take it from republican markwayne mullin republican markwayne mullin. >> we had all seen the videos he had shown on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls he had slept with, he would brag about how he crushed ed medicine and chase it with with an energy drink so he could go all night. >> jordan: first of all, i'm not sure if matt gaetz knows how to brag. going around telling coworkers that you are free basing viagra, and you know i had to use an extra small condom, bro. yeah, hit me up top! yeah, bro! i could barely get it up! yeah! for the love of god, who drinks energy drinks? pound some coffee like an adult sexual predator. it clearly the justice department is a bout to get a hard core makeover. once he's in power you will get to plead guilty, not guilty, and "the [bleep] is your problem, man?" more importantly, there's not a single thing we've seen from matt gaetz's career or character that would make him fit to be the attorney general of the united states. luckily, all it will take to stop him is for his own colleagues, who legitimately hate him, to show the s

newest member of republican leadership, senator james lankford, and key trump ally, senator markwayne mullin, will join me plus, under fire new details on the allegations against defense secretary pick pete hegseth. >> i was completely cleared as his past statements on women in combat sparked fierce pushback from critics. should he lead the nation's military? >> army combat veteran retired lieutenant colonel senator tammy duckworth will be here, and new way forward as democrats come to terms with life in the minority the party faces a new moment of truth. >> we will move forward are they ready to reach across the aisle or are they gearing up for a fight? >> my panel of experts will break it all down ahead washington, where the state of our union is locked in. president-elect donald trump officially completed his list of cabinet secretary nominations in a flurry of announcements over the last 48 hours, trump unveiled a number of new unconventional picks. here's a look at the full list. right now. it includes a pro-union former republican congresswoman for the labor department, a project 2025

yesterday after that less than subtle message from the leader of his party, here was markwayne mullin on the gaetz nomination. >> i think the president wants a hammer at the do j and sees matt gaetz as a hammer and all these other appointments. he's very confident where they're at and can deliver the administration he's wanting. his picks have been maybe unconventional, but we hired an unconventional president. the american people wanted that. they don't want politics as usual. they want someone that's going to shake up washington, d.c. >> he's a hammer. he's unconventional. it is a radically more generous assessment of matt gaetz than anything markwayne mullin has said before. i wonder why? today matt gaetz was on capitol hill to meet with republican senators where he was escorted by the president's second in command, vice president-elect j.d. vance. >> the senator has been giving me a lot of good advice. i'm looking forward to a hearing. folks have been very supportive saying we'll get a fair process. so it's a great day of momentum for the trump-vance administration. >> joining me

it's a question of is senator markwayne mullin willing to give ground here if the questions he has aboutral christopher donahue are answered, or does he simply refuse to budge until the senate changes over and we see republican majority in the senate? that's one of the key questions. the pentagon said earlier today. their legislative affairs team here is very much willing to work with the senate when it comes to questions like this so what we've learned is that senator markwayne mullin is holding the promotion of lieutenant general chris donahue. donahue was nominated to be the commander. the four star commander of u.s. army europe africa. he currently serves as the lieutenant general in charge of the 18th airborne corps at the time of the afghanistan withdrawal, he was the commander of the 82nd airborne division. he was brought into afghanistan to effectively manage the closing of the withdrawal. those last few critical weeks, in which we saw 13 u.s. service members killed because of the bombing at abbey gate. it was donahue who was on the ground there, and there was a very sort of symb

a radical assessment of matt gaetz than anything markwayne mullin has said before. i wonder why. >>> today, matt gaetz is on capitol hill to meet with republican senators, while he was escorted by second-in- command, vice president-elect j.d. vance. >> senators have given me a lot of good advice i am looking forward to hearing. folks have been very supportive, saying, we are going to get a fair process. it is a great day of momentum for the trump/vance administration. >> joined me now, capitol hill correspondent for nbc news, allie. i am very eager to get your thoughts on all of this. first of all, matt gaetz thing, it was a great day or the trump/smith administration. have you heard any scuttlebutt about how those meetings with? >> we hear they did not go badly. you played my conversation with senator thom tillis, one of those senators that met with congressman matt gaetz today. the fact that tillis is saying here outwardly that he wants to be able to have an open process, a fair process, he has met with people who he knows he will vote no for an he met with them a

