Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change. David Weigel, who writes for Semaphore, is my guest today.

Here to talk about some of President-elect Trump's nominations for his administration.

Some really odd ones topping off that list. Matt Gates for Attorney

General. Gates went to law school. That's the closest thing I can get to as a qualification for

him being the top law enforcement official in our nation. But that's it. But there's a long list of reasons not to confirm Gates.

He resigned from the House this week because the House was going to decide whether to release

a report that Gates allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl while he was in Congress and

she was in high school.

But because he resigned the House, the House can no longer release the report because he's no longer a member. But there is some suggestion that the report might somehow leak.

Hope that happens. After I had spoken with David, news came out that Trump had also named Robert F.

Kennedy Jr. to be head of Health and Human Services, which runs, among other things, Medicare and

Medicaid, and the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control, and the National

Institutes of Health. It is huge. RFK Jr. is a

vaccine skeptic, and for that and other reasons should not be put anywhere near the Department

of Health and Human Services. David and I discussed Trump's other loony nominations, Tulsi

Gabbard, to be the director of

national intelligence that would put her in charge of the CIA, the national security agency,

the defense intelligence agency, with no experience in intelligence operations. In addition,

she has echoed Russian propaganda, has traded in conspiracy theories

about Ukraine. She met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who's committed war crimes. This is a

horrific and dangerous idea. Oh, and the my-pillal guy got the Commerce Department.

We discuss a few other matters.

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