President-elect Donald Trump is nominating US Army veteran and Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. He would oversee US troops occupying 750 military bases across more than 80 countries. Evelyn Farkas, director of the McCain Institute and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense talks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about the global dashboard the new Pentagon chief will inherit.
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