Playbook: “The onslaught has arrived. At 9:30 a.m., the first of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will face a confirmation hearing: Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and the former host of Fox & Friends Weekend, will be the guest of the Senate Armed Service Committee as they weigh his bid to become Defense secretary.”
“For the Trump transition, it will be the first real rubber-meets-the-road moment, as a would-be member of his administration will for the first time face a public grilling over their qualifications and record.”
“It also illustrates the shelf life of conventional wisdom in Trump’s Washington: Weeks ago, Hegseth’s nomination was considered all but dead on arrival. Now, that wisdom is looking a little stale.”
