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Pro-MAGA TV host David Brody confronted Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) about providing "full transparency" after he claimed that releasing an ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the nominee for attorney general, would be "unethical."

During a Wednesday interview with Clyde, Brody noted that President-elect Donald Trump's nominations were "turning into The Apprentice."

CNN's Kate Bolduan dismissively brushed off Donald Trump's surrogate's filibuster on the economy.

Major retailers like Walmart and Lowe's have already warned that consumer prices would increase if the president-elect follows through on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, but Trump ally Madison Gesiotto insisted that most economists were wrong about their potentially "catastrophic" impact.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) repeated his attack on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as a "charlatan" while pouring cold water on the Florida Republican's chances of becoming Donald Trump's next attorney general.

Speaking with co-host Willie Geist, Lawler was asked, "Do you think he [Gaetz] has the qualifications and the character to be the attorney general of the United States?"

"Willie, how about those Georgia Bulldogs?" the smiling Lawler deflected.

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"I'm a Vandy guy, I can't help you there," Geist parried. "What about Matt Gaetz?"

"I've been clear about my thoughts on Matt Gaetz. I stand by everything I said about him," he replied. "Fundamentally, obviously, the president has the right to nominate who he sees fit to serve in his cabinet, but that's why we have a Senate confirmation process. And Matt is going to have to answer a lot of questions about the allegations that have been leveled against him, including obviously the allegations he had sex with underage women, and paid for it."

Adding, "I think it is certainly fair game and needs to be addressed by him directly through any Senate confirmation process," he later stated, "I think Matt is going to have a challenge when he has to actually address the allegations that have been leveled against him."

Pressed by the host, "Do you believe he's qualified and has the character to be attorney general?" he bluntly stated "No."

"I think obviously I think we have seen within the Department of Justice a weaponization. I do believe that the American people sent a very clear message on election day that they want government to work, and so you need somebody of the highest ethical standard there," he elaborated. "And that's why the Senate will go through the process it will go through, and ultimately I'm sure there will be a nominee confirmed that will do the job and do it well and clean up the mess at the Department of Justice."

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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) raised serious questions about the nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general and revealed some of the Florida Republican's troubling private behavior.

Republican senators have indicated they're not willing to confirm Donald Trump's nominee, who resigned from the House shortly after his nomination and a day ahead of the likely release of an Ethics Committee report on sex trafficking allegations against him, and Cohen told CNN that the former lawmaker's private comments were consistent with accusations against him.

Should ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-D FL) make it through a Senate hearing and then a vote of the Senate floor to be the next attorney general, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) could be putting her political future on the line.

That is the opinion of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who pointed out that the Maine Republican has survived controversial votes before –– notably putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual assault — but Gaetz, facing even worse accusations, would be a bridge too far for voters if she gives him a pass too.

Matt Gaetz has a knack for making enemies, according to a Republican strategist, and while that trait helped him rake in campaign donations, it'll likely cause him problems in his fight to be confirmed as attorney general.

Donald Trump tapped the Florida Republican to lead the Justice Department that had investigated sex trafficking allegations against him, and while that case was dropped last year, the House Ethics Committee conducted its own probe and was set to issue a report on its findings until Gaetz resigned immediately after his nomination.

According to MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Donald Trump is getting increasing warnings from GOP lawmakers who hold the keys to approving his cabinet choices that four nominees may have an uphill battle.

During the discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough offered, "The four most horrifying selections thus far and they actually rank them in order, and I think depending on where you are, you know, you can move that list around, but I would tell you, for a lot of Republicans that are in the Senate and the House and who care about American national security, if you ask them, they will say it is Department of Defense."

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"If you talk to people, again, really conservative Republicans in the House, really conservative republicans in the Senate, they will say it is [DNI nominee] Tulsi Gabbard –– they're horrified by Tulsi Gabbard," he added. "If you talk to a lot of other people, they will say it is Matt Gaetz and John Heilemann has great reporting on that in a second about talking to Republicans on the Hill yesterday. So, it really is -- there are four picks right now that -- and, of course, RFK Jr., the New York Post keeps pounding RFK every day saying how nutty that selection is."

That led co-host Lemire to comment, "To Matt Gaetz, I was talking to a number of Republicans on the Hill yesterday, senators and aides, and there is real doubt that Gaetz can get through –– growing momentum here that this is one pick they will say 'no' to. I'm told some of the senators are telling Trump, 'Look, don't make us vote on this one, because we're going to have to vote against you, don't make us stand up against you, because this one is simply not palatable, we can't do it.'"

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Donald Trump’s next White House press secretary praised the incoming president as being a great advocate for a free and fair press — just before trashing the media as “hostile and fake.”

The curious juxtaposition came Tuesday during Karoline Leavitt’s first interview since being named as Trump's next White House press secretary – the youngest person to hold the role. In her Fox News appearance, Leavitt said her boss — who repeatedly used the phrase "enemy from within" to describe media outlets that he viewed as unfavorable to him — praised his media-handling skills and his accessibility to the press.

A fierce ally of Donald Trump — who was recently named his deputy chief of staff for policy — told a Fox News host on Tuesday night that the president-elect will use all "lawful" means to push through any Cabinet nominees who face a difficult confirmation.

Stephen Miller told Sean Hannity that Americans can expect Trump's mass deportation plan to be initiated at "light speed."

Donald Trump's new "border czar" Tom Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who vowed at the Republican National Convention to deport "millions" of people scoffed at the idea he would deport U.S. citizens along with immigrants during a Fox News interview Tuesday night with host Jesse Watters, dismissing it as panicked leftist fearmongering.

One problem: He has suggested in recent months he would do just that.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) used some colorful language during a House committee meeting Tuesday to indicate his excitement for tech billionaire Elon Musk's new advisory role in Donald Trump's White House.

"I can't wait for 'DOGE,' the Department of Government Efficiency, to get in under the next administration and start making this government work more efficiently," said Burlison. "Because this town does need a purge. This town needs an enema. And honestly, I can't wait."

The Bulwark's editor-in-chief continued to express his disgust Tuesday with Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees who have allegations revolving around sex scandals in their past.

Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth reportedly reached a financial settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual assault during a Republican women's conference in 2017. He has denied the allegations and maintained the encounter was consensual.