Way Too Early 3/31/21

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., accused a former Justice Department official of a multimillion-dollar extortion plot on Tuesday, hours after a news report said the lawmaker was being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a minor and paid for her to travel with him.

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0:00.0	Who is this girl?
0:02.0	What are they talking about in New York Times?
0:04.0	The person doesn't exist.
0:05.0	I have not had a relationship with a 17-year-old.
0:08.0	That is totally false.
0:10.0	Republican Congressman Matt Gates, responding to a new report,
0:13.0	the federal investigators are looking into whether he had a sexual relationship with an underage girl.
0:19.0	The question is, did the congressman violate sex trafficking
0:22.7	laws? Plus, President Biden hits the road today to formally unveil his more than $2 trillion
0:28.7	dollar infrastructure plan. The question is, how does he plan to pay for it? And the crew is all
0:34.5	set for the first ever all civilian spaceflight, not a single astronaut on board.
0:40.8	The question is whether this is the beginning, something new.
0:43.8	It's way too early for this.
0:53.1	Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that lifts off right now. I am Alicia Menendez in for Casey Hunt on this Wednesday, March 31st. We're going to start with the news. The New York Times citing three sources reports Republican Congressman Matt Gates of Florida is currently under federal investigation for
1:11.6	possible sex trafficking. According to the Times, the Justice Department is looking into
1:16.3	whether Gates, a close ally of Donald Trump had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old
1:21.4	girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him. The investigation reportedly began in
1:26.4	the final months of the Trump administration
1:28.4	under Attorney General Bill Barr. Sources tell the times that the investigation is part of a larger
1:34.2	probe into a political ally, Joel Greenberg, who's pictured here with Gates and Roger Stone in 2017.
1:41.7	Greenberg resigned a Seminole County tax collector last June after being indicted on sex
1:46.6	trafficking charges involving at least one underage girl. No charges have been brought against
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