Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. I'm sitting in traffic, said traffic
Speaker 1: and listening to John and Deborah, and they were talking
Speaker 1: about the unisex bathrooms and Congress and fight over having
Speaker 1: transgender women, and everyone's lost their minds about this on
Speaker 1: both sides, and something struck me. You'll have to follow
Speaker 1: me on this one. Stick with me, follow the breadcrumbs.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the hypothetical would you rather see a bear.
Speaker 2: Or a man in the woods?
Speaker 1: Yes, and all the people who lost their minds and said,
Speaker 1: I would much rather see a bear. Men are scary.
Speaker 1: I'm so scared of men. I never know when they're
Speaker 1: going to attack me. Men are awful, yuck men. I'd
Speaker 1: rather see a grizzly bear. The same people that we're
Speaker 1: saying they'd choose the bear are the same people that
Speaker 1: now are okay with penises in their bathrooms. Those are
Speaker 1: the same people you are so terrified of that same
Speaker 1: penis two months ago with the bear or a man
Speaker 1: in the woods hypothetical, so terrified of that penis. But
Speaker 1: this one you're allowing into your bathroom. You're fighting for
Speaker 1: it to be here, fighting for it.
Speaker 2: You're dying on the hill to put it in your bathroom.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3: I don't think people see the logic, the logical speed
Speaker 3: bumps in that.
Speaker 4: I don't think they realize it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but isn't I mean, it just it struck me
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, like that is that
Speaker 1: is such a glaring, highlighted hypocrisy.
Speaker 4: Yes, I totally agree all the time.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 4: I have them in my bathroom all the time.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, it's funny. I was listening to
Speaker 1: Valentine this I've been listening to a lot of our
Speaker 1: radio friends. Good Valentine this morning, was talking about I
Speaker 1: meant to go up there and talk to him about it.
Speaker 1: He was saying to the people on his show that
Speaker 1: you know the older security guard, the one who I
Speaker 1: encountered in the elevator, who told me I had a
Speaker 1: nice shape.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy with the really
Speaker 3: thick ac accent.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Valentine's like, hey, you guys, you know the older security guy.
Speaker 1: And they're all like, yeah, he's a really good guy.
Speaker 1: He's got good vibes.
Speaker 4: A whole bit.
Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, I just saw him in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I was in a urinal.
Speaker 1: He was in a urinal and he said and clear,
Speaker 1: like he's learning English or it's a little bit not
Speaker 1: fully developed or what have you. And he says, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, good morning, And I say good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you. Oh, I'm good. I'm a little tired.
Speaker 1: And ten seconds go by and he says to Valentine,
Speaker 1: you have a nice shape. No, he said, do you
Speaker 1: feel good after your peepee? Like two grown men? Do
Speaker 1: you feel good after your peepee? And I was like,
Speaker 1: that is so in line with my interaction with him
Speaker 1: in the elevator.
Speaker 4: That's great, Like you know, when you're.
Speaker 2: Learning a length to be trying to be like clokwheel and.
Speaker 4: Just he's like, he was very complimentary to you, Leullie.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, but you know, you just you got
Speaker 2: it a little bit wrong, right, you gotta just.
Speaker 4: Have it a little bit wrong. Very funny. Uh well, listen,
Speaker 4: Jesse Smolet, I will never be the man that this
Speaker 4: did not happen.
Speaker 1: To God, nobody woke up this morning and wanted Jesse
Speaker 1: Smolette news.
Speaker 3: The Illinois State Supreme Court has overturned Jesse Smolette's conviction
Speaker 3: on charges that he staged that attack against himself in
Speaker 3: downtown Chicago five years ago and lied to police about it.
Speaker 3: But and this is important, he's gonna walk around saying, see,
Speaker 3: I told you it really happened. That's not what the
Speaker 3: Illinois Supreme Court decided in this case. What the Illinois
Speaker 3: State Supreme Court said was that a special prosecutor should
Speaker 3: not have been allowed to intervene because the state's attorney
Speaker 3: for Cook County initially dropped the charges and made a
Speaker 3: deal with just Smollette ten thousand dollars bond, something like
Speaker 3: eighteen or twenty hours community service, whatever it was.
