Fox News prepares to cover a government filled with Fox News alumni

President-elect Donald J. Trump has leaned heavily on familiar faces from the cable network as he fills out his second-term cast.

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Nineteen … and counting.

That’s the number of former Fox News hosts, commentators, on-air medical experts, producers and other personnel who are poised to occupy roles in the second administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Never before has a single media organization exported so many alumni to a president’s day-one cabinet and staff. And while Mr. Trump also recruited TV types for roles in his first term, he is now seeking to put pundits like Pete Hegseth, his nominee for defense secretary, in charge of entire government agencies.

All of which augurs a new twist in the tempestuous relationshipbetween Mr. Trump and Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled network that has been perhaps his most powerful booster in the media world, but also frequently the focus of his ire. Now Fox News correspondents at the White House, the Pentagon and elsewhere in government will be reporting on an administration populated by many of their former colleagues.

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