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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump’s clown car cabinet takes shape

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of the ReidOut with Trump’s unconventional new additions to his incoming presidential cabinet, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Pete Hegseth for defense secretary. Joy and her guests discuss what these appointments may tell us about what to expect from the next Trump administration. Plus, “Governors Safeguarding Democracy,” the new coalition of governors joining together to create a unified resistance to Trump extremism. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, co-chair of the new group, joins Joy to delve into their plans to keep their states and residents safe. Also in this episode, Mehdi Hasan joins to discuss Mike Huckabee as future U.S. ambassador to Israel, a man who has a history of extremist and dangerous rhetoric towards Palestinians. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

Again, I really saw this as a deeply troubling challenge for my family on March 16th when people were, you know, talking about a minor and that there were pictures of me with child prostitutes.

0:20.0

That's obviously false.

0:21.7

There will be no such pictures because no such thing happened.

0:25.4

Matt Gates, a few years ago,

0:27.9

trying to explain the sex trafficking allegations that he denies,

0:31.7

but the House Ethics Committee is still investigating.

0:35.5

Naturally, he is now Donald Trump's choice to be our Attorney General.

0:42.3

Meanwhile, adulterer and hand-washing denier Pete Hegseff is set to make the leap from the Fox comfy couch to leading the Pentagon because Trump likes him on TV.

0:55.0

Also tonight safeguarding democracy.

0:58.0

Democratic governors are joining together to offer a unified resistance to Trump 2.0.

1:04.0

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will join me.

1:10.0

But we begin tonight with the letter K for cacistocracy.

1:13.6

Now, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that word.

1:16.6

It's defined as government by the worst people, which is exactly what Donald Trump is looking

1:24.6

for as he begins to fill out his second administration.

1:28.4

And each appointment gets crazier and more dangerous than the last.

1:33.9

Trump is choosing a long list of his most ardent TV defenders to serve in his administration.

1:40.1

We already told you about Trump's choice of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and Fox and Friends weekend host, Pete Higsep, for Defense Secretary. More on him shortly.

1:51.8

Today, we learned that former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a former defender of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been picked to be director of national intelligence.

2:03.9

This is the same woman Russia, state TV, called Our Friend, back in 2022.

2:11.5

But perhaps the most, let's just say revealing and potentially the most dangerous appointment

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