Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, was briefly detained after an interaction with police at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., a spokesperson for McCaul told NBC News.

The spokesperson said that McCaul was not arrested and was not threatening to anyone but that police approached him because he appeared to be drunk and needed help. McCaul was then able to phone a family member to pick him up from the airport to bring him back to Washington.

According to the spokesperson, McCaul, who is a nervous flyer, took the drug Ambien to help him sleep on a flight back home to Texas and inadvertently missed his flight.

While he was working to rebook his flight, the Ambien, which he had mixed with several alcoholic drinks, made him disoriented and he locked himself out of his phone, the spokesperson said.

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In a phone call, Steve Bannon responded to the news that Trump intended to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general.

“President Trump is going to hit the Justice Department with a blowtorch, and Matt Gaetz is that torch," he said.

Bannon was recently released from prison after having served a term for contempt of Congress. Bannon was a Trump adviser during his previous administration.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was nominating Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Gaetz is a graduate of William and Mary Law School, which Trump mentioned in the announcement.

"Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department," he wrote. "He is a Champion for the Constitution and the Rule of Law."

Gaetz replied in a post on X, saying, "It will be an honor to serve as President Trump’s Attorney General!"

In September, Gaetz told the House Ethics panel that he would "no longer voluntarily participate" in the committee's investigation into whether he engaged in sexual misconduct or illicit drug use. The latest development in the ethics probe comes after the Department of Justice in 2023 decided not to charge Gaetz, who was being investigated for possible sex trafficking at the time.

Thune said he spoke over the phone with Trump after winning the Senate majority leader race earlier today.

"Senate Republicans are excited and ready to get to work implementing President Trump’s agenda on behalf of the American people," he wrote in a post on X.

Trump congratulated him and the new leadership, writing that Thune "will do an outstanding job."

After Trump's speech to the House GOP conference, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls said that GOP leaders need to fully embrace all of Trump's agenda and do as he says.

"There’s no question he’s the leader of our party," Nehls said. "So now he’s got a mission statement, his mission and his goals and objectives, whatever that is. We need to embrace it, all of it, every single word in his mission statement."

"If Donald Trump says jump 3 feet high and scratch your head, we all jump 3 feet high and scratch your heads. That’s it," he said.

Nehls also called Trump "the greatest thing since sliced bread" and that he is "really never wrong."

Trump has officially announced that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will become his nominee for secretary of state. NBC News reported on his selection on Monday.

"Marco is a highly respected leader, and a very powerful Voice for Freedom. He will be a strong advocate for our nation, a true friend to our allies, and a fearless warrior who will never back down to our adversaries," Trump said in a statement.

Rubio accepted the nomination in a post on X, writing that the position comes with "tremendous responsibility" and that he is "honored."

"As Secretary of State, I will work every day to carry out his foreign policy agenda. Under the leadership of President Trump we will deliver peace through strength and always put the interests of Americans and America above all else," he said.

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., plans to file a resolution in the House tomorrow that would express support for the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, which sets the term limits for the president of the United States.

Term limits are already enshrined in the Constitution, so the resolution would have little tangible effect and it’s unclear if it will receive a vote on the House floor, which is controlled by Republicans. However, he could potentially introduce it as a privileged resolution to force Republicans to vote on the matter.

The resolution, obtained by NBC News, reaffirms that the 22nd Amendment “applies to two terms in the aggregate as President of the United States” and reaffirms that it “applies to President-elect Trump.” The resolution lists a number of instances in which Trump has joked or floated the idea of serving longer than two terms in the White House or being a dictator.

The resolution was first reported by The New York Times.

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In the meeting with House Republicans this morning, Trump spoke very fondly of Elon Musk, according to two lawmakers in the room. Trump praised Musk for the amount of time the billionaire tech CEO dedicated to the election.

At one point Trump joked that Musk was spending a lot of time with him, saying, “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him.”

During a press briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether Biden apologized to Trump for calling him a "threat to democracy" during the campaign.

"What he said still stands," Jean-Pierre told reporters, adding, "And it’s not just him, you heard this from former staffers, from the former Chief of Staff John Kelly, from others."

She said that despite Biden's belief, "what we also want to be clear about is listening to the will of the people" and maintaining respect for the institutions of the presidency.

Jean-Pierre also said that reporters shouldn't only point out that Biden called Trump a threat to democracy, saying, "We should not just put this at the president. [Trump’s] own people said this.”