Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Wednesday, December 4th. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the concerns from Republican senators about the growing allegations against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick to serve as defense secretary. We'll have that as well as new reporting on who Trump may be considering as a replacement.

Should he abandon the choice of Hegsef?

Plus, nearly a month after the election, we finally have a clear look at the bounds of power in the House.

We're going to dig into the razor-thin majority for Republicans during the

first 100 days of Trump's new term. Also ahead, a live report from South Korea where protesters are

out in the streets following the president's shocking and short-lived martial law declaration

there yesterday.

Along with Joe, Willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, Jonathan Lemire,

former Supreme Allied commander of NATO, retired four-star Navy Admiral James Tebrides.

He's chief international analyst for NBC News.

President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas. He's author of the

weekly newsletter, Home and Away, available on Substack and U.S. special correspondent for BBC News.

Caddy Kay is with us. Good to have you all on board. You know, Willie, this is just one of those

mornings where so much news is flooding the zone.

There are people that went to sleep last night and woke up this morning finding out,

first of all, that Donald Trump is talking to Governor Ron DeSantis to replace Pete Heggseth.

I heard yesterday afternoon that he was already talking to people and he was moving in that direction

even before Lindsey Graham broke against exit saying it was deeply troubling. We also, of course,

had the last House race called by the Associated Press, which means that when Donald Trump

becomes president, he's going to have a one vote majority. Republicans are in the House of

Representatives. So I keep talking about a unity government. I say that because they're not going to get

much done at all unless they figure out how to get Democrats and Republicans working together there.

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