a very good day to all of you from the headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports.

we begin to the countdown to trump's inauguration, 58 days, announcing a flurry of cabinet picks late on friday, adding at least eight new names in about 70 minutes. we will have a new report from mar-a-lago in a moment. pam bondi named to replace matt gaetz as pick for attorney general. she is drawing scrutiny with democrats raising concerns. >> it starts with accusations of false voter fraud and refusal to accept the election. she should know better as an attorney general. we asked for the evidence then and didn't get it and still no evidence of mass voter fraud. also she dismissed charges against trump university for their scamming of many people across the country, soon after she got a contribution from trump's foundation. >> new questions from democrats

over another trump pick, former congresswoman tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. >> you know the intelligence agencies will be very curtailed on what they want to give her or show her. you know the allies will not want to share intelligence s with her. trump has a history of talking about intelligence that foreign countries have given to us on national television. i can't stress this enough that she is a danger to the men and women in the field gathering intelligence to protect us at home. she is a danger to them in the sense that she could out them too for an adversary, she could out them to a president on tv, put them in danger. >> one republican congressman says confirmation for defense, pete hegseth may not be smooth sailing. >> when it same to matt gaetz, the senate made it clear they

would not pass him. i think we proved we are not a blank check. we still have three branches of government. there are checks and balances. i think there will be very good hearings when it comes to the pentagon's nominee, the d.o.d. nominee, also when it comes to the national intelligence director. they may be able to pass but i think they will get a good vetting and will have to prove themselves. >> a new photo today shows the president-elect meeting friday with nato secretary general mark root at mar-a-lago. one republican senator says she is creating a senate doge caucus to eliminate government waste, a not to trump tfs department of government efficiency. another republican senator signals a clear path t for the agenda. >> we are also going to have to make certain that on day one, donald trump is going to be able to have cabinet members approved and getting to work and we are

going to have to give him a lot of clear runway. >> we have reporters in place covering all of these developing story lines for us. we begin with aaron gilchrist in west palm beach florida for us. welcome. let's go through the list of who has been added to the growing list of trump's cabinet picks. >> really a flurry of names announced last night within a short period of time. our producer jake and i were trying to digest all of the information as it was coming in quickly. president-elect trump has tapped people to take positions in almost all of the key cabinet roles and lower positions. he is moving at a much faster pace of making appointment announcements than the current president, president biden when he did when he was in the transition process four years ago. republican senators have signalled they want to make sure there is a speedy confirmation process so they can hit the

ground running. a flurry of no picks, dr. welden for cdc director, dr. gene etfor etfor. researcher dr. marty mccarrie to head the fda the sickest most medicated population in the history of the world. >> scott turner for head of housing and development and scott besent for treasury secretary even after elon musk's criticism of him as a business as usual candidate. trump announced him as someone who will support my policies, and stop unfair tried imbalances. bessent t was someone that trump praised on the trail. >> he is considered one of the most brilliant men on wall street. >> reporter: the pieces for the incoming trump administration falling into place late friday

night including congresswoman lori chavez dereamer for labor secretary and russell vaut, a coauthor of project 2025. he comes as a person familiar with transitions say they are taking suggestions from the extensive 2025 personnel data base. that is despite trump denouncing the blueprint t during the campaign. >> i don't know what the hell it is, project 2025. >> reporter: the appointment comes a day after his second choice for attorney general, pam bondi. >> a fantastic friend and woman. >> reporter: bondi is seen as a trump loyalist, balking his #e6erts to overturn the 2020 election results . >> we have won pennsylvania and they will not take it away from us. >> reporter: trump's first pick for attorney general matt gaetz speaking out on friday for the first time since withdrawing his name from consideration. >> it was more a matter of pace

than anything. the pace was going to be long for me. >> reporter: gaetz again denying allegations he paid women for sex and that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. the justice department investigated the allegations and did not charge gaetz. >> we are also learning that the president-elect met with mark root here in florida last night. the meeting happening an a few minutes ago over at mar-a-lago. you can see the photo of the two men there. we also understand root met with members of innational security team, his incoming national security advisor, among them mike qualities, congressman. we know the meeting was one that talked about some of the big issues of concern right now, mainly the concern that some other world leaders expressed about the support for nato and

ukraine and the incoming trump administration. >> we will hear more from you later on, thank you. let's get to julie tsirkin who has reaction from the latest cabinet picks. i'm glad you are here at 30 rock in new york. what is the reaction of matt gaetz's withdrawal from consideration? >> it was widespread relief. we had been talking about this for eight days, that's how long the nomination was. we were talking about it during that period of time that senators on both sides of the aisle and namely republicans were in full freak out mode over the prospect of someone like matt gaetz who many served with in the house and they had personal bad blood with him, an an agency that once investigated him. when he withdrew his name, it was surprising to some senators. at least five of them, we have their names, including mitch mcconnell and a new senator, john curtis from utah who were hard noes on gaetz.

