Slotkin to Hegseth: Esper had 'more guts and balls than you'

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) had harsh words for embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday: President Trump's previous Defense leader, Mark Esper, "had more guts and balls" than Hegseth because Esper refused to maim unarmed protesters, she said.

"[Esper] didn't accept the order," Slotkin, a former CIA analyst and Defense official, told Hegseth. "He had more guts and balls than you, because he said, I'm not going to send in the uniformed military...