Sen. Angus King (I., Maine), pressed Pete Hegseth on Ukraine policy, and he demurred, saying this was a policy question for President-elect Donald Trump. "We know who the aggressor is. We know who the good guy is.

Pete Hegseth, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump for defense secretary, faced intense scrutiny during his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday (January 14). Senators questioned Hegseth on various issues, including his stance on Ukraine ...

Tuesday's confirmation hearings on Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense and Wednesdays announcement of a cease-fire agreement for Gaza are illustrative of the elusive nature of politics.

Maine's independent senator questioned the former Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan about women in combat, torture and the war in Ukraine.

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AT HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING on Tuesday, defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth pledged to “restore the warrior ethos.” He told the Senate Armed Services Committee: “When President Trump chose me for this position, the primary charge he gave me was to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.”

The Democrats’ refusal to question Hegseth over his fascist politics underscores that their priority is not the defense of democratic rights against a military-backed Trump dictatorship but the continuation of the war against Russia in Ukraine and the preparation of new wars against Iran in the Middle East and against China.

A telling moment in the supremely depressing Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality who is Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, came right at the beginning, when the former Republican senator Norm Coleman introduced him.

Trump's got the bullhorn now to say, ‘MAGA nation is watching,’” said outgoing Dallas County Republican Party Chair Kelley Koch.

The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was an embarrassment to the U.S. military and begot Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel, said Sen. Jim Banks (R.

He can communicate so well to the American people," Waltz said, adding that Hegseth can articulate "why we need what we need for our troops, and that is a critical piece that President Trump values, as well.