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CNN's Jim Acosta on Thursday got into a heated discussion with Trump ally and former advisor David Urban over the president-elect's decision to nominate Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for defense secretary.

During the segment, Acosta played clips of Hegseth trashing America's military as too "woke."

Alina Habba, an attorney and adviser to Donald Trump, lashed out at the "family members" of Judge Juan Merchan despite a gag order in the New York hush-money case.

As Trump was speaking in Washington D.C. for the first time since being re-elected, Habba launched an attack on Merchan's family during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) on Wednesday raised alarms over a new report about potential plans by President-elect Donald Trump to purge military leaders at the Pentagon.

While appearing on CNN, Ryan was asked about Trump's decision to nominate Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be his defense secretary.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised questions about Donald Trump's surprising choice for secretary of defense.

The president-elect caught many inside and outside his orbit off guard by tapping the Fox News host, who served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay with the National Guard, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned the conservative broadcaster's qualifications for the job as civilian leader of the U.S. military.

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to select Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be his defense secretary drew immediate controversy given his long history of incendiary comments and his past lobbying on behalf of convicted war criminals.

Analyzing the pick of Hegseth on CNN, Democratic strategist Karen Finney argued that it's a foreboding signal about how Trump intends to govern in his second term.

The acumen of Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising selection of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to head the Defense Department led to a tense moment between two CNN panelists Tuesday, which provoked one to compare the president-elect's pick to “The Twilight Zone.”

“I think he is making good on all of his promises,” CNN contributor Cari Champion said Tuesday on CNN’s “NewsNight” with host Abby Phillip. “One thing about Donald Trump that I find very interesting is, and you may disagree, which is fine, but I don't know if acumen is top of mind when picking these people.”

A panel of CNN guests clashed on Tuesday night over the definition of "woke" and how it relates to America's military in light of reporting from The Wall Street Journal that Trump's first executive order could be a military purge.

GOP strategist Scott Jennings went toe-to-toe with fellow guest and TV host Cari Champion as well as New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, with Jennings asserting that the military has taken on "all of the worst properties of corporate America" gotten away from its core mission: fighting and winning wars. When host Abby Phillip asked what properties, Jennings pointed to "all of the [human resources] properties that have divided this country the past several years."

Former Trump administration White House attorney Ty Cobb tore into the former president on CNN over his repeated pledges to pardon rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 when he retakes office next year.

Trump notoriously wielded pardon power in his last administration to free friends and allies, often people who directly went to jail for lying on his behalf in the Russia investigation. Jan. 6 insurrectionists are not alone in hoping for Trump to spring them; also vying for attention are politicians in prison for public corruption, most notably former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.