"This is basic, 101 stuff for someone who wants to be secretary of defense, and he couldn't answer any of them." ...

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

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.

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

Even as she disagreed politically with Esper, Duckworth says, “He was competent and he could do his job, and he could go to Singapore, to [the Asian Defense Summit], the Shangri-La Dialogue ...

Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth fails to correctly name members of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ...

Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald ... Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. An 11th country, East Timor, is set to join soon. Established in 1967, its goal ...

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

Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill ... Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.) “The man is absolutely clueless,” Duckworth assesses bluntly to Rolling Stone. A woman and a combat ...