>> thank you. senator, budd. >> and i recognize senator reed for unanimous consent. >> i submit that one is submitted. one from the accountability project and the other signed by several organizations including the truman national security project. >> without objection, so ordered. >> now, senator, kelly, senator rosen got hereafter the gavel went down. do you really want to go ahead of her? >> i'm going to defer to my good friend and colleague senator rosen. >> that is a really -- >> the great state of nevada. >> that is a good decision. >> senator rosen, you are recognized. >> thank you, senator kelly, and i owe you. thank you for thank you for holding this hearing, and mr. hegseth, i appreciate your service and your willingness to serve again. however, i am deeply

then you would not meet with me. let me tell you a bit about what i would have talked about had you made yourself available prior is home to the premier training ranges to the air force in the navy. the largest ammunition depot in the world and the only place in the country where we are able to verify the reliability of our nuclear stockpile without the need a critical role in our national security and the person who holds in the military, we

have talked about my colleague, recruitment and retention. one day they will become a veteran. about what you think. dod does not have jurisdiction over nevada's interested in your views about those service members once they have transitioned out of the military given the influence 2019, you veterans to apply for every government benefit they can get after they want to be dependent on government assistance from the va based on injuries or illness that might have i am going or no questions understanding you don't have

jurisdiction. it is important to our morale and o do you believe vs those ae wrong to support veterans obtaining the benefits they have like you do? >> they deserve the do you believe es some of those services -- should veterans from obtaining the benefits they have earned? >> every veteran should veterans be ashamed to seek out suicide

because they hit a brick wall. >> how illnesses and injuries. do you think they deserve our support and assistance? your answers are broad. people want to know. are you willing that will help our veterans get everything they deserve because they signed on the dotted line to keep us safe, just like you did. i respect that with all due humility, i don't know there is anyone in this room that has worked harder to ensure veterans of my life to make sure they received -- and it is a recruiting said they depend on the government. do you believe they are

dependent on the government or it is a benefit they have earned. >> it is a benefit. >> these are your words. you have changed your position. you believed they were dependent and now you believe are benefits people may need throughout their life and may not know when they need them or how they are going to need them and they need to be there when they do. i am going to move onto my next question. america's role, the you agree with the national defense strategy that the u.s. cannot compete with china, russia cannot win a war that way. that is a quote from the you

believe america first is america alone our partners and if we cannot win alone and we do not strengthen our strategic partnerships, i would on how do you swear that position in your book. are you okay sending us down a path we have had no better ally, no better has stood have trump

going to stand behind ukraine? are you going to said he will end the war in ukraine before he takes office. less than a week, to the best of your knowledge, do you have knowledge of the plan he is going to end the war with ukraine? i am going to give trump military advice that you have given others the war in will affect the united states standing i will always give my best guidance on matters like that. >> will that hurt our credibility with our allies and

partners? do integrity. >> so ordered. >> good to see you here today. thank you for your willingness to serve. i want to thank you for your clarity in articulating the vision you have for the department of defense and restoring an east coast, a warrior ethos. which is in stark contrast to the east coast we have seen which is weakness and woke us.

i want to draw down how we have gotten to where we have gone with recruiting and morale. dei. there has been discussion about this but for those watching at home, it is not about giving everybody opportunity. it is rooted in cultural marxism, the idea that you get the room with o presser versus oppressed. it has no business whatsoever in our military. the american people have spoken loudly and clearly about this. they are tired of this, they are tired of woke ideology and to my democratic colleagues, if you haven't picked up on that, you have missed the plot. that is what november 5th was partially about. in our academies, specifically the air force academy, it was

advised as disfavored language, to refer to your mom and dad as mom and dad. don't say that. that is insane. we are all just people. you can't say that either. in an effort to police this, in 1984, there was an eyes and ears program to rat on your fellow students who might say mom and dad or say, we are all just people. cannot say that. this wasn't limited to our academies. the secretary of the air force, our current secretary of the air force, in a memo from auguso many white officers, advocated for quoted.

