During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Steele claimed he expected Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees will likely sail through their confirmation hearings despite GOP lawmakers' misgivings, but added one nominee would probably be thrown to the wolves.
Speaking with "Morning Joe" regular Katty Kay, Steele, now a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend," also scoffed at lawmakers who have said they have yet to make up their minds.
Kay asked him, "When some of these more controversial Republicans, more controversial candidates are being put forward, do you think when we get into the nomination process we're going to see Republican senators push back a little harder against Donald Trump than we're seeing them push back now?"
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"No," he laughed. "No, we won't. I mean, look, there's going ––."
"Do you think he's going to get everybody through?" Kay interrupted.
"He'll get –– there may be one sacrificial lamb out of the trifecta that everyone is talking about," he replied.
'Who do you think it's going to be?" Kay persisted.
"I don't know," he answered before proposing, "Probably [former House member] Tulsi Gabbard because that's something that strikes a little bit closer to Republicans on the national security, national defense side. The DOD and [Ex-Fox News personality] Hegseth, you've heard some warming as you guys talked about in the last hour to him."
"Certainly Bobby Kennedy, that's more about, you know, for Trump, you know, his tie now to the Kennedy legacy more than anything else," he added. "So that probably won't get touched, even though I wouldn't let him within a ten-foot pole of a child with an illness, but, you know, here we are."
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