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CNN host Jim Acosta got into it with Donald Trump ally David Urban Wednesday morning when they discussed the incoming president's nominees coming from the author's list of "Project 2025."

The Heritage Foundation document was written by former and current Trump allies with the intention of putting forth a platform that could be implemented if he were elected. As the document spread, it quickly drew public opposition.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) signaled that he would confirm Donald Trump's controversial nominee Matt Gaetz as attorney general.

The Florida Republican has no prosecutorial or law enforcement experience and has been investigated by the Justice Department and House Ethics Committee for alleged teen sex trafficking, but Graham said he's open to confirming the combative former congressman as the top federal law enforcement officer.

Pro-MAGA TV host David Brody confronted Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) about providing "full transparency" after he claimed that releasing an ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the nominee for attorney general, would be "unethical."

During a Wednesday interview with Clyde, Brody noted that President-elect Donald Trump's nominations were "turning into The Apprentice."

A foreign correspondent who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 29 while covering West Africa for the New York Times says it takes a lot to make her panic — and Donald Trump has her panicking.

Lydia Polgreen admitted in a New York Times editorial Wednesday that she is frightened for herself, her elderly mother and a divided nation that sees Trump as either the cancer or its cure.

CNN's Kate Bolduan dismissively brushed off Donald Trump's surrogate's filibuster on the economy.

Major retailers like Walmart and Lowe's have already warned that consumer prices would increase if the president-elect follows through on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, but Trump ally Madison Gesiotto insisted that most economists were wrong about their potentially "catastrophic" impact.

Lara Trump — Republican National Committee co-chair, daughter-in-law to the first convicted felon ever to be elected president and possible future senator of Florida — had exciting news to share this week: athleisure.

The RNC co-chair, wife to Eric Trump, announced the LT Brand by Lara Trump Collection on Instagram on Wednesday.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) repeated his attack on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as a "charlatan" while pouring cold water on the Florida Republican's chances of becoming Donald Trump's next attorney general.

Speaking with co-host Willie Geist, Lawler was asked, "Do you think he [Gaetz] has the qualifications and the character to be the attorney general of the United States?"

"Willie, how about those Georgia Bulldogs?" the smiling Lawler deflected.

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"I'm a Vandy guy, I can't help you there," Geist parried. "What about Matt Gaetz?"

"I've been clear about my thoughts on Matt Gaetz. I stand by everything I said about him," he replied. "Fundamentally, obviously, the president has the right to nominate who he sees fit to serve in his cabinet, but that's why we have a Senate confirmation process. And Matt is going to have to answer a lot of questions about the allegations that have been leveled against him, including obviously the allegations he had sex with underage women, and paid for it."

Adding, "I think it is certainly fair game and needs to be addressed by him directly through any Senate confirmation process," he later stated, "I think Matt is going to have a challenge when he has to actually address the allegations that have been leveled against him."

Pressed by the host, "Do you believe he's qualified and has the character to be attorney general?" he bluntly stated "No."

"I think obviously I think we have seen within the Department of Justice a weaponization. I do believe that the American people sent a very clear message on election day that they want government to work, and so you need somebody of the highest ethical standard there," he elaborated. "And that's why the Senate will go through the process it will go through, and ultimately I'm sure there will be a nominee confirmed that will do the job and do it well and clean up the mess at the Department of Justice."

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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) raised serious questions about the nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general and revealed some of the Florida Republican's troubling private behavior.

Republican senators have indicated they're not willing to confirm Donald Trump's nominee, who resigned from the House shortly after his nomination and a day ahead of the likely release of an Ethics Committee report on sex trafficking allegations against him, and Cohen told CNN that the former lawmaker's private comments were consistent with accusations against him.

Should ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-D FL) make it through a Senate hearing and then a vote of the Senate floor to be the next attorney general, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) could be putting her political future on the line.

That is the opinion of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who pointed out that the Maine Republican has survived controversial votes before –– notably putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual assault — but Gaetz, facing even worse accusations, would be a bridge too far for voters if she gives him a pass too.

Matt Gaetz has a knack for making enemies, according to a Republican strategist, and while that trait helped him rake in campaign donations, it'll likely cause him problems in his fight to be confirmed as attorney general.

Donald Trump tapped the Florida Republican to lead the Justice Department that had investigated sex trafficking allegations against him, and while that case was dropped last year, the House Ethics Committee conducted its own probe and was set to issue a report on its findings until Gaetz resigned immediately after his nomination.

On Wednesday morning, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire reported that current and former domestic and foreign intel officials are expressing extreme alarm over the nomination by Donald Trump about his choice of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Following a discussion on other problematic nominees, including ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, Lemire stated there is a growing consensus that Gabbard is completely unacceptable and key U.S. allies are sending out warnings they will not share intel with her.

"What do you hear in talking to your sources in Washington at the edge of the intelligence community?" Morning Joe regular Mike Barnicle asked. "Do you hear the same thing that a lot of other people are hearing: that the British, the French, the Israelis, are coming in with hints that, you know, we're not going to share intelligence, our intelligence with Tulsi Gabbard?"

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"Yes. Current and former intelligence officers have expressed that fear and have heard that from their colleagues overseas saying there is going to be real reluctance to share some of their, those nation's, top secrets and intel with the United States," Lemire replied. "There are some concerns about Trump who, as we know, revealed intel, but Tulsi Gabbard in particular –– someone who voiced talking points that emanated from Moscow, has cozied up with the Syrians."

"There is real concern here that the nation will be less safe because allies aren't going to trust us with their intel," he added.

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