. >> can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in the asean, in asean, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? and how many nations are in asean, by the way? >> i couldn't tell you the exact amount of nations, but i know we have allies in south korea and japan and in aukus with australia trying to work on submarines with them. >> mr.. hegseth, none of those countries are in iron cross. none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. >> despite all that, it looks like he could sail through among the six nominees to be questioned today, the president elect's choice for attorney general pam bondi, the florida former florida attorney general, is a loyal trump supporter who defended trump's 2020 election lie. cnn's lauren fox is joining us now from capitol hill. what are you watching for today with these many nominees? >> yeah, in just a couple of hours, pam bondi is going to take the hot seat. and you can expect the democrats are really goin

china, we are neutral on china because there is outside and downside risk but i think in india and the asean is bright because india is easily going to grow by 6.5 or even higher in terms of growth, so a very strong middle class domestic consumption. exports, particularly digital, are quite resilient and insulated from the whole headwinds associated with trade. turning to india and the ongoing debate on hib visas — a programme that allows us businesses to tap on global talent. with donald trump set to take over as president, india has been anxiously monitoring us policy on immigration. the bbc�*s arunoday mukharji is live in delhi with more. india has a lot riding on hib visas, put this in perspective for us, why is this important for indian companies? it is critical because a lot of from donald trump that is very much making... us exceptionalism continue on, tax cuts, fiscal spending or deregulation so i think the outlook is likely to be quite robust in 2025. what is your outlook for asia? a nuanced approach. i would say perhaps you have to look at... i think in china, we are neutral on chi

let's watch. >> can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in the asean, in asean, andhat type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? and how many nations are in asean, by the way? >> i couldn't tell you the exact amount of nations, but i know we have allies in south korea and japan and in aukus with australia trying to work on submarines with them. >> mr.. hegseth, none of those countries are allies, and none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. >> so should a moment like that matter? it doesn't seem like it's going to. i mean, joni ernst came out after this hearing and said she's going to vote for him. >> yeah. i mean, the exchanged that exchange. you saw the exchange between senator tim kaine and hegseth over the sexual assault allegations, uh, that he was involved in. he he was there was some a woman filed a sexual assault, uh, charge against him back in 2017. he reached a settlement with her in 2020. i mean, you would have thought that would

none of those countries are in asean.one of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. >> joining us now, allison jaslow, an iraq veteran army captain who was the ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. it's good to see you again. how do you think pete hegseth did? >> i mean, he clearly made it through the hearing itself. i think it was an unfortunately, a very short hearing. i don't know that enough questions were asked and specifically questions about his efforts to actively lobby to get convicted war criminals pardoned. and these are men who weren't indiscriminately targeted by washington politicians. these are men who had men serving alongside of them, who's experienced the same horrors of war as him, who felt he crossed lines we should not cross. they risked their reputations in some cases, but also had the courage to speak up about it. and we should be concerned that we are about to have a secretary of defense

none of those countries are in asean. none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. listen. mr. hegseth, this is he we ask our troops to go into harm's way all the time. we ask them to go into harm's way. and this behind me is a copy of the soldier's creed, a copy that usually hangs over my desk here in the senate. and you should be familiar with it. it's the same copy that hung over my desk at walter reed. every single day that i woke up and fought my way back, because i wanted to go back and serve next to my buddies who saved my life. these same, this same copy. these words are repeated over and over and over again. and let me read out two things to you. two sentences i will always place the mission first, and i am disciplined physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior task. mr. hegseth, our troops follow these words every single day, and they man up and they pack their rucksacks and they go t

are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. >> so, juana, you've been in washington for a long time. i mean, i wonder in the past if a secretary of defense nominee couldn't answer some questions of that type, would that not be considered a qualification issue? >> yeah, but i think that the way it came across was as a gotcha question, it was a gotcha question. >> right? >> so i mean, i think, you know, for a lot of people watching this that, well, you know, so maybe he didn't know that, but is he qualified. and that's to me, the real question is he qualified to manage the largest federal bureaucracy. and i think it's the largest military in the world. and is he given any evidence of background in that kind of management skill? and the answer is no, but it's not what happened today. we've had one round. they're not going to have another round of questioning. i think this is crazy, but they're not having any more questions. and what he did today

