Don Bacon

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Don Bacon was asked about Hegseth and his impeachment and said that he is torn.

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That is the fact.

Representative Don Bacon from Nebraska, he's a rhino.

He's joining Thomas Massey, who just gleefully filed those articles against Pete.

Listen to what this guy says.

We've heard from a few Republicans who say they at least want to hear this out.

For example, Representative Don Bacon told us on Friday that he wants to weigh the debate and he thinks Hegseth has made some bad mistakes.

So we'll see.

Meanwhile, we are seeing House leadership among the Republicans.

to the actions in Venezuela.

And so really, this is more of a reaction to the job that Hegseth is doing, which Don Bacon, who is also a House Republican, said, look, we might not like the way that Hegseth has done things, but that doesn't mean that it's reached the bar of impeachable crimes, of high crimes and misdemeanors.

that they need to prove.

So we'll see where this goes.

They're everything from the boat strikes that we saw in the Caribbean, to the actions in Venezuela.

And so really, this is more of a reaction to the job that Hegseth is doing, which Don Bacon, who is also a House Republican, said, look, we might not like the way that Hegseth has done things, but that doesn't mean that it's reached the bar of impeachable crimes, of high crimes and misdemeanors.

that they need to prove.

So we'll see where this goes.

The government says inflation was higher than expected last month.

In the House, Nebraska Republican Don Bacon says this is time for bipartisanship.

Cost of health care is exceeding inflation by three, and we've got national security issues.

We can't do this Republican only or Democrat only.

He talks about, you know, Pentagon scrutiny of Mark Kelly after he appeared in a video urging service members to refuse orders.

So, you know, but the biggest one, the first article charges Hank Sethwith waging the iran war without a declaration of war uh statutory authorization um or citing the the imminent threat so i mean that that one uh and again there's eight charges in this and and if they get to the point that they are uh actually going to vote on articles of impeachment they have to vote on each and every one of those eight articles so there could be a case where some do get passed and others uh get rejected but um that's generally where where they are i think there is A few people, a few members of the Republican caucus that are open to the conversation, probably if anyone's watching it, Don Bacon, who's the representative out of Nebraska, he's kind of the swing vote, if you will, on the Republican side, given that most likely all Democrats will support this.

He's a frequent Hegseth critic, but he said his concerns are actually left out of the articles, and he's more focused on the firing and sidelining of 80 generals and admirals.

So, you know, he's open to impeachment, but, again, he was open on different charges.

Politicizing the armed forces, bringing disrepute on the U.S., who knows? I mean, that's debatable, subjective, and likely to backfire unless we're going to haul Chuck Hagel back into Congress to answer for the debacles over which he presided in 2013, 2014, and 2015, which would be fine with me.

And it doesn't include, as you said, some of these personnel purges at the top of leadership in the Pentagon, something that Don Bacon, outgoing congressman, said would sway his vote to a yes vote to convict.

Rich, I think you're probably right that there's a case to be made for some of that as restructuring, but I would be very surprised if there were no personal considerations at all that played a role in that.

The president, as you said, seems to be inclined not to get rid of him, particularly not under the threat of impeachment.

to the actions in Venezuela.

And so really, this is more of a reaction to the job that Hegseth is doing, which Don Bacon, who is also a House Republican, said, look, we might not like the way that Hegseth has done things, but that doesn't mean that it's reached the bar of impeachable crimes, of high crimes and misdemeanors.

that they need to prove.

So we'll see where this goes.