Speaker 4: And the ruling.
Speaker 3: And the appeal did not address any of the continued
Speaker 3: claims of innocence, because remember after the deal was struck,
Speaker 3: that's when the special prosecutor came in and they put
Speaker 3: him on charges and they found him guilty of a
Speaker 3: felony and you know, one hundred and fifty days jail,
Speaker 3: whatever it was.
Speaker 4: It's a legal loophole. It's a legal loophole.
Speaker 3: And this is the thing that I think people forget
Speaker 3: about or people are lazy about when it comes to
Speaker 3: legal cases like this. This is not a determination that
Speaker 3: Jesse Smolette did not fake that whole thing and make
Speaker 3: it up. It's a determination that the prosecutors went about
Speaker 3: prosecuting him.
Speaker 2: In the wrong way to do process violation.
Speaker 3: It's similar to other court cases, high profile cases. Take
Speaker 3: the classified documents case involving President Trump down in Florida.
Speaker 3: It's it's a similar decision in that judge, A Lean
Speaker 3: Cannon in that case decided that Jack Smith was appointed incorrectly,
Speaker 3: not that former President elect Trump should not have had
Speaker 3: those classified documents and violated law. It was that the
Speaker 3: prosecution due process portion of this case was done incorrectly.
Speaker 3: So does not forget that these are not we're not
Speaker 3: exonerating who wrote that on your computer?
Speaker 4: Who left you these notes?
Speaker 1: These the notes that say things like Shannon smells or
Speaker 1: your show sucks, yes, or your TACKI and everybody knows it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you know who wrote them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just say it's retribution. I started it. See,
Speaker 1: it's always the second punch. It's always the one who
Speaker 1: throws a second punch that gets in trouble.
Speaker 4: I didn't see the first one.
Speaker 2: So this goes back to.
Speaker 1: When I wrote a bunch of post its on left
Speaker 1: a bunch of post its on Oscar's computer. This was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a year ago. Now, Oscar sucks. Oscar
Speaker 1: is the worst of you. Upset you upset people who
Speaker 1: are not Oscar. People lost their minds, like HR was
Speaker 1: called in and there was you know, bosses contacted about this.
Speaker 1: And I've known Oscar for five hundred years and this
Speaker 1: is our love language.
Speaker 2: This is how we speak to each other.
Speaker 4: You suck, No, you suck.
Speaker 1: And the people that saw the notes thought that this
Speaker 1: was just like workplace bullying or something that they don't
Speaker 1: understand the relationship.
Speaker 3: Someone would actually write that intending to be mean, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So now that everyone's been fired, I can go back
Speaker 1: to being a bully to Oscar outwardly.
Speaker 2: And he is and he is dishing it back.
Speaker 3: That's oh okay. So you're saying Oscar did it? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: well that's good. At least I feel like I didn't
Speaker 3: know who it was and I was cons you were
Speaker 3: offended for me, you were aggrieved.
Speaker 4: No, I just didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't want there to become another weird controversial, the
Speaker 3: non existent fight conflict between shows or whoever it was.
Speaker 2: Oh, you thought it was the Woody show that these.
Speaker 4: I actually did. I thought I thought it was Morgan.
Speaker 4: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: No, they just leave pickles. Yeah, well pickles.
Speaker 1: They don't know there were dill and bread and butter
Speaker 1: pickles on the oh count Well, it's funny that you
Speaker 1: bring that up, because we were making sliders the other
Speaker 1: night at home and I had the bread and butter
Speaker 1: pickles or whatever, the butter pickles, and my husband, who's
Speaker 1: not particular about food, said, why don't you get the
Speaker 1: real pickles, get the dil.
Speaker 2: We only have the other pickles.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I didn't know that that was
Speaker 1: going to be a big differentiation between the butter pickles
Speaker 1: and the kosher dill pickles. But apparently it was a
Speaker 1: sticking point some time. So now I've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of pickles.
Speaker 3: Ters, it's not about the pickles. Oh really Yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: he had something else going on. Wow, he felt like
Speaker 3: you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: How would you know if you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2: I'm always paying attention except for when I'm here.
