US House votes to derail impeachment of Defense Secretary Hegseth

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lives to fight another day. The House narrowly voting to refer a motion for impeachment to committee effectively, meaning that the effort is now dead on arrival. That had been put forward by Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, who the administration says is disgruntled because President Trump handpicked a candidate to primary him And ultimately he lost. His re-election bid, Thomas Massie, meaning that he is out of Congress at the end of this session when the new Congress comes in in January. Now, that means that it will then perhaps fall to that next Congress to pick up these impeachment articles against Hegseth if indeed they do decide to go down that route. There is still some discussion on the Democratic side, whether they will have more of an oversight function or they will try to be more vengeful in their approach to try to get... some wins over the administration, as it were, but this will be a sigh of relief for the president and for Pete Hegseth, who had said that this was a farce and a political stunt. President Trump has long said that he backed Pete Hegseth all the way through this impeachment effort and said that his speech on early on Tuesday morning was an A+++. Well, the Secretary of Defense will now remain in his job. And as long as he has the president's ear, that he will still have that job.