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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast. I'm joined by our senior congressional reporter, Melanie Zanona, for a very interesting conversation on the biggest news on the Hill this week, Matt Gates being nominated to Attorney General by President-elect Donald Trump.

Mel, thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Max.

And I apologize if my iced coffee is jangling around.

It's been a very long week for us here on Capitol Hill.

We love that.

That's just Capitol Hill, ASMR.

So thank you for the content.

But we'll get right to it.

This was a story which dominated coverage, dominated headlines this week, and we were very first on it. So credit to you. So many different angles here to this. But let's start with just where you were when you heard the news that Trump intended to nominate Matt Gates. Definitely, if not one of the most controversial members on Capitol Hill to be his

attorney, take me through.

Yes, yes.

So I was actually at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill.

That is where the House Republican Conference was holding their internal leadership elections.

Usually that's where all the source of the drama is, but relatively drama-free when it came

to leadership elections this week.

And so I was standing

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