In June 2020, amidst widespread protests in American cities, Pete Hegseth, co-host of a show, suggested on-air that sending in the military was the only way to save Seattle from the self-declared autonomous zone created by protestors.
As President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Hegseth's past controversial policies have come under scrutiny. These include advocating for the use of military force to quell domestic riots, supporting enhanced interrogation methods like waterboarding, advocating for pardoning US soldiers convicted of war crimes, endorsing targeting cultural institutions in drone strikes, and proposing a ban on women in combat roles.
