Live updates: Pete Hegseth faces Senate confirmation hearing as Trump's defense secretary pick
Hegseth is set to begin confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. In his opening statement obtained by NBC News, he leans into his outside perspective. “It’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm,” he is expected to say. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for "TODAY."
"We must not underestimate the importance of having a top-shelf communicator as secretary of defense," Wicker said.
“I am ironclad in my assessment that the nominee, Mr. Hegseth, is prepared to be the next secretary of defense,” the chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker ... as secretary of state in a unanimous ...
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