Lemon LIVE at 5 | TRUMP GETS DEVASTATING NEWS! - November 21st, 2024
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Hello, hello. Welcome, Lemonheads, to Lemon Live at 5. We're so glad that you are here. We have a lot to get to. I'm going to go right to it because I'm glad. Let me know where you're streaming from. I don't know if I'll get to read everybody's location, but we're glad that you're here. When we came to you this morning, we had breaking news concerning that police report detailing an alleged sexual assault committed by Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. So we did that, but I thought that would be the biggest news of the day. And when I thought that, you know what, I was wrong because this afternoon there was a bombshell coming out from Washington. Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz announcing that he is withdrawing from consideration as president-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general.
This was less than an hour after he was contacted by my former colleagues at CNN for a comment on new reporting of a second president sexual encounter between gates and then underage girl suffice it to say that trump world is in chaos right now but everyone else is breathing a sigh of relief um because gates is universally disliked in washington i've been telling people they're saying that this is partisan it is not partisan it's partisan for the republicans because republicans Don't like Matt Gaetz. Democrats don't either. He is universally disliked. OK, so Gaetz's withdrawal is encouraging, not just because he won't have been alleged. We won't have an alleged, you know, S.A. or just an alleged predator.
as the Attorney General, but because it has taken Trump about two weeks to squander really what some believe was a mandate and to remind Americans of his staggering incompetence and his dysfunction. There's a lot of dysfunction going on in the party. So I said this was just moments after my former colleagues over at CNN had contacted he was contacted by them for a comment on new reporting of a second encounter between Gates and an underage girl. This is Paula Reid reporting on CNN. I want you to pay attention. It is very interesting, the timing here. Here it is.
This news came as you were about to publish some reporting about Matt Gaetz. You reached out to him for comment, and just before you were about to move forward with the story you were going to air with, you got this response from Gaetz announcing that he was withdrawing.
That's exactly right. We firmed up our reporting earlier today. I reached out to his team around 1130 this morning. We made it clear that we would go with this news story at 1230. And we offered them the opportunity to weigh in. And instead of getting a response or a comment just about a minute before we were about to go live on CNN, he notified the world that he is withdrawing from consideration as attorney general. And this news story is that the Ethics Committee was told of a second sexual encounter with a woman who was just 17 years old. Now, she told the woman who was just 17 at the time, she testified to the committee that this second sexual encounter, which has never been reported before, also included another adult woman.
And I want to note that she testified about both sexual encounters, not only to the House Ethics Committee, but also in a civil deposition down in Florida, and that her testimony has been consistent. Now, the Congressman, of course, was investigated by the Justice Department over these allegations. They did not charge him. I will also note that the adult woman who was allegedly part of this encounter has also denied that she had sex with the minor. But this was an important piece of reporting. Because not only is it a second alleged sexual encounter with someone that was underage, it's also something that we didn't know before. I have covered the investigations into Congressman Gates for four years.
We've broken so much news on the criminal investigation. We broke the news that he wasn't going to be charged. We've been following the House ethics probe. This was the first time that we had ever heard that the under alleged underage victim said she had sex with him twice and that the second encounter allegedly involved an adult woman.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:22–4:56
2
What breaking Matt Gaetz revelation prompted his withdrawal from Attorney General consideration?
4:56–10:50
3
How did CNN reporting about a second alleged encounter influence Gaetz’s decision?
10:50–28:02
4
Why are Republicans inside Washington opposing Matt Gaetz’s nomination?
28:02–44:35
5
What arguments do guests give for releasing the House Ethics report on Gaetz?
44:35–1:00:31
Speakers
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