Speaker 1: Can I talk about the awful forecast for Democrats right now.
Speaker 1: If this polling is accurate, which I don't know.
Speaker 2: You never know, do you, But listen to this.
Speaker 1: My head exploded when I read this. This is a
Speaker 1: poll from Puck News slash Echelon Insights.
Speaker 2: So I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4: I've heard of puck.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this poll says most Democrats want Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: to be the presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: They're ignoring the.
Speaker 1: They are dumb dumbs. Why aren't you learning from your mistakes?
Speaker 2: They say?
Speaker 1: Forty one percent of likely Democratic voters said that they
Speaker 1: would choose Kamala Harris over Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: Well set the bar high.
Speaker 1: And Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Despite her loss, Newsom came
Speaker 1: in second with eight percent support. Now keep in mind
Speaker 1: that's quite the divide. She had forty one percent support,
Speaker 1: he had eight percent. Shapiro came in third with seven percent.
Speaker 1: Tim Walls and Pete boot Edge Edge both got six
Speaker 1: percent in the survey, about sixteen percent. We're still not
Speaker 1: sure who who they would choose. We're a long way away. Obviously,
Speaker 1: more names will service, but the fact that forty one
Speaker 1: percent of people polled in this particular survey would roll
Speaker 1: the dice with her.
Speaker 2: Again, is insane to me.
Speaker 3: I mean, to take an optimistic look at it. You
Speaker 3: figure what she did in one hundred days of campaigning.
Speaker 3: She came in I was gonna say she came in second,
Speaker 3: but they were.
Speaker 2: Voting for her. They were voting against Trump, right, find
Speaker 2: someone to vote for.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'm saying is they have the mentality of,
Speaker 3: look what she did with one hundred days and a
Speaker 3: billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Maybe if we did it over the course of a
Speaker 4: year and a half of.
Speaker 2: A billion dollars, come on.
Speaker 4: Well, that's that's why they got, That's why they lost.
Speaker 4: I mean that kind of mentality.
Speaker 3: And we've talked about Nate Silver before, the guy who
Speaker 3: started five point thirty eight this polster. He wrote on
Speaker 3: Twitter today that Biden should resign. Yeah today, I know,
Speaker 3: is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent
Speaker 3: to be president right now?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a very difficult job. It's terrifying what's going on.
Speaker 3: He said, It's a dangerous world, extremely high stakes decisions
Speaker 3: in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out
Speaker 3: the last two months.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a real ding dong there between the
Speaker 1: two of them. But yeah, this is a he can't
Speaker 1: take questions when all of this is going on. He's
Speaker 1: not taking question because he can't. And there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. It's not knocking them, man, but he's it's
Speaker 1: just an acknowledgment.
Speaker 2: That acknowledgement.
Speaker 3: There comes a time in a boy's life when they
Speaker 3: start losing your brain. So the Gates reports, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: House Ethics Committee did not agree to release this report
Speaker 3: on Matt Gates yesterday. Republicans have apparently been insisting that
Speaker 3: it's not done, but a couple other people familiar with
Speaker 3: the process have said, yes, it is. Some Republicans in
Speaker 3: the Senate specifically, are now suggesting that Gates consider withdrawing
Speaker 3: his nomination to save himself a wrenching ordeal of this
Speaker 3: embarrassing confirmation heary hearing that one Republican senator told The Hill,
Speaker 3: it would be Cavanaugh on steroids. You remember the yes,
Speaker 3: the fiasco that was, I like Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing,
Speaker 3: and it's it would.
Speaker 1: Be wildly entertaining and awfully embarrassing.
Speaker 3: And Mike John and we've said the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 3: has suggested he does not want the report release for
Speaker 3: a couple of reasons. Number one, he is also one
Speaker 3: that says it's not done, but he also said it's
Speaker 3: it would break precedent because of the fact that Matt
Speaker 3: gets resigned from Congress. The Washington Post editorial Board today
Speaker 3: points out there's plenty of precedent for releasing reports.
Speaker 4: Mark Foley is one of the more recent ones.
