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A heated discussion sparked Monday night on CNN when a former adviser to Joe Biden called the GOP "morally bankrupt" during a discussion over reports that President-elect Donald Trump is personally lobbying Republican senators to support former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general.

Ashley Etienne told panelists she doesn't believe four Republicans will "stand up" to Trump — and block Gaetz's nomination.

Donald Trump is starting to lose patience with one of his short-listers for the Treasury Department playing his allies against one another and manipulating things behind the scenes to get the role, a prominent reporter told CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday — something corroborated by other reports of Trump world behind the scenes.

Furthermore, added Marc Caputo, Trump is beginning to resent the appearance that tech billionaire Elon Musk is controlling him into making staffing decisions.

The first trans woman elected to Congress issued a forceful response over a Republican lawmaker's reported plans to try to ban trans women from using female bathrooms at the Capitol.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) plans to introduce a resolution that would ban trans women from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity at the Capitol, Fox News reported Monday. The move comes just before Congress swears in Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE).

Donald Trump made another selection for his Cabinet on Monday, picking former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), now a host at Fox News, to be secretary of transportation.

The selection of Duffy, a longtime loyalist for Trump who has brushed off the former president's rape allegations as simply "engagements with women," triggered an immediate reaction from commenters on the growing social media platform Bluesky — particularly because it's the second Cabinet nominee Trump has taken from Fox News, after tapping Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. That particular nomination appears to be facing a rocky path given the sexual assault allegations against him. He also selected Thomas Homan to be his next "border czar," who comes directly from Fox’s payroll.

Ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge is subject to fines and possible jail time as a federal appeals court "appears unlikely to rescue" the conservative journalist for "refusing" to reveal her sources for reports about a Chinese American scientist who was probed by the FBI, Politico reports.

When Donald Trump succeeds Joe Biden in January, Politico reports the MAGA leader "could order the Justice Department to settle an underlying lawsuit filed by the woman, Yanping Chen," which "would wipe away the fines and any other punishment against Herridge."

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) plans to introduce a resolution that would ban transgender individuals from the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity at the Capitol, Fox News reported Monday — and it comes just before Congress swears in its first-ever transgender congresswoman.

"The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol," Mace told Fox. The measure calls for "prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes," and would task the Sergeant-at-Arms with enforcing the rule.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a Fox Business co-host to be the nation's next Transportation Secretary, according to reports.

Trump said Monday he is nominating former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) to head the agency.

A Georgia appeals court has canceled a hearing scheduled for Dec. 5 on the state's election subversion case involving Donald Trump and several of his allies.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, the order, released Monday simply stated that "the oral argument ... is hereby canceled until further order of this Court."

Former Marine Corps fighter pilot Amy McGrath took part in "war games" with the Veterans for Responsible Leadership (a 527 Super PAC) earlier this year for situations that might now come to pass.

The group worked through the first days of Donald Trump's new presidency using the policies he has indicated he plans to implement, The Atlantic reported at the time.

President-elect Donald Trump has launched a phone campaign to urge Republican senators to confirm embattled Florida Republican Matt Gaetz as his next attorney general, according to a report.

Trump has called senators including Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Axios reported Monday. Another senator, who wasn't named, also confirmed Trump had called them.

A battle is looming over Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace thinks that the overarching goal is to "humiliate" Republican senators.

Speaking to former Republican strategist Tim Miller, Wallace said she thinks former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) "will be the attorney general" even if the House Ethics Committee report proves damaging.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not get to dictate what the House Ethics Committee does, said the bipartisan committee's Republican chair on Monday, per Politico.

The committee has to decide whether to release a potentially explosive report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who faces an investigation into alleged child sex trafficking, illicit drug use, and acceptance of improper gifts, among other transgressions.

A battle could be looming between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the Federal Aviation Administration, which handles, among other things, air traffic as planes fly through U.S. airspace.

Musk faced proposed fines last year of about $633,000 over SpaceX violations, Politico reported, including over the company's unauthorized rocket firing.