One of the largest groups of President Trump's nominees was confirmed in the U.S. Senate today.

48 individuals who will hold significant jobs in the military, national security, and overseas.

That is possible only because Republicans changed the rules of the Senate last week.

Some on Capitol Hill call it going nuclear to get more nominees through

more quickly. Our congressional correspondent, Lisa Desjardin, is here to explain what this all means.

Lisa, as you have taught us, the Senate lives and dies by process. So what exactly changed here

and what does this mean for the Trump administration?

What Senate Republicans did is they changed the rules so that they could pass nominees in large groups.

Until now, they needed the approval of everyone in the chamber to be able to do that.

Now, that may not sound like a big deal, but it is a very big deal when you have 1,300 positions

that need to be filled by the Trump administration.

And Senate Democrats have done something unique this time around.

They have slow rolled every single one of those nominations.

So it has really bogged down the Senate.

President Trump has made threats about other ways he would try to get his nominations through.

Senator Athune, the lead Republican, didn't want to go that way.

So they decided to change the rules here, which also has its sort of partisan risks with it.

Now, this has led to them passing that through last night, and I want to talk about exactly

who these first,

or sorry, today they passed the nominations. Who was in that group of 48? Let's take a look at what kind of positions we're talking about. There you see Kimberly Gilfoyle and Newt,

Kingrich's wife, Calista, they are ambassadors. They have been approved today. They were waiting

for several weeks for that approval. You see a couple of positions for national security,

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