Trump assembles his team

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, president-elect Donald Trump picks Matt Gaetz for attorney general, causing controversy on Capitol Hill. Plus, Trump's other cabinet picks so far, the race for Senate majority leader, and the fate of Trump's legal cases.

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0:00.0	We got to do this.
0:02.0	Make America great again.
0:06.0	How can you be against it?
0:08.0	We are not going back.
0:14.0	Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post.
0:19.0	I'm Libby Casey, and I'm joined by senior political
0:22.3	correspondent Rhonda Colvin and columnist and editorial writer James Homan. President-elect Donald Trump
0:28.5	is assembling his dream team, but it's already turning into a nightmare for some traditional
0:33.8	Republicans who will face a tough choice of bucking Trump or okaying some nominees
0:39.6	that they find alarming.
0:41.4	We'll talk about who Trump is naming, why it matters, and what we can learn from the mixed
0:46.0	reaction coming from his own party.
0:48.1	Rhonda will fill us in on the latest from Capitol Hill, where Republican senators
0:51.7	chose their new leader on Wednesday.
0:55.8	They had like an hour to celebrate before they were being chased through the halls of the Capitol dodging reporters'
1:00.9	questions about Matt Gates. We'll also look at those criminal cases that Donald Trump is
1:06.5	facing what will happen to them. No surprise, most of them will go away, but other defendants
1:11.9	may not be so lucky, so we'll talk about that. Let's dive in to the nominations that Donald
1:17.3	Trump is making and what's getting sort of the most buzz and alarm bells and froth and freak out, James?
1:25.7	Well, it sort of started pretty normal with Susie Wiles, his campaign manager being
1:31.6	chief of staff in the White House and Marco Rubio being Secretary of State.
1:35.6	And that turned out to be sort of a head fake because then in a 24-hour period, we got three
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