Breaking this hour, the House Ethics Committee has ended its meeting to discuss its report on allegations of sex trafficking and drug use by Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General.

Firebrand Matt Gates, a figure who commands bipartisan hatred among some of his colleagues but is liked by the one person who calls all of the shots in the Republican

Party, Donald Trump. The chair of the Ethics Committee tells reporters that there has been

no agreement reached to release the report. Hours before the meeting, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance

today joined Matt Gates on Capitol Hill to lobby on behalf of Matt Gates.

Another sign that Team Trump is all in in terms of getting Matt Gates confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Never mind the allegations of sex trafficking or drug use or his, quote, long history of trafficking

and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

That is according to the Anti-Defamation League, or even the lack of legal experience.

The action on Capitol Hill happening in the backdrop of a steady drip of revelations from that congressional investigation.

It was more just the defeatism in his eyes and in his tone.

And it reminded me of like those George W. Bush years,

where there was just kind of an exasperation

that we had to kind of surrender to the frame of the media,

the powers that be,

and that we didn't have the ability to go and carve out our own destiny.

And I saw that in him at the time.

We put forward arguments and affidavits and evidence.

We showed him videos.

We were in the cabinet room meeting with Mike Pence in the days leading up to January 6th.

And I left quite disappointed that he was not motivated by our argument.

Just a quick fact check, David Jolly.

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