it became clear that even if he were to go through the gruelling confirmation process that his chances of getting confirmed were dead on arrival, even before the house ethics report had come out. now with the nomination or potential nomination of pam bondi, you are getting relief from senators. i'm talking about someone like lindsey graham who called the pick of bondi a slam dunk. democrats do question bondi as someone who will be a full loyalist to trump and not independently evaluate the cases as they come. take a listen to what alex padilla had to say earlier on nbc. >> to the transition team, next try. i think a lot of people are saying they put out matt gaetz in the beginning and how crazy that was and nonsensical to make pam bondi look normal. she may be confirmed. is she going to be an

independent attorney general upholding the constitution of the united states or is she planning to do trump's personal bidding? >> there are no indications that she is going to face an uphill battle for confirmation. senate republicans have a three seat majority plus and jd vance can break a tie after she gets out of the judiciary committee. so all in all, relief washing over them that trump picked bondi. we did see gaetz as an early test of how trump could see how far republicans are willing to go in his direction and that didn't work for him this time. >> we will see you next hour. if you want to come in during commercial break, love to see you, thanks. let's bring in peter baker, political analyst the white house correspondent for new york times sdw author of the divider, trump in the white house. that would be extended to you as well if you were in the studio. but anyway, let's look at all of the administration picks trump

announced yesterday. how should we read this friday night flurry? and which one of these late choices stands out to you as the most likely to cause concern from government officials? >> i would love to come by and see you too, alex. that would be great. >> it would be fun. >> yeah, this is a mix. it is a handful of people all at once. he has done it earlier. he has done this cabinet selection earlier than any president i can recall. one way he has done that is he knows people now and he was already president once. he has been thinking about this and he had in mind what he wanted. that is a big difference. presidents want to make sure they are not putting someone forward that will blow up in their face the way that gaetz did. trump doesn't care about vetting except for what he did.

we will see the senate's vetting and news media vetting and anything that is problematic. some of these are pretty maga folks. sebastion goshga will be the counterterrorism chief in the white house, not senate confirmable but pretty far right conservative that was out of the first white house trump had because he was so out there. and the treasury secretary has reassured wall street and trump values that, values making sure the big titans in new york are happy with his choice and they basically are because they see him among the options available here to be a pretty reassurable, steady as you go kind of figure. >> is anyone in the political world going to take issue with the fact that he worked with george soros? >> that is interesting. he is the far right and trump in familiar, they demonize him and

vilify him. that's what they did with alvin bragg because some organization that he contributed to contributed to bragg and suddenly that meant that soros was a hand picked prosecutor and that was silly. but in this case, trump plays by his own rules. what makes him disqualified if you are against him doesn't bother him if you are for him. so some people on the far right will note this but as long as trump is okay with this, that will keep it quiet. >> yeah. give me a sense of where pam bondi fits. is she just as concerning to folks inside of doj as matt gaetz was? i'm curious what the first order of business moit be. this is supposed to be a politically neutral position. >> well, look, i don't think anyone can concern people more than matt gaetz. he was so far out there in their

view that he was seen as a time bomb that would have gone off the minute he got in there. but bondi is a partisan, loyalist to trump. she may not be as flamboyant as matt gaetz but she holds some of the same views on the justice department and how it should be used. she was attorney general of florida. gates wr was not much of a lawyer. so she brings more legal experience to the table. i think she is not as likely to offend in the same way that matt gaetz was not only willing but eager to do. she will look at the justice department, very much of a trumpian point of view, viewing it as an department that needs to be deconstructed in a lot of ways and reformulated to be in trump's white house. >> i'm looking at your new article in which you call this election the land slide that wasn't. why are trump and his allies

