If it's Monday, President-elect Donald Trump taps a staunch supporter of the family separation policy from his first term to be the border czar in his second term, as Trump's new priorities begin to take shape.

Plus, the Kremlin denying Washington Post reporting that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump recently spoke by phone about the war in Ukraine as the world prepares for

an unpredictable era of Trump foreign policy.

And who will be the next Senate majority leader?

One candidate vowing to push the Trump agenda as top Republicans jockey to take the reins from

Mitch McConnell, all while control of the House remains uncertain with more than a dozen races still uncalled.

And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Aaron Gilchrist in Washington. As president-elect, Donald Trump's

second administration begins to take shape and with President Biden now planning to host Mr. Trump

at the White House this week. Late last night, the president-elect announcing Tom Homan,

his former acting director of ICE, as his new borders are. Homan was an early proponent of the

first Trump administration's controversial family separation policy.

Now, Holman has said the new mass deportation plan would be, quote, well targeted.

Here he is this morning on Fox News.

President Trump is going to secure this border.

He's going to save American lives.

He's going to, by securing the border, we're going to drop illegal alien crime, which is skyrocketing. Unless people are going to save American lives. He's going to be scared of border.

We're going to drop illegal ailing crime, which is skyrocketing.

Less people are going to die from fat now.

Less children are going to be sex trafficked.

Less women will be sex or soldered on the southern border.

The criminal cartels we put out of business by this president.

Now, in addition to installing Homan, Trump is also expected to bring another loyalist and immigration hardliner into his inner circle, Stephen Miller.

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