Yep, it's the Weekender. Hey, everybody. Jared Yates-Saxton. I am back in my recording area,

and I'm here with my good friend Nick Hausman. How you doing, Nick? It's always good to have you back in the

familiar climes of your studio. It is nice to be back, and unfortunately, we have a lot of

shit that we have to talk about. That's right, everybody. Matt Gates is backed out of the nomination.

We got to talk about this terrible, terrible bathroom situation in Congress.

A lot of what the new Trump administration is planning to do.

And also MSNBC, maybe not long for this world.

A reminder to everybody, go to patreon.com slash muckreg podcast in order to support the show, gain full access to the weekender on Fridays. And in case, you know, you can't read between the lines when it comes to something like MSNBC, now is the time to support independent media. Patreon.com slash munkreg podcast. Nick, Matt Gates is not going to be the next attorney general of the

United States of America. After a turbulent few days, which we will talk more about in just a second,

Gates has announced that he is withdrawing his nomination after multiple pieces of evidence have

emerged, that he has engaged in sex trafficking and assaulting underage women.

I thought that he was going to end up being nominated through the recess process, but it turns

out that there are some things, particularly if you're a completely hateable piece of shit,

and you have the entire party against you that

aren't going to necessarily fall by the wayside. Well, hang on though, because yesterday I thought,

first of all, yeah, I was on the same page with you in terms of recess appointment. We were looking

into all of that, how Trump was going to force them to recess. But then yesterday, Senator Thune

met with Gates and said that it went well. He said he's doing what he should be doing. So my take on that as of midday yesterday was that they were going to get enough votes normally to get him in. That's what it felt like he was moving towards season. He's in a lie and saying that it never happened. It's not whatever. They're going to shrug and be like, well, he's under oath. He's saying it didn't happen. It must not have happened, right? Or, especially because you have a whole section of the GOP that thinks that 17-year-olds are not minors. You can't. We've seen this. This is not a thing I'm making up. So, but, but you know, don't forget, Jared, there's always a second sexual encounter.

Oh, it's so.

And I can't believe that that was the one.

But by the way, the second sexual encounter was at the same party.

Yeah.

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