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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Donald Trump’s next secretary of state would no doubt be “a hawkish choice” as the president-elect continues to build out his incoming administration, according to Axios co-founder Mike Allen, who adds the pick also sends a reassuring signal.

“This is to be reassuring to people around the world, to Republicans, to Democrats in Washington, of the choices that president-elect Trump had,” Allen told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins during an interview Monday near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Marco Rubio is a very traditional Republican.”

Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones told his audience Monday that auctioneers are coming to his studio to itemize his equipment and assets, with everything being liquidated — and his Infowars show shutting down Wednesday.

"On Wednesday afternoon, Infowars, the equipment, Infowars.com, InfowarsStore.com, and a whole bunch of other stuff, is at a federal bankruptcy auction," said Jones, appearing visibly emotional. "From the fake judgments and the rigged trials, where I was found guilty beforehand and they had literal show trials out of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany."

A MAGA congresswoman turned on a senior member of her party Monday night when asked on Fox News about the state of the race to become the next Senate majority leader.

After fending off a challenge for her seat in November, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) joined "The Ingraham Angle" and was asked by host Laura Ingraham her thoughts on the looming Senate majority leader race, given the "very short window" that President-elect Donald Trump has to enact his agenda.

A CNN panel couldn't help but laugh over President-elect Donald Trump’s unsolicited announcement over the weekend that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley would not be invited to join his new administration.

The public snub, according to former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, “was quintessential Trump,” she said, after a hearty chuckle.

President-elect Donald Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, took a hatchet to pundits Monday, broadly blaming Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign loss on an insufficient focus on working-class issues, an idea pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), or that she focused too heavily on social justice issues.

If you listen to pundits, wrote Mary Trump in her latest email blast — specifically calling out Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and The New York Times' Maureen Dowd — you would be under the impression "Democrats lost touch with the working class because they talked too much about transgender rights. It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — a one-time primary foe whom he once called "little Marco" — as his secretary of state, The New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with his thinking.

The Times noted that Trump appeared Monday to have landed on Rubio for the position, but could still change his mind.

Longtime CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he's stepping away from his role to pursue "an independent platform such as streaming or podcasting," according to an exclusive report published by the Daily Beast.

Per the report, the 77-year-old "is considering what streaming or podcast format would work for him, and added, 'Not knowing is part of the challenge. I‘m waiting to see what comes over the transom. It might be something that I haven’t thought of at all.'"

The dust has barely settled over Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, and many of his most fervent supporters are looking to apply some of the same tactics from the 2020 "Stop the Steal" protests to the vote over who will be the next Senate majority leader.

Longtime GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — staring down retirement and not on best terms with Trump — has stepped aside as Republicans secure a Senate majority, and the race seems to be down to three main candidates who want the job: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

After years of baselessly claiming the Justice Department was out to get him for political reasons, incoming President Donald Trump appears set to take a firm hand with the department and make it do precisely that to his political foes, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman warned Monday on MSNBC's "The Beat."

The remarks came as Trump prepares to replace huge chunks of the civil service with his loyalists.

Former President Ronald Reagan’s oldest son downplayed broad concerns about democracy raised by Democrats and other opponents of Donald Trump as the country awaits his return to the White House during an interview with CNN on Monday.

“I would think he would think it's in good shape,” Michael Reagan, a Republican strategist and Newsmax columnist, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a Veterans Day appearance on the network. The assessment came after Tapper asked Reagan what he believed his father would think about the present state of the U.S. democracy.

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly tapped a MAGA lawmaker Monday to be his next national security adviser.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) was selected for Trump's first of many national security roles, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins reported Monday evening. The role is the president's primary advisor on national security issues and foreign policy matters.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who ran much of Donald Trump's voter outreach operation throughout the 2024 election through his super PAC, is reportedly spending so much time at the president-elect's South Florida country club that some of his aides are beginning to be unsettled by it, reported The Daily Beast on Monday.

This comes after CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported, “While Musk himself is still not expected to take any kind of formal position inside Trump’s administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what’s becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn’t really need to ... Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside.”

The head of the Heritage Foundation said Monday that his group made a "tactical error" during the election cycle by not responding to left-wing attacks about Project 2025.

Kevin Roberts, president of the organization, talked about President-elect Donald Trump's transition plan with Bloomberg Radio on Monday, and touting that the "forgotten ordinary American has won."