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right now on cnn. >> this morning. missile decision president biden lets ukraine use long range american made weapons inside russia. and what i have said with regard to the report is that it should not come out. >> under wraps. the house speaker wants the ethics report into trump's attorney general pick to stay sealed and americans have been living through an unprecedented surge in censorship. >> the president elect taps a big tech critic to chair the fcc to take on what he calls the censorship cartel >> 5 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at capitol hill on this monday morning. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. >> ukraine can now use long

range american made weapons inside russia. after president biden gave them the go ahead. two officials familiar with the decision tell cnn, according to one u.s. official, the weapons are intended to be used primarily in kursk a region in southern russia where ukraine launched a counteroffensive over the summer. while moscow has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to kursk thousands of north korean troops have also deployed to the region, a move that has the biden administration concerned. yesterday, russia launched their largest aerial attack on ukine in months, killing 11 people, including two children, according to ukrainian officials. overnight russia said they intercepted 59 ukrainian drones including two headed for moscow earlier this year, biden secretly approved the transfer of long range army tactical missile systems for ukraine to use inside ukrainian territory. but ukraine's president vladimir zelenskyy has been pushing washington for approval to use the weapons inside russia as well. he responded to the news yesterday

in ukraine, it's a plan the plan to strengthen ukraine is the victory plan i had presented to partners long range possibilities for our army is one of its major points today. there is a lot of talk in the media about us receiving a permit for respective actions. hits are not made with words such things don't need announcements. missiles will speak for themselves for sure. >> all right joining us now cnn international security correspondent nick paton walsh. nick good morning. thank you so much for starting us off with this significant development here over the weekend. what does this mean bottom line ultimately it means that the united states in the last 24 hours has significantly more involved in the war in ukraine than it was beforehand literally, with a matter of 2 to 3 months left in the biden administration on a practical level, there simply really aren't enough of these atacms missiles the longer range

missiles that ukraine has been receiving to use against areas where russia's occupying ukraine over the past months. there aren't really enough for this decision to radically change the battlefield or the course of a war in which russia is slowly seeing progress across the eastern front line. small but sadly, at this point for ukraine strategic and indeed symbolic, what it does do, though, is after the months in which president joe biden has said that this decision, this permission would simply be too escalatory for him to grant it. it does now suggest that he is willing to tolerate that level of risk, and that perhaps he's trying to alter the framework of the war in the months ahead, provide ukraine perhaps extra capabilities extra firepower, extra reach inside russia so that when president elect donald trump in january, the 20th inherits this war, the largest conflict in europe since the 40s, that potentially the united states is already so much further

involved that it complicates trump's clear open desire to reach a quick peace. now we've not heard the kremlin directly respond to this. russian president vladimir putin has said that if such missiles were supplied by the united states for ukraine to use on russia, that would essentially be russia saying nato involving itself in the fight fully. now, we've heard rhetoric from putin in the past, which hasn't necessarily resulted in action from moscow. and i should point out, too. biden's decision has followed a very familiar pattern where we've seen himars missiles shorter range, but more accurate missiles. abrams tanks, f-16s all requested by ukraine. president biden prevaricating for months talking about how this would escalate and then eventually giving ukraine what it wants. the same pattern followed here with just months left to go. the key focus casey, is that the white house say they want to re escalate back after north

korea's deployed troops to the kursk region for russia. remember, kursk is a part of russian territory that ukraine moved into in august. this is kind of washington pushing back against that. but still, it's significantly raises the temperature in this war. and i should point out just one more thought here for you. the introduction of north korean troops has some western officials. i've spoken to say really potentially changed some thinking particularly in the trump transition team maybe a lot of them are china hawks and they might see north korea now being on the front lines as making this more of a global potentially has more of a role. >> and so that may change some of the thinking in the trump administration. and it certainly seems to put the biden administration to take this decision, which they've long resisted for months. casey. yeah. well certainly they're trying to make a mark here with just a handful of months left for biden in the white house nick paton walsh for us, nick. very grateful for your reporting. thank you very much all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, the laken riley murder trial

