Trump's defence secretary pick grilled over views on women in military – video

Donald Trump's nominee for the post of defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, was pressed on his views about women in the military by the Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand during a Senate armed services committee hearing. Hegseth appeared to walk back his previous comments objecting to women serving in combat roles

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