I’m typing this on the train for a quick trip to DC for the first of many Inauguration parties. (I’ll be returning there Saturday for the full immersion.)

Steve Bannon, Erik Prince, and Sean Ryan are all speaking at tonight’s party, and having tuned in to Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing this morning, there is likely to be plenty to talk about.

The one thing I found jarring about this morning’s back and forth was when Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia – whom I mistakenly remembered as a mild-mannered milk-toast politician when he was Hillary Clinton’s running-mate – lit into Hegseth like a Rottweiler.

He pressed Hegseth about the now infamous extra-marital affair he had in Monterey, California, while he was still married to his second wife – and had just had a baby daughter with the woman who would become wife number three.

It was a brutal exchange.

Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates