Cofounder of the intercept. His most recent article is headlined, mike pence will be the most powerful christian supremacist in u. S. History. But that is just the beginning. Is like a cabinet team of rivals. Neocons and war criminals, radical rightwing christian supremacists the antiimmigrant activists. Juan all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im juan gonzalez, in for amy goodman. Amy is on assignment. President elect donald trump held meetings with finalists for highlevel cabinet positions at his golf resort clubhouse in new jersey over the weekend. Among those who were paraded in front of reporters were retired marine general james mattis, who is considered a contender for defense secretary, former new york city mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 republican president ial nominee mitt romney, who are both considered to be finalists for the secretary of state position. Mattis is a former
Open bigotry, threats against immigrants and muslims, and blatant misogyny. Today we spend the hour looking with Jeremy Scahill, cofounder of the intercept. His most recent article is headlined, mike pence will be the most powerful christian supremacist in u. S. History. But that is just the beginning. Is like a cabinet team of rivals. Neocons and war criminals, radical rightwing christian supremacists the antiimmigrant activists. Juan all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im juan gonzalez, in for amy goodman. Amy is on assignment. President elect donald trump held meetings with finalists for highlevel cabinet positions at his golf resort clubhouse in new jersey over the weekend. Among those who were paraded in front of reporters were retired marine general james mattis, who is considered a contender for defense secretary, former new york city mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 republican pr
American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i