Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Richardson. She is with the Daily Caller News Foundation
Speaker 1: and a reporter, and we're going to talk a little
Speaker 1: Matt Gates as AG. I do want to throw two
Speaker 1: things out for you. Republican David McCormick has won the
Speaker 1: Senate seat that was being held by Senator Bob Casey.
Speaker 1: Republicans take another Senate seat to pad their lead. And
Speaker 1: if you missed it, Trump has announced rfk Junior for
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Secretary. So two of those things
Speaker 1: happened during the show. Just want to make sure we
Speaker 1: get those in. Caitlin, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me on. So give me your.
Speaker 1: View on the Matt Gates appointment to Attorney General.
Speaker 2: Right, So, what I've been hearing in what a lot
Speaker 2: of people have been expressing is this was not a
Speaker 2: pick that was on anybody's radar. I think there's a
Speaker 2: lot of surprise surrounding this nomination and a lot of
Speaker 2: questions about how it'll go, whether it'll whether he'll be
Speaker 2: able to be confirmed in the Senate, whether the I
Speaker 2: thinks report will still come out. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: questions right now during this nomination. But I think what
Speaker 2: Trump was trying to do in nominating Matt Gates again
Speaker 2: is another question, but it seems to me from conversations
Speaker 2: I've had that you know, Gates is an outsider, He's
Speaker 2: a disruptor, and I think that's something that Trump is
Speaker 2: looking for in the Department of Justice. He wants someone
Speaker 2: who's going to implement his agenda. He's going to be loyal,
Speaker 2: and I think there's some concern that there might be
Speaker 2: career staffs who are working against him, and he wants
Speaker 2: someone who's going to be tough and able to manage
Speaker 2: that and get through what he wants done.
Speaker 1: I think the second part of that is correct, that
Speaker 1: he wants somebody who's going to be tough, who's going
Speaker 1: to be strong, who's going to you know, strip the
Speaker 1: doj of its left wing politicization. But I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, I feel like Matt Gates is the sacrificial
Speaker 1: lamb in this appointment side, that he's going to suck
Speaker 1: up all the negative oxygen. And the fact that he
Speaker 1: immediately resigned from the House just before the House Ethics
Speaker 1: Committee report was supposed to come out, it just calls
Speaker 1: this whole thing into question. Although I also kind of
Speaker 1: feel like this is one of those moves where Trump
Speaker 1: is utilizing a kind of Trumpian strategicy, that he's using
Speaker 1: this appointment to get some other something done, maybe a
Speaker 1: mass resignation at the Department of Justice before the Attorney
Speaker 1: General takes over. I don't know, but this certainly seems
Speaker 1: like it came out of left field.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think that's certainly a possibility
Speaker 2: that I've heard as well, that nominating Matt Gates was,
Speaker 2: you know, potentially a way to get another nominee and
Speaker 2: later on, whether that be Mark Paletta or not Lager,
Speaker 2: someone else who has been one of the more expected candidates.
Speaker 2: I think also this could draw attention away from his
Speaker 2: other nominees. Know, all the focuses on Matt Gates and
Speaker 2: the media's attention and the Senate's attention, I think some
Speaker 2: of the other nominees, which we're also unexpected, might not
Speaker 2: get that same criticism, And that is a possibility. Again,
Speaker 2: we don't fully know what President Trump is thinking when
Speaker 2: he puts his nomination through yet, but there aren't certainly
Speaker 2: a lot of questions that were made to be answered.
Speaker 1: Is there any scuttle but in DC, any rumors about
Speaker 1: what's in that House Ethics report? Has anything come out
Speaker 1: leaked or in otherwise that you know of, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know yet that it has leaked. Obviously, it was
Speaker 2: supposed to there's vote was supposed to be on Friday
Speaker 2: for it to come out, and as we mentioned, his
Speaker 2: red insignation is kind of through rent in that. But
Speaker 2: it does seem that we're going to see it eventually,
Speaker 2: Like I think that it probably will leak. Obviously a
Speaker 2: lot of senators have interested in seeing that, I see
Speaker 2: everyone else. So it's like we will. We'll know at
Speaker 2: some point, but not now. Well.
Speaker 1: CBS News right now is reporting that the Ethics Committee
Speaker 1: is going to be meeting to schedule a vote on
Speaker 1: Friday to decide whether or not to release its report.
Speaker 1: So we'll hopefully know something soon, and I'm guessing they're
Speaker 1: going to act quickly if there's any there there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, if if there's something in
Speaker 1: this report, then we're going to see it right away.
Speaker 1: If it just peters out, if it just kind of
Speaker 1: goes away, then I would think there wouldn't be that
Speaker 1: much in the report, And they're using that we don't
Speaker 1: know to cast doubt over Matt Gates. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that I could imagine if they don't
Speaker 1: release it, it just honestly makes them look kind of
Speaker 1: guilty without actually proving anything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think this will be interesting to watch
Speaker 2: play out. This is a very important appointment for President Trump,
Speaker 2: rest or most close to having have expressed a desire
Speaker 2: to combat censorship, combat laws here that he experienced over
Speaker 2: the past couple of years, to pardon January sixth defendants.
Speaker 2: These are all goals that you want to accomplish through DJ.
Speaker 2: So whoever end up finally in this position is going
Speaker 2: to be very important.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the insight. This is going to be
Speaker 1: a very interesting confirmation hearing to watch. Caitlin Richardson from
Speaker 1: the Daily Caller News Foundation, thanks for your time today.
Speaker 2: Thank you.