hegseth, none of those countries are in asean. >> none of the countries are in asean and i suggest you do homework before you try for these negotiations. mr. hegseth, this is -- we ask our troops to go into harm's way all the time. we ask them to go in harm's way. and this -- behind me is a copy of the soldier's creed, a copy that usually hangs over my desk in the senate, and you should be familiar. it's the same copy that hung over walter reed every single day i woke up and fought my way back and i wanted to go back and serve next to my buddies who saved my life, and the words are repeated over and over and over and over again. i read out two things to you. two sentences. i will always place the mission first. and i am disciplined physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior task. mr. hegseth, our troops follow these words every day, and they man up and pack their rucksacks and they go to war and they deserve a leader who can lead them. not a leader who wants to lower the standards for himself while raising the standards for other people. by the way, our troops

china, we are neutral on china because there is upside and downside risk but i think in india and the aseans bright because india is easily going to grow by 6.5 or even higher in terms of growth, so a very strong middle class domestic consumption. exports, particularly digital, are quite resilient and insulated from the whole headwinds associated with trade. turning to india and the ongoing debate on h—ib visas — a programme that allows us businesses to tap on global talent. with donald trump set to take over as president, india has been anxiously monitoring us policy on immigration. the bbc�*s arunoday mukharji is live in delhi with more. india has a lot riding on h—ib visas. put this in perspective for us. why is this important for indian companies? well, it's very critical, steve. because notjust in professionals but every indian origined companies benefit from the h i b origined companies benefit from the h i b programme as we've seen for a long time now which is why any kind of policy change or any tinkering with h i b change or any tinkering with h i b tinkering has an impact on those

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none of those countries are in asean. none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. >> now, what did this guy do to deserve such an important job? >> i mean, really one of the most important jobs in the world. >> he did serve in the national guard. he deployed to iraq and afghanistan like literally hundreds of thousands of americans. he also ran a dark money republican group called vets for freedom and ran up such massive debts, the group's board had to save vets for freedom by merging it with another nonprofit and stripping hegseth of his responsibilities. >> he then went on to run another koch brothers backed right wing group, concerned vets for america, but a few years later he was forced to step aside amid multiple allegations of open drunkenness, sexist behavior and financial mismanagement. >> now, i just want to be clear here. lots of political activists, including on the right, have actually built huge nonprofit

>> how many nations are in asean, by the way? >> i couldn't tell you the exact amount of nations, but i know we have allies in south korea and japan and in caucus with australia trying to work on submarines with them. >> mr.. >> hegseth, none of those countries are in allies across none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. >> all right. so we just heard that exchange. you had, that little exchange you had with hegseth. were you surprised he wasn't able to answer your question? >> i'm flabbergasted that he was not able to answer a very simple question, and that especially since he actually mentioned the importance of the indo-pacific in his opening statement. >> but, you know, he also couldn't tell me what are some of the ways that a secretary of defense would lead international negotiations with our allies, either. >> so, i mean, some very basic things that are anybody who wants to be secretary of defense should be able to answer. and for him to not even know a single nation out of the ten in asean speaks ver

lava nya venkateswa ra n is a senior asean economist at ocbc bank.he told us which countries could benefit from a trump administraion. i think it is going to be an interesting time, we are setting up for more production so there will be a bit of reordering in terms of supply chains and trading relationships and how they will work across the world and what we heard from the mexican president is setting up exactly that. many countries in this region are buckling up for the ride and, essentially, at this point i think the bigger concern is still trying to discern the noise from the reality and where eventually the policies will ultimately lie and what becomes of all this rhetoric at the moment that we hear.— this rhetoric at the moment that we hear. and all of this ahead of— that we hear. and all of this ahead of the _ that we hear. and all of this ahead of the inauguration i that we hear. and all of this i ahead of the inauguration of donald trump. when he was in office the first time around, vietnam was one of the beneficiaries of the trade war that b

