Watch: MSNBC guest launches expletive-laced attack on Trump's new Hegseth defense

After watching a "Meet the Press" clip of Donald Trump defending his pick to be secretary of defense, a former Republican member of the House didn't mince any words lashing out at the president-elect for lying to America on MSNBC early Saturday morning.

Appearing on "The Weekend," ex-Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) sat and watched Trump say of embattled ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, "I've known him a long time. He's basically a military guy, every time I talk to you all he wants to talk about is the military –– he's a military guy," before adding, "I have spoken to people who know him very well and they say, he does not have a drinking problem."

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Asked by MSNBC host Michael Steele to respond, Walsh began, "Let's cut to the chase because it is Saturday morning: Trump does not give a s--t that Pete Hegseth has a history of treating women like s--t because that is what Donald Trump has done."

"Trump does not care that he is an abuser and harasser of women, because that is what Trump has been," he continued. "So it is the drinking, I think, that Donald Trump has always considered to be a weakness. But we were talking earlier, Michael, I don't think Trump wants to take another hit. He lost Matt Gaetz, I don't think his ego wants him to lose another Cabinet pick."

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