"Is that real?" Doocy said, not believing it could be true. The Fox and Friends hosts did their best to pretend their colleague is completely qualified to be the Secretary of Defense, even though he has no experience running anything other than a shell charity that he paid his brother with.

On Wednesday morning’s Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy said he heard the news when he saw that his own son Peter—also a Fox News star—was being talked about on Twitter as

It could also set up a collision course between Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, a former fighter pilot with command experience