"I consider that a rhetorical question."
"Yeah. I don't see the president-elect as a sentimental person. I don't think he's going to hang on here if he believes that Hegseth has become a liability to him."
"I think so, but the other thing is he got a lot of credit for, and I think deservedly so, for not interfering in his son's case for saying this. We're going to -- I'm going to respect the rule of law...."
"He wants to have political control over the Justice Department, and she -- to Scott's point, I think she's fully -- fully, willing, able and capable of doing that."
"Matt Gaetz doesn't go quietly anywhere. So he's clearly not going anywhere now. He's ambitious."
"I think it was a good move to get Gaetz out of the nomination, because he clearly was going to crash and burn, and he shouldn't have been there in the first place. It was a horrific choice."
"he wants to put loyalists in there who will do what he wants."
"the senate is going to demand to see that report."
"the question is whether their loyalty is to the Constitution or whether it's to Donald Trump."
"This jeopardizes the American people."
"Donald Trump did not have a mandate to appoint people simply on the basis of loyalty."