This week's Nightcap crew weighs in on Trump's latest cabinet picks and gives their MVPs of the week

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Our Nightcap breaks down Trump's pick for Treasury secretary and Matt Gaetz's move to withdraw his bid for AG. Plus, who's the real Vice President: JD Vance - or Elon Musk? And it wouldn't be a Nightcap without our MVPs of the week. Tara Palmeri, Steve Liesman, Don Lemon, and Donny Deutsch join Stephanie Ruhle for this week's 11th Hour Nightcap.

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0:00.0	Matt Gates, eight days, Andrea, after being nominated is dropping out.
0:06.7	Trump choosing former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to be his attorney general.
0:11.0	Bondi was Florida's top law enforcement official for eight years.
0:14.8	She was part of Trump's first impeachment defense team.
0:17.7	She also promoted Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.
0:21.6	She's a very different candidate because she hasn't been accused, incredibly accused, of having sex with minors.
0:28.6	Matt Gates was categorically unqualified.
0:31.6	What is next for Matt Gates?
0:34.6	I'm still going to be in the fight, but it's going to be from a new perch.
0:38.6	I do not intend to join the 119th Congress.
0:41.5	Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Defense.
0:45.6	Pete Higgs says he was on the kill today.
0:47.7	It's under new scrutiny tonight after a police report reveals the details of a sexual assault allegation.
0:57.3	The matter was fully investigated and that was completely clear. That's what we have a sexual assault problem in the military already.
1:02.3	The military doesn't want to promote people like that.
1:05.0	This is a preposterous pick on every level.
1:09.0	Elon Musk and Vivek Ramoswamy have promised to drastically
1:12.6	shrink the federal government.
1:13.6	The bringing the spirit up's like a 25-year-old, fresh on the hill,
1:17.6	legislative assistant who's just thinking about these things for the very first time.
1:21.6	If all you're going to do is come in with a reckon ball and just blow things apart,
1:26.6	then what you're going to get is rubble.
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