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According to a former Republican colleague of Rep. Matt Gaetz who also represented Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives, the embattled lawmaker may find there are some GOP senators who are more concerned with their legacies than they are with Donald Trump getting his attorney general nominee approved.

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, Dave Jolly singled out three GOP senators who have not previously been the focus of political observers who could join so-called "moderate" GOP Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) who may shoot down the nominee if he lasts long enough to appear at a Senate hearing.

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"This is somebody who is wholly inexperienced and unqualified, empirically unqualified to run the Department of Justice" Jolly suggested. "And so are there four Republican senators that just won't go along? Those legacies, I'm thinking of former House members, Bill Cassidy (R-LA), James Lankford from Oklahoma, Kevin Cramer from North Dakota, and a few others. Are they willing to support a Matt Gaetz as the attorney general?"

"And the curveball is, would Donald Trump consider a recess appointment?" he proposed. "This is what he told them they would do, though and, if you supported Donald Trump, you're just as responsible for this as the president-elect is."

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A Republican man from Indiana told C-SPAN on Sunday that "colored people" would not have basketball if former President Abraham Lincoln had not abolished slavery.

During Sunday's episode of Washington Journal, an Indiana Republican named Rick told host Kimberly Adams that the Bible said "that man is supposed to rule the house" and a woman should "just do the cleaning."

Reacting to a report from NBC News that Donald Trump's transition team has been busy making a list of military officials involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal he wants to be investigated and possibly court-martialed, former War College instructor Tom Nichols raised a red flag on the impact it will have on the Pentagon.

NBC reported, "Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said."

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, a visibly shook Nichols stated, "We really have to drop the narrative that somehow this is about Afghanistan. It has nothing to do with Afghanistan."

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"This is Trump firing a shot over the heads of senior officers, telling them that from now on, loyalty to the Constitution is not their oath," he accused. "That from now on, it's loyalty to him and he won't tolerate the kind of things that happened in his first administration where he had people like General Mark Milley and others refusing and talking him out of doing things like shooting protesters in the streets."

Asked about the president-elect's choice of embattled Fox News personality Petet Hegseth as the new Secretary of Defense, Nichols replied, "Hegseth has no idea what he's doing. He has his own dirty laundry that he doesn't want to come out, as you're seeing now in the reporting about his background and he would be perfectly happy to do whatever Donald Trump tells him to do."

"This would not be a secretary of defense again who observes his oath to the Constitution or protects and takes care of the people under his stewardship, both civilian and military," he warned. "If Donald Trump says fire up some court-martials and go after some people that made me angry four years ago, he's going to do it. "

"If you're going to undermine a democracy, the three most important departments you need to capture are justice, defense, and the intelligence community and he has put know-nothing loyalists into all of them, or is trying to," he added.

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A delay in Donald Trump making a selection on who he wants in the key role of secretary of the U.S. Treasury has led him to consider a third option after key advisors let the battle spill into public.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, there have been two likely nominees being considered: billionaire businessman Howard Lutnick and investor Scott Bessent whom the former president has praised previously.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz challenged Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski about the president-elect's decision to nominate former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general by noting that a conservative media outlet had described him as "nuts."

"Well, the biggest uproar in the media, as you know, has been over Matt Gaetz," Kurtz told Lewandowski on Sunday, "not just because of the sex trafficking investigation that led to no charges, but because he only practiced law for a couple of years."

Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leading President-elect Donald Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with billionaire Elon Musk, suggested over the weekend that the federal Dept. of Education would be "deleted outright" under the new administration.

"Elon and I aren't in this for the credit," Ramaswamy explained to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But I think we're gonna build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven't been made for most of our history."