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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Will Trump's Cabinet Picks Be Confirmed? | A Conversation with Chris Cillizza

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Trump's administration is being filled out with conspiracy theorists and whack jobs but will any of them be confirmed by the Senate? Steve Schmidt sits down with Chris Cillizza to break down each pick and predict if they'll actually be confirmed. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

You're going to jump right in, Steve, because we were talking before we went live, and I said,

0:03.5

I feel like we have to talk about Matt Gates.

0:06.1

Like, we can't ignore the literal elephant in the room.

0:09.7

All right, so give me your, okay, let me ask it this way, and then you go take it the way you want.

0:18.0

Will Matt Gates serve a day as the attorney general in a Donald Trump administration?

0:25.6

No.

0:26.5

Okay.

0:28.1

Tell me why.

0:29.7

No, he's not going to get confirmed.

0:32.9

And I think that there's a couple of things going on right now.

0:37.5

So I look at the numbers, and I actually think this is going to be a big deal in the

0:43.7

weeks ahead.

0:44.6

Small moral victory, but Donald Trump will not wind up with majority support in the electorate.

0:52.5

It will be a plurality victory. He will drop down, I suspect,

0:57.0

looking at the numbers coming in under that 50% mark. And so this is, and still is, a closely

1:07.4

divided country. Yep. So I could go on for a long time about some of the deficiencies that led to the scene

1:19.6

that we saw today in the White House with Trump and Biden.

1:22.6

And we will get into that.

1:23.6

And that's Biden's legacy. There it is.

1:26.6

And a couple of hours later, we have Tulsi Gabbard, who's as equally unfit to be the director

1:33.5

of national intelligence, joining Pete Hed Seth, who's as equally unfit nominated as defense

1:41.7

secretary.

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