The nominations came fast and with some fury last night and today from the President-elect.

Three picks to lead the bulk of the expansive American security and diplomatic apparatus.

A senator, a soldier-turned television host, and a former member of Congress have been chosen by Donald Trump to lead, respectively,

the State Department, the Defense

Department, and the Directorate of National Intelligence.

For a look at who they are and what they may do if they're confirmed, we turn now to

Nick Schiffran.

It is the largest bureaucracy in the country and And the most expensive military in the world.

And President-elect Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth says the department's policies are all wrong.

Well, first of all, you got to fire, you know, you got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and you got to fire this.

I mean, obviously going to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any general that was involved, General Admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the

DEI, whoa, it's got to go.

I'm thinking about my mentors and how rarely I had a mentor that looked like me.

In 2020, before he became joint chief chairman, General CQ Brown, acknowledged the racism he suffered.

That year, the department redesigned

military education to teach implicit bias, and under the Biden administration, diversity

programs have expanded. There's a reason we're not people don't want to serve, because they

don't trust that their senior leaders are going to have their best interest in mind in combat.

That trust is broken, and you have to reestablish that trust by... that their senior leaders are going to have their best interest in mind in combat.

That trust is broken, and you have to reestablish that trust by putting in no-nonsense war

fighters in those positions who aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage.

Hegg Seth also opposes an Obama-era decision to allow women to serve in combat.

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