Eight of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet choices are walking into Senate hearing rooms this week to explain why they should help lead the country. But all of them can expect to be upstaged by Trump himself, who is giving his first news conference Wednesday since winning the election. The forum with reporters in New York will mark Trump’s first formal news conference since July. They also had begun the ethics review process in many cases before their Cabinet appointments had been announced publicly. Spicer said the transition team has held more than 30 practice hearings, in which Trump’s Cabinet picks have collectively answered 2,604 questions to prepare them for an onslaught of confrontational inquiries from Democrats.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 11, 2017 11:02 UTC