Speaker 3: Mark Foley was the guy who was sending inappropriate text
Speaker 3: messages to house pages. You talk about the time that
Speaker 3: I wore that mesh shirt and pink hotpants on the stage,
Speaker 3: it was because we were doing a spoof song on
Speaker 3: Mark Foley nexting these pages.
Speaker 1: Right, it's a it's a complete Tara diddle that day
Speaker 1: two days in a row with the Tara Diddle.
Speaker 2: No, that was Monday.
Speaker 4: Is that Mondy.
Speaker 1: It is a Tarra Diddle because there's no way it's
Speaker 1: about precedent. It's about protecting asses. It's about everyone covering
Speaker 1: their ass in Washington. Start going. I hate to side
Speaker 1: with that woman whatever her name is, with the three
Speaker 1: names Marjorie.
Speaker 2: What I but she's right.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just terrified of their own dirty laundry
Speaker 1: getting aired.
Speaker 4: It's possible, that's all.
Speaker 3: It's about the name Anthony Wiener has cropped back up
Speaker 3: in circles because he's potentially looking at another political run.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what office he's looking for, but
Speaker 3: the Ethics Committee was looking into Anthony Wiener when he
Speaker 3: stepped down in twenty eleven. But then, of course he
Speaker 3: ran for New York mayor. He was still transmitting images
Speaker 3: to women that he shouldn't have been, and even after
Speaker 3: his attempt had comeback, he got sent He got caught
Speaker 3: sending explicit photos.
Speaker 4: Waite High school girl in.
Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen, soon after you asked him if you could
Speaker 3: look at his phone, and he said no, hell no.
Speaker 2: The gut never lies. The gut never lies.
Speaker 4: Your decisions about men have been correct, That's right.
Speaker 2: I was wondering when he was going to pull out
Speaker 2: and Matt Gates.
Speaker 4: Pull out his name from the who's going to withdraw
Speaker 4: his name?
Speaker 1: Withdraw his name from because this was going to be
Speaker 1: a mess. Matt Gates wasn't going to sit there and
Speaker 1: let everyone comb through his dirty past, which could be present.
Speaker 1: He was withdrawing his nomination for Attorney General.
Speaker 3: He just wrote on Twitter about ten minutes ago, I
Speaker 3: had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday.
Speaker 4: Remember he went with JD.
Speaker 3: Vance to go discuss this with Senate Republicans. He says,
Speaker 3: I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of
Speaker 3: so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear
Speaker 3: that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the
Speaker 3: critical work of the Trump Vance transition. There's no time
Speaker 3: to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington's scuffle. Thus, I'll
Speaker 3: be withdrawing my name from consideration to service Attorney General.
Speaker 3: Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one.
Speaker 3: He said, I remain fully committed to see that Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump is the most successful president in history. I will
Speaker 3: forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead
Speaker 3: the Department of Justice, and I'm certain he will save America.
Speaker 3: Do not forget. He resigned from Congress last week, so
Speaker 3: that seat is open. Senator Marco Rubio of the Great
Speaker 3: State of Florida has been chosen as the Secretary of
Speaker 3: State for the next administration.
Speaker 4: There's two very important.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the Senate seat is more important than
Speaker 3: Matt Gates's congressional seat. But now Ron de Santis has
Speaker 3: some decisions to make about who he's going to put
Speaker 3: in those places a.
Speaker 4: Lot of power, and.
Speaker 3: What if what if he appoints Matt Gates to fill
Speaker 3: out Marco Rubio's Senate term.
Speaker 2: I don't think he would.
Speaker 1: DeSantis is not I don't think he's a curious guy.
Speaker 3: Well, I was just going to say, I'm curious to
Speaker 3: see what that relationship is like, because listen, Ronda Santis
Speaker 3: is a Trump supporter now, but I don't I don't
Speaker 3: get the impression that he's beholden. You know, It's not
Speaker 3: like Donald Trump is going to ge on the phone
Speaker 3: with the Florida governor and say, hey, Matt is looking
Speaker 3: for a job, maybe you put him in Marco's seat.
Speaker 3: But there is there is all of the political machinations
Speaker 3: that exist.
