What Biden and Trump discussed during their White House meeting

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

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President Biden hosted President-elect Trump at the White House for nearly two hours on Wednesday, a familiar ritual in the peaceful handoff of power. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports on the transition meeting. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0	Well, as we mentioned, President-elect Donald Trump has also nominated one of his most prominent loyalists in Congress to lead the Department of Justice.
0:09.5	Florida Congressman Matt Gates is the former president's pick to serve as the nation's top prosecutor.
0:14.6	He's been a longtime critic of the federal government. Here he is at a conservative conference back in 2023.
0:21.6	I don't care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy.
0:27.6	We either get this government back on our side or we defund and get rid of,
0:32.6	abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ, every last one of them if they do not come to heal.
0:43.9	Gates is well known in Washington for leading efforts to oust former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
0:49.7	He was also recently the subject of a Justice Department investigation himself as prosecutors looked into
0:55.8	allegations of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl and obstructing that investigation.
1:01.9	Prosecutors declined to indict him. Gates was also a major supporter of Mr. Trump's efforts
1:07.1	to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. NPR's Carrie Johnson covers the
1:12.8	Department of Justice and joins us now. Thanks so much for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you.
1:16.9	So this is another sign that Donald Trump is rewarding loyalty as he builds his cabinet, as is his right.
1:23.8	Matt Gates, we should say, though, is a polarizing figure with little prosecutorial experience.
1:29.6	Help us understand why Donald Trump is choosing him.
1:32.5	Matt Gates has minimal legal credentials, Jeff, but he has a shared animus with Donald Trump against the institution of the Justice Department and the FBI.
1:41.1	Both of these men, of course, have been subject to federal investigations,
1:45.0	FBI investigations looked after by federal prosecutors, and they have come away kind of
1:52.0	radicalized in some respects about those institutions and the power they have.
1:57.0	Donald Trump today in his statement announcing he wanted Matt Gates to be the attorney general,
2:01.8	called him tenacious and praised his relentless oversight of the Justice Department from Congress.
2:07.6	And Trump seems to want to clean house at the Justice Department. Matt Gates may be the man
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