Donald Trump names a vaccine denier to head the Health and Human Services Department.

For our Attorney General, he picks a person who most likely wouldn't be able to pass an FBI background check.

And he has nominated as Director of National Intelligence an Apologist for Vladimir Putin.

It's been quite a week at Mar-a-Lago, and there could be more in store for us this weekend.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening, and welcome to Washington Week.

Donald Trump hasn't filled his cabinet yet, but all evidence to date suggests that he's

looking for two main

qualities in his picks, loyalty to him, and the loathing for what he calls the deep state.

The deep state, of course, would refer to itself as that large group of professionals and subject

experts who manage the government of the United States on a day-to-day basis.

I'm going to talk about Trump's

choices tonight with Elizabeth Bue Miller, the assistant managing editor and Washington

Bureau Chief at the New York Times. Leanne Caldwell is the anchor of Washington Post Live

and a co-author of The Post's early brief. Francesca Chambers is a White House correspondent for USA

Today, and Mark Leibovic is my colleague and a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Okay, so this has been really quite a week.

Elizabeth, let me start with you.

If you could just frame this out for us, these nominations,

especially Matt Gates, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.

What is this telling you about both Trump's mindset and the direction, the policy direction of the incoming administration? Well, the policy direction is confused and chaotic.

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