Donald Trump has been named Times Person of the Year because no person on earth has taken up more of our goddamn time.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Monday, December 16th. We have a lot to get to this morning, including what's being called the ongoing

pressure campaign from the president-elects team and his allies to get controversial

cabinet picks confirmed. Meanwhile, defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth appears to have swayed

some senators. But Trump's selection to lead America's intelligence agencies

seems to be having a more difficult time winning over lawmakers. We'll dig into all of this.

Also ahead, we'll go through the diplomatic developments out of the Middle East as U.S.

officials are now in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that ousted Bashar al-Assad.

And we'll bring you the latest reporting on these drone sightings that are spreading across

several states, as well as the criticism to the federal government's response.

What is really going on here?

I mean, come on.

Jonathan O'Meer, you're going to tell us what's at the bottom of this on here? I mean, come on. Jonathan Lemire, you're going to tell us

what's at the bottom of this because, I mean, I don't know. There seems to be a lot of panic out there.

You have elected leaders going, look at all of the drones, look at all of the drones.

So they're like pointing up at Orion. Yeah.

I mean, so it's interesting.

Yeah, former Governor Hogan of Maryland is, you know, this weekend identified what he thought were drones and those who saw his pictures on social media.

Quickly noted now, there was just a constellation.

That's O'God.

That's O'Brien.

But at least there is this crazy back and forth.

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