if you crunch the numbers that meant 5800 white officers who worked hard, should be fired. in the united states of america, i don't know how we got here and the air force is not alone here. the navy touted a drag queen influencer. this stuff is insane. people wonder why recruiting has dropped off. let me go through a few numbers and i want your comments on how we fix it. it hasn't gone off the rails. in 2022, the army missed their recruiting goal by over 15,000. the navy missed by over 7,000. the air force couldn't meet their standard even though they lowered their standards. they have lowered their standards to meet numbers they kill or not -- they still cannot

get to. we have to fix this. you have the talent and the ability and the desire to fix it. how are you going to fix that? >> thank you for the question. first and foremost, upfront, you have to tear out dei out of institutions and you have to put in army, navy, and air force secretaries, and others, civilian positions of the helm who are committed to the same priorities as the united states and if confirmed, the secretary of defense will be. this is not a time for equity. it is a different word than equality. equality is the bedrock of our military. men and women, duty positions in uniform. we treat you equally based on who you are in the image of god as an individual and we all get the same bad haircut. you are not an individual. you are part of a group.

equity prescribes an outcome based on differing attributes we have that divide us. what skin color are you, what gender are you? and infuse that into institutions and things like quotas, formal or informal. which sends morale into the tubes and makes people feel like they are judged by something other than how good they are at their job, which is poisonous. >> that wasn't enough for this administration. during the covid hysteria in their attempt to fire 100,000 people who work for bigger companies because they did not get the covid shot or two mask 5-year-olds, and they decided to make this a central plank in their policy at the pentagon. 8,000 -- we have a recruiting crisis. 8,000 well-trained men and women were fired. will you commit today to recruit

these folks back, to give them back pay, to give them an apology from the united states government for how they were disrespected. >> i will commit to this because the commander in chief has committed to this. they will receive an apology, backpay, and rank they lost. >> this talk of the experience and not coming from the same cocktail parties that permanent washington is used to, you are a breath of fresh air. if you weren't paying attention to what this election was about, it was about the disruptors versus the establishment. the american people have had enough of a business as usual from the same people that line up for these jobs. we need someone who was going to

fight for innovation and change. i think you are that person and i will appreciate your willingness to sit here and listen to some of these undignified attacks. >> thank you chairman. i want to make a request that we have a second round of ques questions. >> pursuant to the bipartisan staff agreement that we reached late last year, this will be one round of seven minute questions. i will be happy to recognize my colleague. >> it is important to note, when senator was here we had three rounds of questioning. one second carter was here we had two rounds of questioning and i cannot recall any time or i have denied as a chairman, a

member to ask for a second round to receive a second round. we are violating the principles of the committee. >> your comment is noted. >> thank you for being here today. thank you for your service to this country. few nominees come in with all of the necessary experience to do this job. we get that. it is a reflection on how big a job this is. i want to understand whether or not you bring any of the necessary experience this job requires and here is where i am concerned. senator coleman in introducing you he said he has struggled and overcome great personal challenges. you walk in here saying you have had personal and character

issues in your past including heavy drinking, which he wrote about and you said that i sit before you as an open book. you haven't actually said what personal challenges it is you have overcome when you have been asked about them. i'm going to give you an opportunity here to be as forthright as you say you want to be. there were cases cited by individuals about your conduct. i am going to go through a few of them and i want you to tell me if these are true or false. very simple. memorial day, 2014, in virginia, you needed to be carried out of the event for being intoxicated. >> come anonymous smears. >> just true or false. in cleveland, drunk in public

with a cv of 18. >> anonymous spears. >> true or false. event in front of north carolina staff members after you instituted a no alcohol policy and reverses. >> anonymous smears. >> at the grand hyatt in washington, d.c., you were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room. >> anonymous smears. >> a staffer stated you passed out in the back of the party b bus. >> anonymous smears. >> in 2014, in louisiana on business for cva, did you take your staff, including young female staff members, to a strip club. >> absolutely not, anonymous

smears. >> is that accurate the organization reached a financial settlement with a female staffer who claimed to be at a strip club with you and there was a colleague who attempted to assault her? was there a financial sett settlement? >> i was not involved in that. i don't the nature of how that played out. >> but you understand there was a financial settlement for a staffer who accused another member of the organization, not you, hug sexual assault in a strip club? >> we have multiple statements on the record. >> you claim you were not there when that occurred. >> absolutely not. >> the behavior i cited, if t

