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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.”

Donald Trump's appointee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, reportedly failed to impress key Republican Senators who would oversee her confirmation hearing. Now it's being revealed she may have previously bungled a key moment in the effort to recover American hostage Austin Tice.

The Economist's Steve Coll told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that while Gabbard and others were on a trip to Syria in 2017 a member of her team "was led by the Syrian regime to meet an American prisoner who that colleague of Miss Gabbard later identified as Austin Tice, the missing American journalist who was abducted near Damascus in 2012."

MAGA TV host Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, flew into a rage over Republicans who are standing in the way of President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

In a Thursday meltdown on Real America's Voice, Glenn argued that MAGA's "biggest obstacle to get things done at this point is not the Democrats."

President Joe Biden warned in his farewell address that "an oligarchy is taking shape" in the U.S., and CNN's Bakari Sellers presented chilling evidence that he's right.

House speaker Mike Johnson pushed out Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as chairman of the intelligence committee, and Sellers said that move proved the authority Trump wields over congressional Republicans and also showed the influence his billionaire backers hold over the president-elect.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) raised the prospect that Donald Trump's nominee to head up the FBI can easily go rogue on his putative boss if he chooses to persecute the president-elect's enemies.

Speaking with the co-hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Blumenthal was asked about his questioning of attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and he was quick to say he had no faith in her ability to resist any demands Trump would make of her.

Adding to that, he noted that, if Bondi and Kash Patel are both confirmed, she would be his boss but she would also be limited in her ability to rein him in.

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"We should also just note that Pam Bondi yesterday said she wasn't aware of any Kash Patel enemies list," co-host Jonathan Lemire prompted his guest. "Again, he wrote it down, it's actually in his book there in the black and white. So let's let's spin this forward a little bit then: from what you heard from attorney general candidate Bondi, do you have confidence on two things? Do you have confidence that first, she will be able to rein in Kash Patel? And secondly, the question you just posed, would she say no to Donald Trump?"

"I have no confidence whatsoever that she will be able to restrict Kash Patel," Blumenthal shot back. "The position of director is supposed to be independent; she has limited kinds of resources to rein him in, and he can start investigations without even informing her office about beginning them."

"And second, on her independence. I think that's the key question that you've raised, and I have no confidence that she will refuse to put Donald Trump ahead of the American people. She has to be the people's lawyer, she has to tell truth to power," he added.

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According to NBC national security analyst David Rohde Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi is on a smooth path to being confirmed by the Senate but after that is when her real problems will begin.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rohde was asked by co-host Willie Geist how things are going for the president-elect's nominees after hearings started this week and he replied that Bondi and secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth both demonstrated how their strings are being pulled by Trump.

"I think she has the votes here in the end but you're seeing the beginning of the sort of mission impossible I think Pam Bondi faces," he told Geist. "And Hegseth, you saw this also. They have to say what Donald Trump wants to hear, they can't say that Joe Biden won the election."

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"You know at the same time, she's trying to say she's not going to abuse her powers," he continued. "And so Trump is expecting investigations and prosecutions, and she's going to have a hard time building cases that actually show that."

"And then this enemies list issue was stunning," he elaborated. "Kash Patel is the nominee to be the FBI's director; he wrote a nearly 300-page book filled with allegations that there are all these deep state bureaucrats committing crimes and then there is an appendix that we've talked about with the names of 60 people that's titled 'members of the deep state in the executive branch.' So that is a de facto enemies list."

"And these are all the issues she's going to face," he added before pointing out Trump's previous appointees as attorney general ended up butting heads with him when he made demands and then stating, "So this is going to be a very difficult path ahead for Pam Bondi."

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One of the former Donald Trump officials who got slammed in a social media post by the president-elect responded to the criticism.

Trump hailed more than 1,000 new hires for federal positions in his impending administration Wednesday night on Truth Social but offered notification that he would not consider candidates who had associations to noteworthy critics, such as former high-ranking officials Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and John Bolton, whom he called "dumb as a rock."

As a U.S. Senate committee held a confirmation hearing for Russell Vought—Republican President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the White House Office of Management and Budget—progressive critics underscored what they called the extremism of the controversial nominee, who played a key role in crafting a proposed initiative to expand executive power and purge the federal civil service.

Vought—who was questioned Wednesday by members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee—served as both acting director and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during Trump's first term. He currently leads the think tank Center for Renewing America, whose motto is "For God. For Country. For Community."

Pam Bondi’s refusal on Wednesday to admit under oath that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election is a double-edged sword that could signal future trouble for the former Florida attorney general, according to CNN’s Elie Honig.

“What Pam Bondi said today is a little bit different than what she showed us,” Honig, a senior legal analyst for the network, said during an interview on “The Source.”

Pro-Trump billionaire Marc Andreessen sat for an interview with the right-wing Hoover Institution's "Uncommon Knowledge," and explained how he drifted away from the Democratic Party into the MAGA camp over the last few years — even though, in reality, he backed the GOP in presidential campaigns as far back as 2012.

"So the way I describe it is, look, I came up in the 90s, you know ... it was just sort of assumed that if you were in Silicon Valley and high tech in the 90s, it was just assumed, Clinton-Gore heyday. It was just assumed, what I now call 'The Deal,' with a capital D, and no one ever said it out loud, but it was just assumed," said Andreessen.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) has reportedly been ousted from his post as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, leaving a top Democrat on the panel concerned over who will be tapped to replace him.

Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace as the reports were announced, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) confirmed he had heard similar reports before his interview.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and legal experts on her show Wednesday flagged Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, for saying one thing to Fox News and another under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Wallace played video clips of Bondi telling Fox News that she and Trump would not leave Pennsylvania in 2020 until they changed the state's vote to Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump has been pressuring the Supreme Court to strike down a law passed last year that will force video social media site TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off the platform or face an effective ban. With the Supreme Court appearing unwilling to do so at oral argument this month, Trump is now vowing to sign an executive order canceling that law.

But he doesn't have that power, tech reporter Kara Swisher told CNN on Wednesday afternoon.