Matt Gaetz Withdraws As AG Nominee - Part 1

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It's amazing when you realize that the election was just about two weeks ago, two weeks and two days, I guess, uh, And that already President elect Trump has nominated so many individuals. There are a bunch of positions that have not been nominated yet. Labor, Secretary, treasurer, Treasury, agriculture, Housing, those are all big, big departments. But he I think when you go through his group, uh, there's there's there's a lot

I I I approve it. That's because the mysteriously that that that investigation, thanks somehow is our person got hacked the night before and leaked out. So that's how he with his thing today.

Well, either way, either way, Mike, the problem was that this guy a whole bunch of allegations swirling around him. I realized that people in a court of law enjoy the presumption of innocence. However, however, the politics is not a court of law, and as a consequence, I I thought his selection was was a mistake from the beginning. I think of it as sort of the equivalent in tennis of an unforced error. I mean, did he not realize that this this was going to be a flashpoint? MATI?

How how how many? I only heard Matt gage on one allegation? What the the drug one? And the and the and the and the woman situation? You're right, that's all I heard about?

Yeah, I think but they were well they were They was talking about drug usage.

Uh.

And there was also talking about under girls. Apparently there were two seventeen year old girls who had must have had some proof. I don't think these were people who were making up stories out of thin air. That they that they must have had some interaction with him, And I believe that there was some some evidence, some documents. I haven't read the the House report, but I don't think that report was going to clear him, is what

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Yeah yeah, company, Yeah, so he was.

He was kind of a bomb toss from from day one. I don't really know that you want you know what I would call a bomb tosser, you know, a metaphorical bomb tosser.

I know, I know, But I just say that his new pactor, Pam bonnie FFEI as a really good pack. She's no joke. She is no joke. I know that.

Okay, she'ld be a good pick. I would have suggested John you, I don't know if you know who you is, but not but not Y.

But he he was a was his first administration. He was Pam was in Trump's the first administration.

Right. But but I think that he could have been chosen as a you know, at a higher office metter of fact. I'm not sure that you was in his first administration.

I don't believe Pam he was, Pam wash.

You no, no, no, right. So she would have been at AL that would have been before she was Attorney General. I don't I don't know enough about all of these characters as to uh, she probably would have been at a lower level. I mean, an administration has hundreds thousands of people, if you will, working in and around the White House and the EO B.

Yeah, I know, I don't remember her Zach position. I remember that, you know. But just a suggestion, Dan, but not for tonight. But going forward, though, why can't we talk about mar Healey and Michelle Woo not giving up the illegals that are committing crimes in mass juseus and why we can't send them back and why are we still paying them and why she's just gas sighting the Master's people about that situation. That's my problem with it.

Well, we'll get to all those issues. I mean, you know, there's only one issue or two issues we can a night. We've we've talked about it.

Yea, I know that.

Thank you, Yeah, thank you for the suggestion. Thank you for the suggestion. We're open to all suggestions. Okay, I'm looking at them. I'm looking at Pam Bondi's bio. She was the Florida Attorney General from twenty eleven to twenty nineteen. I don't think she served within the Trump administration. She certainly knows Donald Trump, there's no question about that. And so she's now she is now the nominee. But I don't think she served in the in the first Trump administration.

To be to be fun, you was something in that I can't remember. I heard about it earlier, but I can't remember right this minute, I can't remember. With the second I'm Jonathan Blank Sorr. I apologize, but yeah, that's all. But I think you watched some of good facts, you know. I mean, I think you know he's definitely going out very bold, wants this guy going right away. He very crowntive. He's not playing around this time. You know, he has

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, Let's let's just leave it there. Uh. I think that he could do He should bring more people into his administration who represent different constituencies. That's That's all I'm suggesting is, hey, look what he has nominated so far. I think that there is there, there are options that he should exercise. Hey, Mike, hate to do this to you, but I'm flat out of time, right, No, I have a great night, good night, six point seven,

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By the way, a couple of callers called in, which was which is great. I appreciate that. You're more than welcome to come on the air. By the way, Pim Bondi was briefly part of President Trump's impeachment team in twenty twenty. She had finished her term as an attorney general in the state of Florida. She was not part of his administration, folks, she was part of his impeachment team. And that was the point that I was trying to

How you doing Dan good?