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even thanksgiving yet. >> and if we're having meltdowns, you know, every tweet or every appointment or all those things i mean, it's going to be four years. >> still not even thanksgiving yet. in case you had forgotten capitol hill lawmakers getting a crash course on how trump's washington can operate. it hasn't even been two weeks since the election. the president elect has already announced more than a dozen picks for key positions, including the fox news host and army veteran pete hegseth as secretary of defense. that choice is not without controversy over the weekend. cnn reporting that hegseth paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault in a settlement agreement. the incident happened back in 2017. in what his attorney is calling a, quote, consensual sexual encounter, end quote. the report making some senators hesitant. >> i think he's a good pick. but once again, as allegations come out, we'll figure out if as as the senate moves forward with the advise and consent to the president of the united states and doing our

figure out if he can get confirmed or not trump's other most controversial choice for his cabinet may be getting an assist from the house speaker, mike johnson. >> trump picked now former congressman matt gaetz to be his attorney general. the former part important. gaetz stepped down last week, just days before a potentially ethics report was about to be made public. it's one dealing with his sexual misconduct allegations, with a minor now, the house no longer has jurisdiction over gaetz. one source tells cnn. trump wants gaetz confirmed, quote, 100%. he's not going to back off. he is all in now, house speaker johnson is saying the report that the ethics committee was finalizing should never see the light of day what i have said with regard to the report is that it should not come out and why. >> because matt gaetz resigned from congress. he is no longer a member there's a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the house ethics committee's jurisdiction does

not extend to non members of congress. i think that would be a pandora's box. >> all right. joining us now to discuss is jackie kucinich. she is washington bureau chief for the boston globe jackie, good morning to you. good morning. so let's start there with mike johnson and matt gaetz and this ethics report because you've covered capitol hill for a long time. it sounds like this may not be the only example of something that may have been released in the wake of someone resigning from congress. i mean, what do you know about whether there is a precedent here? i mean, when he says it's a pandora's box, that box has been opened and it was in 2006, mark foley, he resigned from the house after what is known as the page scandal and that report was released after he resigned in the senate. john ensign, who is a former senator from nevada resigned after a cheating scandal that was that roiled the senate at that time. in 2011. >> i think also released after

he resigned. so there is precedent for this. and the speaker is not really supposed to have any jurisdiction or any active role in the ethics committee in the house so he can he can make this decision but it's ultimately ethics decision to do this. yeah. and it is something of a norm that the speaker stays out of whatever decision they may or may not make. right? >> right, exactly. and the other thing is yes, the ethics. ethics will stop investigating him but this report was going to be voted to be released. what, a couple days after gates decided to step down so it's there and you already have members of the senate saying, no, i want to see this so they can properly vet him for this very important position that he's been nominated for. and i can't imagine senators wanting to just do this. see no evil as they're going through this process. yeah, because they do take it seriously regardless of what trump may think that

they're about to do. so. right. speaking of trump here, um so this is not the only person that obviously may face difficulty getting confirmed. pete hegseth is another one because as we kind of ran through there, there was there's been this reporting over the weekend here at cnn that he had this sexual assault allegation against him. there was a settlement where he paid the woman um, the washington post reported on kind of the overall mood down at mar-a-lago. and the headline is this trump won the celebration started, and then the trouble began. and basically they chronicle that, of course, trump won the election with this unified senior team that had brought some order and decision making process to the campaign. but the structure eroded in the days after his victory and is now beholden to trump's whims. his team presents the names and presentations he reacts in real time. other times, he suggests the names of people who had not been vetted by the transition team. they also went on to report that both susie wiles and chris lacivita went to this donor meeting in las vegas for

a few critical days then lacivita went on to go hunting in new mexico. that's when some of these more controversial picks came out. um, sort of. we know how donald trump, you know in moments like these, can basically go off and do what he wants. but does the rubber meet the road at some point? i mean, if he wants these nominees to get confirmed, i mean, where where are the pressure points on the hill? i feel like they're only going to have so much tolerance for bucking donald trump. but also, these two nominees seem so problematic. it's hard for me to see how they sail either i mean, this reminds me a lot of the last time trump was in this position where he was just nominating people. >> yes, there's less pageantry. there's less people like trotting up to bedminster and having to go before the cameras and all of that that we saw but it is i mean, at the end of the day, some of the vetting is being done live and in person. um, through the press rather than behind closed doors with a

