Election

President-elect Donald Trump named Scott Bessent as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of the Treasury. LiveNOW's Austin Westfall discusses Trump's new pick with economist Dr. Mike Walden.

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz announced Friday he will not be returning to Congress next year after withdrawing as Trump's pick for attorney general. The Washington Examiner's Cami Mondeaux joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss it further.

LiveNOW's Austin Westfall tracks Trump's latest cabinet picks and discusses Matt Gaetz's withdrawal with political analyst Brian Sobel.

LiveNOW's Austin Westfall discusses President-elect Trump's pick Linda McMahon and her background with Arman Jaffer, CEO and founder of Brisk Teaching.

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. Bob Casey on Thursday announced he has conceded the race to Republican candidate Dave McCormick, putting an end to a lengthy automatic recount in the Keystone State more than two weeks after Election Day.

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation. Florida Politics reporter AG Gancarski joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss.

As senators prepare to consider President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet, they may be doing so without a well-established staple of the confirmation process: an FBI background check. The Trump transition team has so far not signed the requisite agreements with the White House or the Justice Department to allow the FBI to screen his personnel choices, both for the process of obtaining security clearances and meeting the Senate’s usual standards for nominations. Dan Meyer, partner at Tully Rinckey Law Firm, joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not reconsidering the nomination of former Congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general. Gaetz, 42, who was investigated by the Justice Department for nearly three years over sex trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old girl, was tapped by Trump on Wednesday to run the agency when he returns to the White House in January. Cayce Myers, professor and director of graduate studies at Virginia Tech School of Communication, joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

New York prosecutors this week are expected to tell a judge how they think President-elect Donald Trump's already decided criminal case should proceed in light of his election victory. Trump, 78, was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump, who denies it. FOX 5 New York's Robert Moses joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss.

United States President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed he is “prepared” to declare a national emergency and use military assets to fulfil his 2024 election campaign promise to carry out mass deportations. Trump made the announcement on Monday in a short post on his Truth Social platform in response to a post by Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch. FOX 5 D.C.'s Maureen Umeh joined LiveNOW from FOX with the details.

With almost two months until Inauguration Day for President elect Donald Trump, he is starting to fill in all the key positions for his new administration. Mark Shanahan, American politics expert, joined LiveNOW from FOX to discuss the latest members Trump has selected.

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as his nominee to be transportation secretary, as he continues to roll out picks for his Cabinet.

Veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer announced she was done with election polling and moving on to "other ventures" after her pre-election poll in Iowa inaccurately showed Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of President-elect Donald Trump in the state he had easily won in 2016 and 2020.