I just think that Matt Gates thing was perfectly obvious, and whoever was advising President LEC. Trump on that did him no favors.

No, you're right, you're right about that. And but it looks like this this BONDI lady will do good. Hey, I got a scoop for you from down here in Pennsylvania.

All right, go ahead.

It's just a matter of time before the Trump emissaries go out to western Pennsylvania and sit down with John Fetterman and his team and convince John to switch from Democrat to Republican.

I think you're dreaming on that one. But well, if that happens, Bill, I fully expect you to call me and and take a huge victory lap. I don't. I don't think so. I think I think Fetterman is at his heart a genuine liberal, not quite a progressive, but I think he's a. He's a he's a diet in the world Democrat, and I think you got to respect

No case He conceded Dan, he conceded this evening.

Oh well, that's great, Okay, that's just to put some of these things behind us is great. You know, his dad had been a Democratic senator before him, so he was sort of a sort of a family tradition to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate. That's good to know. I had not seen that as yet. So that's a real piece of information that is helpful. So that settles the Senate, if I'm not mistaken. Fifty three Republicans and forty seven Democrats.

Yeah, And the way that went down was kind of weird because Olber and Bucks County, Dan the commissioner over there, it was I.

Saw that army, I saw the comments she made, which were bizarre She eventually apologized for them, but she basically said, hey, look all is fair in love, war and politics, and if I got to I got a cheat. I've got to cheat.

After the State Supreme Court, okay ruled in Trump's favor about these you know, the signing and the ballots and the date and yeah, basically, well we're not going to do it like that in Bucks County.

Yeah, I mean, just unbelievable. Uh, I just don't understand how she she was an elected official, right, yeah.

I think she was a commissioner. Commissioner.

Believe that I'm not appointed. I hope that she either resigned. She's she's disgraceful. I mean, she's doing the same thing that Donald Trump was accused of not accepting the results. Trump was saying, look, votes have been suppressed or whatever, and it was he was proven wrong in all those

Yeah, I do a lot in the news, and uh now they're now they're all focused on Pete hagg sets Okay, yes, and I don't ask you. Here comes the me too movement. The me too movement is back.

Dan, Well, they tend to be somewhat selective and where their concerns are. And uh oh, I I remember the Clinton years in the White House. I don't know the me too movement could could take. I think they made their point and I think most people realize that I don't know the circumstances in this headset thing. I've read it, and I've read that there was some sort of dalliance and that there was a payment made, and I don't know, it sounds it didn't sound to me like I guess

Right all my all my Democrat friends. Okay, whenever they whenever they mentioned something like that, I go, I go, yeah, they're saying, well, he paid he paid them off, he paid the lady off to uh, you know, non disclosure and that. And then I remember Paula Jones. You ever hear of Paula Jones eight hundred thousand bucks.

Yeah. Well, I think that I think that Bill Clinton was ahead of his time where the me Too movement was a little late. I think he could have used the me Too movement and a number of circumstances.

Uh, if they're really gonna I think maybe John Tenderman. But I guarantee you within the next six months, then there's gonna be there's gonna be some Democrats that joined the Republican Party.

Yeah, you know, you know I had on tonight earlier, and I don't know if I would hope you remember Patrick Murphy, a former Democratic congress fro from Massachusetts. He's very concerned about veteran suicide. Had him on in the first hour, uh, one of our one of our four four guests during the first hour. I've seen him on TV before. I liked Murphy when he was in Congress, and I like him even more now he's out of Congress.

Because I can I ask you a question? Yeah, go ahead, Hey, Now, I don't know if you had them on or not. Seth Molten, Okay, I keep saying I had Seth Moulton.

