Trump nominee’s 'outrageous lie' before Senate singled out by MSNBC host

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth's appearance before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he seeks approval to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense, got a thumbs down on MSNBC Wednesday morning.

After sharing clips of the embattled Hegseth attempting to blow off credible accusations of public drunkenness and sexual improprieties, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough singled out what he called an "outrageous lie" from the Trump nominee.

Beginning by stating Hegseth and the GOP senators indulged in enough "misinformation" to fill the morning show's entire four hours, he focused on Hegseth saying the job finally requires someone with "dust on their boots" –– implying former defense secretaries lacked his experience.

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"This idea, Republicans that we need somebody with dust on their boots and this position and the suggestion that we haven't had people with dust on their boots in this position is either willfully lying or willfully ignorant," he told the panel.

"We have had actually some of the most decorated, heroic, brave, battle-tested men that have been holding the top positions over the past 4 to 8 years in the military and yes, women as well that have been there," he continued. "So the idea that this is some feel good exercise ignores the fact that whether from 'Mad Dog' Mattis to General [Mark] Milley, you have people that have been fighting and in Iraq and Afghanistan were there at the worst times in Fallujah."

"We've just got to go full stop because I'm sick and tired of people tearing down the men and women in uniform that are protecting us," he stated before later adding, "This insult that somehow our military is weak and woke is just an outrageous lie and it's an insult to our men and women in uniform."

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