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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made it clear Tuesday that he does not believe Pete Hegseth is qualified to lead the Pentagon as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services committee for the first step in his confirmation hearing. The former Fox News personality called himself a “change agent” during his opening statements to the committee, saying, “it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm period.” Hegseth is a former member of the Army National Guard but allegations of sexual assault, excessive drinking and controversial views on women in combat have marred his nomination...

"Hey it's Tucker Carlson. You may have found yourself wondering recently as the world slides closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time in human history why exactly are we at war with Russia? It seems like there's a pretty significant downside to this particular foreign policy decision starting with economic collapse and potentially with extinction. So is there a good reason we're doing it. So many innocent young people have been killed, so many hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted, some of them from the US Treasury. So what's the point...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday released a letter that he sent to his colleagues in the Senate urging them to oppose the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, saying he “has shown a repeated disregard for the rule of law.” Cruz claims that Mayorkas, the former deputy secretary of DHS who also served as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, committed “a long list of ethical, legal, and policy failures,” during his career, including “abuses of power that provided special government favors to benefit well-connected Democrats, such as securing an EB-5 visa...