Welcome to the News Hour. President-elect Donald Trump continues to stock his future cabinet with some high-profile picks.

Today, he officially tapped one of his former rivals from the presidential primary. That's North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam for Interior Secretary.

Political correspondent Lisa Desjardin is here with more on how Bergam could redefine that role

and what we're learning about Trump's other nominees. So Lisa, let's start with Governor Bergam here.

Nominated to be Secretary of the Interior, but not just that. What more did we learn?

That's right. Surprising people in the industry and also environmentalists with this today.

Now, Bergam, first of all, remind people he's the North Dakota

governor. He's a self-made billionaire. And energy has been a focus of his. Now, let's talk about

what he's nominated for the president-elect announced today. Not just the position as

Secretary of the Interior, but also President-elect Trump announced a national energy council, a new entity that Doug

Bergum would chair that would oversee

every aspect of energy production and

protection in this country, including

the Department of Energy, that will sit on

that. And then he would also have a seat on the

National Security Council. That is also

something new. A reminder, the Department of

Energy does have some nuclear

energy in its portfolio. As I said, energy has been a focus for Bergam, and he has said,

in particular he's been focused, as he said in 2021, on increasing U.S. supply. Because America

produces energy cleaner and more efficiently than anywhere else in the world,

if you try to regulate or executive order industries out of business, you don't drop the demand for energy.

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