Tonight on the readout.

Politics is tough and it's many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much.

A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get.

Yeah, smooth as in no violent mobs this time.

But Trump is ignoring all the rules for the handover of power as he assembles his

reality show administration, including Dr. Oz, the wrestling lady, the guy from the Fox

comfy couch, weekend edition, and some other guy from MTV.

This is all fine. It's all fine. Plus, our readout guide to navigating autocracy.

Tonight, how women should start preparing for the very serious challenges that await us

these next four years.

But we begin tonight with the House Ethics Committee,

which met behind closed doors to discuss what they will do about the panel's report on former Florida representative Matt Gates.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General. At the end of the day,

what seems clear is that we got more Republican obfuscation and delay tactics.

Is the report actually done at this point? The report is not. It's not.

So how could you possibly release it if it's not that?

That is something that we will be talking about today.

And that's another reason I have some reservations about releasing any country report.

Yes, Republicans use that excuse as a premise to delay a decision on releasing the ethics report.

While the committee was deliberating, Gates was working Capitol Hill to secure the votes for his confirmation.

It was a multi-pronged attack from Maga World.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, who was working to secure the votes from his

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