joining me now, rebecca traister, writer at large for new york magazine, who has a piece out about the hegseth nomination. rebecca, i want to just read a section. you focus on senator joni ernst, who is both a veteran herself and a survivor of sexual assault. and you say this trump has put ernst in an excruciating position, a woman who is deployed as a commanding officer in kuwait during the iraq war is caught between holding on to her seat and selling out her own history of service on behalf of a nominee who has called men more capable. as one senator told me, joni ernst is being made to eat the s sandwich in public. she is going to be made to vote for somebody who thinks what she did is dumb or wrong. and i want to play you now, this news that just broke a little while ago about joni ernst announcing that she will support hegseth. here's that sound. >> i am breaking news, simon. i figured you would ask this. so yes, i will be supporting president trump's pick for secretary of defense, pete hegseth. >> what did you learn in your reporting about this trajectory? >> well, it's really in