transition team. i mean, these, these allegations toward pete hegseth came at a reportedly shocked the trump transition team because they weren't they didn't know that this was a thing so i would expect more of that. and if you're surprised by this, you weren't paying attention the last time. and we all were very much so so whether or not where the rubber meets the road is the u.s. senate which senators decide to. i mean, you have someone like markwayne mullin who has made his thoughts on matt gaetz quite clear now having to reverse himself. and we're going to see that in some corners. but at the end of the day, this is who will. >> will this person will matt gaetz eventually pull back? that has happened in the past because he's a distraction. we've heard that many a time. or will he go headlong into these senate confirmation hearings where he could face some pretty pointed. we'll go with pointed because it's early in the morning questions that we'll have to wait and see. but my goodness, what a january february we are going to be facing. >> indeed. here we go again.

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highlight this line of storms that's got gusty winds and also a confirmed tornado on the ground. we'll talk about that in just one moment. this tornado watch exists through 10 a.m. central standard time and does include oklahoma city stretching through wichita falls southward towards abilene. here's the severe thunderstorm watches highlighted in that shading of orange across central and northern texas and into western oklahoma. but this shading of pink, that's a tornado warning with an observed tornado this morning. a small population area. but we'll keep an eye on this on the northern side of the storm as it moves to the east. perhaps impacting oklahoma city in the coming hours. and that area has a slight risk of severe storms today. large hail, damaging winds. and as you already are aware, the potential for a few pop up tornadoes on top of that, we've got a heavy rain threat. that's why we have flash flood watches for the area and also a surge of moisture across the gulf coast that will kind of work together to combine with the storm system in the days ahead. a lot of rain for the eastern parts of the country as we head into the first half of this week

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foundation's plan for a second trump term that trump tried to distance himself from during the campaign. in that chapter, carr talks about promoting free speech, quote reining in big tech, end quote and promoting national security americans have been living through an unprecedented surge in censorship the administrative state and the government, the biden administration has been colluding to shut down free speech, open dialog diversity of opinions. >> you've seen it in your own life and the reality is this the administrative state, the powerful arms of the government, all the three letter agencies, they have been controlled for approaching 16 of the last 20 years by democrats all right. >> joining us now axios politics reporter steph kite. steph good morning. nice to see you. good morning. >> so let's talk about this pick i mean this is a guy who the the tech stuff is also interesting. in addition to some of the other press related

issues. he and elon musk had worked together on some starlink related grants and money, basically. what's your understanding of of what's behind this pick and what it means? >> i mean, what we see over and over again with these picks that have been coming very quickly is that trump is finding people who really agree with exactly his kind of kind of tear it all down mentality when it comes to the federal government. the same is true for the fcc. we know that trump has been very critical of the media for a long time, from the very beginning. and this has been a big issue for conservatives, for people who are in kind of that maga universe who feel like big tech is is using algorithms or other means of restricting conservative voices. it's something that house republicans have been investigating over the past few years. and so he found someone who really does agree with a lot of those things. it's someone who has been, you know, very critical of the biden administration. it's someone who has defended elon musk, who many people view as kind of the victim of media or big tech

trying to silence him, despite him now owning x. and so it makes sense in one sense. he's very much a trump pick. he's someone who's going to say the same kinds of things trump says at his rallies and publicly. and, you know he's someone who really does talk about making big changes. >> yeah, steph, i know you've been doing some reporting as well on how these picks generally are going to play in the u.s. senate. and these big questions about especially pete hegseth matt gaetz, some of the most high profile picks, but also some of the nominees with the biggest controversies. what's your understanding of the appetite for opposition to trump in the senate republican party? >> i mean, look, there are certainly nominees at this point who are going to have a hard time getting through the senate. they're going to be hard questions being asked, and they're going to be people who are going to want to stop those nominations from getting through. but the question is, how many times are senate republicans actually going to rebuff trump? you can imagine

