Welcome to the News Hour. Another key nomination made today by President-elect Donald Trump,

as questions and concerns continue to swirl around others. Mr. Trump today announced Matthew Whitaker

as his pick to be ambassador to NATO. Whitaker briefly served as acting Attorney General during Trump's

first term. In meantime, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, along with Mr. Trump's controversial pick for

Attorney General, former Congressman Matt Gates met with Republican senators on Capitol Hill today.

The meetings come amid mounting pressure on the House Ethics Committee to release a report

looking into several allegations against Gates, including sexual misconduct.

NPR congressional reporter Claudia Grisales joins us now from the Capitol.

Claudia, it's good to see you.

So the House Ethics Committee said that they did not reach an agreement as to whether to release their report

looking into these allegations against the congressman.

Bring us up to speed and help us understand what the pressure points are.

Right. Essentially, what it boils down to is a partisan divide at this moment on the House Ethics Committee.

We saw the chairman, representative guests come out and say no agreement was reached.

But we saw very angry Susan Wilde. This is the outgoing representative from Pennsylvania,

say that didn't entirely represent what went down in that room.

And she felt betrayed by his remarks.

Basically, reading between the lines, they were deadlocked.

And talking to a Republican source this evening, who's familiar with their thinking on the panel,

Republicans' concerns where the report is not finished and there's no precedent to release an unfinished report for the panel.

We should say there's so much focus on this House ethics panel report because the Trump transition team has not signed an agreement with the Justice Department that would allow the FBI to vet his nominees up ending some 60 years of precedent.

That said, you have Democrats, Senate Democrats, who've written a letter to the FBI asking for the

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