Speaker 1: Now Matt Gates is replacement, not chosen by Ronda Santis.
Speaker 1: Now is that a special election will be held in
Speaker 1: Florida to fill the vacancy left by Matt Gates. Contrary
Speaker 1: to reports that say Ron de Santis can appoint a replacement,
Speaker 1: but he.
Speaker 4: Will be appointing, he will be appointing.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio's yes, Yeah, it'll be a special election.
Speaker 4: All right. Well that's that is pretty significant.
Speaker 3: Breaking news again, Matt Gates has decided that he's going
Speaker 3: to withdraw his name for consideration to be.
Speaker 4: The next Attorney General of the United States. We have
Speaker 4: one right now, we have them one. Oh cool.
Speaker 1: John Dekker joins us from the White House only attorney
Speaker 1: in the White House Press Corps. And got to believe
Speaker 1: that this is going to send shockwaves.
Speaker 2: Not of such big shock waves.
Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of thought that this was going
Speaker 1: to happen at some point, with all the talk of
Speaker 1: all the dirty laundry that would be exposed.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right. I was speaking with Amy King this
Speaker 5: morning about this, and I told her the writing was
Speaker 5: on the wall. This is not a nomination that would last.
Speaker 5: And I also predicted that mack Gates would withdraw his
Speaker 5: name from consideration, sparing Donald Trump what could potentially have
Speaker 5: been a really messy confirmation process. So not a surprise.
Speaker 5: I think the only thing that may be surprising is
Speaker 5: the timing of it. That had happened just today after
Speaker 5: he was lobbying Republican senators on Capitol Hill to support
Speaker 5: his nomination. Obviously that did not go well, and as
Speaker 5: a result, he dropped out of consideration to be the
Speaker 5: next Attorney general.
Speaker 1: Does this speak to anything regarding jd Vance? He took
Speaker 1: those meetings with Gates the power or that he may
Speaker 1: or may not have to sway those minds. Well.
Speaker 5: Jd Vance has only been in the US Senate for
Speaker 5: two years. He's not like this wise old senate Republican.
Speaker 5: He's a freshman senator. People forget that, and so it's
Speaker 5: not like he had the juice to get him over
Speaker 5: the finish line. In fact, what jd Vance was doing
Speaker 5: in these meetings was just simply making introductions and letting
Speaker 5: Matt Gates do all the talking. So it yeah, I
Speaker 5: wouldn't blame it on jd Vance. Having said all that,
Speaker 5: it was Matt Gates that had really an uphill battle
Speaker 5: based upon the allegations, the serious allegations that had been
Speaker 5: made against the number one and then number two, the
Speaker 5: fact that he had said such unkind things about the
Speaker 5: very Republican senators who are ultimately going to pass judgment
Speaker 5: on his nomination.
Speaker 3: So we know that last week President Elect Trump no
Speaker 3: need Todd Blanche to be Deputy Attorney General. Todd blanche
Speaker 3: being one of Trump's criminal defense attorneys, does he immediately
Speaker 3: just in common think, does he jump to be the
Speaker 3: nominee for attorney general?
Speaker 4: Or are they going to start this process over?
Speaker 5: You think, well, that's a great question. You know, whether
Speaker 5: or not the number two and number three people that
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is already named at the DOJ, whether they
Speaker 5: step up one rung in the ladder. That's up to
Speaker 5: Donald Trump to decide that. I know there are a
Speaker 5: number of individuals who would describe themselves and are loyal
Speaker 5: Republicans to Donald Trump who could serve in the same
Speaker 5: capacity that Matt Gates would have served in, but they
Speaker 5: don't have the baggage that Matt Gates brought to the table.
Speaker 1: John Decker, of course, White House correspondent we're talking to
Speaker 1: right now. How does it work? What does the conversation
Speaker 1: look like? Does Gates call Trump and say I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this or how does that work?
Speaker 2: And how does that go over on Trump?
Speaker 5: Well, I think he does give feedback to the President
Speaker 5: elect to let him know how those meetings with these
Speaker 5: Republican senators went yesterday. And although Matt Gates speaks in
Speaker 5: this post on social media, that momentum was on his side.
