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Bye bye, Gaetz. Hello, Attorney General Pam Bondi

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What A Day

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In news that was somehow both genuinely surprising and 100 percent predictable, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be the next U.S. Attorney General on Thursday. If President-elect Donald Trump was upset about the whole thing, he didn’t show it. Within hours, he had a new pick for the job: Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, another longtime MAGA devotee. Still, it’s also not like Gaetz was Trump’s only problematic nominee, and it’s not clear how many of the others will actually make it through the Senate confirmation process. Tim Miller, host of The Bulwark podcast and a former Republican strategist, explains what Gaetz’s withdrawal means for the rest of Trump’s nominees. 

And headlines: The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, CNN released old tape of RFK Jr. comparing Trump to Hitler, and the Justice Department wants Google to sell off Chrome.

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0:00.0

It's Friday, November 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that stands with AMC theaters in their effort to stop theater kids from singing during showings of Wicked Part 1.

0:13.1

According to Vulture, the theater chain is airing a 30-second ad before the movie asking viewers not to sing along, because there will be a sing-along version in theaters in

0:21.7

December, and also because it's the most irritating thing I can imagine ever happening in my life.

0:31.9

On today's show, the International Criminal Court issues a warrant for the arrest of

0:36.0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

0:37.9

and what the WWE has to tell us about a Trump presidency. Let's get into it. In news that is somehow

0:45.1

both genuinely surprising and 100% predictable, former Florida Congressman Matt Gates withdrew

0:51.3

from consideration to be the next U.S. Attorney General on Thursday.

0:55.1

Surprising because if there's one thing Gates seems to love, it's a nasty public fight with people

0:59.9

who hate him. predictable because, have you been watching the news lately? Gates reportedly bowed out

1:05.9

just after CNN told him it had even more damaging details, if you can believe it, about his alleged sexual

1:11.9

misconduct. The network reported that the House Ethics Committee was told Gates had sex with a 17-year-old

1:17.4

girl twice at a party in 2017. The committee had been investigating Gates up until he resigned

1:23.2

from Congress on allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use. Allegations Gates has long denied.

1:29.2

If President-elect Donald Trump was upset about the whole thing, he didn't show it.

1:33.2

Because within hours, he already had a new nominee.

1:36.3

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy.

1:39.4

She's best known for being the lead state attorney general in a Republican effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act, serving on Trump's legal team during his first impeachment. Oh,

1:49.2

and dropping an investigation into the scandal-plagued Trump University after getting a

1:53.6

$25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation. At least she has more relevant

2:00.4

legal experience than Gates.

2:02.4

But it's also not like Gates was Trump's only problematic nominee.

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