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As part of a conversation about the chances of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth surviving long enough to get to a Senate hearing on his nomination to be Donald Trump's secretary of defense, one GOP strategist suggested the president-elect may have made a fatal error.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire on "Way Too Early," Susan Del Percio claimed Trump's decision to rush out the names of his Cabinet nominations left an enormous amount of time for his critics to dig up dirt on his picks.

With Hegseth being buffeted by multiple allegations of drinking problems as well as accusations of being a sexual predator, Del Percio stated the embattled former Fox employee is an example of moving too fast.

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"We talked about Trump's appetite for risk," Lemire prompted his guest. "Some of these Cabinet selections are deeply risky, the Hegseth pick very much in doubt. How much do you think, as someone who has known Donald Trump for a long time, how much do you think he's willing to stick with this even to make it to defeat?"

"I don't think he's willing to stick it out so far that if it starts hurting his reputation," she replied before adding, "And this is where I think announcing these picks so far ahead of time has given such a long way for opposition research."

"And then eventually an FBI –– not investigation, but background check –– those things will start to take hold," she continued. "And if it starts to damage Donald Trump, especially when it comes to folks helping him on the economy, I think he's willing to back away."

"Just remember those hearings are going to be brutal for the likes of Hegseth, for the likes of [ex-Rep.] Tulsi Gabbard, for RFK Jr. So I don't think he's willing to put it all on the line just because he cares," she predicted.

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has reportedly given prosecutor Fani Willis a deadline to hand over documents as part of an investigation into whether her office conspired with the Department of Justice to indict Trump in Georgia.

Fox5 Atlanta reported Thursday that Jordan, who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Willis notifying her that she failed to give the committee the information it requested in connection with her office's racketeering case against Trump and 18 co-defendants. He gave her until 5 p.m. Monday to comply.

New campaign filings reveal that Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters during the 2024 election cycle, is behind a mysterious campaign group that ran pro-Trump ads in the final weeks leading up to Election Day, according to reports.

The connection between Musk and the group – RBG PAC – had not been publicly disclosed until Thursday night when Federal Election Commission filings revealed its funding, according to The Washington Post. The online ads paid for by Musk and the group sought to convince voters that Trump would not sign a national abortion ban, the publication noted.

A Democratic senator went after questionable comments Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) made Thursday in which he suggested it wasn't his party’s responsibility – but Donald Trump’s – to vet his cabinet picks.

“Donald Trump did all the vetting they needed to do on Pete Hegseth, and I just can’t believe we even have people on our side who are saying, ‘Well I’ve gotta look at this, gotta look at that,’” Tuberville, a staunch Trump ally, told CNN’s Manu Raju earlier on Thursday. “What they’re doing is they’re throwing rocks at Donald Trump, they're not throwing them at Pete Hegseth…that’s not our job to do that, that’s the Democrats.”

Right-wing Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from an upcoming environmental case this week, but did so without explaining his reasoning — a fact not lost on a Slate writer, who cautioned readers to avoid the temptation of viewing his move as an embrace of ethics.

Arguments are scheduled for next week in the case Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County. On Wednesday, a clerk delivered a letter that said Gorsuch determined "he will not continue to participate in this case," "consistent with the new ethics code.

One potential addition to President-Elect Donald Trump's administration is Peter Navarro — the former Trump official who served four months in prison earlier this year over his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena in the January 6 investigation.

In an op-ed published by MSNBC Thursday, MSNBC Opinion writer and editor Zeeshan Aleem submits, "Navarro can serve as a relatively competent lieutenant — at least by Trump’s standards — while the president pursues his promised radical agenda on tariffs and China."

MAGA world heaped praise over President-elect Donald Trump’s new pick of tech investor and podcaster David Sacks as the so-called “White House AI and cryptocurrency czar.”

Trump made the announcement Thursday afternoon on his Truth Social platform, adding that Sacks’ role would entail him guiding policy for the administration in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.

The attorney for one of President-elect Donald Trump's embattled Cabinet nominees surprised a CNN anchor on Thursday night by sharing that a woman who accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault is "free to speak" to the media — as long as she avoids repeating falsehoods.

A woman reported to police that Hegsethseth, a weekend co-host at Fox News nominated to head the Pentagon, sexually assaulted her in a California hotel room in October 2017. She said he blocked her from leaving, snatched her phone and raped her despite her saying "no." Hegseth later paid the woman money as part of deal that included some sort of agreement that she not talk about the allegation.

A testy exchange erupted in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, as convicted Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was questioned as a witness in a trial against a police officer accused of illegally giving him information, Politico reported.

Tarrio was given one of the longest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant last year, receiving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. Some of the prosecutors involved in putting him away were in the courtroom watching him give testimony at this other trial.

Vivek Ramaswamy and the world's richest man, Elon Musk, were on Capitol Hill Thursday to lobby Congress about deep government cuts they want to make to the federal budget.

Ramaswamy has said that he wants to cut one-third of the federal government, which would mean killing the entire federal government as well as some national defense or some of Medicare and Social Security.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) on Thursday tore into an initiative by President-elect Donald Trump's wealthy allies to cut government programs and services.

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and pharmaceutical entrepreneur/former Trump primary rival Vivek Ramaswamy, has pledged to cut $2 trillion from the federal government, a figure experts have said is essentially impossible.

A senior advisor to former President George W. Bush ruffled the Trump campaign's feathers on Thursday evening when he flippantly commented that the outgoing head of the top super PAC for Senate Republicans "dragged" Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) "across the finish line."

Steven J. Law, who served as Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) chief of staff, is leaving his position as CEO of the Senate Leadership Fund, The New York Times reported. His move coincides with McConnell's exit as the Republican leader in the Senate and will allow incoming chamber leader Sen. John Thune (R-SD) to pick his own ally for the organization.

Donald Trump's selection of a billionaire private astronaut to head up NASA was likely inspired, if not requested, by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Ross Andersen wrote for The Atlantic — and more importantly, the appointment could permanently enshrine the federal government's reliance on Musk's businesses for spaceflight and space research.

Jared Isaacman, 41, is "a pal and an extreme admirer of Musk’s," wrote Andersen, who effuses praise for the fellow billionaire and says he's "solving the world’s problems."