On last week. I had Seth Molten on last week.

Yes, okay. My question was this Now. I heard him say that he has two young, young daughters and he didn't want his young daughters playing sports against any men.

Well, he said he didn't want to see them run over by some male who was, you know, participating in female sports. If you want to listen to what he had to say, I had him on a week ago tonight during the nine o'clock hour. So if you go to Nightside on demand you can listen. Just go to the nine o'clock hour from Thursday, November fourteenth. But yeah, he's I like Seth Moulton. Seth Seth did several tours

Yeah, but he waited to go after the election to say that, right, he didn't say that before the election.

We didn't say it before the election. But what he said was that it's issues like this which are costing his the Democratic Party, the support of you know, the middle class voters. I you know, again, if the Democrats had won the election, he probably wouldn't have said it, but he did say it, and he caught quite a bit of grief. Bill, I gotta let you run here because time is time slipping on me here.

Thanks for calling in your crew up there.

All right, thanks much, and keep keep calling. And also, if you want to go back and listen, it's there, just go to Night's You going to the computer.

Well, I got to go up to my daughter's house. She does all that stuff up there.

Well, I'm just saying, you know, she can play Nightside on demand for you. You just roll it back and you go to last Thursday, November fourteenth, nine o'clock and you can listen to what he had to say. We had him on for half an hour. For the first thirty minutes of that hour.

Okay, hey, thank you very much.

Thank you, Bill, appreciate your call.

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I got to take a quick break here six two, five, four, ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three thirty. I'm looking to hear from you as to what you think about Donald Trump's cabinet pick so far. Some of them are controversial, but I think the only one that was doomed is the fellow who resigned today, Congressman, former Congressman Matt Gates. He may, by the way, be able to return to Congress, ironically, or maybe he said that it was his intention to

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Back to the phones. Back to the phones we go, Brovo. Hope we got pronouncing that correctly. Brovo and Newton Brovo, welcome next on Nightside.

Hi, Dan Brovo here longtime listener, second time.

Caller, second time caller. Okay, Brovo, no applause, but appreciate you, appreciate your return appearance.

What you're taking all this, it's it's been a while. It was when Hillary and Obama were fighting it out for the Democratic nomination.

And well, if I'm correct on if I'm correct on that, Brovio, it would have been two thousand and eight, and this is right, it's two thousand So that's a mere sixteen years. Brovo. If you don't make the next call for sixteen years, I may not be here. Just be aware of that.

Okay, Well, you know, like I said, longtime listener. So I've been listening, I've been thank you, thank you taking it all in. I think you've got a pretty good perspective and that you know, uh talking about out just you know, delivering the facts and backing it up because I feel like, I mean, you you were around before the digital age and it was different, and you know, people kept their politics to themselves and their religion and

You learned it being staying away for sixteen years. You've earned it.

I've built it's all built up. But I'm not angry. You know, I'm actually at a great place. And I feel like, you know, everybody who's talking about revenge and retribution, let's just call it. You know, you won the election fair and square. That's the retribution. That's the revenge. Okay, No one's going to be storming the capitals, and you know, let's now we need to make it work because we're in a Really this is the stuff I feared growing up,

I'm gonna By the way, Brovio, just factually, you didn't dodge the draft if you were not eligible, you simply weren't drafted. You didn't dodge the draft. The people who went to Canada and refused to serve, they dodge the draft. Don't put yourself in that category.

If oh, I I no, thank you. I say it facetiously because it's like it felt like a bullet grazed my head, you know, and I feel like, you know, and seriously, I mean, this is nineteen sixty eight meets twenty twenty five again. You know, there's so many similarities with you know, presidents stepping down and vice president's running and Bobby Kennedy is back, and you know, but that was the time well you.

Know, attempt either assassinations or attempted assassinations.

