Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, called for an “offensive operations” against American schools in a recent podcast interview. Pete Hegseth, the politically inexperienced weekend Fox News host whom Trump has tapped to lead the Pentagon, has been embroiled in scandal over the past week. The controversy has largely centered on reports that Hegseth paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault, while he claims the encounter was consensual. (NBC obtained a copy of the police