exaggerating his narrow victory and what are we learning as the last votes are being tallied? >> let's remember the numbers. they are not 100% finished but as it looks right now, trump has just under 50%, 49.98% of the popular vote. now he wins the popular vote which he had not done the other two times and that is a big deal, something to brag about but it is not a majority. it is only around 1.6 percentage points over kamala harris. that is one of the smallest we have had since the 19th century. it is not a land slide by conventional measures by any stretch. he didn't have much of the coat tails. they gained four seats in the senate. that is a major victory. in the states where he ran the most, the five battleground states where they had senate races, he only brought in one republican and four democrats won. so his coat tails didn't bring in additional seats in the house. but the reason he wants to call

it a land slide is in order to, first of all his ego, everything with him is the biggest, the best, the first, the most, all of those things. he refuses to believe he is anything other than the greatest that ever lived but as a matter of political strategy, it is a way of maximizing the impact and influence. you are much likely to get your agenda through congress if you got a land slide than if you say i barely won but you should vote for my legislation. >> can i apply biggest and best to you my friend? see you again. what do you get when you have marjorie taylor greene and elon musk and vivek ramaswamy? america is about to find out. k ? america is about to find out than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪♪ also from advil, advil targeted relief, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours.

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subcommittee led by georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, the first time holding a gavel after she was stripped of two assignments in 2021. joining me now is a member of the house oversight committee, congressman from california, robert garcia, also on the senate committee. and he is the newly elected democratic caucus leader, so congratulations on that. is your gop colleague marjorie taylor greene in position to help elon musk and vivek ramaswamy's goal of slashing funding and regulations? isn't congress in charge of controlling the purse stripgs anyway? >> the only positive news of marjorie taylor greene leading anything is that she is the most incompetent member of congress, the most unserious member of congress. she will be completely ineffective in doing anything. she is as a member of oversight committee in which i served with her on.

you may notice, i'm the only member of congress that sits on the exact same three committees with her. so i spent more time with her in committee than anyone else in congress. there couldn't be anyone worse. putting her in charge of anything is a joke especially a committee whose whole intention is to damage the government, damage services, to ensure that people dependent on government services don't receive them. i'm sure marjory is excited about hurting people. it is unfortunate this is happening but i'm not worried about someone who can barely legislate being in charge of anything. >> would you be willing to make it a fourth and join the subcommittee? >> yeah, i'm thinking about it, joining that committee. we will have to have democrats on that committee. but it certainly will not be to help marjorie taylor greene, it will be to push back on all of her bs, all of the craziness that donald trump will try to

impose on the federal agencies. when people say they want to eliminate the department of education, what they are talking about is eliminating educational support for children with special needs. what they are talking about is removing counselors in the schools across our country, making sure our classrooms don't get modernized with air conditioning and support for teachers. this is completely in sane. they are talking about doing things like taking away services from veterans who need them, from our nation's educators. imagine the post service which needs investment actually having less support to get america's mail and information across the country. we have to fight back. i'm considering being one of the democrats on the committee but we will see what our leader decides to do. >> so this week, donald trump confirmed his plans to declare a national emergency and to use the u.s. military to help carry out mass deportations. exact t details are unclear but

not all republicans even support that. take a listen. >> i think what i would do if i were in charge of the immigration system is to first go after those who committed crimes. if we start there, we will be fine. i'm not in favor of sending the army in uniform into the cities to collect people. it is a terrible image and that's not what we use the military for. we never have. it has been illegal for over 100 years to bring the army into the cities. >> our senator paul's sentiments widespread among your colleagues, even the republicans? how do you envision the president-elect intends to use the military to carry out mass deportation plans? >> it is crazy to say that rand paul is right but he is correct there. imagine our law enforcement agencies across the country, which are already, there is a law enforcement shortage across the country. imagine them, instead of giving traffic tickets, instead of

having a 911 call, instead of checking on a burglary, they will be rerouted to round up men and women in our kitchens, making our food at our favorite diners, cleaning our hotel rooms, people helping us in our homes or taking care of our kids, the people that are picking our crops so we can have a thanksgiving and christmas dinner, these are the people we are talking about rounding up and deporting and ripping them away from their families. that's where law enforcement wants to do in donald trump's america. we are not going to stand for them. there are a lot of republicans that disagree. by the way, it is unconstitutional to do what donald trump is trying to do. we will try to push back every single step of the way. we will not allow donald trump to turn america's law enforcement agencies into his own ges tapo police. we will not allow that. he wants to do a lot with our