. >> david jolly, i want to play for you markwayne mullin.kwayne mullin used to have different thoughts about matt gaetz than he does now. he now says he would happily confirm him. he is now a united states senator. but back in october of 2023, i want you to listen to what he said about matt gaetz. >> there's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with. he bragged about how he would crush ed medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night. >> david jolly, i want to play one more sound bite for you, this is kevin mccarthy, the former house speaker who was ousted in large part because of matt gaetz's efforts to get rid of him. here's what kevin mccarthy had to say in april about matt gaetz. >> i'll give you the truth about why i'm not speaker. it's because one person, a member of commerce, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics co

all right, fine, listen to senator markwayne mullin, a year ago, markwayne mullin, last night. >> we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls he had slept with, he would brag about how he would crush ed medicine and chase it with energy drink so he could go all night. >> are you going to go for matt gaetz. >> no question we had our difference. they have been very public about it. i completely trust president trump's decision-making on this one. but at the same time, he's got to come to congress and sell himself. or to the senate and sell himself. there are a lot of questions out there. he's got to answer the questions and hopefully he's able to answer the questions right and if he can, then we'll go through the confirmation process. >> whiplash right there. so, let's get into it. joining us now, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, who is in west palm beach and punch bowl news co-founder and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. jake, i am going to begin with you. am i wrong to say that maybe he can get confirmed bec

but then you have republican congressman markwayne mullin. he was just on with dana bash yesterday. and he said those characterizations that you have put out, but he was specifically talking about tammy duckworth. he called them dangerous and ridiculous. let me play what markwayne mullin says >> there's no background there for her to see, for anyone to see she is she is a true patriot of the united states. and there is no reason why the democrats are going after her other than the fact they're upset that she left their woke party. >> what do you say to that? >> yeah, there's her talking points. there's what she has stood for. what she said her words not too long ago. she thought that she blamed ukraine for the invasion of of russia so it just makes no sense. she has actually used russian talking points. she went over to assad and seemed to sympathize with him. an individual who was gassing his own people concern about who she is and what she will do. that's why i think that the fbi needs to do security background checks before the senate even. >> what do you can you think of a good

has been denying an assault actually took place, noting that charges have now been filed and markwayne mullin went out and told reporters later, including our colleague kit maher, that he described it. mullin did as that these two individuals were flirting, that there was no actual assault. so he seems to have won over people like senator markwayne mullin. but can he get the votes? that's the ultimate question here. there's also another big question the vetting process that took place that led to some of these picks, including pete hegseth. that's a question that some republicans and democrats are raising this morning let's see the full report. >> let's understand the context and also understand from the prosecutor who chose not to move forward with it, why not just about the vetting process in particular, don't you think the trump team should have done better, better vetting job? >> well the more you do up front, the less you have to do on the back end. >> i think this nomination is doomed. it should never have been made. it was never vetted and dana, just moments ago, pete hegseth emerged i

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it's that message that worries my next guest, senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma, sits on the senateces committee, crucial key player in all of these matters. kind enough to join us now. senator, good to see you again. >> senator mullin: things for having me on, neil, always good to be on your show. >> neil: same here. what do you make, he wasn't even shading, this action, where weapons from the west are allowed to be used now in russia, is going to get this kind of response, and it could up an even bigger response. what do you think? >> well, this is just more weakness from the biden administration. weakness invites aggression, right? so appeasement is what the policy has been, the biden administration towards russia, and it can't continue. i want to be very clear here. we have no reason or no desire in the united states to remove putin from office. that is not our goal, that is not what we want to do. that is the people of russia that can make those decisions. but if he continues this path, and he continues to threaten nuclear war, he continues to threaten the united states, at som

