Markwayne Mullin acknowledges Hegseth may have had drinking issues but downplays them as something a lot of combat veterans deal with (Fox colleagues reportedly were concerned about Hegseth's drinking as recently as a few weeks ago ... )

Roger took credit for bullying Mullin into changing his mind.

Amazing to me that Republicans are willing to spend so much political capital on a drunkard like Pete Hegseth — who has absolutely no business being secretary of defense. Most GOP senators never even heard of him before. They’re all just terrified of Donald Trump’s wrath.

@Acyn And yet all his colleagues came out today saying that was wrong. Let's stick with real people not "anonymous" ones.

That motherfucker is drinking right now. I’d bet a million fucking dollars on it.

@Acyn Only anonymous sources said so. Which no one believes anymore. A score of people who worked directly with him said it was false. Even reporters who get leaks from FOX said it was FALSE. But. You do you.

Give me video, names, dates, and times or F off. All the Democrats have are annonymous sources and innuendo. I am tired of their same smear campaigns which turn out to be lies time and time again.

You’re literally installing him. Vets relate to this. So do lots of folks. Talk about policy.

Mark Wayne never served. How would he know what combat veterans experience? Asking is an actual war veteran.

Sure, and any of them with an ongoing substance abuse issue would be disqualified as well.

@Acyn Are those friends tapped to oversee the largest agency in America with 3,000,000 employees and a budget of $850B?😏