Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, we're a change. And this time, this time I mean it, because David Axelrod is my guest.

Finally, somebody knows what he's talking about. And right before David joined me on Thursday, we got the news that Matt Gates had withdrawn his name from consideration for Attorney General.

Something about him having sex with an underage young woman, a 17-year-old girl, whom he

paid for the sex. And it seems that a critical mass of Republican senators had a real problem

with that. Hmm. I'm wondering when Trump is going to start vetting these people.

Normally, the FBI does a pretty exhaustive background check on these folks.

Anyway, a few short hours later, Trump had found a replacement to nominate in Gates' place.

Pam Bondi, former state attorney general for Florida.

Bondi had also argued before the United States Senate on behalf of Trump in his first impeachment trial.

So she's already been an attorney general, so more experienced in running that kind of operation than Matt Gates.

Now, all has put some added focus on Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,

who has a little trouble of his own.

Also, I'm guessing no FBI background check.

It seems that Hegseth had sex with a woman in Monterey, California,

where he had been giving a speech and brought the woman to his hotel room.

The woman said she felt that Heg Seth had slipped something into her drink because all she remembered was waking up with Hegsteth over her with his dog tags hanging in her face.

She went to the cops with whom she filed a sexual assault charge against Hexeth, who said he had done nothing wrong. Some time later, Hexeth paid

the woman to agree to a statement that said, well, I don't know what it said, other than

she's to keep quiet about the whole thing.

I have the feeling that there's going to be more of these surprises awaiting us,

but for the moment, let's go to David Axelrod.

And finally, finally, finally, a great one.

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