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We're now in day two of the extraordinary GOP meltdown over Donald Trump's pick of Matt

Gates for Attorney General.

Numerous Republican senators are strongly opposing the move, including ones who are staunch Trump allies. One is even calling

for the release of a House Ethics Committee report on Gates that examines drug use and sexual

misconduct. Yet even as this is all happening, Trump just announced that he will nominate Robert F.

Kennedy, Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It's really hard to say which of

these two will be more of a disaster, but taken together, the message is very clear. We may be in

some serious trouble. We're chatting about all this with Nina Burleigh, author of a great new cover story for the New Republic, called Trump 2.0, Here Comes the Night, which reports on how bad things are going to get.

Thanks for coming on, Nina.

You're welcome, and thanks for having me, Greg.

So Gates first, senators like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are sharply criticizing the idea of Gates' attorney general.

Others like Tom Tillis are saying he probably won't get confirmed.

John Cornyn is demanding the release of this House Ethics Committee report, which looked into whether Gates had sex with a minor, which he denies, among other things.

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