i received news that my high school basketball track coach jerry appleby died.was a deeply formative figure for me in my teenaged years setting an example for us players of hard work, determination and sportsmanship. together, with my dad, also a coach, he founded the jones county invitational basketball tournament, the longest running tournament of its kind in south dakota. it starred in the 1906's. an -- 1960's. an event i played in and still enjoy attending to this day. among the memories i have of coach appleby are around that auditorium, and it is named after him. as i recall my days playing basketball there, there was one thing you could never miss in any time which he was involved and that was his loud voice bouncing off the ceiling in that auditorium. that auditorium was built in 1954, at the time it was the taj mahal of auditoriums and continues to serve our school and the surrounding schools really well. some opposing teams refer to it as the barn. but the one thing you were always sure of is what murdle in jones county was playing a basketball game, y

. >> this man is not qualified to run an appleby's, let alone department of defense. madeleine rivera pete hegseth is a veteran that was deployed. fox news obtained military evaluation that described pete hegseth as a battle-proven leader. he can only lose three republican votes. several gop members have been rallying around pete hegseth. >> i particularly excited and encouraged by what he brings to the department of defense in terms of recruiting new people into the military. >> we don't need a general from the pentagon. we've tried that. we need a drill sergeant. he will be ripped. he will be demeaned. he will be talked about but we're going to get him across the finish line. >> two other hearings supposed to take place it for interior secretary and veterans affairs, the hearings have been postponed and will continue tomorrow when secretary nominee and attorney general nominee will go before their respective committees. carley and todd. >> todd: to be clear, we heard senator tommy tuberville explain all indications are pete hegseth will get across the finish line an