November 14, 2025 • 9 mins
TRENDING - Kristi Noem awards $10,000 bonuses to TSA workers as President Trump praises “patriotic” federal employees. We break down the hospitalization of Sen. John Fetterman after a fall in Pittsburgh, and the disturbing new report detailing allegations that an underage homeless girl had sex with Rep. Matt Gaetz in exchange for money to buy braces. We also discuss the passenger outburst that grounded an American Airlines flight carrying four lawmakers, the DNC union outrage over a new 5-day in-office order, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett gets fact-checked on CNN during a discussion about the Epstein documents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nolm handed out ten thousand
dollars checks to TSA agents who showed up for work
while they weren't getting paid during the government shutdown. She
was at the airport in Houston, and here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So, today we are announcing that we are going to
be handing out bonus checks of ten thousand dollars to TSOS,
to agents who work for TSA who served with exemplary service.
And what that means is that we are going to
not only continue their pay checks like they should have
received all along, but also they're going to get a
bonus check for stepping up, taking on extra shifts, for
(00:36):
showing up each and every day, for serving the American
people and taking seriously the mission that the Department of
Homeland Security takes seriously and that they take seriously every
single day, and that's keeping the American people safe.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So she gave checks to about twenty agents.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's not clear whether or not one hundred percent attendance
during the shutdown was required or how many agents across
the country are going to be getting checks. And when
I first saw the story, I thought, oh, that's what
Trump was talking about giving out those ten thousand dollars checks,
but he was talking about the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
They so far haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Received anything, but the TSA agents are getting some cash.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah. So again, like you said, is it going to
be every TSA agent who worked through the shutdown? What
about the air traffic control This was the problem with
the ten thousand dollars bonus idea wor star war?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Does it end? But people? Yeah, why don't I get one?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean, I think those people who work through they
deserve a lot of credits and maybe a little Like
I just don't know how many ten thousand dollars bonuses,
Yeah we can hand out.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Senator John Fetterman has been hospitalized after feeling lightheaded and
falling during his morning walk near his home in Pennsylvania.
He was diagnosed with a ventricular fibrillation flare up, meaning
his heart wasn't pumping blood correctly due to an irregular heartbeat.
His office said he's doing well and receiving routine observation
at the hospital, and he decided to stay there so
(01:57):
doctors can fine tune his medication. After he fell, he
apparently said, if you thought my face looked bad before,
wait until you see it now. So we haven't seen
pictures of what happened to his face, but you know,
it sounds like he got lightheaded, took a digger and injured.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
His face and is now in the hospital, you know,
getting some treatment.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean he's still, you know, dealing with the after
effects of that stroke. I did a lot of damage.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's got to be scary to have something like
that happen, especially after having a stroke.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, but I will say, among all the Democrats in
the Senate, he is one of the most reasonable ones
these days. So hopefully he will be okay and he'll
recover from that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You haven't heard much about Matt Gatz since he resigned
from Congress and withdrew his Attorney general nomination. But now
we're learning more about the allegations he had sex with
a seventeen year old girl, and they're pretty disturbing. A
federal judge here in Florida unsealed the civil case documents
that reveal this seventeen year old girl pretended to be
eighteen and signed up for a sugar dating website. She
(02:57):
was a high school junior working at McDonald's and lived
in a homeless shelter, and she wanted to make some
money to pay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
For her braces.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So first she met Joel Greenberg, who allegedly paid her
four hundred dollars for sex, and then he introduced her
to Matt Gates at a party while she was doing
cocaine in ecstasy. Gates allegedly paid her four hundred dollars
for sex, and she told investigator she also saw him
using cocaine that night, and during a DOJ investigation into
(03:25):
Greenberg's activities, that's when they learned about what Gates allegedly
did with her. He was accused of sex trafficking and
statutory rape, but they didn't end up filing any charges. He's,
of course, denied any wrongdoing, but her attorney told The
New York Times her client wants the public to have
a fuller understanding of how she was victimized, and she said,
(03:47):
power and balances can be aged, but they can also
be financial. My client had little economic security which allowed
for financial leverage over her.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So now we know why Matt Gates couldn't end up
becoming Attorney General and the tag to that story. I'm
just going to read a couple of sentences here real
quick that fall, she moved to live with a family
member in Texas. She didn't complete her senior year in
high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in
the food services industry, and ultimately, with the money she
made from her interactions with men, including Gates and in
(04:18):
the food service industry, she was able to save it