That's right. And yet this time he dodged a bullet. He you know, he got hit. But yeah, I mean, think about what would have happened if he got hit, and this country would be in chaos. So in a way, and I look at Trump now, and he's smiling. He seems like a happy guy. You know, he's not like he's angry. And I think with the picks, especially Matt Gates, it's like the loyalists, who you know, will do anything, sell their souls whatever. Sure, Matt you're the guy, here's

He's moving on.

I think he wants to weed out, like you said, drain the swamp, get rid of the radicals, and you know, come to a meeting place where people can get along. Because Trump could really be the uniter of both parties, you know, because he's well ironically, you.

Know, his appeal to voting blocks that primarily were overwhelmingly democratic are still democratic. But he's made tremendous inroads, whether you like him or not, with Hispanic voters, Black voters, and I still want to look at I haven't done a real rundown. I believe that he came either pretty close to fifty to fifty or might have even won the female vote after all the stuff that we had heard. It's yeah, it's an amazing, you know return. And I hope that for the sake of all of us, he

I hope so too. And that's why maybe he's just trying to like weed out the.

I still couldn't figure out whether this was going to be the sacrificial lamp that would lamb, that would draw all the fire and the other folks would be able to get I don't know, Brabo, I need to get one more in here before the break. But do me a favor. You know, you make so much sense, and it took you sixteen years to come back. I need callers like you, Okay, I really mean them, Okay. In order to make this show work, I need people who are rational. The only thing worse than a than a

In my that's great, Dan, I love that.

I'd love that.

All right. I'll definitely talk.

Soon, talk soon, and don't wait sixteen years, Brabo eggs.

No, no, no, I'm back in Boston, so I'm not in the time difference.

Thanks, Bell, appreciate it so much. Have a great one. Good night, all right, good night, let me go, Bill Danvers. I'm going to get you in here under the wire before the day.

And I like all the pecks, and actually I Pam BONDI was the one I was thinking about before he picked Gates, to be honest with you, because she's been in the Frenches and and you know she's she doesn't have as much flair as Gates, and she has an irritating.

Dates has no flair. Gates has baggage, I know, but he yeah, well he says fire is you know.

I mean, look what he did the speaker there, you know. But anyhow, and as far as the women vote, I want to say I'm ninety percent sure he lost women overall by seven points, which he lost to Hillary by fifteen. But he carried college educated women, but women, and he carried UH and she won African American women. So all together it was it was seven that he lost by, but he gained and was ahead with women with non college education. So that's what closed the gap. So that's why.

Yeah, well I'm going to get some of that during the break here. To be honest with you, Yeah, that I would. I would tell you. I would tell you that a lot of the National posters, the posters We used Dave Paleologus and John Zogby uh and Spencer, Kimball and Emerson. They were spot on. They were spot on. When that's that dumb pole out of Iowa come out and said that that Harris was leading forty seven to

Yeah.

Well, I think I'm almost suspicious to think that that was almost a suppression poll, you know what I mean type of thing.

Of course it was. There's no question. And by the way, that pollster has now resigned from the newspaper.

Yeah, yeah, there's no way. And and what did he when Iowa I was by fourteen points?

I think right, No, he woned about ten ers. Well, the last I saw it was fifty five to forty five, which was to Kimball. So the posters that I bring to you, guys, are good posters, not people who are hacked posters, and they're trying to impact the election like this. I think her last name, I forget what her last name is. I don't even want to remember her last name. But that was a hack poll that obviously was badly flawed, and there was should have been a huge mayor copa.

They're still still still count a few votes out on the West Coast. I look today, he's almost at seventy seven million, which, when you think about it, Dan, is a phenomenal situation. He improved by about two million votes from last time.

Yet, yeah, yes, he did two million votes. There's a lot of votes. And Barack Obama in his second office now second term, which were consecutive, he went from sixty nine to sixty five million votes. So that's that's interesting as well. Bill, like I got a run, I'll get some breakdown numbers for you the other side. Thanks Man, talk to you soon, Sam and London there you stay right there. I'd like to talk about this till midnight.