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Special Coverage: Pete Hegseth's Confirmation Hearing

Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, arrives for a meeting at the Hart Senate Office Building on January 8, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a column on life in Biden's Washington and co-anchors a weekly roundtable discussion on "The Political Scene" podcast, and co-author with Peter Baker of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), discusses the confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. 
  • Then, Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and the author of several books, including Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Princeton University Press, 2021), continues with analysis of the confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.