A billionaire, a preacher and a Fox News presenter: Inside Trump’s new government team

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00:00What do you get when you cross the richest man in the world, a Fox News reporter and a Baptist

00:04preacher? The US government apparently. President-elect Donald Trump has been appointing his

00:09White House team and the choices are proving pretty controversial. First up is the billionaire

00:14tech and space mogul Elon Musk. He'll be co-leading a newly created Department of Government Efficiency

00:21with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. It's the kind of typically

00:26eye-catching, head-spinning announcement that Trump likes to indulge in. It also raises a

00:32big question about Musk's many business interests and his many contracts with the US government,

00:36particularly in space. Next on Trump's list is Fox News correspondent Pete Hegseth. He's

00:42been appointed as Defence Secretary. He's a combat veteran, having served in Iraq and

00:46Afghanistan, but nobody really saw coming to take over what is one of the most important

00:52spoiling bureaucracies in the federal government. Another controversial choice has been Trump's

00:57decision to appoint former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee as the US ambassador to Israel.

01:03What's intriguing there and alarming to the Palestinians is that Huckabee, who is also a

01:11Baptist preacher and an ardent supporter of Israel, he is what he calls an unapologetic Zionist who

01:18doesn't even think that there is such a thing as Palestinians as an ethnic group and can be

01:24expected to ruffle feathers in the Middle East. Trump is expected to select more people to his

01:29team within the coming days. We're expecting a further announcement potentially on Florida

01:33Senator Marco Rubio as the Secretary of State. There are some other picks we're still waiting to

01:40find out about, Treasury Secretary notably. That pick, along with others in the economic

01:47side of the government, will be in charge of enacting Trump's very controversial pledge to

01:52impose sweeping tariffs on all imports into the US and that's something that we in the UK

01:58are watching very nervously to see how that might impact trade.