MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wonders whether Defense Secretary Pete Heseth is drinking again:

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, MSNBC: Pete Hegseth was reported to have had such a severe drinking problem while working as a weekend morning host at Fox that he promised Republican senators he would not drink if they voted to confirm him as Secretary of Defense. And so we’re just going to have to assume that Pete Hegseth was stone cold sober today when he said something that sounds like it belongs in the great Comedy Central TV series Drunk History: HEGSETH: President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. O’DONNELL: It’s the kind of thing that wouldn’t be surprising for him to say if he still had his job at Fox and was drunk at a hotel bar. In 2017, a police report about Pete Hegseth being drunk in a hotel bar said that Pete Hegseth told the police, quote, that he was “buzzed but not intoxicated” during an encounter with a Republican woman who, after spending time in Pete Hegseth’s hotel room, filed a complaint with Monterey police claiming that she was raped. No criminal charges were filed after the police investigation, and none of that information bothered Republicans in the Senate in any way when it came time to vote for Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense. But all of those senators-all those Republican senators-knew that as Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was going to sound like a character in Drunk History. Let’s listen again to the stupidest public lie ever told by a Secretary of Defense.