it's one of the many lessons that have stuck with me from coach applebee. going to miss seeing coach applebee on my sprees it's to murdo -- on my visits to murdo. i remain greatly deep -- deeply grateful for all he taught me. to his family, my thoughts and prayers are with them. with his loved ones. and i would just say, rest in peace, coach applebee. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. president. the presiding officer: the senate majority leader -- the president pro tempore: the senate majority leader. mr. thune: i understand there's bill at the desk. i ask for its first reading. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 5, the bill to require the secretary of homeland security to take into custody aliens charged in the united states with theft and for other purposes. mr. thune: mr. president, i now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under provisions of rule 14 i object to my own request. the president pro tempore: objection is heard. the bill will be read for a second time on the next legislati

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this man is not qualified to run an applebee's, let alone the department of defense.s manager has managed more people and a bigger budget than he has. for crying out loud, i would. >> i would hope that the democrats, while they still have the power, would at least call chris wray to explain why there has been such a non thorough background check. but as we leave this segment, what would be the chances that your republican colleagues would care about any of that when the incoming president of the united states has some two dozen accusers that are women who claim some form of sexual abuse, which of course he denies, and who was found by a jury in new york to have done to e jean carroll what he bragged he could do to women in the 2006 access hollywood tape. and i could go on. and who was adjudicated by a new york jury to have had sexual relations with a porn actress and then paid her off to cover it up, along with with a playboy model, which, of course, again, he denies, but did get adjudicated for it. with all of that history, why would republicans treat pete hegseth an

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. >> this man is not qualified to run an applebee's, let alone the department of defense. >> he will demeaned. he will be talked about. but we're going to get him across the finish line. >> president elect trump and his republican allies want to wrap up most of the nomination work ahead of next week's inauguration. each nominee needs 50 votes to be confirmed. republicans have a three seat majority in the senate, but one is vacant with the resignation of vice president elect jd vance. >> president elect trump could come to california within days of his inauguration next monday. the exact timing of the visit is unclear. the president elect has repeatedly criticized state and southern california leaders for their preparation and response to the wildfires. last week, governor newsom invited mr. trump to california to see the devastation firsthand. >> we will start nationally because if you think it's cold here, it's really cold for i mean, this pattern looks like it's on hold and it's not going to get colder here over the next maybe 7 to 10 days. bismarck 18 below minneapolis, eight belo

grumman, and i just don't know about it, because from what i can tell, the manager of your local applebee's has more experience managing a bigger budget and more personnel than pete hegseth. and i don't want that person in charge of the dod. like i said, she has been red hot on this nomination. the new york times did a profile this weekend of incoming white house chief of staff siouxsie wiles, and in the course of interviewing her for that profile, they asked siouxsie wiles what exactly makes pete hegseth qualified for this job led to this rather astonishing paragraph in their recent profile of her quote, hegseth, a military veteran who has been accused by a woman of sexual assault, which he denied, has no experience leading an agency of nearly 3 million people. quote, that's what staff is for, miss wiles said briskly. we don't need a defense secretary who can run the defense department. quote. that's what staff is for. those little people. >> they can do it. >> i'm not sure which is a better like take on things from the trump transition. right. that line from trump's incoming white house c

he has managed fewer people than the manager of an applebee's end quote, meaning it will be left to republicansso. a point made in new york magazine in this quote. it is the first serious test of donald trump's newly invigorated strongman model of governance, and of whether he can continue to bend the republican party to his will. on friday, we learned the top two senators on the armed services committee received the fbi's background check on hegseth, a coveted resource for them. in light of these allegations. and one senators have been asking for. nbc news reports this, quote, the 25 member committee does not necessarily need to review this background check to proceed with the nomination hearing, but two committee sources familiar with the process said it was unprecedented that the report took this long to get to the panel's top members. that is where we start the hour with democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, a member of the armed services committee. senator, i'll start with this. have you asked to see the report? and do you know anything of what is in the background investig