own military which is shameful if he thinks he will send our men and women into america's cities. rand paul is right. i think a lot of bipartisan will be necessary to push back. we will try hard to ensure this doesn't happen. >> is there a minimalistic, acceptable way to target some of the migrants in the country, those charges with crimes without sweeping measures that brag up families and create mass fear? what do your constituents tell you they want to see happen? >> i think there are two things that are important here. first, no one disagrees, democrats, we all want to have a strong border that is secure with a just and humane process at the border. we had a bill to do that this past year which was bipartisan which republicans rejected. we understand that if people are here in the country committing crimes, i don't care if they are a u.s. citizen, if they are a nonconvince, undocumented, they

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intelligence to visit with gop senators after thanksgiving. punch bowl news is reporting that republicans are asking to see her fbi file. this comes as pete hegseth made his trip to capitol hill just as a police report from 2017 provided new details of the sexual assault allegation. >> as far as the media is concerned, i'll keep it very simple. the matter was fully investigated. i was completely cleared. >> joining me in studio is hugo lowell, correspondent with the guardian. i have a lot to ask you and you have an ear to the ground on mar-a-lago and talk to all of the insiders there. what insight are you able to share that explain trump's most contentious recent picks? >> i think the overarching explanation is that he is just

picking who he likes at this point. he has done all of the big names, the ones he was really set on if you think of the early names that came out for the major cabinet positions. at this point, the roles that are left, fbi director in particular, something he cares about, treasury secretary came out and it took a while to get them. trump himself had not really liked the options put together by the transition team. he was casting around allies and advisors saying who else would be good. >> who are the advisors doing that? is trump doing the picking? he is picking people that he likes. >> at the end of the day, it's trump but it is canvising across the board. >> is it bannon, roger stone, others? >> there are different factions. i think there are three big factions. there is susie wiles and the new maga trump loyalists that were with him during the campaign who are one center of gravity.

there is the og trump loyalists from 2016 who are still around, people like boris epstein, miller is not coming in but he is oo sounding board for some people. there are the afpi folks, fringe, maybe not fringe but maga people who have influence in trump world. then you have the strap hangars, elon musk, howard lutnick with his crew. it is an amal guimations of different people. the transition team had put together a list of potential picks for trump and he didn't like them. what ended up happening is he confirmed boris epstein on a flight and decided with matt gaetz and let's see if it goes well and if it doesn't, we can pick someone else.

that's how trump is operating. >> what is the truth behind elon musk? what are you hearing? you have headlines like he's the guest that will never leave or conversely, right next to trump with everything. where is the truth? >> i think it is somewhere in the middle. he is not staying at mar-a-lago. he is staying off site according to our reporting. he is not always in trump's face. he is in big meetings and it is annoying some people in trump world who have been there and felt they have done their time and they have a seat at the table and they see musk and are like, what does he know about the maga agenda and the kind of people that we want to put in the government to dismantle the deep state. there is consternation there. on the other hand, there are people who have survived a long time in trump world who tell me they don't think elon is going so overboard as to annoy trump. that is one thing that trump dislikes, people who are pushing too hard. >> lutnick did that?

>> yes. he wanted to get treasury commerce and he was telling trump he needed to be at treasury even though trump told him he would probably not be there. didn't appreciate that. you have to play the game. and elon is good at playing internal politics which is a testament to why he is still there. >> sarah palin seems to be teasing a return to d.c., a cryptic instagram post there on november 24th. are you hearing her name in transition circles? >> no, but then again pam bondi's name for attorney general came out of nowhere. it was within hours of matt gaetz's nomination sipging that her name popped up in trump's inner circle. it has become very scattered at this point. there are a number of roles available. trump hasn't made up his mind. if he thinks there is a role that might work, he will. >> can i get you thoughts on this headline. trump won less than 50%, why is

everyone calling it a land slide? his transition claims that at every term it was a mandate? why are they calling it aland slide? i believe it is 1.6% of the popular vote he stands ahead of kamala harris, that's it. >> it is several things. number one that going into the election, trump world had no expectation of winning the popular vote and neither did democrats. they thought it would be an electoral college vict tory and they would win swing states and if they could get pennsylvania, they could get the electoral college. so when he won the popular vote, people's minds in trump world exploded. they didn't realize they were close to doing that. so you have low expectations and then a massive fantasy that they have a colossal mandate. and it is not clear that voters feel that. they are voting on single issues

