Let The Senate Confirmation Hearings Begin

让参议院确认听证会开始

What A Day

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2025-01-14

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Around a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are headed to Capitol Hill this week to appear for their Senate confirmation hearings. The big one to watch today is the hearing for Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, military veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who’s facing allegations of excessive drinking, financial mismanagement, and sexual assault. Hegseth’s confirmation hearings could be a litmus test for some of Trump’s other problematic picks. Burgess Everett, Congressional bureau chief for Semafor, talks about what we can expect from the coming confirmation hearings. And in headlines: House Speaker Mike Johnson said federal aid for wildfire recovery in Southern California could be tied to a debt limit increase, the Supreme Court ruled the city of Honolulu can move forward with a major lawsuit to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, and President Joe Biden said negotiators are “on the brink” of a ceasefire agreement to end the war between Israel and Hamas.
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  • It's Tuesday, January 14th.

  • I'm Jane Coston, and this is what a day.

  • The show that just found out disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is leaving polls to be the next mayor of New York City, a race he has not actually entered.

  • And this show doesn't like that at all?

  • Nope, not at all.

  • Is there no other New Yorker available?

  • Is Martin Scorsese that busy?

  • On today's show, President Biden shares his perspective on his administration, foreign policy legacy.

  • And Florida and California lawmakers are gearing up to respond to Trump's deportation orders in very different ways.

  • Let's start with this week's Senate confirmation hearings.

  • Around a dozen of President elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are headed to Capitol Hill this week to appear before various Senate committees.

  • They'll have to answer questions from lawmakers and show they're qualified for the jobs they've been nominated for before the full Senate votes on whether to confirm them today.

  • Hearings begin with Doug Collins, Trump's pick to head the Department of Veterans affairs.

  • And Doug Burgum.

  • He's been nominated to run the Department of the Interior.

  • But the big one that everyone will be watching for is the hearing for Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense.

  • Military veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

  • He's facing allegations of excessive drinking, financial mismanagement.

  • Oh, and sexual assault.

  • That's on top of the fact that he seems to lack the management experience needed to run a department with close to 3 million employees.