Pete Hegseth Stands Strong In Confirmation Hearing
The Jesse Kelly Show
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth sat before Republican and Democrat Senators for his confirmation hearing. Jesse Kelly gives his thoughts on the hearing and goes through some of the best moments. He then gets reaction from Congressman Chip Roy, who is working on border security legislation as we speak. This comes as the DOJ launched yet another desperate effort to smear President-Elect Donald Trump. Josh Hammer has the latest on this. Plus, an on-the-ground update on the California wildfires from Joel Pollak and Jennifer Galardi.
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| 0:00.0 | The Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing is spicy and wonderful. |
| 0:06.6 | We'll talk about everything that happened there. |
| 0:08.2 | The Biden, DOJ, making some late corrupt moves. |
| 0:11.4 | Surprise, surprise. |
| 0:12.5 | Josh Hammer joins us. |
| 0:13.9 | All that and more coming up on I'm right. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah. All right, let's talk about the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing from earlier today. |
| 0:32.2 | It was quite a spectacle. |
| 0:39.6 | But before we launch into that, we'll have Pete's opening stuff, Tim Keynes and Indianette, Gillibrand, |
| 0:44.9 | we have a lot. We're going to bring you here in just a moment. It's just talk about why I'm so supportive of somebody like Pete Hagseth getting into an important position of power. Because |
| 0:52.9 | he is different. |
| 0:55.1 | It's most definitely different. |
| 0:57.7 | In fact, he really talked about being a change agent today. |
| 1:02.2 | Now, it is true and has been acknowledged that I don't have a similar biography |
| 1:05.1 | to defense secretaries of the last 30 years. |
| 1:08.4 | But as President Trump also told me, |
| 1:10.7 | we've repeatedly placed people atop the |
| 1:13.0 | Pentagon with supposedly the right credentials, whether they are retired generals, academics, |
| 1:18.5 | or defense contractor executives. And where has it gotten us? He believes, and I humbly agree, |
| 1:26.8 | that it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm, |
| 1:30.8 | a change agent, someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or |
| 1:36.9 | approved narratives. My only special interest is the warfighter. I've led troops in combat. I've been on patrol for days. |
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