“Crawl on the rug like a snake”

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Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace is joined by Vaughn Hillyard, Charlie Sykes, Claire McCaskill, Stephanie Ruhle, Jeremy Bash, David Rothkopf, Eddie Glaude, and Paul Rieckhoff.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Happy Monday, 4 o'clock in New York.
0:11.2	The scale of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election is coming into fuller focus.
0:16.9	Breaking up the weekend, Trump is projected to be the winner in Arizona, completing a complete sweep of all seven battleground states.
0:25.0	Combined that with control of the Senate, Republicans are projected to hold at least 52 seats and quite possibly control of the House, which has not been called yet, but Republicans are currently just five seats short of a majority there.
0:38.3	Donald Trump is now likely to return to Washington with a trifecta, to say nothing of the six to three
0:45.3	conservative majority in the third branch of government. We are, of course, talking about the
0:50.3	Supreme Court, giving Trump a potentially unprecedented grip on all the levers of
0:56.9	political power, all of which makes one of his first announcements as president-elect puzzling.
1:04.8	Trump is demanding that whoever takes the reins of the GOP caucus in the Senate agree to allow
1:10.1	recess appointments to his cabinet. In other, agree to allow recess appointments to his
1:11.8	cabinet. In other words, to allow Donald Trump to bypass Senate confirmation, again, a Senate
1:17.5	controlled by Republicans of all of his picks. That's despite the fact that Trump likely has a
1:24.3	commanding majority for approval of any of its nominations.
1:29.1	Now, on the topic of recess appointments, CNN reports this, quote,
1:33.2	recess appointments were once controversial, last ditch efforts for presidents to install their
1:37.9	nominees after facing long confirmation odds in the Senate.
1:42.2	President George W. Bush appointed John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the
1:46.3	United Nations via a recess appointment, for example, as it was unlikely he would have made it through the
1:51.8	Senate. President Obama's attempt to use recess appointment power wound up at the Supreme Court.
1:58.0	Supreme Court ruled against President Obama and in favor of the GOP-led Senate.
2:02.6	They said Obama's appointments were unconstitutional. It just begs a question this morning, right?
2:08.5	Why would such a strong, powerful president demand the use of such a weak tool used by weak presidents?
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