Former Florida Congressman Matt Gates withdrew today as President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General.

This puts a lot of pressure on Trump because now there's not much time to find somebody worse.

He dropped out on social media, posting, while the momentum was strong,

it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to

the critical work of the Trump Vance transition. That is true. All of this attention on this

sex criminal was unfairly distracting from the critical work of all the other sex criminals

who been nominated. This was a shocking announcement from the Trump team.

And as you can say, no one was more surprised than Matt Gates.

Late night show reactions, really.

And we're going to go through the headlines, but I think you know, as a football fan

of what I really want to be talking about

right now. But here's the New York Times, Gates withdraws. Wall Street Journal, Gates is out.

Bondi is picked at DOJ. Interesting. And the New York Post, still the official newspaper of record

for Morning Joe, shut the gates.

I don't know if you have a laugh, we've been saying that for a year, but Willie.

I think they like the picture.

Oh, okay, shut the gates.

Okay.

Growing up for five years in upstate New York, our dream was going out, running out just like you

in New Jersey, and when it started snowing,

you know, would get the Nerf football, which, by the way, had the consistency of a rock after about three minutes outside in the freezing weather.

And we would dream of being like the Browns and the Steelers, literally the Browns and the Steelers or the Vikings and whatever.

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