Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth is the co-host of FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND and also frequently guest hosts for FOX & FRIENDS during the week. He is also a FOX NEWS Senior Political Analyst, providing analysis and commentary across all FOX NEWS and FOX USINESS programming.

Hegseth has deployed three times since 9/11, most recently returning from Afghanistan where he was the senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul from 2011-2012.

Hegseth previously served as the Chief Executive Officer for Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) from 2012-2015, the largest conservative veterans and military family's organization in America. Prior to joining CVA, P.H. was Executive Director for Vets for Freedom from 2007-2011, an organization committed to victory on the battlefield.

Hegseth graduated from Princeton University as an Undergrad and completed a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2013. Hegseth has four young children.