UFC boss Dana White says he's meeting with Trump after U.S. press secretary job offer

Turning our attention to Washington now, where U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to take on Democratic lawmakers once they take control of Congress in January. Last week, the Democrats won the House and Senate in the midterm elections. Now Trump and his team expect to face investigations and more progressive push to governing the country. Nick Harper is in Washington with more. What we have been hearing is criticism from him of the Democratic Party and doubling down on the Trump agenda. He's got no public engagement, so he's been taking to social media instead. At one of those posts, he wrote America took a giant step back in history with the results of the midterm elections this week. He then went on to blame the Democrats for what we saw this week on Wall Street, something of a slump on Thursday, with losses totaling two point. Five billion dollars, largely a reaction to the midterm losses for the Republicans and gains for the Democrats. Donald Trump said that Wall Street had been a rocket ship under him, and he promised have no fear. We will be back bigger and stronger than ever before. The president has also spent time this weekend. Defending his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, because there's plenty of talk around at the moment that the Democrats will launch an impeachment inquiry into him over the Iran conflict. The House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, was asked about that this weekend. He said that it was a hard yes on following through with that promise to impeach the defence secretary, leading Donald Trump to defend him in an interview with CBS. Let's listen to what the president had to say. We've won two wars. We've won Venezuela and taken out billions and billions and billions of dollars already. And we will be taking out many billions of dollars and get along very well. And you could call it a territory. You could call it whatever you want. We won that war in less than one hour. And you credit. And nobody was killed. You credit Pete Hegseth. No, but he was a part of it. The president also said that he had confidence in Pete Hegseth. And we've heard from the attorney general, Todd Blanche, who said that he is very concerned about all this talk of impeachment. He also said the Justice Department would strongly defend any officials that the Democrats decided to try and impeach. And he said that the Democrat had no basis and no facts for that possible impeachment inquiry. All right. Well, another thing that we're hearing a lot this weekend is the president floating the idea of Dana White as his next press secretary. Many wondering if this is, in fact, a serious proposition or just the president trolling. What's your sense of this? Yeah, it's very difficult to tell because this announcement came out of left field late on Saturday. We know that they are close friends, they are allies, but having someone like Dana White standing up at the podium seems like an incredible prospect. Donald Trump on social media, though, said that he would be a press secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job. We're told that the two men will be meeting in Washington on Monday. But Donald Trump has also posted on Sunday a video, a cartoon, in which we see what it could look like if Dana White was holding a press briefing. In that clip, a number of wrestlers from the UFC end up beating up reporters who ask questions that Dana White doesn't like. At the end of the clip, there are holes in the ceiling, in the walls of the press briefing room. There's a trash can that's on fire. Donald Trump then walks in and asks, how was the briefing? Dana White says, fiery, but mostly peaceful. In real life, though, Dana White has said that he already has a lot of jobs. It is unclear if he will take up the president's offer to take on the press secretary role. We'll find out later on Monday, but very unclear at this stage whether it's all just a big joke from the president or whether he is serious about making White his next press secretary. Journalist Nick Harper in Washington.