about the response from President-elect Trump, who trolled in outright misinformation in lies on social media yesterday,

seizing upon an erroneous Fox News report, that this truck had just come over the border,

thinking that it was perhaps some sort of migrant behind the wheel.

So talk to us about, frankly, how irresponsible that is and fear-mongering,

but also the idea that this incident

with a new focus on national security may actually ease the path for some of his cabinet

nominations to get through.

Yeah, I mean, the first reaction from President-elect Trump was to blame this on a border

crossing that turned out to be based on an erroneous report that

had to do with the rental of this truck ended up being corrected, but Trump's post did not

end up being corrected.

And then this morning, or I guess late last night, he continued to hammer away at this idea

that things are out of control at the border.

Now is the time for tough policies to be implemented and so and so forth.

Look, I don't want to excuse Trump and I'm not. This is what we now expect from him, right?

This is the reaction that we have come to anticipate in these moments, and it is what it is.

He's not president yet, but we know that from past, this is how he reacts.

In terms of his nominees, I think ultimately for the national security slate, and by that I mean

Pete Hexeth, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patal at FBI, you can see the case where senators say he needs his team in quickly. And even though

we might have some reservations about their views, their management experience, their past

and personal lives, we need to push these nominations through. The one sort of caveat I would

add is that when it comes to Cash Patel, it's not, obviously, he's a

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