Team Trump: 'Great minds' think alike - but can they run a country?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As well as billionaire Elon Musk, controversial Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz and nephew of former president JFK, Robert Kennedy Jr, are among the picks. Matt Gaetz is a Florida congressman and the attorney general pick for Trump.
In February 2023, the Justice Department declined to bring charges of sex trafficking a 17-year-old against Gaetz, who has denied wrongdoing since the allegations first came to light.
And as health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr, or RFK Jr, is an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories, including the discredited theory that childhood immunisations cause autism.
Our host Niall Paterson is joined by US correspondent James Matthews and Julie Tsirkin, NBC News congressional correspondent in Capitol Hill, Washington, to hear more about president-elect Trump's selections and why they aren't the most popular options.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.8 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:03.9 | Neil Patterson here. |
| 1:05.1 | And look, as it is almost the weekend, |
| 1:07.0 | we thought we'd do something just a little bit more reflective, |
| 1:10.6 | particularly given events happening across the Atlantic. |
| 1:13.6 | Some of you will have noticed that, of course, Donald Trump has started assembling his team, his cabinet, filling those senior positions around him in the White House. |
| 1:22.0 | So we are going to be tapping up the experience of a couple of people who know much, much more than I do. |
| 1:27.0 | Joining us from Capitol Hill itself, Sky's US correspondent James Matthews. Hi, James. Hi, Neil. How are you doing? Very, very well. But we're also at welcoming to the podcast, Julie Sirken, NBC News, congressional correspondent. Julie, it's great to have you with us. It's so great to be here at the end of this crazy week. Crazy is the way to put it. |
| 1:46.0 | And look, clearly we were going to get into a couple of the bigger names that Trump has selected |
| 1:51.0 | in just a moment. But James, clearly Donald Trump is making a statement with the picks that he has made. |
| 1:58.7 | I'm just a bit confused as to what that statement actually is. |
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