A good place with Pete, unless something I don't know about comes out.

These allegations are disturbing, but they're anonymous.

You're not going to destroy his nomination based on anonymous sources.

People have to come forward and make credible allegations, and we'll see if they do.

That's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, showing his continued support

for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. But Donald Trump's pick to lead America's

intelligence agencies seems to be having a more difficult time winning over lawmakers.

Meanwhile, outgoing minority leader Mitch McConnell sent a warning to another controversial

Trump cabinet selection, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ahead of the HHS nominees' visit

today to Capitol Hill.

We'll go through all of that straight ahead, and we'll bring you the latest on the apparent drone sightings that are spreading across several states,

as well as the criticism of the federal government's response.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Monday, December 16th.

I'm John Philomere. Thanks for starting your day and week with us.

We have a lot to get to this morning, and we'll begin with some of President-elect Donald's Trump's controversial cabinet picks trying to work to win over members of Congress. Republican

Senator Tom Tillis is warning that the pressure campaign from Trump and his allies could

backfire. Speaking on Fox News yesterday, Senator Tillis criticized those who are threatening to fund primary challenges

against GOP senators who've been critical of Trump's picks.

What's amazing to me is how people, we're not even in the new administration. And we're

at, we haven't even seen the background checks, which I know the administration is sending our way.

So there's a lot of information that needs to be gathered.

And these folks who are making primary challenges, running ads, they seem more like political opportunists than me than thoughtful members of the Republican Party.

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