Senate Democrat: Trump wants to 'subjugate' GOP senators with Gaetz appointment

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) suggested that President-elect Trump appointing former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as the head of the Justice Department (DOJ) is somewhat of a power play against Senate Republicans."I think the bottom line here is that there is an element of Trump wanting to sort of subjugate Republican senators here," Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday."I think some of these candidates are essentially Trump challen