'Hot mess!' Rachel Maddow laughs at Trump's choices for designated survivor

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow previewed one of the side curiosities about President Donald Trump's State of the Union Address: the designated survivor, or the sole member of the Cabinet who is hidden in a safe room during the speech, to be sworn in as president in case there is an attack that takes out the Capitol building.

It's normally a fairly mundane Cabinet official, Maddow noted — but the problem for Trump is, even his most mundane Cabinet officials are steeped in scandal this year.

"The...