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Lawfare Live: Pete Hegseth's Confirmation Hearing

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower
Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:54 PM
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the confirmation hearing of Trump's Pentagon pick.

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On Jan. 14 at 4 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will speak to Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower following the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News contributor and former Army National Guard officer, as secretary of defense on Nov. 12.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Anna Bower is a senior editor at Lawfare. Anna holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cambridge and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She joined Lawfare as a recipient of Harvard’s Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service. Prior to law school, Anna worked as a judicial assistant for a Superior Court judge in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia. She also previously worked as a Fulbright Fellow at Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey. A native of Georgia, Anna is based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

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