President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee was once accused of stealing a Louisiana family’s dog named Tank. In 2005, Tank’s then owners, Steve and Dorreen Couture, put the Saint Bernard in a Louisiana animal shelter to weather Hurricane Katrina.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President-elect Trump's initial pick to serve as attorney general backs out of consideration and other controversies surrounding Trump’s potential Cabinet.

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Saturday chose Brooke Rollins, his former White House domestic policy adviser, to helm the Agriculture Department, whose wide-ranging purview includes supporting farmers who grow the nation’s two biggest crops, corn and soybeans, and setting the nutrition standards in school cafeterias across the nation.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former White House aide Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture in his second administration. Here are some things to know about Trump’s choice and the agency that Rollins would lead if she is confirmed by the Senate.

"When we say, 'I don’t think that Linda McMahon will be an efficient steward of the Department of Education,' it’s like, right, she’s not there to do that"

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager and major Trump fundraiser, to be his next Treasury secretary, people familiar with the decision said. Bessent, who has been among Trump’s biggest allies on Wall Street,

Scott Bessent sat directly to Donald Trump’s left as the then presidential candidate laid out his economic agenda to a roomful of Wall Street bigwigs at the Economic Club of New York in September. Following his nomination to the top job at the US Treasury department,