Reed: FBI investigation of Hegseth ‘insufficient’

FBI background checks of presidential nominees, explained

Confirmation hearings for Cabinet members nominated by President-elect Trump are underway. The FBI conducts background checks focusing on "character and conduct" of the nominees. What's involved?

Scarborough questions who directed FBI not to follow up with Pete Hegseth witness · American Wire News

The left is scrambling to smear Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary and their media lapdogs are all in. The morning of Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing to become the next leader of the Department of Defense, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough floated speculation that the Trump transition team could be working in cahoots with the FBI to protect Hegseth’s chances. The former Fox News host had been hit with a slurry of unfavorable allegations from…

Sen. Kaine grills Hegseth about affair and sexual assault accusation

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) questioned if Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick to be defense secretary, will uphold the oath of office, if confirmed. During a confirmation hearing, Kaine focused on Hegseth’s character, bringing up his extra-marital affair with a Fox News producer that resulted in a baby. Kaine also raised that Hegseth has admitted to what he describes as a consensual encounter with a woman in California in October 2017, shortly after the birth …

Legal analyst raises question over Pete Hegseth's background check

Responding to concerns over Pete Hegseth's background check, a legal analyst asked why Hegseth's ex-wife was not interviewed.

Reed: FBI investigation of Hegseth ‘insufficient’

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, “insufficient.” The FBI’s background check of Hegseth did not include material from a woman who accused the nominee of sexual misconduct in 2017. “You and I have…

Pete Hegseth’s FBI background check is ‘unremarkable’…