The Trump cabinet picks face increasingly tough road to confirmation

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Despite multiple allegations against him, Pete Hegseth has vowed to fight to become Trump's Defense Secretary. And now some senators say Tulsi Gabbard is facing multiple roadblocks in her path to become intelligence director. Also -Trump names more billionaire CEOs to top jobs in his administration, while House Democrats flip another seat leaving the GOP with a razor-thin majority. Sam Stein, David Drucker, Matthew Dowd, Ron Insana, David Gura, and Dan Osborn join the 11th Hour this Wednesday.

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0:00.0	Tonight, Trump's confirmation crisis, Heggseth scrambles to save his bid for defense secretary,
0:06.7	while Tulsi Gabbard faces even more challenges to become Intel Chief.
0:11.0	Then Democrats flip the final House seat of the 2024 elections, leaving Republicans with a razor-thin majority and no room for error.
0:20.7	And the C-suite comes to the White House.
0:22.8	What happens to the government when it's run by investors and CEOs as the 11th hour
0:27.8	gets underway on this Wednesday night?
0:36.1	Good evening.
0:37.1	Once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl, and today Pete Hegseth vowed to fight for his bid to become Donald Trump's defense secretary, despite several damaging allegations against him.
0:47.3	Those reports have put his bid in peril with up to six Senate Republicans currently not comfortable supporting it.
0:53.7	Heg says mother went on Fox News to defend her son while Hegeseth himself sat down with
0:59.6	former Fox host, Megan Kelly.
1:01.5	And he even took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to make his case.
1:05.7	My colleague Garrett Haake starts us off tonight.
1:09.2	Tonight, President-elect Trump's selection for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegeseth,
1:13.7	facing what may be a make-or-break moment for his nomination amid wavering GOP support.
1:19.0	Hegseth defiant, saying Trump told him today,
1:22.0	Hey, Pete, I got your back.
1:23.6	It's a fight.
1:24.8	They're coming after you.
1:26.0	Get after it.
1:26.8	The former Fox News host and decorated combat
1:29.5	veterans speaking to Megan Kelly, pushing back on damaging stories about his background. What has been said
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