Tonight on the readout.

How have your meetings been today, sir?

Can we ask what you've been going great.

Senator has been giving me a lot of good advice.

I'm looking forward to a hearing.

Folks have been very supportive.

Are you confident you can get confirmed by the Senate?

It was a great day.

That great day was yesterday, but apparently wasn't that great.

Because today, he is Trump's former pick for Attorney General.

And in just the last hour, Trump has already announced his replacement.

Meanwhile, we're learning more about Pete Hegseth

and the other Trump picks who have faced an array

of sexual misconduct allegations.

Plus, in newly unearthed audio before he went MAGA,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is heard approving of the comparison of Trump to Hitler and the descriptions

of Trump's base as belligerent idiots.

But we begin tonight with breaking news. In just the last hour, Donald Trump announced he

is nominating former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to be the nation's next attorney general.

This comes after former Florida Congressman Matt Gates today abruptly withdrew his name from consideration after just eight days.

Writing in a post on ex-Twitter, quote, while the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump Vance transition, unquote.

That distraction was the fact that he had been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for about three years over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a 17-year-old girl and illicit drug use, all of which he has repeatedly denied.

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