Former colleagues of Pete Hegseth defended him from a news report claiming that his former coworkers were concerned about his drinking.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

Names floated to replace the former Fox News host include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and several Republican senators.

Donald Trump’s Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth's drinking alarmed his Fox colleagues, NBC News reports. Plus, in breaking news, three Republican sources with direct knowledge of Hegseth's nomination process tell NBC News that as many as six Senate Republicans,

Hegseth is running into questions amid a sexual assault allegation and emerging reports about his work conduct and history, The Associated Press reported.

We’d have to call him to make sure he didn’t oversleep because we knew he’d be out partying the night before," one colleague told NBC News of Trump's defense secretary nominee.

"We’d have to call him to make sure he didn’t oversleep because we knew he’d be out partying the night before,” claimed one of Hegseth's former colleagues

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick for defense secretary, received the backing Monday of two former colleagues at a veterans’ organization. Unfortunately for Hegseth— who was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room in 2017—one of those defending him was also accused of violence against a woman.