Chris Cuomo Blasts Democratic Senator Over Focus on Pete Hegseth’s Marriages at Hearing: ‘Who Cares?!’

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo criticized Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-VA) on Tuesday night over his focus on Defense Secret Pete Hegseth’s past marriages during his confirmation hearing earlier in the day.

“My opinion is we saw the enemy today at Pete Hegseth’s Armed Services Committee hearing, and it’s us,” Cuomo said on Tuesday night. “Not you, but the toxic game of division played by the people who we put in power.”

The NewsNation host blasted lawmakers for focusing on personal questions at the hearing, including some about Hegseth’s drinking and marriage infidelities.

“What questions would you have for a potential secretary of defense? What are you going to do about China, Russia, terror, Pentagon size, drones — or would your top concern be his marriage? Is your biggest fear that an army of trans folk are going to take over? Because those were the concerns that the most deliberative body in the world focused on today,” Cuomo said.

He accused Kaine of pulling a Bill Clinton on Hegseth.

“Here is the moment that Democrats are choosing to send around the internet as their big win: Senator Tim Kaine giving Hegseth the Bill Clinton,” he said.

Kaine suggested in his questioning that Hegseth’s oath to office — he’s been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of Defense — could waver based on his actions during his former marriages.

“Two points of disgust: How many people on that committee, how many in Congress, could pass the Kaine test that you can’t honor an oath to serve if you’ve ever been unfaithful? Kaine may be sitting in that room alone,” Cuomo said.

He also called out Kaine for not giving the same treatment to Democrats, namely Clinton.

“Who cares when we are talking about being the top warrior, not our pastor? I’ll tell you who agreed with me once about this: Tim Kaine. He supported Bill Clinton for president,” he said. “He didn’t say he couldn’t serve despite all he knew about his peccadilloes. He still backed him. Why? Is president not as important an oath? So, what changed?”

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