Caroline Downey and Conn Carroll also join the show to discuss blue states potentially turning red.

The former Texas congressman previously led the nation's spy agencies as director of national intelligence in the last months of the first Trump administration.

Many nominees have met with senators individually. Now, they will go before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run.

Here is the schedule for the first week of Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's 2025 cabinet picks with links to live video streams for each event. Trump's other picks have yet to be scheduled,

The Senate will start the process of confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks this week, calling them to testify in high-profile hearings.

Florida’s Former Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. This is CNBC's live coverage of Senate confirmation hearings for six of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees on Jan.