true, do you think this behavior of intoxication, going into these type of establishments, women on your staff being so uncomfortable they have to file the harassment claims, do you think this is appropriate behavior for a leader? >> the overwhelming majority of anyone who has worked for me, including on the record statement submitted, with their name on it, men and women who work with me every day are the overwhelming preponderance of evidence that testifies to my leadership and professional -- professionalism. my leadership is impugned. >> i am not going into the accusations -- with integrity. >> i have limited time. i am not going to get into the

accusations that come from fox news. there are multiple incidences of accusations against you about drinking on the job. >> all anonymous and false and disputed by my colleagues. >> the challenge here for me is when there is discussion about personal challenges and you had issues with heavy drinking. it is hard to square the circle here. let me ask you, if you had to answer these questions about sexual assault, wouldn't it have been different if you were under oath? >> i am just pointing out the false claims against me.

>> people were concerned you haven't demonstrated adequate leadership in your civilian role and this is a dangerous world we are living in here. i am going to leave with concerns about your transparency. you have personal issues but when asked about those issues, you blamed an anonymous smear campaign, even when many of these claims are not anonymous. which is it? have you overcome personal issues or are you the target? and it's clear you are not being honest with us or the american people. you know the truth would disqualify you from getting the job. what concerns me just as much is the idea of having secretary of

defense who is not transparent. >> thank you. i yield back my two seconds. >> i would ask consent to introduce into the record letters by tina kingston, and holly talley. attesting to the appropriateness of the conduct with regards to female staffers. that is added to the record. senator banks you are now recognized. >> welcome, you have conducted yourself well today. i believe it is incumbent to confirm you to clean up the mess we have at the pentagon ongoing at this moment because of the

leadership there over the last four years has failed us. in biden's first year in office, we spent over 5 million man hours on counter extremism, what we might call woke training or dei. they have refused to provide us more recent data but we know it is more man hours wasted on dei over the last four years. what do you make of that? what could those 5 million man hours, what could those man-hours have been used for? >> that is a whole lot of service members sitting and all a lot of briefs hearing about a lot of threats or political

perspectives that might be dangerous that do not comport to threats that actually exist or ideas that introduce critical race theory or dei or climate change initiatives they and their command tacked to conform to. every time one of those happen, it gets pushed down the chain of command. it includes those committed to enforcing those type of initiatives. it sounds like a lot. the more troubling aspect is how many training hours that takes away from a company commander or battalion commander or wing commander trying to maintain their force which is already constrained because of what is done to the defense budget and capabilities. they are having to choose between the civilians demanding more and the readiness of their forces. this pentagon is prepared

because of our commander in chief for a secretary of def defense. they are ready to respond. they understand we live in a dangerous world. >> months later, the priority of the biden often led pentagon was on dei and woke training, one of the biggest embarrassments happen when we lost 13 of our heroes in the botched withdrawal from afghanistan. secretary austen testified a couple years ago, said he had no regrets. what do you make of that? >> it is shameful. they still touted as the most successful airlift in history.

it was utter failure. abandonment of our allies, death of american troops, detriment to our reputation and no answers and accountability on the other side. the october 7th attacks, invasion into ukraine, the world recognized weakness for what it was. the external security was the tallow band. there was no actual plan for this under the biden administration, and the only person held accountable in those moments was a lieutenant colonel who stood up and said somebody should be held accountable for that. no one else involved has taken accountability for it. when that microcosm becomes the reality of the perception of the american military or commitment

to victory and success, the world response to that. trumpets going to restore real deterrence by rebuilding our military and ending wars properly. >> we served in afghanistan. 75% of our nation's veterans disagree with how the withdrawal from afghanistan was handled, the embarrassment of it. it has impacted our historic recruitment crisis, without a doubt. you already talked about that. how do we bring pride back to wearing the uniform for the next generation to inspire them to do what we did to raise your right hand and take that oath and serve our country. >> it comes back to strong, clear leadership.

