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Capital combat.

Senate Democrats go to war with the incoming president's defense secretary pick,

Pete Hegseth, by taking aim at why they say

he's unfit to lead on the battlefield. Your views were consistently saying, women are inferior,

soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and guardians. Allegations of dishonorable behavior on the home front.

You have admitted that you had sex while you were married to wife two after you just had fathered a child by wife three.

You were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room.

Is that true or false?

Anonymous smears.

And how those weren't even the wildest confrontations in the Senate yesterday.

Plus, Senate and Combat veteran Tammy Duckworth joins hot topics to take you inside her intense

grill on the hill.

You are asking us to lower the standards to make you the Secretary of Defense simply because you are buddies with our president-elect.

Plus, Dennis Larry talks about his bad bromance with Ray Romano in no good deed and commanding the screen in the new comedy series, Going Dutch.

Here come Hot Topics with Whoopi!

Sarah Haynes

Joy Behaugh

Anna Navarro

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