them doing it maybe once, maybe twice maybe someone like matt gaetz, who it's hard to imagine someone who is more unpopular within his own party. and, you know, just hearing what we've heard from senate republicans publicly on that nomination, that seems to be the one most in jeopardy at this point. you know, to be blocked from being confirmed. but there are questions about others as well, whether it's tulsi gabbard does she actually have intelligence experience enough to to serve in that role? rfk jr.. interestingly, i've heard from republicans who kind of tout the mike pence line where they feel like rfk jr.'s stance on abortion could actually be an issue with conservatives who would want to see more anti abortion stances. yeah, because there are actually a lot of decisions that hhs makes at many levels where abortion rights, you know anti-abortion activists are very, very focused. it's a really interesting point, steph. i also want to ask you about axios reporting on nancy pelosi and how some house democrats are saying that they are basically sick of her, that she quotes needs to take a

seat. one senior democratic lawmaker said. and there seems to be some discontent among the congressional black caucus as well. i mean, what more can you tell us about this? i mean she obviously was an incredibly powerful speaker, has been i definitely if if you don't love her in the democratic party, then you probably fear her and you definitely respect her. so what is going on with this? >> i mean, this is all part of the fallout from the election right? and people, lots of democrats look at nancy pelosi and they look at how involved she was trying to push biden to step down, which she eventually did. and i think really, the thing that instigated this into a bigger issue was her comments to the new york times where she essentially said that if only biden had stepped down earlier, had made that decision earlier in the year, then things might have looked differently for democrats down ballot and some democrats spoke to axios saying that they just feel like she is still trying to be the democratic leader in a way that is unhelpful when they feel like hakeem jeffries is now their leader and someone that they respect and that that's

that's building tension there. it's almost like they feel like she has too much star power and that that's not actually serving democrats. >> very interesting. all right steph kite for us this morning steph thank you i appreciate it. all right. in just a few hours a bench trial resumes for the man accused of killing georgia nursing student laken riley jose ibarra is accused of stalking and killing riley back in february, where she was while she was out for a run. ibarra is an undocumented immigrant from venezuela whose status turned the killing into an election year campaign issue over illegal immigration. during the first day of the bench trial on friday, police and prosecutors laid out the evidence in the case, including how information from riley's smartwatch detailed her nearly 20 minute struggle for survival her heart rate is still going until 928, a m her encounter with him was long. >> her fight with him was fierce and that is what the

garmin data shows. >> all right, for more on how this trial is unfolding and what we can expect today, let's bring in cnn legal analyst joey jackson. joey, good morning to you. just incredibly difficult details to listen to in this trial so far. and obviously technology playing a key role there. can you help us understand what we've heard so far and what you think it means for the case? >> yeah. without question casey, good morning to you. what we've heard is very compelling testimony as it relates to the death of 22 year old laken riley while she was out on a jog. obviously, we know she's a nursing student or was a nursing student there in georgia, and so the testimony so far has been from her roommates which gave the indication that she did have this smartwatch that they tracked it and noted that there was no movement on the smartwatch. they went to the scene themselves of the trail where they did the find my app application, noting that they found an air of the ipod which

seemed to be hers thereafter reporting it to the police. >> we know the not only did the roommates testify as to their activities and who she was and what she meant, but what they discovered, but also them getting police involved. and then we saw body worn camera of the officer trying to perform life saving measures. measures being unsuccessful. and of course, it's showing the body there. we're looking at the technology that you alluded to. and so far it has seemed to indicate and of course, in opening statements, we heard the use of dna, the dna of the jacket of mr. ibarra that has the blood and hair of her, the fact that there were fingernails on her fingernails apparently underneath there, there was dna of mr.. ibarra. and so it's been very compelling and hard to listen to testimony with respect to the guilt or alleged guilt of mr.. ibarra and there will be more to come in terms of dna, in terms of the medical examiner, in terms of cause of death, the hits on the head. wow. just tragic.

