President Donald Trump said Friday that he wasn't expecting Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) to vote against his controversial nominee for secretary of Defense, Army veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

A defining duo of the first Donald Trump administration is back.

Donald Trump may not have done his nominee to be the next secretary of defense any favors as he left the White House on Friday morning. On Thursday two Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine made it clear they would vote no on Trump's pick.

Mitch McConnell, a lion of the Senate and one of its shrewdest legislative tacticians over four decades, announced that he will step down as Republican leader after November’s elections. The