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According to a Washington Post reporter, there are concerns among Donald Trump's transition team that they may be blindsided by more allegations levied against the former president's choice to be secretary of defense.

The day after Trump selected Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to oversee the Pentagon and the U.S. military command, it was revealed that Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in California in 2017 which had the president elect's inner circle scrambling at the same time they were dealing with the backlash to the choice of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as the next attorney general.

Pressed on Donald Trump's controversial decision to select scandal-plagued Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be his attorney general, CNN contributor Kara Swisher expressed her disgust for the motley assortment of "unctuous toadies" who are being tabbed by the president-elect to run the U.S. government.

Speaking on the panel on the Chris Wallace Show, the host asked for her take on Gaetz whose nomination is in jeopardy due to a reported damaging House Ethics Committee report related to alleged sex trafficking and drug use.

Radio host Michael Smerconish on Saturday suggested Donald Trump’s “progressively more controversial” Cabinet picks are “part of the plan,” insisting the president-elect “is inviting confrontation” and “almost daring the Senate” to oppose his appointments.

Trump last week announced a spate of controversial Cabinet picks, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's protestations that it would be unprecedented to release what is expected to be a damning House Ethics Committee report on now ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were demolished on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

During a panel discussion on "The Weekend" the Louisiana Republican's dismay that the report may be made public before Donald Trump's attorney general candidate faces a Senate confirmation hearing led him to state, “I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set.”

On Saturday morning, former RNC chair Michael Steele blew off a report that a majority of Senate Republicans are prepared to shoot down Donald Trump's nomination of scandal-plagued Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination to be Attorney General.

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-Rep Joe Walsh (R-IL) stated that he felt there would be a flood of leaks about the Florida Republican and ex-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has been tabbed to be Trump's Director of National Intelligence, that would "kneecap" their ability to even get a confirmation hearing before the Senate.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former Republican member of the House agreed with ex-RNC chair Michael Steele's assessment of Donald Trump's cabinet picks as a "menagerie of misfits" and raised a warning about what is to come.

With the entire panel reacting to the president-elect's choices –– running from scandal-plagued Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to unqualified Fox News personality Pete Hegseth –– host Steele took the lead with guest ex-Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL).

A Republican strategist’s defense of President-elect Donald Trump’s next rumored pick of MAGA enthusiast Kash Patel to join his administration left a Washington Post columnist flabbergasted as she refused to move on without airing her concerns.

“The Constitution still matters! I’m sorry I can't get past the locking up of all of the enemies, whether they're journalists or otherwise, that matters,” columnist Catherine Rampell said during an appearance on CNN’s “NewsNight” with host Abby Phillip. “I don't think the voters get a say on whether the First Amendment still exists.”

Comedian Bill Maher used his opening monologue Friday night to mock President-elect Donald Trump's most controversial Cabinet nominations, including one whom he joked was only chosen because the rapper Diddy "was not available."

Beginning his show, "Real Time" on Friday night, Maher led off by noting that women are now pledging to deny sex as a rebuke to the nation electing Donald Trump.

A former federal prosecutor said the most recent revelations coming out about former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) following his selection by President-election Donald Trump as attorney general is an indication of more complications to come.

The assessment by CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig came Friday after reports emerged that the House Ethics Committee heard testimony from a witness who claimed to have seen Gaetz engage in sexual misconduct with a minor. But whether or not the ethics committee’s investigative report ultimately becomes public, the claims against Gaetz “are open game," according to Honig.

The fall of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took new heights on Friday after reports surfaced that his new attorneys launched a legal battle over a refrigerator caught up in his $148 million judgment for defamation.

And the reality that Giuliani, a one-time federal prosecutor who rose to fame as “America’s mayor” after 9/11, is fighting over an appliance seemed to fascinate and concern CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday shamed a Democratic election board official in Pennsylvania after she voted to willingly violate a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling regarding undated and misdated ballots in Bucks County, PA.

Bucks County chairman Robert Harviie Jr. and commissioner Diane Marseglia on Tuesday voted against a third colleague to count ballots that were misdated or undated, in defiance of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that considered undated ballots “invalid as a matter of law,” Bucks County Courier Times reports.

Pennsylvania is in the middle of an automatic recount for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Bob Casey. The Associated Press has called the race for Republican businessman Dave McCormick, making it one of at least three Senate seats the GOP flipped in 2024. CNN has yet to call the race.

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Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Friday night sharply criticized Donald Trump's selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to serve as attorney general — and gave his fellow commentators on Fox News a piece of his mind.

Gowdy, who ran the House's controversial investigation into the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack, has a history of enmity with Gaetz, who has himself lashed out at Gowdy on Fox News.