Velshi starts now.

Hey, good morning to you. It's Saturday, November the 16th, 65 days until Donald Trump's second inauguration, and this time he's going to enter the White House with fewer checks on his power than ever before.

When Trump is sworn into office on

January 20th, his party will also hold narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, and the

highest court in the land is now stacked with a conservative supermajority that he built in his first

term, one that has already handed Trump major historic victories, including perhaps most

importantly for his new Trump administration,

a vast expansion of the powers of the executive branch by ruling that presidents enjoy near

absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that are deemed to have been taken

within their core constitutional powers. As much we can learn about what to expect from this new

Trump term as the transition moves forward and the outlines of a new administration begin to take

shape. Trump and his team have already announced more than two dozen people. They expect to join

his incoming administration, a list that includes a number of controversial cabinet picks,

all of whom would traditionally

be subject to a confirmation process in the Senate, which could be the first true test

of Trump's power and influence over the incoming Republican Congress.

So far, Trump has tapped this man, Matt Gates, for Attorney General, despite the fact

that the ex-congresman was recently the subject of a federal

criminal investigation led by the Department of Justice. That investigation did not lead to any

charges, and Gates has denied wrongdoing, but his inexperience and his past scandals remain an

obstacle to his confirmation. Trump's picks for Secretary of Defense.

Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegesith is also facing opposition given his lack of

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