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Hegseth Did 'Exceedingly Well' in Confirmation Hearing: Punaro
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8:33Now PlayingPete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, is portraying his lack of high-level management experience as an asset, saying at his confirmation hearing that he’d be a “change agent” to “restore the warrior ethos” with “no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.”
But Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in his opening remarks, “Mr. Hegseth, I do not believe that you are qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of this job.”
The former Fox News host and military veteran said that he and Trump believe “that it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm” after years of picking generals, academics or defense contractor executives. Hegseth, 44, spent 14 years in the National Guard and was deployed to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Retired Marine Corps Major General Arnold Punaro, a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee, assesses Pete Hegseth’s appearance at his confirmation hearing to be Defense secretary.
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