'Handful' of GOP senators said to have growing concerns about Hegseth after new reports
January 23, 2025
The day before the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on the appointment of scandal-plagued Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump's secretary of defense there is reportedly some growing hesitation about him amongst some GOP lawmakers.
Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, NBC's Julie Tsirkin highlighted a damning FBI file on the former Fox News personality who has been accused of public drunkenness, sexual assault and now menacing a former wife.
After sharing clips of several GOP lawmakers expressing concerns, host Cabrera prompted, "Julie, we showed some clips of your interviews with these different senators, including Senator [Susan] Collins, Senator [Thom] Tillis, both Republicans who don't seem so certain where their vote is going to land. Has this new information changed any senators' minds that you know of?"
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"I will tell you that the senators who were already in the yes column probably aren't going to get swayed by this, especially because they have Samantha Hegseth's denial of those physical abuse allegations, and also, of course, that she signed, along with Pete Hegseth, a document when they got divorced, a child custody document that said that neither parent was a victim of domestic abuse," Tsirkin replied.
"But I will tell you that there are a handful of Republican senators, including Thom Tillis, including Susan Collins, and some others who are definitely concerned by this process," she continued. "Now, they don't sit on the Armed Services Committee, so they're a little bit late to this. But also because of these allegations, they've heard from other whistleblowers."
"In the case of Tillis, he also told me yesterday that some of these details are similar to the interesting accounts he said he's been hearing, and he wants to see if he can corroborate them," she added. "All that said, though, in a couple of hours they're going to take the next vote procedurally to move forward on confirmation and unless four Republicans vote with Democrats to block him, if all Democrats vote against him, he's going to go through tomorrow on it."
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