There are still some very controversial picks. Tulsi Gabbard, certainly in light of her meeting with ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, some of her comments on Russia. You've got Cash Patel. And what's going on with that? We haven't even gotten to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. What's your read on that strategy?

Yeah, and I'd also just like to add to that list, Linda McMahon, chosen to run the Department of Education. You can't help but think of schoolchildren and the allegations she's been involved with. It's unfortunate. I think what is surprising, I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but what it's clear is seeing how Trump, as President-elect, is coming in and strong-arming his way through these

negotiations, which aren't even negotiations, they're really just Trump saying, I want this,

give me this. That strategy is reflected in the way that he tweeted about his meeting with

Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, by kind of degrading him and referring

to him as a governor and sort of like referring to Canada as a 51st state, really asserting

his dominance over these people by either, as Politico reported, making their life uncomfortable

by having these MAGA activists make their life hell by dragging them online or as Sahil was reporting, threatening potential primary challenges in the future, or by making them seem like they're beneath him in power or in level when really they are two world leaders or two part of these two world leaders and they should be treated as equals. And he's coming in

with no clear strategy other than, I think, knowing that he has sort of carte blanche to do

whatever he wants this time around. Congressman Jayapal, there's no better time to talk to you

than right now. What is the mood inside the Democratic caucus, as you have the incoming president, literally name-checking members of the House, former members of the House, saying they should be thrown in jail?

Yeah, well, Alex, it's always good to see you.

You know, I think the mood is we are ready to have this fight.

We are ready to take it to the American people.

And we are strategizing around all the

different ways that our caucus will work together, stay united, and make sure that we push back

on these outrageous things that Donald Trump is saying and that he is perhaps going to get his

cabinet to do. I also think that they did some

cleanup after that interview. Some of his people started saying, oh, he's not really going to

set those people to jail. I just think that we are in a situation where we should wait to see

what a taxi actually levies and be ready to go after them completely together

and make the contrast to the American people.

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