Women, woke and drink: meet the man Donald Trump backs to lead US Defence
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Pete Hegseth is a Fox News anchor now hoping to lead the US military. He’s Donald Trump pick to be Secretary of Defence. Leaving aside the allegations of sexual assault and work place drunkenness - which he denies - and the profound lack of experience, does he have what it takes? And will he get through his senate confirmation?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | Did you ever engage in any acts of physical violence against any of your wives? |
| 0:17.6 | Senator, absolutely not. |
| 0:19.8 | But you would agree with me that if someone had committed physical |
| 0:22.4 | violence against the spouse, that would be disqualifying to serve as Secretary of Defense, correct? |
| 0:27.4 | Senator, absolutely not, have I ever done that? You would agree that that would be a disqualifying |
| 0:33.0 | offense, would you not? Senator, you're talking about a hypothetical. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't think it's a hypothetical. |
| 0:43.2 | Violence against spouses occurs every day. And if you as a leader are not capable of saying that physical violence against a spouse |
| 0:49.1 | should be a disqualifying fact for being secretary of the most powerful nation in the world you're demonstrating |
| 0:55.2 | an astonishing lack of judgment. That questioner was Tim Cain, Democratic Senator and one-time |
| 1:01.7 | vice presidential nominee, interrogating Pete Hesketh. He's a man who you might have to get used to. |
| 1:09.9 | He could be Trump's next Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:13.2 | And he's facing allegations of sexual assault and excessive drinking. And he has big plans for how he wants to de-woke America's military. |
| 1:25.2 | Is he going to be part of the team that surrounds Trump for the next four |
| 1:29.8 | years? Welcome to the newsagents USA. Well, this time next week, Donald Trump will once again |
| 1:42.2 | be president. We, newsagents, will be in Washington to cover the |
| 1:46.0 | inauguration and see just what day one feels like. Day one, memorably, he said he would become a |
| 1:52.2 | dictator only on day one. But today we're going to have a look at who is shaping the administration |
| 1:58.6 | around him. And yesterday on Capitol Hill, one of the most |
| 2:02.7 | interesting eyebrow raising picks was facing a Senate confirmation hearing. That was Pete Hesketh. |
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