up money for braces.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Braces is what she was looking to buy. Yeah, braces.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Really disturbing story.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Four members of Congress on their way to DC and
the government shutdown almost didn't make it in time. Their
flight had to be diverted after an angry passenger became
disruptive and started screaming, we live in a fascist state,
and her carry on bag also said bleep Trump. So
the flight from Phoenix to d C had been in
the year for two hours when it made an unscheduled
(04:49):
landing in Kansas City. Congressman Greg Stanton, a Democrat from Arizona,
set on X that he and three Republicans were on
the flight, and he thanked the Kansas City police for
handling the situations nationally and without incident. This woman was
so out of control that they had to divert the plane,
and then after they landed she was escorted off the
plane and had to get the last word.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yea fascist spot.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, so she just would not stop.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah. It would have been quite something if their government
shutdown continued because of a disruption on a flight getting
members of Congress, members of the House back to d.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
C come bout to reopen yes by a woman who
hates President Trump. DNC staffers are fuming after Chairman Ken
Martin informed them during an all staff meeting on Wednesday
they're now required to show up to work in the
office five days a week starting in February. When he
made the announcement, a flurry of thumbs down emojis popped
up in the zoom chat, with people calling the move
(05:46):
shocking and callous. A DC union rep said it was
shocking to see the DNC chair disregard staff's valid concerns
on today's team call. DNC staff worked extremely hard to
support historic wins for Democrats up and down the ballot
last Tuesday, and this change fails especially callous considering the
current economic conditions created by the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now their agreement.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Their union agreement allows workers to request to work remotely
on occasion, so they're considering their options, and during the call,
Martin said they would have flexibility for personal matters that
warranted remote work, but that Democrats had momentum after election
wins last week and that having staff work together is
conducive to better brainstorming and allows them to make time
(06:33):
sensitive decisions quickly. Near A Tandon, a former advisor to
Joe Biden, said on x if you think democracy is
on the line, working in the office is not a
big ask and there are plenty of other people willing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
To step up. Get yourselves together, people.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, she's right, Like, that's all you hear from
them is how dangerous is dangerous of a time we
live in?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you would think they would want to organize, be together,
have that momentum, and instead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
They all want to sit on their owses at home.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, pretty much, But most of the workforce back in
the office these days, at least most of the week.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett got kind of confused and then
tried to backpedal during a segment on CNN yesterday. She
was talking to Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown about the
Epstein emails, specifically the one where Epstein said, Trump spent
hours at his house with a victim whose name was redacted.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So here's what happened. This is an email from April second,
twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Republicans were saying that that victim is Virginia Giuffrey.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
As you know, she died by suicide.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Chidren very outspoke a very outspoken victim of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Here's the email right here on your screen. She wrote
a book, as you know, and she did not accuse
him of any wrongdoing.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
What do you make about it?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And can you confirm that?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah, I don't know. Obviously it's redacted who the victim is,
so I won't necessarily take the Republicans word on who
it is that's redacted. And I don't know why they
would necessarily redect someone's name who is deceased at this point, the.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Democrats did that. Though the Democrats were.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Done, I understand, and I'm just saying, like, our biggest
concern is to actually make sure that we are protecting victims.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, So she was just all over the place.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's like she wants to have this gotcha moment with
Trump and she's not getting it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yes, the idea that that it's not Virginia Jeffrey's name.
I mean it is, we know it is, and we
know that. Look, it was a weird situation, I thought,
because you had Democrats they released that and without the
context knowing that it's Virginia Jeffrey and knowing what she
had said about Trump and and the fact that he
(08:41):
you know, didn't do anything criminal in her presence when
when she was around. You need that context to better
understand that email. But also, like I pointed out yesterday,
there's been a big, you know, push from both parties
to keep the names of victims redacted. But in this case,
like immediately because the context that you needed it was unreenacted, right,
(09:05):
it made sense.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, and there's a lot of there's plenty of questions
to ask about Trump when it comes to all of this.
