WARREN: General not go into defense industry, HEGSETH: I’m not a General; Sen Wicker: magnificent

WARREN: “You are quite sure every General who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years but you’re not willing to make that same pledge?”

HEGSETH: “I’m not a General, Senator.”

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker: “I think it was a magnificent display of his knowledge and his ability to communicate — his leadership abilities — and I feel very good about this hearing today. I don’t think it could have gone any better.”

Pete Hegseth: “Senator, I’m grateful to be hired by one of the most successful CEOs in American history, should I be confirmed.” Senator Roger Wicker: “Mr. Hegseth, it seems to me that you’ve supervised far more people than the average United States Senator.”

Pete Hegseth decries the Biden admin’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal: “They still tout it as the most successful airlift in American history, when what the rest of us all saw was true laid before our eyes: utter failure, a destruction of military legacies there, abandonment of our allies, death of American troops, detriment to our reputation, and then no answers and no accountability.”

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WARREN: General not go into defense industry, HEGSETH: I’m not a General; Sen Wicker: magnificent

Key Points

WARREN: “You are quite sure every General who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years but you’re not willing to make that same pledge”

HEGSETH: “I’m not a General, Senator”

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker: “I think it was a magnificent display of his knowledge and his ability to communicate — his leadership abilities — and I feel very good about this hearing today

• I don’t think it could have gone any better

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• In other words, you’re quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years
• You’re not willing to make that same pledge
• I just say from the outset, though, that this was a tour de force, a takedown, a triumph
• The committee, the United States Senate, and the American general public
• I think it was a magnificent display of his knowledge and his ability to communicate his leadership abilities
• And I feel very good about this hearing today
• I don’t think it could have gone any better
• You have not convinced me that you’re able to take on this tremendous responsibility with a complex organization and having little or no significant management experience
• Senator, I’m grateful to be hired by one of the most successful CEOs in American history
• Hexeth, it seems to me that you’ve supervised far more people than the average United States Senator supervises typically

Full transcript: 474 words transcribed via Whisper AI.