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Fox News host Will Cain grew angry Sunday at reports that former colleague Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, had a drinking problem.

After The New Yorker reported that Hegseth was removed from two veterans groups for aggressive drunkenness and sexual misbehavior, Cain hosted three "warfighters" who supported the nominee.

According to a guest on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is suffering another round of humiliation as Donald Trump's team dangles his name as a possible replacement to be secretary of defense if they can't get his embattled nominee, Pete Hegseth, across the finish line.

With the former Fox News personality scrambling to round up the support of GOP senators who are troubled by allegations of public drunkenness and accusations of sexual assault, Brandon Wolf of the Human Rights Campaign claimed it must get under the Florida governor's skin after he thought he would be the GOP presidential nominee instead of the man he now considering offering him a job in his administration.

Speaking with MSNBC co-hosts Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele, Wolf began by stating, "I just have to start by saying it's got to be really embarrassing to be Ron DeSantis in this moment because he's gone from believing he would be the next president of the United States and chastising people in his own party for kissing the ring of Donald Trump to playing understudy to the Fox News host who may not get the job because he has a drinking problem."

After watching a "Meet the Press" clip of Donald Trump defending his pick to be secretary of defense, a former Republican member of the House didn't mince any words lashing out at the president-elect for lying to America on MSNBC early Saturday morning.

Appearing on "The Weekend," ex-Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) sat and watched Trump say of embattled ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, "I've known him a long time. He's basically a military guy, every time I talk to you all he wants to talk about is the military –– he's a military guy," before adding, "I have spoken to people who know him very well and they say, he does not have a drinking problem."

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Asked by MSNBC host Michael Steele to respond, Walsh began, "Let's cut to the chase because it is Saturday morning: Trump does not give a s--t that Pete Hegseth has a history of treating women like s--t because that is what Donald Trump has done."

"Trump does not care that he is an abuser and harasser of women, because that is what Trump has been," he continued. "So it is the drinking, I think, that Donald Trump has always considered to be a weakness. But we were talking earlier, Michael, I don't think Trump wants to take another hit. He lost Matt Gaetz, I don't think his ego wants him to lose another Cabinet pick."

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