olivia, i want to start with you by playing markwayne mullin now. back then had a principled objection to matt gaetz. here he is on cnn much more recently. today, actually. >> are you going to vote for matt gaetz? >> matt gaetz, there is no question that we have had our differences. they have been very public about it. i completely trust president trump's decision-making on this one. but at the same time he has to sell himself. there is a lot of questions that will be out there. he has to answer the questions, and, hopefully, he is able to answer the questions right. if he can, then we'll go through the confirmation process. >> do you even believe that they are going to answer questions? they should if they have an interest in the american people in american democracy. do you trust that they will? >> i want to believe would and i want to believe that this is even too far for a lot of the republicans on the hill. but i don't trust it at this point. we have seen them fall back in line, we have seen them do the tap dancing that we just watched right no

. >> that's senator markwayne mullin. he served for several years in the house with tulsi gabbard. he was on the house intelligence committee. he most recently was on the campaign trail with her stumping for president-elect trump, and gabbard and some of these other picks are people that would satisfy the trump base. they would come into these agencies that would have a different view of how to handle things. they are people i've seen join trump on the campaign trail. so, that is the exact crowd of people that are going to have a harder time getting confirmed. that said, you will not see the kind of reaction you saw when matt gaetz was briefly nominated, this overwhelming sense that this is somebody that cannot lead that agency, that is not qualified to do so. all of these other picks, it seems as though senate republicans, who will have to have the votes to put these people in place, are at least willing to give them a chance and go through that confirmation process. >> i know you're sticking around. we'll bringing into the conversation axios political reporter steph kite and aaro

she didn't allegedly use viagra to quote, unquote, go all night, to quote markwayne mullin, republicanrtheless, what matt gaetz was going to do and what pam bondi is going to do and what whoever is in that role is going to do is exactly the same thing. they are going to ensure, first and foremost, that they hollow out the justice department to anybody who does not subscribe to the maga world view. these lawyers who have made millions and millions of dollars in private law firms decided to work for the justice department because they believe in government and ervice, they're going to be gone to be replaced with people who have been vetted by the federalist society or project 2025 or whoever is in charge of the vetting and they're going to be in there for a very long time. that's one. and two, it's going to function effectively as an arm of donald trump's personal vendetta law firm which is that he feels incredibly aggrieved that the justice department went after him, and now he's going to use the justice department to go after everybody he feels aggrieved, went after him, including lawy

i had an opportunity to interview republican senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma. he said. he would like to see that report. he thinks senators need that report in order to carry out their role in an advice and consent capacity in any confirmation process. so it's going to be really fascinating to see how this plays out. privately, a number of republicans have told nbc news they think that gaetz has a really tough path to confirmation, so we'll have to see how it all unfolds. kyra, it's interesting to see both sides within the same party, and i understand you also spoke with the senator about possible recess appointments, so we look forward to seeing that interview in just about 45 minutes from now. kristen, thanks as always. we hope you join christian for this morning's meet the press. she will have those exclusive interviews. as i mentioned with senator markwayne mullin as well as house minority leader hakeem jeffries. if you just stick right here with us for today in the bay, meet the press is on at 8 a.m, right after this newscast. and coming up in about 30 minutes from

been here cn capitol hill.ig but, again, this is still very much shaking out in real time. >> markwayne mullins interesting. he started to waffle a bit, but he is of the matt gaetz would show us videos of the girls he had sex with, pictures of them, at least, and then he would brag about how he did drugs to last all night thing. ali vitali, thank you very much. joining us now, former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to vice president mike pence olivia troye, staff writer at the atlantic and msnbc political contributor mike leibovich, and peter baker, msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. thank you very much for joining us, guys. so, mark, i'll begin with you, actually, no, lisa, i'll begin with you on pete hegseth if you don't mind. talk to me about the allegations and what we're learning from this police report, he's denying everything, but there was also a payoff. >> there was a payoff. but i want to talk about the police report because this police report, while it adds a lot to our understanding of the allegations, there is still so much onwe don't know, including the fact the

