Matt Gaetz and the limits of GOP loyalty

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

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Summary

What we know about the investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz. And a covid-stricken New Delhi family’s harrowing 12-day ordeal.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was a darling of the Republican right. Now he’s embroiled in allegations that he engaged in sex trafficking involving a minor. Matt Zapotosky reports the latest on the investigation.

Foreign affairs reporter Ruby Mellen brings us the story of two sisters scrambling to find care for their parents in coronavirus-ravaged New Delhi.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post.
0:12.0	Do you have a minute?
0:13.0	Hi, this is Dan Zagfe.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Tuesday, May 18.
0:24.0	Today, how the investigation into Matt Gaetz
0:27.0	is testing the Department of Justice and two sisters' mission
0:32.0	to save their parents.
0:34.0	Matt Gaetz is a congressman from Florida.
0:41.0	He's sort of most well known because he's one of these young,
0:45.0	very strident defenders of now former President Donald Trump.
0:50.0	Matt Zapatowski covers the Justice Department for the Post.
0:56.0	Over the past couple of months, he's been following the unfolding investigation
1:01.0	into congressman Matt Gaetz.
1:03.0	He's kind of a darling of the very conservative right.
1:07.0	He's a guy who comes from kind of a fairly prominent but old school Republican family in Florida
1:13.0	and has cut his own path by just aligning with this kind of firebrandy,
1:18.0	you know, right-leaning conservative.
1:21.0	And so does a lot of media appearances.
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