FILE - Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, responds to reporters during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - President Donald Trump, right, appears on Fox & Friends with co-host Pete Hegseth at a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FILE - Pete Hegseth, left, with Fox News, shakes hands with Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance during his appearance on "Fox & Friends," Nov. 18, 2019, in New York. President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Friday, Nov. 15 for Lorance, who had been convicted of murder for ordering his soldiers to fire upon three unarmed Afghan men in July 2012, killing two. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FILE - Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, right, joined by his wife Jennifer Rauchet, arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)