That was my idea,” Norm Coleman said of Pete Hegseth’s fiery Dec. 5 message to the press, which marked a “turning point” in his nomination process. “It was my one

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.

President Donald Trump is heading into the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power. The president is also heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles,

Who’s sitting with Hegseth? Pete Hegseth is seated between two close allies who’ve helped advocate for his nomination on Capitol Hill. On Hegseth’s left sits Norm Coleman, former Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and to his right sits Rep.

Pete Hegseth, the Minnesota native who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, pitched himself to U.S. senators on Tuesday as a change agent who would restore what he called a “warrior culture” to the Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth, center, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Defense secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing with Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., left, and former Sen. Norm Coleman, at the Capitol in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department sat for a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday after hearings for Veterans’ Affairs Secretary nominee Doug Collins and Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum were postponed.

Fashion is essentially a story of what the paleontologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge called “punctuated equilibrium,” a theory positing that significant change comes in spurts that interrupt lengthy periods of stability or slow evolution. It’s how we got L.B.D.s, the New Look, pants, the possibilities of destruction.

A telling moment in the supremely depressing Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality who is Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, came right at the beginning, when the former Republican senator Norm Coleman introduced him.

Former GOP Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, credited with advising Pete Hegseth, introduced Hegseth at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and remained by his side throughout the proceedings. Coleman joins NewsNation's "CUOMO" to discuss his role in guiding Hegseth and the challenges faced during the hearing.

The new defense secretary’s goals run counter to the military’s apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America.