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Good morning, everyone. It's Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Friday. Finally, November 22nd. Here is what's driving the day.

First up, when President-elect Donald Trump chose Matt Gates as his nominee for Attorney General. It was a statement pick,

a sign that he wanted to, as some of my colleagues wrote, shocked the DOJ into submission.

Instead, it was Gates himself who ended up tapping out. Get it, that was like a WWE wrestling thing,

right? Get it? Because like the tapping, moving on. Yesterday, Gates withdrew from

consideration as Attorney General, a move with a cascade of implications for the second Trump

administration. A few hours later, the president-elect announced his new pick for AG.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Her selection was greeted warmly by Senate Republicans

who were uneasy about some of Trump's nominees so far, especially Gates. The former Florida

congressman whose prospects had been mortally wounded by allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor,

he denied those, but he was always a controversial pick. He faced pushback, not just

from Democrats, but his fellow Republicans. One of those detractors, North Dakota Senator Kevin Kramer,

who just so happened to be sitting down with our own Rachel Bade to record this morning's

episode of Playbook Deep Dive when the news broke.

After this podcast, go listen to Deep Dive and tune in for his reaction to the news in real time

and his thoughts about some of the other Trump nominees, short of face increased media scrutiny,

now that Gates isn't sucking up all the oxygen.

Perhaps foremost among them is Pete Heegseth, the Fox News personality

that Trump tapped to lead the Defense Department. Late on Wednesday night, authorities in California

released a 2017 police report detailing a woman's account of how Hegseth allegedly sexually assaulted

her in a hotel room. It had vivid details that have only added to the growing questions

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