Okay. There is a lot happening in Washington, D.C. right now. I mean a lot. And instead of keeping up with all of it, you might be choosing to kind of tune it out to keep your head under the pillow, watch a bunch

of rom-coms and sweatpants. Believe me, I get it. It sounds really good. And even if you are

been paying attention and you have been paying attention over the last several weeks, you may have

found yourself losing track of the many, many scandals swirling around the people Donald Trump

has chosen for some of the most important jobs in our government. But these scandals swirling around the people Donald Trump has chosen for some of the most important

jobs in our government. But these scandals aren't a salacious tabloid fodder to talk about at the water

cooler. They actually matter. Not only for how the government is run, but what your lives are

going to look like over the next four years and then your children's lives beyond that.

I mean, it matters here in the United States and it also matters around the world.

When this is the kind of coverage blanketing the front pages about the next administration,

pick for attorney general had been a subject of a sex trafficking investigation.

Defense Secretary Pick denies sexual assault allegation,

acknowledges payment to accuser. Trump's pick for top Intel job has been accused of, quote,

traitorous parroting of Russian propaganda, sex parties, illegal drugs, underage girls,

spy picks stuns Intel World, sympathetic views toward Russia, drug-fueled orgies, that's an actual headline, possible

insider threat, sex with minor. And let's just pause on that last one for a second. Because earlier

today, the lawyer representing a woman who testified that she saw Matt Gates have sex with a minor

spoke out in a new interview with NBC's Halley Jackson.

What did your client witness at this party? She was walking outside to the pool and she observed to a right, her friend who was 17 at the time,

of having sex with representative Gates. They were leaned up to what she described to as a game table of some type.

They did testify both of them that they consent it to the activities.

They were also asked whether or not they were victims, and then she broke down in tears,

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