markwayne mullin, describing a nominee. you tell me, based on the clip, what job this nominee is up for. >> this is a guy that didn't have that the media didn't give a time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. and there's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him, because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor so who is this underage sex? >> and that's that's that's matt gaetz of florida. i think it's district one. >> oh, you know, the street i live on and everything. >> you got to keep an eye on those guys buddy. >> yeah, we're talking about trump's nominee for attorney general matt gaetz. seen here looking like he's shocked to know that she's over 18. gaetz for ag was easily the most shocking of trump's cabinet picks so far. >> welcome to the lead i'm jake tapper and let me begin the show by uttering some words that i never contemplated using together before. and those words are u.s. attorney general matt gaetz. >> jake looked so strange trying to get th

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mitch mcconnell, there was markwayne mullin, as you mentioned, thom tillis. he sits on the senate judiciary committee and also the incoming freshman senator tim sheehy uh, you know yes, perhaps they'll fold and fold and they'll back what trump wants but this is a potentially a 53, 47 senate. so four senators could be enough to scuttle this nomination. yeah, absolutely and if it does, that's a problem of gates's own making. but i mean, i think back to early parts of last year, i was at cpac right after the big house speaker fight where gates made the speech about the fbi and atf coming to heel. and i think back from then to now, and his wing of the party has won i mean, gaetz marjorie taylor greene, like, whoever you want to call it, who kind of made that play against the establishment congressional republicans who doubled down with donald trump at the time when some other people kind of waffled on him initially. they are being rewarded in this moment. and i think for a lot of those republican senators they are torn between that kind of personal dislike and un

well, if that's true, i call on markwayne mullin and every republican who's going to be vetting petepete hegseth to release the survivor from her nondisclosure agreement so she can go ahead and tell people what's going on, because right now we're hearing one side of the story but of course, in typical fashion with ndas the survivor is gagged forever. and she can't say a word about what happened. i think this is incredibly important information for senators to know. if she's subpoenaed, she will obviously be able to break that nda and testify under oath. but i think it's very important if republicans right now are already going out there saying there's nothing to this story, then right now before there's any kind of federal subpoena before the senate calls her in to testify, pete hegseth should release her from her nda so that she could tell us exactly what happened very much. >> we appreciate it. i'll give danny dale a call after the show's over. david. all right thanks a lot. okay. >> thanks. no project 2025, jim. >> okay. all right. we'll bring you back as as we bring this up again

you could just see how pained markwayne mullin was at the thought of having to vote for matt gates. >> yeah, he clearly wants this ethics report to come out so that maybe he's the whole nomination is withdrawn, but do the work for him. i mean, that's what it seems like. i want to turn to another trump pick, pete hegseth. he is the nominee for defense secretary cnn is reporting he paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017 and included a confidentiality clause. pete hegseth denies the allegation of sexual assault says he settled with the woman to avoid bad publicity. he has not been charged criminally or civilly. his attorney characterized the incident as a, quote, consensual sexual encounter and said hegseth felt that he was a victim of blackmail. sources say the trump transition team was caught off guard by the allegation, and that he was never fully vetted by an outside firm. i mean, just going back to what you were saying about the whole tone and tenor of his rallies and of kind of the maga universe wanting people like them to get into these very senior positions in dep

your colleague in the senate, republican markwayne mullin told nbc news he trusts donald trump's decision-makinghinks they should have access to the report because the senate has to advise and consent to these cabinet members. do you want to see if there was possibly some wrongdoing? sen. johnson: again, whether we get the house report or not, there are other reports that are issued. generally, fbi background checks. the fact that the department of justice did not decide to press charges. the fact that matt gaetz has denied these allegations. again, we will see how this process plays out. i have a very open mind. my bias will be to support president trump's nominees. sumi: from what you know about matt gaetz, do you think he's qualified to be the attorney general? sen. johnson: i don't know him that well. he served the house, i serve the senate. i really not had any detailed discussions with him. i have seen him in action in terms of being a very capable advocate for his position. i am sure that is why president trump nominated him. sumi: if you look at the cabinet that donald trump is putting t

