Amid Tuesday's Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin raised a question over why Hegseth's ex-wife was not interviewed for his background check.

A senator told Hegseth: "I suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations."

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced that she would vote for Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary, making his path to Senate confirmation much easier.

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

The report doesn't offer material from Hegseth's ex-wives or a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. Hegseth has said that encounter was consensual, and prosecutors never filed charges.

At his confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has publicly faced senators for the first time.

Hegseth awkwardly skirted giving firm answers on topics related to his personal baggage and what he would do as defense secretary.

Who's to Blame for the Afghan War? The Iraq and Afghanistan veteran President-elect Donald Trump picked to be defense secretary, Fox television personality Pete Hegseth, got very worked up at his confirmation hearing yesterday on the question of accountability for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But did this happen at the Pete Hegseth hearings in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week? If you thought those kinds of questions would dominate the hearings, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country.