“Refusal to abide”
Deadline: White House
MSNBC
4.6 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Happy Wednesday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. At this very hour, we are following what |
| 0:13.2 | now resembles an ongoing slow motion train wreck. That is Pete Higgs' last ditch effort to be |
| 0:20.3 | confirmed by the United States Senate |
| 0:22.2 | as Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense. We should tell you it is a fluid situation. If any news |
| 0:28.5 | breaks or changes while we're on the air over the next two hours, we'll bring it to you at any point. |
| 0:33.9 | For now, though, the scandal-ridden former Fox News weekend morning show host has been trying on Capitol Hill to persuade Senate Republicans that he is the man for the job. |
| 0:44.1 | It is now a formidable undertaking given the NBC News reporting we broke here on this program less than 24 hours ago, reporting that said that, quote, as many as six Senate Republicans, perhaps more, |
| 0:55.9 | are currently not comfortable supporting Hegss' bid to lead the Pentagon as new revelations |
| 1:02.0 | about his past continue to be made public. It would appear Hegeseth is undaunted by that report |
| 1:08.5 | and plowing ahead with what now resembles a bit of a hell Mary. |
| 1:14.2 | With Hegset writing in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, this, quote, I have never backed down |
| 1:18.9 | from a fight and won't back down from this one. Complicating things, however, for Hegseth |
| 1:24.4 | is the fact that Donald Trump seems to have moved on. |
| 1:28.3 | He's reportedly discussing replacing Hegseth with Florida governor and former Trump nemesis Ron DeSantis. |
| 1:34.3 | Trump has reportedly been, quote, floating DeSantis' name in casual conversations with guests at Mar-a-Lago. |
| 1:41.3 | Mark Caputo at the bulwark reports that Trump and DeSantis, quote, |
| 1:45.8 | have personally discussed the possibility, and this, quote, the talks relayed by four sources |
| 1:51.4 | briefed on them are in their advanced stages. And, you know, you had to make the rounds on Capitol |
| 1:58.0 | Hill knowing that Trump is in the advanced stages of replacing you with somebody else. |
| 2:03.5 | Maybe you would consider a media blitz with a friendly former Fox News anchor like Megan Kelly, too. |
| 2:10.6 | Listen to him with her trying to clean up the other piece of reporting that dropped 24 hours ago. |
| 2:16.2 | The NBC News exclusive that 10 current and |
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