“I will always comply with the law,” Pompeo, the nominee to be CIA director, told senators Thursday. With that and several other deft answers, Pompeo defused a potential land mine during his Senate confirmation hearing and now is well on his way to swift confirmation. Most insiders believe that the Senate will confirm at least four, maybe more, of Trump’s Cabinet nominees after the president-elect is sworn in Friday afternoon. Like Tillerson, both come from the private sector and have never had to withstand anything like the grilling that comes with a public Senate confirmation hearing. Ben Carson, Trump’s pick to be secretary of housing and urban development, may be the least qualified of the president-elect’s cabinet selections, even saying so himself not long after Trump’s victory.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 20:54 UTC