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It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

It was obvious to anyone who can count

that Matt Gates was not going to be confirmed

as Attorney General.

It was just clear.

It's basic math.

Didn't have the votes.

And boom, yesterday afternoon,

Gates withdrew his nomination.

And it seems like it's been going on for weeks, but it actually was just eight days.

Eight days of chaos.

He's obviously not the only Trump nominee to face controversy. and we'll get to all of that.

But first, welcome to the Friday edition of Media BuzzMeeter.

I hope you have a good weekend coming up.

I have to start rewriting the scripts again. This is what it's like in the Trump era.

I mean, look, the election was only this month. We're not even close to an inauguration. And, you know, it's once again, everything Trump does, of course, has to be covered.

I mean, this whole notion of, oh, we can't give Donald Trump a platform.

In fact, there's even this growing media, what would you call it, trend or not a meme, but it's

effort to minimize Trump's victory.

Well, you know, he really didn't win by that much,

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