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President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency drew attention at his confirmation hearing this week by acknowledging climate change is real, despite Trump's repeated assertions to the contrary. But in another standout moment, he badly flubbed what was supposed to be a softball question on whether a key greenhouse gas was legally a pollutant, The Daily Beast reported.

“First, as a matter of law, is carbon dioxide a pollutant?” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).

The ouster of Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as chair of the House Intelligence Committee is an early indication that allegiance to President-elect Donald Trump will come above all else in the Republican-controlled Congress, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) warned Thursday.

“It sends a message to the House and to the Senate that Trump is going to put personal loyalty to him ahead of the national interest and the United States’ security interests,” Blumenthal said of Turner’s removal from the powerful House committee, which has been attributed to pressure from Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump's latest "enemies list" was conspicuous for the names that he forgot to include, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon.

'Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, told senators on Wednesday that there will be no enemies list," said Tapper. "But then Trump posted on social media just a few hours later, naming 11 people who I guess he feels have wronged him, that if you worked for them, you can't work in his administration, including a number of people who worked for him in the last administration, including Mark Milley and James Mattis and Mark Esper."

A media analyst told MSNBC on Thursday afternoon that right-wing populist Steve Bannon — who has dedicated his life to fighting the establishment — is poised to "lose" his long-fought war — but not from powers on the left.

Media Matters president Angelo Carusone told host Nicolle Wallace that the MAGA "populist movement" was never about populism, but rather about the right co-opting the populism of the right to achieve power.

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) is undeterred by the fact that President Joe Biden pardoned his son to try to prevent President-elect Donald Trump's Justice Department from further digging into his life — and has some ideas about how to get around it.

Speaking on Thursday's right-wing Benny Johnson Show, Comer said House and Justice Department investigators could simply start with a fishing expedition into financial documents that predate the pardon term.

Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore (R) held what he said was an "urgent" fundraiser after being arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing law enforcement.

Moore was detained Thursday while trying to attend the annual State of the State Address at the Georgia Capitol. House Speaker Jon Burns (R) previously banned Moore from attending for "vile, disparaging and false comments" about the late House Speaker David Ralston.

Billionaire businessman Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Treasury Department, argued that the federal minimum wage should remain at $7.25 an hour.

During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) asked Bessent about raising the federal minimum wage.

Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore, who in the past has led the charge against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, was shoved to the ground and then arrested on Thursday for defying an order that barred him from entering the Georgia House chamber.

As Local 3 News reports, Moore had been barred from the chamber for making "comments about a deceased former colleague" that offended his fellow Republicans.

Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) admitted climate change was "real" at a confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

During his first term, President-elect Trump made deregulation at the EPA a top agenda item and was expected to double down during his second term.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani posted a video of his dog Vinny at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday when he was two hours late to trial in Manhattan.

Giuliani was expected to show up for a civil trial to determine if he could retain ownership of his Florida condo and personalized World Series rings. The former mayor was recently found in contempt after a judge ruled that he defamed two former election workers and awarded them $148 million in damages.

Just days before he is set to raise his right hand and place his left on a Bible to swear an oath to the Constitution, President-elect Donald Trump faces low public confidence in his ability to fulfill one of his top campaign promises: lowering the price of groceries. According to a new Associated Press poll, most Americans, many of whom cast their ballot on that pledge, do not believe he will bring them relief.

“From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down and make America affordable again,” Trump told supporters on the campaign trail in North Carolina, the Washington Post reported. “Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down fast.”