>> i mean, it's ignorance is more ignorance coming from markwayne mullin. i believe that the fact is we need to figure out where these threats are coming from before you go out blaming one side or another. um, we have no idea who is perpetrating these threats. i can say just resoundingly just as the president of the united states has said, that these threats have no place in our discourse, have no place in our democracy. um and, and need to be stamped out but to come on tv, to come on national tv or fox news or anywhere else and say that your group is doing x, y or z without knowing who is doing what is irresponsible and what what what he's talking about is the same type of rhetoric that needs to stop. we go back and forth with this. both sides of what rhetoric needs to be done this time, and who said what when where, how. but as a united states senator, you have to have some responsibility and let's at least figure out where these are coming from. let's figure out who's perpetrating them. let's let law enforcement do their job, and let's let the president

but as republican senators are talking to each other and they're saying to say markwayne mullin, who as well, tell me about what matt gaetz would be like on the floor. markwayne mullin is going to tell them about lurid pictures that matt gaetz would show, and stories that he would tell on the house floor, completely out of bounds, completely unacceptable and that's why his his nomination is most likely doomed. but again, these are the things that draw headlines and conversations actual you know what? what is smart and policy or what may be a mistake and so forth with other nominees just doesn't get that kind of attention. >> doug heye, kendra barkoff, thank you both so much. appreciate you guys running through that with me. >> thank you. >> so three people are dead after a terrifying series of random stabbings that took place across new york city in just a matter of hours yesterday. it started just after 8 a.m., when a 36 year old man was randomly stabbed in the stomach while standing in front of a construction site. he was then pronounced dead at the hospital. more than two hours la

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let's ask oklahoma senator markwayne mullin the perfect guest for this. senator mullin, thank you for joining me. you know, you will be sitting across from these nominees, the ones whose faces i put up on the screen, who are the victims of threats. you'll be sitting across from them in two months. are you worried for their safety? you know, kelly, most of these are also close friends of mine, and it's ridiculous what's happening. but it's not surprising. the left, the democrat party that says they're the party of tolerance and they're a party of inclusion. actually, they don't like anybody that doesn't agree with them. but this this rhetoric that they have continued to spread about the nominees. let's use tulsi gabbard, for example. just sunday, tammy duckworth was on cnn and said she was a russian asset. they said that these that these nominees are a threat to democracy. bobby kennedy has been a threat to science because how dare he question science? pete has been called a misogynist racist. they they compared president trump to russia and a threat to de

a growing number of republican senators, including markwayne mullin, who said on nbc they need to seen process. >> i believe the senate should have access to that now. should it be released to the public or not, that that's i guess that will be part of the negotiations. >> the two women testified that their interactions with gaetz weren't just about sex, but involved illicit drugs as well. >> there's also group texts between my clients and representative gaetz that did pertain to illegal drugs. >> so i know that the verbiage uses a little bit of street slang. what were the terms that were used? >> that's a good question. so as a criminal defense lawyer, when i'm looking at a case, no one ever says mr. drug dealer, please give me some drugs. so the terms that representative gaetz used was code words. so he would ask using terms like vitamins or his favorite term was party favors. >> what did your clients tell the committee that party favors or vitamins met? >> so it was mdma or molly or ecstasy, which was present at every one of the gatherings. >> and your clients testified to doing th

. >> reporter: oklahoma senator markwayne mullin said hegseth addressed the allegation in their meeting don't think there is any way in the world you can say this was a sexual assault. >> reporter: what makes you so confident about that? >> have you read the report? >> reporter: i actually have it right here. >> i read the report, too. it is pretty clear what took place. it is pretty clear she definitely wanted to go to the room. it was two people. >> reporter: also said she couldn't get out of the room. >> well, that is one person's opinion. >> reporter: hegseth's attorney said police found allegations to be false and it was hegseth who was intoxicated and the woman who was the aggressor. he also confirmed the fox news host paid the woman an unknown sum of money after she threatened to sue, fearing it could cost him his job. the district attorney in monterey said tonight that her office declined to file charges against hegseth because it determined that they could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. norah? >> norah: all right nikole killion with those tough questions tonight, than

