Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was questioned about ASEAN during a heated Senate confirmation and struggled with his response.

During his confirmation hearing, Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee couldn’t name a single member of the Southeast Asian bloc.

Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.) “The man is absolutely clueless,” Duckworth assesses bluntly to Rolling Stone. A woman and a combat veteran who lost both legs in ...

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, was taking questions from Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) when she challenged him to ...

Tammy Duckworth put Pete Hegseth’s foreign policy ... The 10 members of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in ASEAN and what type of agreement we have with at least one of ...

During Pete Hegeth's confirmation hearing, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) sparred with the defense secretary nominee about numerous matters, including his views on women in combat.

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