Real Clear Politics- Dantea Johnson

The Article I read was titled "on capital hill, Trump wins week one", alluding to President-elect Trump's cabinet nominees going under grueling confirmation hearings.  Being that many of Trump's nominations are controversial they seem to be headed toward a smooth confirmation. In this article it discussed seven of Trumps picks Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary-designate John Kelly, Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson, Transportation Secretary-designate Elaine Chao, alongside Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis, Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson, and lastly CIA Director-designate Mike Pompeo; stood up against Senate committees this week. The 2 most scandalous of the seven confirmation hearings, were that of Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson. Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions was attacked by so many Democrats and how could they resist the moment to indict a Republican of being a racist, but Sessions was so well scripted and prepared that it really didn't scratch his image. Then you have former CEO of Exxon Mobil Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson, showed everyone what they all knew which is he is not qualified for the position. To make matters worse Tillerson had yet to receive a security clearance, and he had barely any answer to a majority of the question asked by the Senate committee.