It's Thursday, December 5th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that unlike Pete Heggseth and Elon Musk, doesn't need to bring its mom along for emotional support at big meetings.

Here's a tip. If you're old enough to have meetings, you are too old to bring your mom to them.

On today's show, Senators grill airline executives over junk fees, and Trump is trying to get yet another case against him dismissed.

Let's get into it.

Former Fox News host, Pete Higgseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with senators.

He's doing whatever damage control he can to try and salvage his nomination for Defense Secretary

and ease senators fears over the ballooning scandal around his very, very messy personal life.

Heggsath told reporters that Trump said to keep fighting for the job.

That's what Donald Trump asked me to do.

Your job is to bring a warfighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Your job is to make sure that it's letality, lethality, lethality. Everything

else is gone. Everything else that distracts from that shouldn't be happening. That's the message I'm

hearing from senators in that advising consent process. It's been a wonderful process.

But Hegst's nomination is hanging by a thread. Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard

Blumenthal told reporters some of his Republican colleagues privately oppose him.

I've talked to five to ten Republicans who have said to me, they're just waiting for the right

moment to say no to Pete as they're

And in the background, Trump is already considering other names to run the Pentagon, including

his 2024 primary opponent and best friend of me, Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

It speaks to just how bad the scandal swirling around Hegsef is right now.

This week, a story in the New Yorker described in pretty vivid detail how Hegseth was

forced out of top jobs at two non-profit veterans organizations he ran.

Former employees complained about his womanizing and his bad financial management.

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