Hegseth, currently a co-host of Fox News's "Fox & Friends Weekend", was an infantry captain in the Army National Guard and served in Afghanistan, Iraq and at the US outpost in Guantanamo Bay.

EDITOR’S NOTE at 7:53pm ET: President-elect Donald Trump has said he’ll nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense. Read more here. WASHINGTON — In the week since the US presidential ...