It's Tuesday, January 14th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday.

The show that just found out, disgraced former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, is leaving polls to be the next mayor of New York City, a race he has not actually entered.

And this show doesn't like that at all.

Nope, not at all.

Is there no other New Yorker available?

Is Martin Scorsese that busy?

On today's show, President Biden shares his perspective on his administration's foreign policy legacy.

And Florida and California lawmakers are gearing up to respond to Trump's deportation orders in very

different ways. Let's start with this week's Senate confirmation hearings. Around a dozen of

President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks are headed to Capitol Hill this week to appear before

various Senate committees. They'll have to answer questions from lawmakers and show they're qualified

for the jobs they've been nominated for

before the full Senate votes on whether to confirm them. Today, hearings begin with Doug Collins,

Trump's pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Doug Bergam, who's been nominated

to run the Department of the Interior. But the big one that everyone will be watching for is the

hearing for Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense,

military veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth. He's facing allegations of excessive drinking,

financial mismanagement, oh, and a sexual assault. That's on top of the fact that he seems to lack the management experience needed to run a department with close to 3 million employees.

All of that would normally

be enough to sink a nominee, especially for a job as high ranking as defense secretary, but Trump

don't care. Wyoming's John Barrasso, the number two Republican in the Senate and the majority whip,

told CBS's Face the Nation Sunday that Hegsef is the right man for the job.

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