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can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in the asean, in asean, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations, and how many nations are in asean, by the way? >> i couldn't tell you the exact amount of nations, because i know we have allies in south korea and japan and in aukus with australia trying to work on submarines with them. >> mr.. hegseth, none of those countries are allies, and none of those three countries that you mentioned are in asean. i suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. listen mr. hegseth, this is can you we ask our troops to go into harm's way all the time. we ask them to go into harm's way. and this behind me is a copy of the soldier's creed, a copy that usually hangs over my desk here in the senate. and you should be familiar with it. it's the same copy that hung over my desk at walter reed. every single day that i woke up and fought my way back, because i wanted to go back and serve next to my buddies who saved my life. these same. the same copy. these words are repeated over and ov

refuge and the blue nile state and something to don bonnie kaufman reports of these camps and album, asean are being over whelmed with people searching for safety officials say more than 100000 people have come to this part of sudan, swing violence across the blue nile states. how uh escaped on foot with her children, but she lost her husband in the fighting. because i know when my husband was killed in our house, i heard gunshots. when i went back in, i found him did. he was still bleeding. but what if we don't to i from gunfire. hunger will get us, but we left my elderly step mother behind. we don't know what's happened to her if she's dead or alive. she's not the only one here. who's paid a high price in this war. many have lost loved ones and everything they own. why did he say center? it's now been a year since i've been back home to my home. i heard it was robbed. what was left was thankfully saved by my neighbors. my husband was renovating the house. the situation was very bad. we were beaten, but we survived thanks to god. he may be on these rows of tens are home to some 24000 peop

treaties, for example, like asean and coalitions, international coalitions that he will have to lead the u.s. on and in. and it wasn't clear whether or not he gave the senators asking those questions satisfactory answers there were a number of points here on which his lack of experience was very much on full display for the committee, and essentially the reaction to that broke down on on partisan lines. >> democrats, effectively appalled by it and said that it showed he didn't have the experience to do the job of defense secretary. republicans, however, focused on something completely different his commitment to war fighting and said he's exactly the right guy, but on the point you make. he was asked about three operate in other countries. they effectively set a series of rules and regulations by which u.s. service members can be in that country. and he wasn't able to name that. the democratic senator there pointed out that it was an example of his lack of experience. he may have led to nonprofits, but he hasn't come anywhere close to leading an organization of this magnitude. with t

can you name the importance of at least one of the nation's in the asean come in ossian, type of agreement we have with a least one of those nations? how we nations are in ossian by the way. >> i couldn't tell ye exact over. >> no, you couldn't because he not been involved. >> south korea and japan and in august with australia. submarines with -- >> mr. hegseth, none of those countries are in ossian. none of thosese three countries you mentioned are in ossian. i suggestst you do a a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations. listen, mr. hegseth, sense -- we ask our troops to go into harm's way all the time. we asked him to go into harm's way and this, behind me, is a copy of the soldiers creed, copy that usually hangs over my desk here in the senate. you should be familiar with the pickets the same topics that hung over my death at walter reed every singly i woke up and fought my way back because i would to go back and serve with my buddy sustained my life. this same copy, these words are repeated over and over and over again. let me read out two things to you, two

we look at the afghan union and we look at asean and other regional organizations and i think part of what the logic of the future suggest is actually we should work to strengthen those organizations and help them become more effective and help them take on more responsibility and do it in court nation with the united nations and one thought there is to give them participation and standing in some fashion in the work of the security council under the same way that some of them are in the g20 so we are decentralizing the process. coordinating it at theec same time. and they think it offers a powerful model and not that it needs to be replicated exactly but they are lessons from a used success and its challenges and shortcomings that are really important as we think about building regional capacity elsewhere in thehe world. >> do you see potential success in other regions around the world and where would you take the model next? >> africa is the one i would focus most on this paper is obviously looking long-term at a future and i've heard it's going to be increasingly critical in the de

and he couldn't even answer the most basic questions i asked of him, like name a country that's in aseanost significant economic alliances in the indo-pacific. and he couldn't even mention a single one. so pete hegseth could do all he wants to try to put women to make this about whether or not women are qualified to serve, when really this is about whether or not he's qualified to be secretary of defense. and he didn't show any capabilities to me today that he is able to do this job. geoff: he also argued that it's time for someone with dust on his boots that's how he put it after years of presidents selecting generals, academics, defense contractor executives to serve as defense secretaries. when he says that he'd be a change agent and would restore the warrior ethos in the military, why did democrats take issue with that? the pentagon's recruitment struggles are real. why not try a different approach? sen. duckworth: well, the fact of the matter is, he's asking us to lower the standards for him. listen, i have dust on my boots as well. in fact, my boots are still in iraq, where i left