Sen. Eric Schmitt said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump should fire anyone in the Justice Department who participated in the criminal cases against him.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that the Senate Intelligence Committee will ask President-elect Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), “lots of questions.” “We’ll have lots of questions,” Lankford said to CNN’s “State of the Union” anchor Dana Bash. “She met with [Syrian leader Bashar Assad.] We’ll wanna...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, is facing a tight Senate confirmation as questions continue to swirl around his suitability for the job. The Army veteran and former Fox News host will need to alleviate concerns around allegations of sexual assault, graphic details of which emerged in a police report released Wednesday....

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday in an interview that he opposes using the military for mass deportations. “What we know now about the immigration authorities who would have to be charged with rounding these individuals up, there are just 6,000 agents, 41,000 detention beds to carry out the assignment of rounding up millions of...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said Sunday he thinks President-elect Trump should fire the Department of Justice (DOJ) staff who investigated his legal cases. Schmitt joined NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he weighed in on the future of the DOJ as Trump prepares to take office again and as concerns grow that he will use the...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said Sunday that it’s a “slur” to call former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) a “Russian asset.” “I think it's — it's really interesting that anybody that has a different political view now is being cast as a Russian asset. It's totally ridiculous,” Schmitt told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet...

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that the Bible should “absolutely” be taught in schools as both a “historical” and “cultural” document. Lankford joined CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” where he was asked about Oklahoma requiring schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons. “As a historical document, as a cultural document, it...

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, said Sunday that House Republicans’ bathroom ban is an “attempt to distract from what they are actually doing.” In her appearance on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” with anchor Margaret Brennan, McBride said “every single time we hear the incoming administration or Republicans in...

Pablo Hernández Rivera, the newly elected resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, has pledged to prioritize economic development and equal treatment in federal programs over the sterile status debate, and has called for a more inclusive and democratic approach to the issue of statehood.