Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert, and we have a lot cooking for this big show to end the week.

Tonight, a top Obama veteran and healthcare expert and doctor speaking out on the stakes with this RFK

Jr. Post. We begin, though, with the clash erupting between some Washington Republicans and the

incoming Trump administration, which in its personnel and in its clear plans is doing

exactly what it said it would do. And now, already this early, some Republicans are saying,

sometimes off the record, maybe this isn't what they think is actually good for the country.

We are seeing people balk at Donald Trump's attempt to install people who have little to no experience in

big posts or are partisan loyalists in posts that are supposed to disclaim exactly that approach,

as well as kind of just the general shock and awe thing we've been discussing this week,

actions and choices that aren't just a little bit off or taking on the establishment or the normal

beltway thing, which frankly over American history has happened from time to time.

When you look at the evidence and the people and their experience, this is not that.

This is quite clearly an organized and direct plan to take people who are partisan over independent, who are provocateurs over the

experienced, and who are often people who've directly said they oppose the government

rule of law and the agencies they would be a part of to now take them over.

You have RFK, who is not a doctor, has no public health degree, and has no relevant experience

to run HHS. That would be a problem full stop. In other words, before you get to more information,

the fact that RFK would be someone who doesn't know how to fly and you're giving him keys to the

plane and you're saying to the passengers, the country,

do you want to get on that plane? Well, in that analogy, inside the United States, that would still

be illegal. You can't pilot a plane of other people without a flight license, just like you can't

drive without a driver's license, and this is higher stakes than that. So he doesn't have that

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