Why doesn't he want it all out there? But Jasmine Crockett,
she wants him to be guilty of something.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nolm handed out ten thousand
dollars checks to TSA agents who showed up for work
while they weren't getting paid during the government shutdown. She
was at the airport in Houston, and here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So, today we are announcing that we are going to
be handing out bonus checks of ten thousand dollars to TSOS,
to agents who work for TSA who served with exemplary service.
And what that means is that we are going to
not only continue their pay checks like they should have
received all along, but also they're going to get a
bonus check for stepping up, taking on extra shifts, for
(00:36):
showing up each and every day, for serving the American
people and taking seriously the mission that the Department of
Homeland Security takes seriously and that they take seriously every
single day, and that's keeping the American people safe.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So she gave checks to about twenty agents.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's not clear whether or not one hundred percent attendance
during the shutdown was required or how many agents across
the country are going to be getting checks. And when
I first saw the story, I thought, oh, that's what
Trump was talking about giving out those ten thousand dollars checks,
but he was talking about the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
They so far haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Received anything, but the TSA agents are getting some cash.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah. So again, like you said, is it going to
be every TSA agent who worked through the shutdown? What
about the air traffic control This was the problem with
the ten thousand dollars bonus idea wor star war?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Does it end? But people? Yeah, why don't I get one?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean, I think those people who work through they
deserve a lot of credits and maybe a little Like
I just don't know how many ten thousand dollars bonuses,
Yeah we can hand out.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Senator John Fetterman has been hospitalized after feeling lightheaded and
falling during his morning walk near his home in Pennsylvania.
He was diagnosed with a ventricular fibrillation flare up, meaning
his heart wasn't pumping blood correctly due to an irregular heartbeat.
His office said he's doing well and receiving routine observation
at the hospital, and he decided to stay there so
(01:57):
doctors can fine tune his medication. After he fell, he
apparently said, if you thought my face looked bad before,
wait until you see it now. So we haven't seen
pictures of what happened to his face, but you know,
it sounds like he got lightheaded, took a digger and injured.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
His face and is now in the hospital, you know,
getting some treatment.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean he's still, you know, dealing with the after
effects of that stroke. I did a lot of damage.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's got to be scary to have something like
that happen, especially after having a stroke.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, but I will say, among all the Democrats in
the Senate, he is one of the most reasonable ones
these days. So hopefully he will be okay and he'll
recover from that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You haven't heard much about Matt Gatz since he resigned
from Congress and withdrew his Attorney general nomination. But now
we're learning more about the allegations he had sex with
a seventeen year old girl, and they're pretty disturbing. A
federal judge here in Florida unsealed the civil case documents
that reveal this seventeen year old girl pretended to be
eighteen and signed up for a sugar dating website. She
(02:57):
was a high school junior working at McDonald's and lived
in a homeless shelter, and she wanted to make some
money to pay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
For her braces.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So first she met Joel Greenberg, who allegedly paid her
four hundred dollars for sex, and then he introduced her
to Matt Gates at a party while she was doing
cocaine in ecstasy. Gates allegedly paid her four hundred dollars
for sex, and she told investigator she also saw him
using cocaine that night, and during a DOJ investigation into
(03:25):
Greenberg's activities, that's when they learned about what Gates allegedly
did with her. He was accused of sex trafficking and
statutory rape, but they didn't end up filing any charges. He's,
of course, denied any wrongdoing, but her attorney told The
New York Times her client wants the public to have
a fuller understanding of how she was victimized, and she said,
(03:47):
power and balances can be aged, but they can also
be financial. My client had little economic security which allowed
for financial leverage over her.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So now we know why Matt Gates couldn't end up
becoming Attorney General and the tag to that story. I'm
just going to read a couple of sentences here real
quick that fall, she moved to live with a family
member in Texas. She didn't complete her senior year in
high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in
the food services industry, and ultimately, with the money she
made from her interactions with men, including Gates and in
(04:18):
the food service industry, she was able to save it
up money for braces.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Braces is what she was looking to buy. Yeah, braces.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Really disturbing story.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Four members of Congress on their way to DC and
the government shutdown almost didn't make it in time. Their
flight had to be diverted after an angry passenger became
