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I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January 14th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.
Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee today for a hearing to confirm his nomination. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips reports.
Throughout the hearing, Democrats routinely criticized Hegseth's previous comments regarding women serving in the military, particularly in combat roles. Here's Senator Elizabeth Warren in one heated back and forth.
If you can convert so rapidly your long-held and aggressively pursued views in just 32 days, that 32 days after you get confirmed, maybe you'll just reverse those views and go back to the old guy who said straight up, women do not belong in combat.
I was talking about standards.
Standards are what it's always been about, Senator. Warren also noted that Hegseth had in the past supported banning retired military generals from lobbying and then asked him to make the same pledge for himself, to which he replied, I'm not a general, Senator. Following Warren, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville jokingly addressed the nominee as General Hegseth.
Hegseth also committed to upholding the, quote, rule of law when grilled about whether he would abide by the Geneva Convention. During the exchange, Senator Angus King had asked Hegseth if he thought torture was okay while referencing past comments from Hegseth on the topic. Here's some of that answer.
I've never been party to torture. We are a country that fights by the rule of law. What an American-first national security policy is not going to do is hand its prerogatives over to international bodies
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