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{"id":3425,"date":"2024-12-09T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-upheaval-in-syria-puts-gabbard-in-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:43:28","slug":"what-were-watching-upheaval-in-syria-puts-gabbard-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-upheaval-in-syria-puts-gabbard-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Upheaval in Syria puts Gabbard in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/bashar-assad-syria-downfall-the-winners-and-losers\/\"><u>rebel victory in Syria<\/u><\/a> over the Assad regime, President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that \u201cthis is his time\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-volodomyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-is-ready-to-make-a-deal-its-your-move\/\"><u>start making cease-fire<\/u><\/a> deals with Ukraine.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>After a few weeks under the radar as other nominees were on the hot seat, Tulsi Gabbard is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/12\/09\/how-tulsi-gabbard-is-planning-to-fight-00193238\"><u>facing renewed scrutiny over her past sympathies for Assad<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Democratic governors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/07\/demogratic-governors-trump-2028-00193169\"><u>got together<\/u><\/a> on Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles to discuss how they plan to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d their states going into the second Trump administration.<\/li>\n<li>Trump said on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/08\/trump-end-birthright-citizenship-00193184\"><u>plans to end birthright citizenship<\/u><\/a> in the United States on day one of his presidency \u201cthrough executive action,\u201d though he did not go into specific details. In the same interview, he also said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/08\/trump-defends-tariff-proposal-00193182\"><u>\u201ccan\u2019t guarantee\u201d<\/u><\/a> that Americans won\u2019t pay more if tariffs are enacted.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defense Secretary designate Pete Hegseth has 21 Hill meetings set for this week, Joe Gould reports for POLITICOPro\u2019s Morning Defense. On Monday, he\u2019ll meet with Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ernst, who holds an important swing vote in Hegseth\u2019s path to being confirmed as defense secretary, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/07\/ernst-hegseth-republican-defense-00193173\"><u>spoken out about her concerns over the president-elect&#8217;s pick<\/u><\/a>. As a survivor of sexual assault herself, she noted in an address to the Reagan National Defense Forum that she would like to hear more about the allegations against Hegseth.<\/li>\n<li>Pam Bondi, Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Justice Department, is getting some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/06\/congress\/bondis-transition-team-00193071\"><u>help from Chad Mizelle<\/u><\/a>, formerly acting general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security under the first Trump administration, to prepare for her confirmation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/trump-cabinet-picks-2025-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><u>latest Cabinet picks<\/u><\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alina Habba is joining the White House as counselor to the president, Trump announced Sunday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump announced a few hires who will serve in the State Department with Marco Rubio if he&#8217;s confirmed. Christopher Landau is Trump&#8217;s pick for deputy secretary of state, Michael Needham was tapped as counselor and Michael Anton is the prospective director of policy planning. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching Following the rebel victory in Syria over the Assad regime, President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that \u201cthis is his time\u201d to start making cease-fire deals with Ukraine.\u00a0 After a few weeks under the radar as other nominees were on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}