Speaker 5: That was not the case. There was no momentum whatsoever.
Speaker 5: There wasn't one Republican whose army could have twisted, who
Speaker 5: had already raised reservations or doubts about about Matt Gates
Speaker 5: being the next attorney general. So I can't tell you
Speaker 5: for certain you know who made the call. But Matt
Speaker 5: Gates put out the social media post indicating that he
Speaker 5: was withdrawing his name from consideration.
Speaker 3: And then finally, does this have any spillover for the
Speaker 3: nomination of Pete Hegsath as a Secretary of Defense because
Speaker 3: of the potential because of the allegations that were made
Speaker 3: against him from twenty seventeen that it sounds like the
Speaker 3: Trump team might not have known everything about.
Speaker 5: It out Here's what I will say. And if you
Speaker 5: don't know Washington, I know it very well, having covered
Speaker 5: the White House going all the way back to Bill Clinton.
Speaker 5: It is a pack mentality. And now the focus is
Speaker 5: no longer on Matt Gates. The focus of this pack
Speaker 5: will now turn its attention to Pete Hegsett so he
Speaker 5: can now prepare for being in the limelight. And that's
Speaker 5: not in a good way, as it relates to allegations
Speaker 5: that have been made against him, and now the spotlight
Speaker 5: will turn to him as to whether or not he
Speaker 5: can survive of these allegations and be the next leader
Speaker 5: at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting a lot of fresh, new graphic details
Speaker 1: about what happened in that Monterey hotel room back in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, So probably going to be hearing a lot
Speaker 1: more about that, as you predict.
Speaker 2: John, Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, thanks for having me talk you real soon.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, John Becker there from the White House Press Corps.
Speaker 3: My point about Rohn DeSantis and the potential to fill
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio seat Senator Gates is now trending on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Well, dig I dug into their relationship because we were
Speaker 1: wondering about that because we knew that they did have
Speaker 1: a close relationship years ago. Gates was the one who
Speaker 1: kind of orchestrated DeSantis's transition team when he was elected governor,
Speaker 1: called him the best governor in the country essentially, But
Speaker 1: that was before all of Matt Gates's Matt Gates stuff
Speaker 1: came to the surface. So I don't know if DeSantis
Speaker 1: has excommunicated him or what happened there or if he
Speaker 1: maintains a friendship.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: Breaking news that just came in a short time ago
Speaker 3: is that Matt Gates has withdrawn his name from consideration
Speaker 3: to be the next attorney general. Already speculation as to
Speaker 3: who might be the favorite now to replace as that nominee,
Speaker 3: and I mentioned Todd Blanche just last week had been
Speaker 3: named the nominee for Deputy Attorney General because he was
Speaker 3: one of Trump's defense attorneys through different criminal cases. But again,
Speaker 3: we'll get some more information as we get closer, perhaps
Speaker 3: some information reaction from mar Alago and what's going on
Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. The problem that dogged Matt Gates were
Speaker 3: the allegations or the investigations into potential human trafficking, sex
Speaker 3: with underage girls, hinky money stuff, etc. Again, no criminal
Speaker 3: charges have ever been brought against him, and he's denied
Speaker 3: those allegations the whole time. There's a problem with the
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense nominee.
Speaker 1: Also, graphic new details in a Monterey City police report
Speaker 1: have been released.
Speaker 2: They were released last night.
Speaker 1: Involving a twenty seventeen sexual assault allegation against Pete haig Seth.
Speaker 1: They detail a boozy night, a pool side argument, and
Speaker 1: two conflicting versions of what took place inside the hotel
Speaker 1: room of Trump's pick for Deaf sec SEC Deaf sect Deaf.
Speaker 3: I this twenty two page report, and they said that
Speaker 3: it has some conflicting information in it, at least the
Speaker 3: portrayal of what exactly was going.
Speaker 2: It is classic, he said, she said, matter right.
Speaker 4: He did and has admitted to.
Speaker 3: This is Pete hag Seth paid this woman as part
Speaker 3: of a non disclosure agreement.
Speaker 1: When she was asked about this, by the way, by
Speaker 1: I think CNN, she started crying this week.