>> the potential testimony about suffocation. et cetera. and so it seems to be compelling evidence as to his guilt. but there's a ways to go at this point. >> yeah. and, joey can you just explain? i mean, he waived his right to a jury trial here. i mean, why are we seeing this play out? the way we are, where you see, kind of just the judge there. and what does that mean in terms of how a decision will be made about his guilt or innocence? >> yeah. so casey, what happens is, is that you are entitled as a defendant to a jury generally speaking, a jury would consist of 12 members of the public. they call them a jury of your peers. it would be selected by the defense and prosecution at that time, those 12 members would have to establish guilt unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt. in this instance, as you've noted the defense has opted for a bench trial. what does that mean? as we look at the pictures of her there, laken riley what a bench trial means, casey, is that a judge will make the assessment as to the facts. generally, jurors assess the facts and the judge

acts as a referee and really is the gatekeeper gatekeeper of the law. in this instance, the judge will wear both hats. why would a defendant opt to go with a judge as opposed to a jury? i think it's because of two critical reasons. number one, pretrial publicity and how that might influence and taint a jury. this is a lightning rod of a case, as you know it was used in the campaign in terms of undocumented immigrants and whether they represent violent to this country. et cetera people have strong opinions. and so with regard to pretrial publicity, judges generally about the facts, the issues and the law notwithstanding, pretrial publicity in addition to that, it's a very emotional and compelling case. you have a 22 year old that's dead. there's testimony here that's graphic, that's detailed, that's hard to listen to. the impact emotionally on the jury could be too much. and so the defense opted to go this way. whether they go jury or judge, as they have, the facts seem to be the facts and the issues or the issues smartwatch showing. again, it's stopping shows, you know, indicating the

struggle, indicating it moving the movement into the woods a lot of dna testimony and other things which seemingly would establish guilt. he's entitled to the presumption of innocence. casey is every defendant would be. but ultimately judge or jury. it seems to be that the facts are piling up, which are suggestive of his guilt yeah. >> all right. joey jackson for us this morning joey, thanks very much. i appreciate you being here always. all right. ahead here on cnn this morning, president biden sending a significant message of support to ukraine, lifting the ban on using u.s. weapons to strike inside russia. we're going to explore the potential impact when trump takes office. and in sports, the bills ruined the chiefs perfect season. bleacher report ahead congestion. hello? 12 hours of relief. >> 12 hours. not coughing. hashtag still not coughing.

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welcome back. president biden's decision to allow ukraine to use long range u.s. weapons inside russia comes with just two months left in office for president biden and uncertainty about the future of u.s. support. >> the weapons are intended to be used primarily in the kursk region, where moscow has deployed nearly 50,000 troops and thousands of north korean soldiers are supporting the russian offensive. trump has vowed to end the war between russia and ukraine soon after taking office. >> i will end the war in ukraine. >> i'll get it done. i'll get it negotiated. i'll get out. >> if i'm president, i will have that war settled in one day. 24 hours. >> the president elect has yet to offer specifics on how he might do that. cnn's global affairs analyst kim dozier joins us now. kim, good morning. thank you for being here. good morning. >> so what does this mean in the context of the war here? i mean, obviously it's a short window of time. they're going to be able to use this until donald trump comes into office.

but i mean, it's a it's a real kind of biden, not just for the ukrainians but toward donald trump. >> yeah, very in your face makes you wonder what trump said behind closed doors to biden when they met last week. >> this is as far as the administration can probably go right now to trump proof its ukraine policy and once it has said yes to using these roughly 200 mile range missiles that means that britain france can also say yes to using their similarly ranged missiles inside russia. so while trump can come in and turn off the use of the army tactical missile which is what's being considered right now he can't tell britain and france to roll back their policy. so the result hopefully, will be that ukraine will be able to hold on to kursk. so when they get to the negotiating table that, you know trump has pledged these

negotiations that they'll say okay, we'll trade you this for parts of crimea that you've seized it's all about putting them in a good space for deal making in the future. so this is an attempt to give the ukrainians an edge, while they still can give it to them for the future negotiation that's expected when trump comes into office and doing it at a time where we're about to have a changeover to a trump administration that moscow favors. so while moscow has threatened the use of even nuclear weapons, if something like this is this escalation happens do you really want to do that? when the people that you want back in office are on their way in? so it sort of ties moscow's hands to really interesting way to think about it there's also this question, of course kim of elon musk, who has involved himself in this conflict in, you know, at different points. i mean, there was the starlink internet question of course, at the beginning and now of course,

