Why Did Trump Pick Gaetz and Gabbard?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You let him try violin because you love him. |
| 0:03.6 | And if you love him that much, love him enough to make sure he's buckled up and in the back seat. |
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| 0:17.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:24.1 | Matt Gates for Attorney General, Pete Hagseth for Defense Secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. |
| 0:32.3 | Donald Trump, Royals, Washington, with those three nominees for his cabinet. |
| 0:37.2 | Who are they? Why did he choose them? And what |
| 0:39.5 | are their chances of being confirmed in the next Senate that will have 53 Republican votes? Welcome, |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Paul as you go, here with our daily Potomac Watch podcast for Wall Street Journal opinion. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm here with Kim Strassel and Kyle Peterson. Donald Trump is |
| 0:55.6 | filling out his government in rapid fashion, and to say he's upsetting the status quo is |
| 1:00.8 | understating it by a long way. Let's start with Matt Gates, the Florida Congressman, four-term |
| 1:07.4 | Florida Congressman as Attorney General. Listen to him talk at the conservative political |
| 1:12.8 | action conference about the FBI and law enforcement that he could be running as attorney |
| 1:19.0 | general. It seems like every time I turn around, they're engaged in surveillance or list building |
| 1:25.1 | or monitoring, and I don't care if it takes every second of our time |
| 1:30.4 | and every ounce of our energy we either get this government back on our side or we defund and |
| 1:36.7 | get rid of abolish the FBI CDC ATF DOJ every last one of them if they do not come to heal. |
| 1:48.8 | Well, there you have it, Kim. |
| 1:51.0 | Why do you think Donald Trump chose Matt Gates? |
| 1:53.9 | Well, I do agree with Matt Gates in one broad way that there are major problems at the Department of Justice. And I would argue that one of the |
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