Brooks and Capehart on the 'chaos' surrounding Trump's Cabinet picks
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | President-elect Trump has hit the ground running this week, announcing several key cabinet appointments that offer a glimpse of what's to come in his administration. |
| 0:09.0 | Meanwhile, Republicans have secured the House, giving them control over Congress and the White House as they prep their agenda for the new year. |
| 0:17.0 | To break all this down, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and K-Part. That is, New York Times |
| 0:21.9 | columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kephart, Associate Editor for The Washington Post. |
| 0:26.6 | Great to see you both, as always. A little bit of news I want to share with our viewers. We have |
| 0:30.2 | another appointment from President-elect Trump. He's just announced that Caroline Levitt, |
| 0:34.2 | who was his Trump campaign national press secretary, will be the White House |
| 0:37.8 | Press Secretary as well. |
| 0:39.4 | But I want to ask you about some other notable nominees that we've been focusing on this week. |
| 0:44.0 | Here's a look at some of those names right now. |
| 0:46.6 | Margo Rubio has been nominated for Secretary of State. |
| 0:49.0 | Matt Gates for Attorney General, Tulsi Gabbard, for Director of National Intelligence, |
| 0:53.4 | RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services, Christy Noem, for Director of National Intelligence, RFK Jr. for Health |
| 0:54.6 | and Human Services, Christy Noem for Homeland Security. And of course, Susie Wiles, to be as |
| 0:59.2 | Chief of Staff. And then there's this Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk |
| 1:03.6 | and Vivek Ramoswamy. David, this transition is moving so much faster than the previous |
| 1:09.7 | one. What do you take away from not just who's being |
| 1:11.7 | named, but how quickly we're seeing all these names rolled out? Well, there are two possibilities |
| 1:14.9 | with the speed. Either they did a lot of pre-preparation or Trump's just riffing. And from what we know, |
| 1:21.1 | it could be riffing because Matt Gates was on a plane ride apparently with Trump. And if the |
| 1:26.3 | reporting of this, too, believed Trump's chief of Saifie Wiles, was in the next room in the plane. |
| 1:30.6 | And she had no idea what was happening. |
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