Live updates on the Trump transition ahead of next week's inauguration. Follow the latest as Senate confirmation hearing continue for the incoming administration.

Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence for the final months of Trump’s first term, goes before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The former Texas congressman is in line to lead the nation's premier spy agency, responsible for foreign covert operations and collecting data on U.S. adversaries.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told senators the U.S. as a superpower is standing at a crossroads, and the “postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us.” Rubio, who is President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to be Secretary of State,

Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio was interrupted during his opening statement on Wednesday. While arguing that the post-World War II order shaped by the United States has served the country well,