Welcome to the NewsHour. A buried whistleblower report has come to light raising fresh concerns about the fitness of President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon.

Former Fox News host and defense secretary, Delegate Pete Hegeseth, was on Capitol Hill today.

We spent funds, Mr. Dex that were intoxicated on the job.

You have any comment about that reporting?

We got, we're not going to questions.

He refused to answer media questions while meeting with Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville

ahead of a potential confirmation battle next year.

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer investigated Hegett's time leading two non-profits for military veterans

and uncovered allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.

She joins us now.

Jane's good to see you.

Thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

So you reviewed documents.

You also spoke with Hegset's former colleagues at these groups that he ran.

What kind of picture did they paint of Hegset as a leader?

It really was a picture that was, I would say, increasingly alarming in some ways.

It was a picture of a leader who was pushed out of his

leadership positions in two groups that were for veterans because there were so many

concerns about his financial mismanagement and his personal conduct. So, and these were

relatively small groups with relatively small budgets, and the first group had only 10 people working at it, veterans for freedom.

And it raised a lot of questions about how he would manage the largest department in the federal government, the most lethal and largest military in the world.

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