Pete Hegseth’s Hearing, Jack Smith’s Report, Women’s Sports Protections | Jan. 14, 2025

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10: Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host and veterans advocate, spent more than four hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing Tuesday. Ryan Walker of Heritage Action for America joins the show to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense and Heritage Action’s $1 million ad campaign to support the confirmation of Trump’s nominees. Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report asserts federal prosecutors lacked grounds to charge Trump with incitement for the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the U.S. Capitol. The report also concludes the was not “direct evidence—such as an explicit admission or communication with co-conspirators—of Mr. Trump’s subjective intent to cause the full scope of the violence that occurred.” The U.S. House is voting on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is expected to pass with Democrat votes. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., sponsored the legislation, which prohibits any school that receives federal funding from allowing men to compete in women’s sports. Additional headlines: The Biden administration is considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming President Trump’s tax records along with those of thousands of other taxpayers. Los Angeles resident James Breslo nearly lost his home in the Palisades Fire last week. Now he’s speaking out and pinpointing the blame on the city’s homeless population. Former first lady Michelle Obama won’t attend the January 20 festivities in Washington, but her husband, Barack Obama, will be there with former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email     Subscribe to our other shows:  The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast  Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women  The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown    Follow The Daily Signal:  X: https://x.com/DailySignal  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/  Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal  Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal    Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.8	Silly bookers?
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0:21.4	Conditions apply.
0:22.6	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people, Atoll protected.
0:28.8	It's an honor to come before this committee today as President Donald Trump's nominee for the Office of Secretary of Defense.
0:37.1	Pete Hegseth delivered a knockout
0:38.8	performance at today's confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. I'm your host, Rob Lewy, and this is the Daily Signal's top news in 10 for Tuesday, January 14th, 2025.
1:12.7	Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host and veterans advocates, spent more than four hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing Tuesday. The fireworks began during Hegseth's opening statement when three hecklers yelled insults at him before being removed from the room.
1:18.9	To no one's surprise, Republican senators praised President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense.
1:22.3	Well, Democrats questioned him on controversies from his past.
1:26.8	Hegseth wasted little time to refute the allegations lodged against him. We undertook this responsibility with an obligation to the troops to do right by them for our
1:33.2	warfighters.
1:33.7	And what became very evident to us from the beginning, there was a coordinated smear campaign
1:41.2	orchestrated in the media against us.
1:43.9	That was clear from moment one. And what we
1:48.7	knew is that it wasn't about me. Most of it was about President Donald Trump, who's had to endure
1:53.8	the very same thing for much longer amounts of time. And he endured it in incredibly strong ways.
2:00.5	So we in some ways, knew it was
2:02.6	coming. We didn't understand the depth of the dishonesty that would come with it. So from story
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