Tonight on 360, breaking news. New reporting on the money, Matt Gates allegedly paid women for sex at drug-fueled sex parties after Republicans on the House Ethics Committee blocked the release of a report on the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Also tonight, the case that horrified the nation, Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons and blamed it on a black carjacker, comes

up for parole after 30 years in prison, her argument to go free and how the parole board ruled.

And later, a report from Ukraine where the American embassy is back in operation after concerns

the escalating war might make it a target, and where the U.S. is now sending anti-personnel

mines before Trump takes office.

Good evening. We begin with breaking news on the nomination of Matt Gates for Attorney General.

Reporting just out in the New York Times, the headline, a first for potential attorneys

general. Federal inquiry traced payments from Gates to women. Now, take a look. It's a chart

that the Times obtained that shows pictures of Matt

Gates and his friend, Joel Greenberg, with links to women and payments. It's a lot of links.

How does the piece, this is how the piece describes it. Quote, the document assembled by investigators

during a three-year sex trafficking investigation to Mr. Gates is a chart that shows a web of thousands of

dollars in Venmo payments between Mr. Gates and a group of his friends, associates and women

who had drug-fueled sex parties between 2017 and 2020, according to testimony, the participants

are said to have given to federal congressional investigators. The report continues, at the parties, women and a girl who was 17 at the time were paid for sex,

according to accounts of the participant's testimony from people briefed on what they said.

Trump spokesman, Stephen Chung, had this to say to the Times, quoting him now,

this purposeful leaking of classified investigative material is the sort of politicized DOJ weaponization

that Matt Gates will end. And Gates, as we've said before, denies all allegations against him.

Now, all of this capped off a day that saw Vice President-elect Vance, accompany Gates to meet with

Republican senators, which left two sources close to the President-elect, quote, optimistic,

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