. >> reporter: but tonight, a growing number of republican senators, including markwayne mullin of oklahoma, say they need to see the house report as part of the confirmation process. >> absolutely. and i believe the -- i believe the senate should have access to that. now, should it be released to the public or not? that's -- i guess that will be part of the negotiations, but that should be definitely part of our decision-making. >> reporter: mullin, who once served with gaetz in the house, has described how the former congressman used to brag about women. >> we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us would walk away, of the girls that he had slept with. >> reporter: tonight, the president elect standing by matt gaetz. a spokesman for the transition saying "matt gaetz will be the next attorney general. he's the right man for the job and will end the weaponization of our justice system. these are baseless allegations intended to derail the second trump administration." david, the house ethics xhits tee is set to meet on wednesday to decide whether to release

markwayne mullin last week two weeks ago matt gaetz is the worst person on earth. yesterday or the day before well, actually, i'm going to let the president make the decision. he has to make. i mean, come on, he's basically pushing you guys, not you specifically, but everybody in the senate and the house to see how far he can push them in order to show that he has control over a co-equal branch of government. >> generally speaking, that's how authoritarians work. the senate regardless of who's in the white house or what party is in the white house or what parties in the senate they generally at least send one person packing for every new administration trump. because going all the way back, there's usually always one that does not make it through the vetting and going all the way through. it's almost the senate exercising its constitutional legs, going hey, we're in the constitution for this. and you still have to i would just also, i know this these guys are getting all the headlines. i think most of the people trump has picked are perfectly fine. and they're goin

and i would urge markwayne mullin to lift his hold. and let's get this guy out to the field.o europe and let's get the bad guys quaking in their boots. >> all right. a lot of music news this week. you won't expect this from me, but kendrick lamar drops a new album today called for those of you at home, i'll listen to lamar. don't you worry about it. because he has the beef. you know what i like to do? i like to fight. also this week at the country music awards, george strait got the lifetime achievement award. listen to me, democrats. you need to know your lamar and your george strait. if we're going to bring this coalition together, i would have liked to see shaboozey get an award. >> but, you know, that's a different topic. go ahead. >> mcdonald's seems to have gotten the message from this election cycle that inflation and food prices are a worry. they have a $5 value meal, which is cheaper than a cup of starbucks these days. but my one gripe with them is that they have the grinch happy meal in europe, only it's not supposed to be released here in the u.s. they have a taylo

. >> reporter: republican senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma seeming to brush aside the allegations in that police report. >> you read it, you can clearly see that it was two people flirting with each other. >> well, it also said she couldn't get out of the room. >> well, that's one person's opinion. >> david: well, from president-elect trump's pick for the head of the pentagon back to attorney general tonight, because with matt gaetz bowing out, job, there's some breaking news at this hour about the president-elect's new pick for the job? >> reporter: yeah, we are literally just hearing this, david, pam bondi, the former attorney general for the state of florida, trump says he will nominate her to be his attorney general. pam bondi is somebody who has been part of trump's inner circle for a long time. in fact, he was on the defense council, one of his defense lawyers in his first impeachment trial, and now, she is his choice to be attorney general. >> david: jon, thank you, as always. >>> we're going to turn to the major storm slamming both coasts tonight. rain, and in some places,

. >> oklahoma senator markwayne mullin said.seth addressed the allegation in their meeting. >> i don't think there's any way in the world you're going to say that makes you so confident about that? >> have you read the report? >> i actually have. >> i've got it right here. >> i read the report, too. it's pretty. it's pretty clear that the of what took place. it was pretty clear that it was um. she definitely wasn't brought to a room. it was two people flirting with each other. >> well, it also said she couldn't get out of the room. >> well, that's one person's opinion. >> pete hegseth attorney told cbs news police found the allegations to be false and claimed it was hegseth who was intoxicated. and the woman who was the aggressor. he also confirmed the fox news host paid the woman an unknown sum of money after she threatened to sue, fearing it could cost him his job. the district attorney in monterey said her office declined to file charges against hegseth because it felt they couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. nikole

