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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0	Today was the day that the House Ethics Committee was reportedly said to vote to release its report on former Florida Congressman and Trump's new pick for Attorney General, Republican Matt Gates.
0:11.3	For years now, the Ethics Committee has been investigating a string of allegations against Gates, the most serious being the allegation that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old
0:21.4	girl potentially violating sex trafficking laws. Gates denies these allegations, but this week,
0:28.1	just hours after being chosen by Trump for Attorney General and just days before the Ethics
0:33.1	Committee was set to potentially release its report, Gates resigned from Congress. And now, Gates's
0:39.3	Republican colleagues are saying that by resigning, Gates is no longer under the Ethics Committee's
0:44.3	jurisdiction. And so its report, and whatever is in its report, should not see the light of day.
0:50.3	It is all a very convenient series of events and excuses. However, the House Ethics
0:58.8	Committee has released reports on lawmakers after they have resigned multiple times in the past.
1:05.4	Precedent is not in Matt Gates' favor. But Republicans control the House, and so what this really is here
1:13.2	is a test of party, not precedent.
1:18.1	As far as the timing of a release your report or something, I don't know. The Speaker of the House
1:21.5	is not involved in that, can't be involved in that. So I'm not really the person probably
1:25.3	to answer that question.
1:26.3	Now, that was the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on Wednesday. The in that. So I'm not really the person probably to answer that question.
1:32.9	Now, that was the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday, the day that Matt Gates resigned.
1:39.1	Johnson's stance then was that as the Speaker of the House, he is not involved in Ethics Committee matters like this one.
1:45.8	In fact, he cannot be involved. That was Mike Johnson's take on the matter Wednesday. And this is Mike Johnson's take on the matter today.
1:51.7	I believe it is very important to maintain the House's tradition of not issuing ethics reports
1:58.6	on people who are no longer members of Congress.
2:01.1	I think it would open a Pandora's box.
2:02.7	I think it's a very important rule that should be maintained.
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