Sen. Mark Kelly (D., Ariz.) stopped and spoke with reporters while making his way to this morning’s hearing room. “I’ve got some very specific questions about certain things in his background that are concerning,
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) asked Pete Hegseth during his Senate confirmation hearing for the secretary of defense post about multiple instances involving his apparent drunken conduct during work functions.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's embattled pick for defense secretary, faced tough questions from senators during his confirmation hearing.
Pete Hegseth at his confirmation hearing was asked by Sen. Mark Kelly if it was true or false that in 2014 he was drunk in public in Cleveland?
Pete Hegseth, center, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, is joined by his wife Jennifer Rauchet, right, as they depart a meeting with Republican House members, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
KELLY: All right. She's obnoxious. It was a clever answer in the moment, but that would have been great. That would have been groundbreaking and game changing. All these secretaries of defense, almost all of them, go into the defense industry. And that's how a lot of corruption happens. That is one of the swampiest things out there.
The Arizona senator questioned Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth about his history of getting blitzed off his ass.
What I want to understand is whether or not you bring any of the necessary experience that this job requires," Kelly a said.
Sen. Mark Kelly aptly exposes Pete Hegseth's fatal flaw as Defense secretary. It's the same one found in Kelly's Republican colleagues.
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for secretary of Defense, sat for a brutal four-hour confirmation hearing that was absolutely unhinged TV.
CNN's political commentators Scott Jennings and Karen Finney join CNN's Dana Bash to give their takeaways of Pete Hegseth's Senate confirmation hearing. DANA BASH: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Defense,