Tonight, the House report on Matt Gates is released 37 pages detailing why the panel says he may have violated state criminal law.

Plus, trouble for Mike Johnson's leadership.

The president-elect reportedly unhappy with him after the funding chaos.

And a sitting Texas congresswoman was missing for six months and finally turned up in a senior

living facility. The questions it's raising about Congress's problem with transparency as the

11th hour gets underway on this Monday night.

Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl. And in exactly four weeks, Donald John Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. And today we learn what is in that House Ethics Report about his first pick for Attorney General Matt Gates. Here's my colleague Ryan Nobles with all of those details.

Tonight, a bombshell report on Capitol Hill.

The House Ethics Committee revealing the results of their investigation into former

Congressman Matt Gates, determining there is substantial evidence that Gates violated

House rules related to prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts,

special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress. Democrat Glenn Ivy, a member of the

committee, voted to release the report. We're releasing it all on the public can draw its own conclusions.

Specifically, the committee pointed to a 2017 encounter, Gates had, with a woman who testified

she had just finished her junior year in high school and was only 17 when she and Gates had sex

twice at a party. Gates has repeatedly denied having sex with anyone underage,

and the woman said she did not tell Gates that she was 17. The committee also detailed $90,000

in payments to 12 different women that investigators concluded was used to pay for sex and illicit

drugs. While women testified the encounters were consensual, one witness testified that, quote,

when I look back on certain moments, I feel violated.

Gates has admitted to womanizing and drinking and smoking during his younger years,

but says his conduct was embarrassing, but not criminal.

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