New details emerged over the weekend about a 2017 sexual assault allegation against President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Fox News host Pete Hegseth—and while Hegseth has admitted through his lawyer to paying his accuser in a settlement, he vehemently denies the allegations, and Trump is reportedly standing by him.

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.