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Financial and other eligibility criteria apply for HSBC Premier. Hello and welcome to The Bunker, your daily dose of news without the nonsense.

I'm Jacob Jarvis. As Washington flexes its geopolitical muscle from Venezuela to its renewed interest in Greenland, an unlikely figure has found himself at the top

of Trump's Defense Department. Pete Hegsif, once a familiar face on Fox News, is now helping

shape some of America's most consequential military decisions. If you strip away the TV bravado

and the Cultural War soundbites, what kind of power does Hegxif really hold and what does his rise reveal about

the Trump administration? To discuss this, I'm joined by Washington-based politics reporter for the

Guardian, Joseph Geddian. Joseph, welcome to the bunker. Hello, happy to be with you. Just to speak

about Hexif, I suppose, because he's been around before doing this job. So before he became

the Secretary of Defense or War, as he prefers to be called, what was your impression of him?

Oh, well, you know, Hexov, the interesting thing about him is when we dwell on his background,

you start to understand that he's an anti-establishment figure

who grew up very much surrounded by elite institutions and as a part of it, you know, his father

was a teacher, his mother was in, you know, she wasn't some culture warrior. She was a professional

career-oriented figure, you know, so Pete Hexeth's whole life story centers around how he's excelled

in elite institutions and decided for himself that if they're not really going to hand over

the keys to him, then maybe they shouldn't exist. With that and his past experience,

obviously, he was on Fox News, but before that, he is a veteran and, you know, I don't want to

throw shade at any veteran whatsoever. I'm certainly not one, so who am I to talk?

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