Third protester just removed from hearing; had to actually be carried out.
Reed comparing DEI idiocy with racial integration.
Hegseth: I spent months talking to active duty servicemembers. Men and women, low ranks, high ranks, combat arms, and not combat arms, and what each and every one of them told me; and what personal instances have shown me, is that, in ways direct, indirect, overt, and subtle, standards have been changed inside infantry training units, ranger school, infantry battalions, to ensure that commanders meet quotas to have a certain number of female infantry officers or infantry enlisted.
"I'm not hearing an answer to my question"
Hegseth: There's already been a surge since President Trump won the election, of recruiting. The Army says it now will surpass it's recruitment goals.
Kane was proven to be a career criminal by being the vice president pick of Hillary Clinton. That was proof enough that he is an enemy of the United States.
Hegseth: We haven't even talked about COVID, and the tens of thousands of servicemembers who were kicked out because of an experimental vaccine. In President Trump's Defense Department, they will be apologized to, they will be reinstituted, with pay and rank.
King: I just want to understand your position. Your position is, torture is okay, is that correct?
kekโฆwhat a jackass.
Warren: In other words, you're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for ten years, but you're not willing to make that same pledge?
Hegseth: I'm not a general, senator.
[laughter in room]