2025-01-15
12 分钟Good morning.
It's Wednesday, January 15th.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, ChatGPT goes to court over copyright infringement.
How one middle class majority minority community in Southern California has been hit hard by the fires.
And some good news for the Princess of Wales.
But first to Capitol Hill, where Pete Hegseth, President elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense,
faced tough questions from senators on the Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing.
It was also a test of loyalty to Trump, not just for the nominee, but for the Republican lawmakers questioning him.
In his opening statement, Hegseth, a military veteran and former Fox News host,
acknowledged criticisms from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that he lacks the qualifications to lead the Pentagon
and one of the world's largest military forces.
Now,
it is true and has been acknowledged that I don't have a similar biography to defense secretaries of the last 30 years.
But as President Trump also told me,
we've repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly the right credentials.
Heading into this hearing, a number of Republican senators seemed to be on the fence about his nomination.
But NBC senior political reporter Sahil Kapoor watched from Capitol Hill yesterday as one by,
by one, they seemed to fall in line.