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new reporting from the washington post on talk of donald trump's potential retribution efforts when he retakes the oval office. trump reportedly plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel jack smith as well as assemble investigative teams within the doj tolook for evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. the press secretary for the trump transition released a statement saying quote, president trump and his transition team speaks for him, and anonymous sources not affiliated with him have no idea what they are talking about. it goes on to say that trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats that have engaged in the weaponization of the justice system and the american people can expect he will deliver on

the process. joining me now is david aaronburg, and democratic former member of the florida state senate. welcome dave. what is your reaction to this reporting and especially going back and trying to prove the big lie about the 2020 election and then the response of the trump camp to this report? >> good to be back with you. this is obviously troubling. this is not why people voted trump in, it was to reduce high prices, it was to close the border. it was not to weaponize the department of justice. he ran against the weaponization of the department of justice but as everything it is always a projection or admission with these guys. i do take solace knowing that pam bondi will be the attorney general and not matt gaetz. had matt gaetz been confirmed, i think we he would have torn the place down, gone after trump's enemies regardless of evidence. pam bondi, i know her and show believes in the rule of law.

>> give me a sense of that because when she was florida ag, she made you drug czar and you were focused on the opioid epidemic. give me a sense of what she is like, the kind of loyalty she has for trump, and will that extend to going after political enemies as he wishes? remember, he's the one who is putting her up for the post. so she has to have a certain level of loyalty to get that post. >> she is loyal to trump, it is a real loyalty and love for trump unlike lindsey graham who pretends to love him and then makes fun of him behind his back. bondi is likable and gets along with friends on both sides of the aisle. i ran against her for attorney general, well, i lost in the democratic primary. but after she won the general election, the fact that i endorsed her opponent, the

democrat that beaten me, she named me her drug czar because she knew that i was going to tackle the opioid crisis if i were elected attorney general and she wanted me on her team, despite the fact that republicans were going after her on that. that says a lot about her. i expect her to launch the john durham style investigations that will hopefully go nowhere because that's what happened with john durham. if they go after adam schiff or liz cheney, it will backfire fwens them and it will create martyrs of them both, making them both instant presidential candidates. look what it did for donald trump, sitting in a courtroom in new york. they don't want to go down that road themselves. >> so representative jamie rascens spoke of his concern with pam bondi. take a listen to this. >> she will be the key transmission belt between donald trump's orders and then making the bureaucracy move.

that of course is what everyone at the department of justice is so afraid of, that there will be a whole sale abandonment of the law and constitution and it will basically become like the donald trump lawfirm. is the institution of the doj strong enough to resist attempts to weaponize it? >> i think so. you have career prosecutors who will follow the evidence and the law. john durham did some of this stuff. he was able to file low-level charges against mid to low-level officials and it blew up in his face. he was humiliated. i think they have enough career prosecutors who will do things based on the evidence and law. there will be investigations. i'm not as pessimistic as congressman rascens that they will burn the whole place down. i know pam bondi. i think she is still tethered to the rule of law. she will be directed to do things that a lot of us don't

like. in the end, she is going to continue to follow the evidence and indictments before making charges. >> last question and i will need a quick answer. when it comes to trump's legal trouble, the sentencing in the hush money trial has been delayed. the court is considering whether to dismiss this case completely because of presidential immunity. do you think he is going to get off scot free in these cases? >> let's do the interview again in january 2029. because that's when the court will reconvene. >> so you think it will be delayed? >> i think it will be delayed significantly. i don't think it goes away entirely. >> okay. you did it in 15 seconds. i love you. thank you so much. in our next hour, what the biden administration is doing to tie up loose ends before inauguration day. as woe look at the golden gate bridge, your holiday get away may have gotten a bit more complicated. y have gotten a bite complicated. one versus the other.

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♪♪ breaking news in the middle east, another deadly day in beirut when an israeli strike killed at least 20 people. the attack in the residential area came without warning. officials say it was an attempt to take out a top hezbollah mpt leader. welcome. what else can you tell us about this latest attack on beirut and is there any word on a possible cease-fire deal? >> reporter: good evening to you

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