A senator told Hegseth: "I suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations."

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is facing allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct. But he also has his supporters, including Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), who flubbed a key line as he wrapped up his defense of Hegseth during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has publicly faced senators for the first time.

John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, said of Hegseth's remarks on North Korea's status as a nuclear power: "We've not made such a recognition. I can't speak to what the incoming team will—how they'll characterize it. We've not gone so far as to make that recognition."

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

The report doesn't offer material from Hegseth's ex-wives or a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. Hegseth has said that encounter was consensual, and prosecutors never filed charges.

At his confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, has said that the West is not prepared for the challenges that will come over the next five years and that it’s time to “shift to a wartime mindset.” Kori Schake,

But did this happen at the Pete Hegseth hearings in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week? If you thought those kinds of questions would dominate the hearings, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country.

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