congratulated him on truth social saying he will do an outstanding job, joining me oklahoma senator markwayne mullintor, thanks so much for joining us this more than. >> thanks for having me back on. >> i know you were supporting thune ahead of yesterday's vote, tell us what your expecting from him what you would like to see thune accomplish. >> first of all, he said outright maria when he said we are we've got a mandate to american people to deliver, the -- the policies and direction that president trump wants to go there is a misknown for some reason public assuming that president trump and leader thune didn't get along, that is absolutely not correct, they have been speaking on the phone for months now, they were in a very, very good place and president trump and i had conversations about all three running for leadership he was okay with two of the three running but i tell you that the idea that there is any daylight between thune and president trump not accurate we have a mandate by american people to deliver exactly what they wanted, when they elected president trump by with overwhelmingly majo

. >> and gaetz has denied wrongdoing and senator markwayne mullin has not decided yet.ort. >> advise and consent is a serious function, and 53 is a significant majority for republicans but it's not 60. doesn't take that many to peel off before there is a problem there. obviously there's a focus on some of the nominees. step back for a moment, there's a lot of nominees not getting attention i think are good choices, doug burgum with issues around energy costs, marco rubio has strong bipartisan support and elise stefanik. there are good appointments not getting a lot of attention and they should, they're important from a policy perspective. >> you were in the discussion with the president making picks. talk about the high stakes. >> we're seeing it play out this is not how the normal process goes. there's an extensive vetting process where candidates are asked everything about their personal lives, their finances, clearly we're not seeing that right now. i think -- i understand your point, but if you look at two of the big four, to shorthand them, to department of justice

here is markwayne mullin on all of this.here to the democrats spending so much time talking about scrutiny of donald trump's pick. yet, we spent this amount criticizing biden's pick? i don't see the same people giving scrutiny. >> he points out pete buttigieg, was he qualified to head the department of transportation? he points to rachel levine and sam, nonbinary official under joe biden. he also have john fetterman saying, everybody calm down. democrats need to relax because donald trump has not even entered office yet. the reaction from democrats is wide-ranging. what are your thoughts on that? >> it is over-the-top and overplaying their hand as usual. i will leave it here, carley, because i know we need to go. pete had secretary of defense we know p.a. war veteran, decorated more than 20 years of military service get the same people cheering on liz cheney and hoping she would be a part of kamala harris administration, i assume secretary of defense. boy, that is hypocritical, is in it? hyperbole never wins. democrats as us

want the report released arguing that it would be a breach of protocol but republican senator markwayne mullins the upper chamber should be able to review it. >> absolutely. and i believe the senate should have access to that. now should it be released to the public or not? that -- i guess that will be part of the negotiations, but should definitely be part of our decision making. article 2 section 2 in the constitution, the senate has to advise and consent these individuals and, in that process, we are to give matt gaetz the same as we give all of trump's nominees. >> the comments about is there a precedent for release in a report is not exactly cat. there are two breaches in the past under very extraordinary circumstances and i don't think this meets that criteria. there is important provision of the rule we almost have always followed and that is we don't issue investigations and ethics reports on people who are not members of congress. i'm afraid that that would open a pandora's box. the jurisdiction of the ethics committee is limited to those serving in the institution and its very purpos

oklahoma senator markwayne mullin has said this could derail the nomination.n the past few minutes, there's news on a third nomination, the department of transportation. we know donald trump he's nominating sean duffy. he is a fox news contributor and former prosecutor and someone well known on social media. geoff: let's talk about the senate and the way the system is designed to have the legislative branch be a check on the executive but also the senate has the sole power to confirm appointments that require consent. how are senate republicans in the trump team approaching this? lisa: pretty seriously. it is a difficult needle to thread for some senators. they have a lot of reluctance and even opposition to some nominees. think about lbj back in the 1950's. the senate was the power center in washington and operated not just as a check on presidential power but one of the most power parts of our governmental system. that is changing now. no one has one or more executive power than donald trump. expansions of executive power that we can point to recently, war p

