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Cool. Who?

That's the question many are stuck on tonight.

Well, unconventional politicians do make some unconventional choices.

One example, Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.

Now, if he wasn't on your bingo card, you're actually not alone tonight. One defense official telling CNN, quote, everyone is simply shocked.

Now, if you recognize him, it may be from Fox News.

He's been there for eight years and co-hosts his show on the weekend.

There he is.

He's a veteran who served tours in Afghanistan and also Iraq.

Advisors tell us he's been an informal advisor to Trump for several years already.

And one source says Trump thinks he has, well, the look.

It's going to require a lot more than the look for a TV personality with no government experience

to run the most powerful military in the entire world.

It's also curious when you factor in what Trump told Joe Rogan.

It's very dangerous to pick somebody outside of a politician because a politician's been basically

vetted for years.

You pick a business guy and they've never been vetted at all and they're, you know, the head of a big company or something, and they've never been vetted at all, and they're, you know,

the head of a big company or something, but they've never been vetted.

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