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During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Steele claimed he expected Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees will likely sail through their confirmation hearings despite GOP lawmakers' misgivings, but added one nominee would probably be thrown to the wolves.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" regular Katty Kay, Steele, now a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend," also scoffed at lawmakers who have said they have yet to make up their minds.

Kay asked him, "When some of these more controversial Republicans, more controversial candidates are being put forward, do you think when we get into the nomination process we're going to see Republican senators push back a little harder against Donald Trump than we're seeing them push back now?"

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"No," he laughed. "No, we won't. I mean, look, there's going ––."

"Do you think he's going to get everybody through?" Kay interrupted.

"He'll get –– there may be one sacrificial lamb out of the trifecta that everyone is talking about," he replied.

'Who do you think it's going to be?" Kay persisted.

"I don't know," he answered before proposing, "Probably [former House member] Tulsi Gabbard because that's something that strikes a little bit closer to Republicans on the national security, national defense side. The DOD and [Ex-Fox News personality] Hegseth, you've heard some warming as you guys talked about in the last hour to him."

"Certainly Bobby Kennedy, that's more about, you know, for Trump, you know, his tie now to the Kennedy legacy more than anything else," he added. "So that probably won't get touched, even though I wouldn't let him within a ten-foot pole of a child with an illness, but, you know, here we are."

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Donald Trump was on the receiving end of ridicule on MSNBC on Friday morning for appearing to walk back his campaign promise to lower the price of groceries.

After watching a super-clip of Trump complaining about food prices when he was on the campaign trail, and then saying in a new interview with Time magazine that there is likely little he can do about them, the panel on "Morning Joe" began joking about whether the president-elect has ever stepped foot in a grocery store.

In his interview with Time as part of his "Person of the Year" profile, Trump begged off on assuring voters he could make a difference, telling his. interviewers, "Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard."

CNN panelists clashed on Thursday night during a heated discussion about President-elect Donald Trump's waffling over his confidence in his ability to lower grocery prices.

In a recent Time magazine interview, Trump acknowledged that bringing down grocery prices will be "very hard" despite vowing during his campaign to do just that.

"The Garden State" found itself on the receiving end Thursday night of an unlikely potshot at the hands of famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Tyson took a swipe at New Jersey during an appearance on "The Source," when asked his thoughts on an ongoing mystery: mysterious drone sightings that have been recorded for days over the state.

MSNBC's Thursday afternoon political panel broke out laughing after The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes lodged a unique jab at one of Donald Trump's potential Cabinet picks.

The segment came following a video of Pete Hegseth denigrating LGBTQ service members in the military and questioning their ability to do their jobs. Trump's secretary of defense pick said various military branches want women in their forces to put them on a recruitment poster.

Jason Miller, a senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump's transition, argued that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had a "vested interest" in donating $1 million to the incoming president's inauguration fund.

Miller made the claim in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday after Zuckerberg's donation was announced.

In an interview on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Time magazine editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs reported that Donald Trump struggled to answer a question about the future of the MAGA movement during his "Person of the Year" interview.

Jacobs, who participated in the 65-minute interview which occurred at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago resort, told Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough that Trump seemed quieter during the sit-down and observed that the president-elect, "seems happiest on a campaign stage in a campaign and he's starting to think through what it means for this to be his last campaign."

"We found him to be much more subdued, lower volume, reflective would be an overstatement, but doing a level of introspection we hadn't seen before," he told the hosts. "Trump is most comfortable in a fight, and what we saw was someone who felt like he won the fight and is searching to figure out what his positioning is."

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With Scarborough noting that the New York Times' Maggie Haberman has famously pointed out, "If you want to understand Donald Trump you have to understand that his entire life he's been fighting to survive the next five minutes," Jacobs agreed and recalled, "He's now thinking which of my kids is going to have a role –– family members. We asked him, what's the future of MAGA without Trump. He has trouble answering that question."

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CNN's Pamela Brown called out House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) for Elon Musk's plan to use his political influence to hobble a business rival.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have vowed to cut $2 trillion in federal spending, and Comer provided a glimpse at the cuts the pair would recommend from their perch from the Donald Trump-backed advisory group, the "Department of Government Efficiency."

As a candidate, Donald Trump campaigned—and won—this year on the promise he would lower prices for Americans angry after the COVID pandemic's inflation brought steep price increases, but now he's backtracking, saying he's not sure he will actually be able to fulfill those vows. Outrage at Trump, and the people who voted for him based on that pledge, was palpable on Thursday.

As recently as Sunday, MSNBC reports, Trump insisted, “We’re going to bring those prices way down.”

During an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) seemed unbothered by threats from Donald Trump to have his Department of Justice come after him because he took part in making the case for the president-elect's first impeachment.

With Trump forcefully telling NBC's Kristen Welker last Sunday that he feels he was wronged by Democrats while he was out of office, citing California Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire pointed out that Goldman would also be a likely target if Trump gets his way.

"So, congressman, quick follow-up," Lemire prompted his guest. "You speak of political enemies of Donald Trump. You served as lead counsel in the first impeachment trial of Trump when he was in office the last time. Would you be considered a political enemy? Are you fearful that you could be targeted or prosecuted?"

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake said she would promote President-elect Donald Trump's next administration as a "golden era" after he picked her as the next director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the U.S. government.

"Can you imagine if what's about to happen, the incredible resurgence in this new golden era is covered in the same way with the fake news that we're seeing on a national scale over on Voice of America?" Lake told right-wing host Steve Bannon on Thursday. "What a shame that would be. And we're going to make sure that doesn't happen."

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sounded happy to be rid of his Democratic nemesis, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), on the House Oversight Committee.

Raskin is seeking to become the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, which clears the way for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) or another candidate to replace him as the top Democrat on the oversight panel that Comer chairs.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned that everyone in the United States was "in danger" after unidentified drones were spotted flying over New Jersey.

In an angry rant on Thursday, Greene demanded the resignation of Pentagon officials for not revealing the source of drones that were recently seen in the Garden State.