3 PM ET: Gaetz withdraws, new Russia sanctions, Smollett conviction overturned & more

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration for attorney general shortly before new CNN reporting on him was due to be published. We’ll tell you how some Palestinian leaders are reacting to news of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu. President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new sanctions against Russia’s third largest bank, among others. The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned an actor’s controversial conviction on five counts of disorderly conduct. Plus, a volcano in Iceland has erupted... again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	Hi from CNN. This is Madeline Thompson with five things you need to know for Thursday, November 21st.
0:34.6	Former Florida representative Matt Gates posted on X today that he is withdrawing from
0:39.7	consideration for Attorney General. Yesterday, Republicans on the House Ethics Committee
0:44.5	voted not to release the results of their probe into allegations against Gates, including
0:49.6	quote, sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. The former Florida lawmaker has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
0:57.0	CNN's Paula Reid has the latest.
0:59.2	This comes about 45 minutes after we reached out to him about some new reporting that we have.
1:04.9	And this new reporting is that there was a second sexual encounter between him and an underage
1:10.7	woman at a party in 2017.
1:13.6	I think this is also important, this new reporting, because it reminds people that there
1:18.2	are things about this investigation that are still not public.
1:21.9	But again, we reached out 45 minutes ago to Gates's team to tell them that we were going
1:25.8	to go public with this story. We told them it would go public around 1230.
1:29.3	And before he got a statement, he announced that he is withdrawing from his attorney general nomination.
1:34.3	Palestinian politicians are celebrating a decision by the International Criminal Court
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