let those we are not going to focus on the other political prerogatives. we all have political perspectives. in uniform, none of that mat matters. who you vote for doesn't matter but when the perception of that changes, you don't want people deciding whether to serve based on a political party in power. it is a dangerous thing and it is fragile. we are going to restore the continuity of in a political military that act decisively and only based on merit. they sound basic, but they are fundamental. >> we agree that woke myths is weakness. do you support racial quotas? >> i do not support any form of racial quota. i only support hiring and

promoting and admitting the best and brightest whatever their background is. >> lloyd austen went awol. he disappeared for days and never told the president, didn't inform the chief of staff he was going to the hospital. with that occur on your watch? >> no. i know in any one of my jobs if i decided to go awol for a day or two in uniform or around t that, that would have been a concern. >> i believe accountability matters. no one has been held accountable for what happened in afghanistan. i applaud you and trunk for being accountable. with that, i yield back. >> we recognize the distinguished member. >> i would like to submit an article discussing some of the issues of readiness and dei.

there has been a comment that 5.9 million man hours have been used for dei. that is an estimate out of more than 2 million man hours the department invested. >> where is this published? >> it is published by megan myers and i will get the dash military.com. >> it will be admitted to the record. senator slotkin. welcome to the committee. >> thank you for referencing the great carl levin as you introduced me. for those i haven't met and my one week i have been sworn in, i am a cia officer recruited after 9/11. i did three tours armed in iraq

and have worked for four different secretaries of defense both democrat and republican proudly and watched them make decisions that literally determined the life and death of americans. i am a democrat representing a state that trunk one. i understand he has the right to nominate his people. we are going to have policies we disagree, all of that comes very standard. what i am most concerned with is no president has the right to use the uniform military in a way that violates the u.s. constitution and further taint the military as that a political institution all want. our founders designed the system so we weren't going to use active duty military inside the united states and make american citizens potentially scared of their own military.

we went through our experience with that with the british. you will be the one man standing and the breach should he give an illegal order. if he does, you are the guy he calls to implement this order. do you agree there are some orders that can be given by the commander in chief that would violate the constitution? >> thank you for your service. i reject the premise trunk is going to be giving illegal orders. >> i am not saying he will. do you believe there is such a thing as an illegal order. anything a commander in chief could ask you to do that would be in violation of the constitution? >> anybody of any party could give an order that is against the constitution or the law. >> are you saying you would stand in the breach and push back if you were given an

illegal order. >> you have done your genuflecting to him. this is not a hypothetical. your predecessor, secretary esther was asked and did use uniformed military to clear protesters. he was given the order to potentially shoot at them. he later apologized publicly for those actions. was pete right or wrong to apologize? >> i was on the ground. >> i understand and respect that, but you are about to be the secretary of defense. was he right? >> was he right or wrong to apologize? >> i am not going to put words in the mouth of secretary esper. did he do the right thing by apologizing? >> i am not scared of anything. >> then say yes or no. you can say no.

>> donald trump asked for the active duty 82nd airborne to be deployed during that same time. secretary esper has written that he convinced him against that. of donald trump asked you to use the 82nd airborne and law enforcement rolled in washington defeat, would you convince him otherwise? rico i am not going to get ahead of conversations but there are laws inside our constitution that would be followed. >> trump that he is willing to consider using the active duty military against the enemy within. have you been involved in discussions of using the u.s. u. military, active duty the united states? >> i am glad we got to the topic of border security equaling national security. it has been advocated and ignored. >> that was not my question. you are about to be the secretary of defense. have you been involved in discussions about using

active-duty military inside the united states? >> i am not yet the secretary of defense. if confirmed, i would be party to the spirit >> but you have not been party to any of these conversations? >> you are going to be in charge of 3 million people. i believe you care about the active duty. have you been in conversations about using active-duty in any way, whether it is setting up detention camps, policing cities, have you been involved in any of those conversations? >> certainly related to doing things this administration has not, which is secure the southern border and not allow floods of illegal. >> okay, i got it. >> there is a reason the military is playing a role in that. >> do you believe -- will you

ask the active-duty military staff, our u.s. military is not trained in law enforcement. you know that. we have seen how that is difficult. do you support the use of active-duty military and supporting camps? >> everything we would do would be lawful. >> in the spirit of preserving the institution. i get your filibuster. i get it. the uniform code of military justice, i have heard a couple things. you will not change the code, which is what governs the justice system in the military. yes or no? >> those are laws set by congress. >> you will not attempt to

change it. you also said jack officers are potentially people who put their own interest in their own metals and promotions ahead of the troops. senator lindsey graham was a jag officer for most of his life. is that what you believe? >> i was speaking about particular officers i have had to deal with. >> are you going to get involved in the implementation of the u.s. military code of justice? >> it would be a big part of my job to evaluate decisions. >> i will take that as a "yes." is cq brown on your list to be removed from his position? >> they will be reviewed on meritocracy and commitment to lawful orders? >> i recognize senator shaheen.