Speaker 2: At the time.
Speaker 1: So there's a twenty two page police report that cites video,
Speaker 1: surveillance footage, text messages, interviews with witnesses, and a detailed,
Speaker 1: lurid and conflicting portrayal.
Speaker 3: So it's October twenty seventeen. He and the woman still unidentified,
Speaker 3: Jane Do, were attending a party after a conference held
Speaker 3: by the californ A Federation of Republican Women. This is
Speaker 3: up with the Higatt Regency Monterey and Hegseeth at the
Speaker 3: time was a Fox News commentator.
Speaker 4: He was the one who gave the keynote address to
Speaker 4: this group.
Speaker 1: After the party, she went to the hotel's bar with
Speaker 1: a group of women. She says that's when things got fuzzy.
Speaker 1: The reason that this police report was filed is because
Speaker 1: she went to a hospital four days after this happened
Speaker 1: for a sexual assault exam, and at the time she
Speaker 1: told the nurse at the hospital she thought something had
Speaker 1: been slipped into her drink. So anyway, she's at the
Speaker 1: hotel bar, she says that's when things got fuzzy.
Speaker 3: She said to police that she saw Pete Heggsth acting
Speaker 3: inappropriate and including women rubbing women on their legs, and
Speaker 3: after they left the bar, they got into an argument
Speaker 3: about the behavior towards women at the conference.
Speaker 1: It was loud enough to spark a complaint from other
Speaker 1: guests about a disturbance near the pool. When the employee
Speaker 1: went to respond to this, haig Seth began to swear
Speaker 1: to curse, saying he had the freedom of speech. No boy,
Speaker 1: and the woman intervened she apologized for hag Seth. According
Speaker 1: to the report, the employee told police that hag Seth.
Speaker 3: Was wasted, yeah, but that the woman was standing on
Speaker 3: her own was very coherent. Now, haig Seth told police, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had a couple drinks. I was buzzed but not intoxicated.
Speaker 3: So they go to the mostological thing is they go
Speaker 3: to his hotel room.
Speaker 1: They go to his hotel room, and the woman told
Speaker 1: police that haig Seth asked her who she was texting
Speaker 1: and took her phone. She was texting her husband, who
Speaker 1: was staying at the hotel with her and their small children.
Speaker 3: That's weird, she says. She tried to leave the room,
Speaker 3: that he blocked the door. She recalled saying no repeatedly,
Speaker 3: but not much else.
Speaker 1: At the time, I should say, he was in the
Speaker 1: midst of getting a divorce from his second wife after
Speaker 1: fathering a child with a producer at Fox said it
Speaker 1: was a consensual, consensual encounter. They both acknowledged it was
Speaker 1: something they should not be doing.
Speaker 3: She told him she would tell her husband that she
Speaker 3: had fallen asleep in another hotel room her cops. Her
Speaker 3: husband told the cops that when she stopped responding to
Speaker 3: texts and calls, he went to look for her, but
Speaker 3: came back to the room after he couldn't find her.
Speaker 1: She says she returned to their hotel room in the
Speaker 1: early morning hours, which to me, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess if she was trying to hide it and pretend
Speaker 1: that she just fell asleep. But why would you stay
Speaker 1: with somebody who assaulted you for longer than?
Speaker 2: I mean? I don't know how it works.
Speaker 4: Again, she says that he was blocking the door.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he continued to block the door,
Speaker 3: but that was the way that she described it.
Speaker 1: Also, doesn't it kind of make it go away? If
Speaker 1: you were assaulted and didn't choose to have an affair
Speaker 1: on your husband when your two small children earth in
Speaker 1: the hotel room?
Speaker 2: Doesn't that make it kind of go away?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Well, it's like that show, Oh you haven't finished that show?
Speaker 1: She cheats on her husband with this guy, right, and
Speaker 1: then it's not cheating.
Speaker 4: Has remorse about it or yeah? Of the story?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well that's and again this this is from the police report.
Speaker 3: The prosecutors in Monterey County decided not to charge him
Speaker 3: with anything. Right because of those the wiggle room, the
Speaker 3: discrepancies in the stories.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
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