Trump’s Bizarre, Unqualified Cabinet Picks Meet Little GOP Resistance

Interview with Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI agent named one of TIME magazine’s Persons of the Year and a member of Veterans for Peace, conducted by Scott Harris

Coleen Rowley discusses Donald Trump’s picks for various cabinet positions thus far, i.e. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state; Fox weekend host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense; John Ratcliffe as CIA director; former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence; Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general (recently under House Ethic Committee investigation for sex trafficking of a minor); Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel; and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Rowley assesses these nominations and the implications for U.S. domestic and foreign policy under the coming Trump regime.

Rowley was named one of TIME magazine’s Persons of the Year in 2002 for exposing and sharing some of the FBI’s 9/11 intelligence failures.

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