. >> that was senator markwayne mullin last year. department of justice ultimately declined to press charges against gaetz, but the house ethics probe is continuing. a report expected as soon as tomorrow, that is, until -- that ethics committee lost jurisdiction over gaetz when gaetz he resigned yesterday. >> matt gaetz and i, no question that we've had our differences. they've been very public about it. i completely trust president trump's decision- making on this one, but at the same time he's going to come to congress and sell himself. to the senate and sell himself. a lot of questions are out there. he's got to answer the questions and hopefully able to answer the questions right, and if he can, then we'll go through the confirmation process. >> so what about that confirmation process? my colleague manu raju was all over that question on the hill yesterday. you may recall seems like the one that played out on the hill yesterday during the last trump administration. this all feels very familiar to me. >> what about matt gaetz? >>

vying for the job, so far john thune has been publicly endorsed by mike rounds, steve daines and markwayne mullinenator josh hawley, rick scott won support from marco rubio, grandpa, ron johnson, bill hagerty and mike lee. elon musk throwing his support to heinrich scott tweeting yesterday after scott was on "sunday morning futures" same rick scott for setting majority leader, trump is calling on them to support ascetic tool that allows him to fast-track denominations of his preferred administration officials. trump is pushing for recess appointments which refers to the president's ability to fill federal vacancies while the senate is in recess rather than waiting and waiting until they get back to actually put the people in place. i was editor joni ernst with the ranking member of the seven small business and entrepreneur committee and a member of the senate agricultural and armed services committees as well. good to see you, thank you for being here. do you support the fast-track status and going through the process even when you're on recess which president trump is asking you to do. >> thank

one of the most outspoken critics of matt gaetz has been a senator from oklahoma named markwayne mullinhe first time i ever met this guy, governor kristi noem, said man, she's a fine -- you can put the "b" word in place. her portrays himself as somebody he's not. he gets his money from his dad, not from actually working. we'd all seen the videos he was showing, that all of us had walked away, of the girls he had slept with. i assume he'd be re-elected. he's popular in his district but i don't think they would if they knew matt gaetz. crush e.d. medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night. >> jimmy: so that was then. that was before trump started making phone calls. this is what markwayne thinks of the "matly bonerpills'" chances there's no question matt's going to have an uphill battle. it's going to be a really difficult fight to get him confirmed. but i'm not saying it's impossible. if it's what the president wants, then we're going to do our dill diligence. >> jimmy: you do your dill diligence, you dildo. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] no shame. no shame

when bondi was named, we saw people immediately backing her from the likes of lindsey graham, markwayne mulline saying this is a hat trick, a slam dunk pick and, of course, she has the qualifications. he was one -- she was attorney general? one of the biggest states -- attorney general in one of the biggest states, and she's a trump loyalist. i think she's going to run the justice department in the way that the president-elect wants her to which could turn off some republican senators, but at this point i think a lot of them are choosing their battles, let's say. if they want to go after a pete hegseth if you're a lisa murkowski or susan collins, i think you let pam bondi through on this one. neil: all right, but she might be tasked with doing the kind of things that donald trump has wanted to see the justice department do, examine itself and the role it played in the 2020 the election and all the way down to that. >> that's right. neil: and then firing jack smith, of course, resigning before donald trump assumes office, but his team, again, based on what we're getting out of "the washington p

we will also have senator markwayne mullin. we went viral a week ago.on the kamala harris campaign. she has more and she will be back. >> ainsley: i like her. >> will: i'm not dodging your question. i will tell you this. when i heard that, about pete, initial reaction 20% sadness, 80% overjoyed and proud of my friend. >> ainsley: yeah. yeah. of course. well, i'm watching tomorrow. i was going to watch anyway but now i have another reason to. thank you so much, will. we have more "fox & friends" still ahead. >> ainsley: thank you. ♪ wheat dreams are made of these ♪ sweet dreams are made of these ♪