We begin with this breaking news.

Like today, President-elect Donald Trump naming hardline MAGA conservative Matt Gates as his

pick for Attorney General. The nomination comes, as Donald Trump is already facing scrutiny

for really this series of unusual picks for top posts from Pentagon to the intelligence community,

what I was just discussing with our colleague Nicole Wallace and what has been reverberating across Washington and anyone who's still following the news

since the election over the last, say, 48 hours. Now, many, many people view Matt Gates as the

most extreme in this group. It depends, of course, how you count it and what evidence you use,

but Matt Gates is a self-avowed and admitted partisan

warrior. That's the opposite of the nonpartisan credential sought for the nation's top law

enforcement officer. Gates moved to the right of his own Republican leadership in the House,

famously. He helped dethrone a speaker who had been meeting with Donald Trump and arguing

that he was Trump enough.

Gates faced his own federal investigation for his own conduct, although he was not charged in that.

But even in the polarized MAGA era, Matt Gates has been decried by his fellow Republicans,

as well as Democrats and other observers alike, for putting the flame-throwing vicious partisan antics that he is known for above any semblance or even gesture towards cooperation or caring about Congress's duties

and the national interest.

I've made it a living hell for the swamp rats, and many of them are retiring now.

If the Republicans are in the majority and I have subpoena power, I will personally investigate BLM like I'm a Soros-funded prosecutor going after the Trump organization.

We're ashamed of nothing.

Seize the day.

We're proud of the work that we did on January 6th to make legitimate arguments about election integrity.

We are going to go after this administrative state, and we're going to start at the Department of Justice and the FBI.

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