Liz Goodwin
Appearances
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The allegations that could sink Matt Gaetz’s AG nomination
Republicans have been under a lot of pressure from Trump supporters and activists not to release it, given it's expected to be pretty damaging to Matt Gaetz. The committee is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, so it would take at least one Republican voting to release it for it to get out.
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The allegations that could sink Matt Gaetz’s AG nomination
And Greenberg cooperated with the Justice Department in order to try to get a reduced sentence, which included, you know, saying who else was at these parties.
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The allegations that could sink Matt Gaetz’s AG nomination
Trump's been very clear he wants to make unconventional picks that are going to shake up Washington. But this one was still a big surprise just because, you know, me coming from the Hill and just knowing how Republicans feel about Matt Gaetz, I just immediately couldn't really believe it because it just he's a very hard person to get Republicans to rally around.
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Why so many incarcerated people are fighting L.A.’s wildfires
I think Hegseth probably has had the most kind of roller coaster journey. That's Liz Goodwin, who covers the Senate for The Washington Post. Initially, Trump was actually privately telling some allies that he was thinking about pulling him and putting Ron DeSantis in that role instead.
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Why so many incarcerated people are fighting L.A.’s wildfires
When he first initially got hit by some of these allegations coming out, Trump was sort of wavering privately on the pick.
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Why so many incarcerated people are fighting L.A.’s wildfires
You started seeing other senators who had raised questions about his past drinking and things like that, saying, you know, I met with him one on one. Now I don't have these concerns. And people just really started getting in line. And and he just kind of brought himself back from the dead. Really, it was pretty remarkable to see.
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Why so many incarcerated people are fighting L.A.’s wildfires
But he went from basically Matt Gaetz territory to really shoring himself up in like the course of a week.
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Why so many incarcerated people are fighting L.A.’s wildfires
some of these nominees are really on a glide path, honestly. There's Marco Rubio, who senators know and trust for the most part. Someone like Elise Stefanik from the House tapped to be the U.N. ambassador. I also do not anticipate a lot of action there. So there really is just this one tier of nominees that are in trouble because Senate Republicans are going to have 53 votes the