Trump's Cabinet Considerations: Rubio, Waltz, Noem and Zeldin?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Snakes, zombies, public speaking, the list of fears is endless. |
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| 0:17.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.8 | Donald Trump zeroes in on new picks for who will be joining his cabinet, including as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. |
| 0:32.2 | While some news outlets, but not others, are now calling the House for the GOP as the nation waits and waits and waits |
| 0:39.4 | for ballots to be counted particularly in California. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:46.3 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Manet Uquay-Bruwa and columnist |
| 0:52.6 | Kim Strassel. |
| 0:56.3 | Donald Trump is announcing some of these cabinet picks on truth social. Others are leaking out via the news media. Here is the story from the Wall Street |
| 1:03.6 | Journal. Donald Trump is expected to nominate Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as Secretary of State |
| 1:10.0 | and has asked Congressman Mike Waltz, a green |
| 1:13.2 | beret veteran to be his White House National Security Advisor, according to people familiar with his |
| 1:19.3 | thinking, though the story then cautions that Trump could still change his mind on Marco Rubio. |
| 1:25.5 | Monet, what do you make of this? |
| 1:26.7 | Secretary of State job is certainly a big one, |
| 1:30.3 | Marco Rubio, a one-time rival of Donald Trump's, given the nickname Little Marco, but has taken a bit |
| 1:37.7 | of a populist turn in recent years. I've been skeptical of some of those moves by Rubio, but this, |
| 1:43.8 | to my mind, might be the best |
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