he's very close with donald trump. and what have we seen from him over the course of the last weeks in terms of this conflict? and what do you think that means? >> yeah, just having musk on that phone call that trump had with zelenskyy was an implicit threat. if you don't go our way. musk could maybe pull starlink from use in ukraine and really cripple communications on the battlefield and just to drive that home over the weekend, when ukrainian president zelenskyy was talking about, you know we're not just going to sit and listen, we're an independent country. trump sorry. musk tweeted out something about zelenskyy being just a comedian. it was very derisive. it was this little dig and i think they're seeing that ukraine, you know, if you push them like that they will push back and they're already signaling they're not just going to take what trump says as read and do as he orders. >> all right, kim dozier for us this morning, kim, thanks very much. i really appreciate it. >> all right. time now for

sports. there are no more undefeated teams in the nfl after the bills hand the chiefs their first loss of the season. coy wire has this morning's bleacher report. coy. good morning. how about your bills? >> great morning. great morning. as a former bills player, i say let's go. buffalo bills quarterback josh allen making his case to win league mvp with a statement win over the chiefs. bills and chiefs trading more punches than jake paul and mike tyson in much more entertaining fashion it came down to a fourth and two. buffalo up two with about two minutes to go and bills coach john mcdermott said field goal. give that ball to josh allen and he makes it a house call. the dude is a straight cheat code. he's a man amongst boys out there. 317 total yards two touchdowns. led the team in rushing. kc though still time for some mahomes magic. but this bills defense stole that rabbit right out of his hat. their second interception of the game seals it a 3021 win. the chiefs defense hadn't allowed an opponent to score 28

or more in their previous 30 games. look at orchard park rocking mahomes trying to keep their loss of their perfect season in perspective we'll get back to work and and try to use this as a spark so that we can be a better football team in the end, and the undefeated thing was cool, but that's not our ultimate goal so we'll keep building towards that. all right, joe burrow in the bengals in a prime time thriller against justin herbert and the chargers cincinnati was down 24 to 6 in the third. but joey b takes over storming back to tie it at 27. but here comes herbert with under a minute to go. he hits rookie ladd mcconkey then jk dobbins all the way back from his acl injury on a rampage this year, scoring on a 29 yard run with 18 seconds to go, icing the 3427 win for la. they're now seven and three on the season. joe burrow has four losses this season when he's thrown for 300 yards and three touchdowns in a game now, it looked like

the bears would finally send the pack packing lost ten straight against green bay coming in, but now it's 11 after this. chicago's attempt at a last second game winner here's the snap placement made the kick is blocked. it is blocked it is blocked. and the packers have run beautiful. it is beautiful. it comes up short and the packers have won 11 straight over the bears 20 to 19. oh my goodness. what a finish those detroit lions are off to their best start since 1934. >> 52 points against the jags casey. most points by any team this year they did the pee wee herman on him. you've got to be kidding me. i'm on ross saint brown with straight beast mode 161 yards two touchdowns and defensive star aidan hutchinson still in za'darius smith. he gets a sack in his first game with the team lions now nine and one, tossing the jags straight out of detroit.

first nfl game ever to end with a score of 52 to 6. finally, still a week from thanksgiving, but beyoncé's already giving christmas gifts. netflix announcing late last night she'll perform at halftime of the christmas day game between the ravens excuse me, and texans in her hometown of houston. she's expected to have some special guests from her cowboy carter album nominated for a leading 11 grammys earlier this month, and this will actually be the third nfl halftime show for beyonce. she's performed at super bowls in 2013 and 2016. should be, as they say lit kc indeed. >> all right. coy wire for us this morning. >> thank you very much. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning congressman brendan boyle joins us live. he's going to talk about how his party can win back the ground. they lost among working class voters. plus how some of donald trump's controversial cabinet selections are of course already taking washington by storm they are persons who will shake up the status quo. >> and i think what the

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the working class democratic congressman brendan boyle will be here to discuss how his party moves forward. and later missiles will speak for themselves for sure. >> russia responds what the kremlin now says about president biden letting ukraine use long range american made missiles inside russia >> 6 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at capitol hill on this monday morning. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. new scrutiny this morning for donald trump's cabinet picks as the president himself revels in the celebratory mood at his mar-a-lago club over the weekend. new cnn reporting revealing trump's pick for defense secretary. the fox news host and