Sen. John Kennedy said Monday that Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), faces the greatest risk of failing to secure Senate confirmation.

Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the reports that Republicans lawmakers may face pressure to get behind the remaining Trump cabinet nominees.

Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is leaving NBC News after nearly 18 years at the network. Todd said in a memo to NBC News colleagues that Friday was his last day. He will continue doing his podcast and said he is considering new projects, but offered no details.

President Donald Trump has seemingly picked a reporter to give some of the largest scoops to ahead of his first days in office: NBC’s Kristen Welker. Welker has managed to illicit some of Trump’s most notable reactions to breaking news in the last week.

Just hours after being sworn in, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump had repeatedly vowed to pardon the rioters who stormed the Capitol that day throughout his campaign, despite some of them being convicted of assaulting a police officer.

Demands by Donald Trump and his advocates that Republican senators fall in line and rubber-stamp all his cabinet nominees is raising some hackles within the GOP caucus. According to a report from MSNBC,

Democrats will make their first big decision since losing the 2024 election by electing a new national party chair.

Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is leaving NBC News after nearly 18 years at the network. Todd said in a memo to NBC News colleagues that Friday was his last day. He'll continue doing his podcast and said he's considering new projects, but offered no details.

He joined NBC News as political director in 2007 and was “Meet the Press” moderator from 2014 to 2023, before giving way to Kristen Welker. The role made him one of the more visible journalists in Washington and, as such, an occasional target of President Donald Trump and his supporters.

After nearly a month of having a vacancy in the 35th State Senate District, four Republican state representatives from the Great Lakes Bay Region have called on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to set a special election to fill the vacancy.

Democratic and independent U.S. senators introduced a resolution Monday to condemn President Donald Trump’s clemency for the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, injuring numerous law enforcement officers and sending lawmakers into hiding as they tried to certify the 2020 presidential election results.

President Trump’s mass firing of 17 inspectors general late Friday flouted the law and sparked widespread condemnation from those who see it as an effort to block oversight of his administration.