MORE: Trump taps Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense ... at the end of the day, foreign policy and national security is not about TV shows. It's a complex web of relationships and I think [his campaign] is going to want him briefed ...

Hegseth, who has been a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” for the better part of a decade, has used the show to highlight his views about the US military. He has railed against the Pentagon’s adoption of “social justice” messages and argued that “woke” policies have hurt military recruitment.