disruptive and started screaming, we live in a fascist state,
and her carry on bag also said bleep Trump. So
the flight from Phoenix to d C had been in
the year for two hours when it made an unscheduled
(04:49):
landing in Kansas City. Congressman Greg Stanton, a Democrat from Arizona,
set on X that he and three Republicans were on
the flight, and he thanked the Kansas City police for
handling the situations nationally and without incident. This woman was
so out of control that they had to divert the plane,
and then after they landed she was escorted off the
plane and had to get the last word.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yea fascist spot.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, so she just would not stop.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah. It would have been quite something if their government
shutdown continued because of a disruption on a flight getting
members of Congress, members of the House back to d.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
C come bout to reopen yes by a woman who
hates President Trump. DNC staffers are fuming after Chairman Ken
Martin informed them during an all staff meeting on Wednesday
they're now required to show up to work in the
office five days a week starting in February. When he
made the announcement, a flurry of thumbs down emojis popped
up in the zoom chat, with people calling the move
(05:46):
shocking and callous. A DC union rep said it was
shocking to see the DNC chair disregard staff's valid concerns
on today's team call. DNC staff worked extremely hard to
support historic wins for Democrats up and down the ballot
last Tuesday, and this change fails especially callous considering the
current economic conditions created by the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now their agreement.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Their union agreement allows workers to request to work remotely
on occasion, so they're considering their options, and during the call,
Martin said they would have flexibility for personal matters that
warranted remote work, but that Democrats had momentum after election
wins last week and that having staff work together is
conducive to better brainstorming and allows them to make time
(06:33):
sensitive decisions quickly. Near A Tandon, a former advisor to
Joe Biden, said on x if you think democracy is
on the line, working in the office is not a
big ask and there are plenty of other people willing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
To step up. Get yourselves together, people.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, she's right, Like, that's all you hear from
them is how dangerous is dangerous of a time we
live in?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you would think they would want to organize, be together,
have that momentum, and instead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
They all want to sit on their owses at home.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, pretty much, But most of the workforce back in
the office these days, at least most of the week.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett got kind of confused and then
tried to backpedal during a segment on CNN yesterday. She
was talking to Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown about the
Epstein emails, specifically the one where Epstein said, Trump spent
hours at his house with a victim whose name was redacted.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So here's what happened. This is an email from April second,
twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Republicans were saying that that victim is Virginia Giuffrey.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
As you know, she died by suicide.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Chidren very outspoke a very outspoken victim of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Here's the email right here on your screen. She wrote
a book, as you know, and she did not accuse
him of any wrongdoing.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
What do you make about it?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And can you confirm that?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah, I don't know. Obviously it's redacted who the victim is,
so I won't necessarily take the Republicans word on who
it is that's redacted. And I don't know why they
would necessarily redect someone's name who is deceased at this point, the.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Democrats did that. Though the Democrats were.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Done, I understand, and I'm just saying, like, our biggest
concern is to actually make sure that we are protecting victims.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, So she was just all over the place.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's like she wants to have this gotcha moment with
Trump and she's not getting it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yes, the idea that that it's not Virginia Jeffrey's name.
I mean it is, we know it is, and we
know that. Look, it was a weird situation, I thought,
because you had Democrats they released that and without the
context knowing that it's Virginia Jeffrey and knowing what she
had said about Trump and and the fact that he
(08:41):
you know, didn't do anything criminal in her presence when
when she was around. You need that context to better
understand that email. But also, like I pointed out yesterday,
there's been a big, you know, push from both parties
to keep the names of victims redacted. But in this case,
like immediately because the context that you needed it was unreenacted, right,
(09:05):
it made sense.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, and there's a lot of there's plenty of questions
to ask about Trump when it comes to all of this.
Why doesn't he want it all out there? But Jasmine Crockett,
she wants him to be guilty of something.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
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