One of President Barack Obama's biggest Fox News critics endorsed Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense several weeks after the 2012 election. President Obama nominated the former Republican senator on January 7.

While appearing on Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy noted that Hagel was being vetted by the White House “for some sort of job” and offered that “he'd be a good secretary of defense.” His Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade responded, “I hope so.” Kilmeade added that “it would be good to have that -- for the president to have ... Chuck Hagel's name come out there because it will appear as though he is acting in a bipartisan way.”

Listen to the remarks from the November 29 edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends: