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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated some unconventional people to his Cabinet, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. Washington Post Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe and military researcher Katherine Kuzminski explain what the picks say about Trump's national security agenda. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Pete Hegseth during an Independence Day celebration on Fox & Friends Weekend in 2021. Photo by James Devaney/GC Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump is picking his national security team quickly, and his choices run the gamut.
0:06.4	There are respected normies like little Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.
0:11.0	It's a tremendous honor to the president would place his confidence in a position of such
0:14.7	importance.
0:15.7	Mike Walls, a China Hawk, an advisor to Dick Cheney, who Trump chose as his national security
0:20.2	advisor, is the first
0:21.6	green beret in Congress?
0:23.0	In our training, we have to learn multiple languages.
0:27.3	We have to blend in.
0:28.8	We have to specialize in certain parts of the world.
0:31.4	SOUTERCOLU-
0:32.1	Culture Warrior, Immigration Hardliner RIPCrickets, South DakotaGov, Christy Noem, arguably, has the experience to lead
0:38.0	homeland security.
0:39.1	When Texas and Arizona asked for help that sent my National Guard troops down there to help.
0:45.9	Then there are the provocative choices.
0:48.1	The weekend Fox News host, Pete, the fill-in Fox News host, Tulsi.
0:52.8	Are they prepared for this moment? We're going to ask on today Explained.
0:59.5	Hey, everybody. I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative. And in our new miniseries, we're talking about voter fraud.
1:14.6	For years now, former President Donald Trump has made it a key talking point,
1:19.0	despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud.
1:22.5	But what impact do claims like these have on ordinary voters?
1:27.2	People like Olivia Coley Pearson, a civil
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