>> i have a request from a former general who served 35 years. he was asked that his letter opposing the nomination be entered into the record. >> is their objection without objection, it will be entered. i've present a host of letters and op-ed from former coworkers, as well as fox news channel. i have also letters who were helps. i asked consent to introduce these letters and op-ed.

without objection, is so ord ordered. you have been very patient. >> thank you. entering a support letter submitted by nearly 90 former soldiers who served with him. >> two items. >> story, one item. >> it will be entered. >> thank you. i am going to ask you questions because i want to hear your answer. how many genders are there? >> there are two. >> what is the diameter of a

rifle wrong? >> that is a 556. >> how many push-ups can you do? >> i did advise that the 47 this morning. >> what is our most strategic base in the pacific? >> guam is strategically significant. >> how many rounds of 556 can you fit in the magazine of a rifle? >> standard issue is 30. >> what size round is the m9 beretta standard issue sidearm? >> 9-millimeter. >> what kind of batteries are in your night vision goggles? >> duracell. >> you represent qualifications that show you understand what they deal with on the battlefield. you understand what happens on the front line where our troops will be and what happens in this

country is bad decisions end up with a lower middle-income families who sometimes are on the way out. maybe they want to go to col college. for whatever reason, they joined and signed on the dotted line. for whatever reason, sometimes they don't come home. you and i, asked you one question, do you remember what that question was i don't care what these letters and articles say. i care that you have one thing in mind. you told me what that was.

with that, you have my support. i am sorry you have to go through a process like this but we have to make sure you are ready for it. i thank you for your answers. one final question is important to me. to fix the army in this country is a one to two year problem. fix the air force might be a five year problem. the navy as a decade-long pursuit. how are you going to fix our national? you cannot snap your fingers. how do you lead an initiative to rebuild our industry so we can compete with china? freedom of navigation as critical and it will be an important task for you to complete. >> it is a critical question and i am happy trump has said to me and publicly that shipbuilding will be one of his top

priorities. a lot of it does go into pulling things up into the office to shine a spotlight on it to make sure bureaucracy doesn't strangle important issues. we need to reinvigorate to include shipbuilding capacity. some is on the east, some is west and some is on the great lakes. the workforce problem shipyard space are big and there have been investments because of the short falls. we also see adversaries who have been able to innovate in a way that there shipbuilding capacities are multitude beyond our capabilities. we need to incentivize outside entities to fill the gap. you talk a lot a lot about uavs. they are important but there is a future for unmanned underwater

vehicles that will be part of amplifying the impact of our navy. this administration has allowed our work number of ships to drop below 300. at this a projection of 340 or 350 but doesn't create the capacity to address it. if we are going to defend our interests and allies, we have to project power. it means historic investment and driving innovation and cost savings in ways that only business leaders in the pentagon can do. >> i don't think any board in the world would have hired steve jobs or mark zuckerberg. this country was founded by young people with great vision. thank you for being willing to serve your company. i yield back.

>> you yield back the balance of your time. mr. ranking member, can we agree that you and i will notify members of a specific time until which the record will remain open for submissions of questions for the record? >> yes. >> that will be a day or two. this concludes today's hearing. i want to thank the witnesses and their families and this hearing is adjourned. [applause] >> you have been watching live on capitol hill, trump's picked to lead the pentagon. john, welcome to our coverage. there are many moments who point to that were highly anticipated

in which he responded to claims against him, called them smear campaign live on capitol hill, in his opening statement he referenced his credentials as he hails from the military himself. he addressed dei, women in the military, wide-ranging questions and now the announcement continue as to how he did. >> it was interesting what they brought up at the end when they asked him questions about the operation of military weapons. he obviously knows what war fighters in the front lines go through and there have been secretaries of defense in the past who do know that. there is a lot to come from businesses, all lot that is more bureaucratically oriented and to have someone who is most recently on the front lines as of a few years ago running the

