9 | I have some pretty strong feelings about this one, to be honest with you. So you're going to get a little bit of heat today in the my take section, but, you know, I promise to be honest. And that's what this is all about. So we're going to talk a little bit of Heggssef, a little bit of Secretary of Defense, all that good stuff. Before we jump in, though, unfortunately, we do have another correction that we have to issue today, |
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