This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.

I'm Jared Halper.

Earlier this week, we spoke to Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream about President

elect Trump's transition and what message he may be trying to send Washington with some of the controversial names he's nominating to join his team.

Bream discussed Trump's potential strategy, the challenges incoming Senate majority leader

John Thune will face as he navigates the confirmation process and the potential political

and legal fights ahead for the second Trump administration. She also weighed in on Trump's plan to launch the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge,

the pressure on some Supreme Court justices to retire,

and how Democrats are assessing their election losses last week.

We often have to cut interviews down for time during the week,

but we thought you might like to hear the full

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Now here's Shannon Breen on the Fox News Rundown Extra.

It sounds like in the weeks ahead we're going to have some pretty contentious confirmation

fights, even with a Republican-led Senate, no?

Yeah.

I mean, on the day that John Thune is elected, the first GOP majority leader in what,

17 years to be the new guy, he also gets a present from President Trump who says, and by the way, I've chosen

Matt Gates to be my attorney general, and you're going to have to shepherd that through Senate

confirmation. So that was a jolt to the system, certainly here in Washington. And it's, you know,

raised this conversation again about recess appointments and whether, you know, President Trump,

as he told all of the folks that were vying for Senate GOP leader, that he expected them to be open to this recess appointments situation, which is kind of controversial.

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