pentagon is something we haven't seen in a wile and he was marking that. he came in for friendly questioning from republicans and intense questioning for most democrats who are on the committee. some of them seemed very confrontational. his conversation with tammy duckworth was noticeable. one thing he could have been better prepared was when ductwork got him. he didn't seem to have an answer for that one, so memo to the people who prepared him for the hearing, you have to anticipate anything could come down the pipe. >> let's bring in michael allen. thank you for being here. as we watch him say his goodbyes and greet some of those senators, your review of what you just saw and heard. >> i thought he was very well

prepared. he give a very good performance. he will be the soldier's secretary. he talked so much about the war fighter lethality, training, readiness. we need to lean into what his strengths are and those are his communication skills and ability to promote the force, to ensure recruitment comes back and to sell to the american people of the congress hired defense spending because of china and the other threats. democrats came at him hard. that is part of the process, but he handled himself very well. >> it was interesting the democrats are trying to tell the nation he is not qualified to be the secretary of defense. there was one moment where senator peters thought he had a real got you question when he

asked him what he had done in the field of innovation. watch this exchange. >> give me an experience of driving innovation. >> concern veterans for america, we created a bipartisan task force to create policy, to drive policy change on capitol hill that organizations fought against. we got the va accountability issue packed. >> thank you. >> thank you. i have limited time. thank you. >> he realized that blew up in his face and he quickly got out of it and turned to something else. it is an indication the democrats, it was twofold, you don't have the experience for this job and he showed he does

have a lot of experience that could be applied to this job and the other was the personal aspect of it. the lines of attack or not about policy. it was all personal. >> it was personal. i think that is all they have. at the end of the day, he is an iv educated leader in the armed forces, he has been to afghanistan. because of his experience with veterans, he is going to understand and be a voice for areas that are traditionally out of the department of veterans affairs, which you can't find many people at all to defend. one of the big themes of donald trump's time since the election has been disruption. he wants a nontraditional

candidate to take over the bureaucracy and try to modernize it for the future. you would get someone who wants to try new things. that is ultimately what his appeal will be. >> thank you for joining us and sticking with us throughout the coverage. pete is making his way through the crowd there on the senate floor. thank you very much. >> let's turn to our town hall.com editor. i want to take on this moment where he takes on the accusations that were leveled at him. here is how we pitch them to his colleagues in the senate. >> starts bringing up the fact what if you showed up drunk to your job. how many senators have shown up

drunk to vote at night? have any of you asked them to step down and resign? don't tell me you haven't seen it, because i know you have. how many got a divorce for achieving on their wives. did you ask them to step down? we have all made mistakes. and thank you for loving him through that mistake. the only reason i am here and not imprisonment because my wife loved me too. >> that is they might drop in the business. he is not holding back questioning the high and mighty moral positions the senators take. drinking on the job is not a good thing. >> what secretary of defense doesn't have a bottle of bourbon whiskey in their office?

>> the point is, he answered a lot of questions about his history and he answered for that. and that is something they were prepared for. he thanked his wife and family and people around him for supporting him and he had a room full of veterans supporting his leadership skills. there were questions about nuclear war, unmanned aircraft, about shipbuilding. it was fun to see the new senators asking their questions. also, she understand the nominees he has put up for confirmation that people voted for this. there are questions about the world and his leadership and there are questions about his

qualifications. >> if you go to churchill's war rooms in london, you can buy a bottle of the scotch he used to used to drink. >> you can. one more point on the qualifications. trump chose him because he is not a general or embedded in the system, because he represents people on the ground in combat. he mentioned he wants to listen to the people closest in the decisions because they are the ones using them on the battlefield. trump picked him because he is not embedded in the washington, d.c., e losers a noe against him. >> a small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear campaign about me because

our left-wing media doesn't care about the truth. all they were out to do was to destroy me. why do they want to destroy me? because i am a change agent and threat to them because donald trump was willing to choose me to bring the defense department back to what it should be, which is war fig fighting. >> there was a media campaign pushed out when he was nomi nominated. they got through that and he had to answer these questions and he wanted to focus on the afghanistan withdrawal on the way the military has been going in terms of being distracted with ideology and politics rather than war fighting. >> we will see how it goes. >> we are also keeping an eye on

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