McConnell’s Vote Against Hegseth Was a Shot Across Trump’s Bow

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Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell cast a surprise vote Friday night against Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s controversial nominee to head the Department of Defense.

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00:00Mitch McConnell surprised a lot of Washington on Friday. He voted against the confirmation

00:05of Pete Hegseth as the defense secretary and it signaled that perhaps Donald Trump might

00:11not be getting everything he wants in his incoming cabinet. There is a chance that

00:16there are going to be some defections not only just with Hegseth but some upcoming

00:21controversial nominations. Tulsi Gabbard as the nation's spy chief for instance

00:26might not be on a glide path that everyone thinks it is and we might end up seeing some

00:31problems with like Kash Patel as the FBI director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the HHS secretary,

00:38Pam Bondi is expected to cruise in as attorney general but there might be some real oversight.

00:44At the same time there's a lot of nervousness here in Washington about what it means that

00:51Donald Trump fired a lot of the inspectors in general, the watchdogs inside these agencies.

00:57We're basically looking at one weekend Donald Trump might not have the blank check that he assumed he had.

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