November 21, 2024 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the show with the latest on the House Committee holding the Matt Gaetz report, Jussie Smollett news, the latest on war between Russia and Ukraine and the bomb cyclone that hit Washington, Oregon and California.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio app. I'm sitting in traffic, said traffic
and listening to John and Deborah, and they were talking
about the unisex bathrooms and Congress and fight over having
transgender women and everyone's lost their minds about this on
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both sides. And something struck me. You'll have to follow
me on this one. Stick with me. Follow the breadcrumbsmember
the hypothetical, would you rather see a bear or a
man in the woods?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And all the people who lost their minds and said,
I would much rather see a bear. Men are scary.
I'm so scared of men. I never know when they're
going to attack me. Men are awful, yuck men. I'd
rather see a grizzly bear. The same people that we're
saying they'd choose the bear are the same people that
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now are okay with penises in their bathrooms. Those are
the same people you are so terrified of that same
penis two months ago with the bear or a man
in the woods hypothetical, so terrified of that penis. But
this one you're allowing into your bathroom. You're fighting for
it to be here, fighting for it. Yeah, You're dying
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on the hill to put it in your bathroom. Isn't
that crazy?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I don't think people see the logic. The logicals beat
bumps in that. I don't think they realize it.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, but isn't I mean, it just it struck me
and I'm like, oh my god, Like that is that
is such a glaring, highlighted hypocrisy.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Yes, I totally agree. I mean I have all the time.
I have him in my bathroom all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I know, you know, it's funny. I was listening to
Valentine this I've been listening to a lot of our
radio friends. Good Valentine this morning, was talking about I
meant to go up there and talk to him about it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He was saying to.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
The people on his show that you know the older
security guard, the one who I encountered in the elevator
who told me I had a nice shape.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh yes, yea, yeah yeah, the guy with the really
thick aca accent.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Valentine's like, hey, you guys, you know the older security guy.
And they're all like, yeah, he's a really good guy.
He's got good vibes a whole bit. And he's like, yeah,
I just saw him in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I was in a urinal.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
He was in a urinal and he said and clear
like he's learning English or it's a little litle bit
not fully developed or what have you. And he says, uh,
you know, good morning, And I say good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
How are you? Oh I'm good. I'm a little tired.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And ten seconds go by and he says to Valentine.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You have a nice shape.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, he said, do you feel good after your peep?
Like two grown men? Do you feel good after your peepee?
And I was like, that is so in line with
my interaction with him in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's great, Like you know what, you're.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Learning a leg trying to be trying to be like
cloak Wheel and.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just like it was very complimentary to you, bullie.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I appreciate it, but you know, you just you got
it a little bit wrong, right, You gotta just have
it a little bit wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Very funny. Well, listen, Jesse Smolett, I will never be
the man that this did not happen.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
To God, nobody woke up this morning and wanted Jesse
Smolette news.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
The Illinois State Supreme Court has overturned Jesse Smolette's conviction
on charges that he staged that attack against himself in
downtown Chicago five years ago and lied to police about it.
But and this is important, he's going to walk around saying, see,
I told you it really happened. That's not what the
Illinois Supreme Court decided in this case. What the Illinois
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State Supreme Court said was that a special prosecutor should
not have been allowed to intervene because the state's attorney
for Cook County initially dropped the charges and made a
deal with Jesse Smolett ten thousand dollars bond something like
eighteen or twenty hours community service, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And the ruling.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And the appeal did not address any of the continued
claims of innocence because remember after the deal was struck.
That's when the special prosecutor came in and they put
him on charges, and they found him guilty of a
felony and you know, one hundred and fifty days jail.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Whatever it was. It'sophole. It's a legal loophole.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And this is the thing that I think people forget
about or people are lazy about.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When it comes to legal cases like this.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
This is not a determination that Jesse Smolett did not
fake that whole thing and make it up. It's a
determination that the prosecutors went about prosecuting him in the
wrong way to do process violation. It's similar to other
court cases, high profile cases. Take the classified documents case
involving President Trump down in Florida. It's a similar decision
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in that judge A Lean Cannon in that case decided
that Jack Smith was appointed incorrectly.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Not that.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Former President elect Trump should not have had those classified
documents and violated law. It was that the prosecution due
process portion of this case was done incorrectly.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So let's not forget that.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
These are not we're not exonerating who wrote that on
your computer, who left you these notes?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
These the notes it say things like Shannon smells or
your show sucks or your tacky and everybody knows it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, do you know who wrote them?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, let's just say it's retribution. I started it. See
it's always the second punch. It's always the one who
throws a second punch that gets in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I didn't see the first one. So this goes back to.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
When I wrote a bunch of post its on left
a bunch of post its on Oscar's computer. This was like,
I don't know, a year ago. Now, Oscar sucks. Oscar
is the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Upset You upset people who are not Oscar.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
People lost their minds, like HR was called in and
there was you know, bosses contacted about this. And I've
known Oscar for five hundred years and this is our
love language. This is how we speak to each other.
You suck, No, you suck. And the people that saw
the notes thought that this was just like workplace bullying
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or something that they don't understand the relationship.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Someone would actually write that intending to be mean.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Right, Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Now that everyone's been fired, I can go back to
being a bully to Oscar outwardly, and he is and
he is dishing it back.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
That's oh okay. So you're saying Oscar did it? Yeah, okay,
Well that's good. At least I feel like I didn't
know who it was, and I was considered.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You were offended for me, you're aggrieved. No, I just didn't.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I didn't want there to become another weird controversial, the
non existent fight conflict between shows or whoever it was.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh, you thought it was the Woody show that les these?
I actually did. I think I thought it was Morgan.
That's so funny.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Now they just leave pickles, Yeah, pickles. They don't know
there were dill and bread and butter pickles on the
Oh County. Well, it's funny that you bring that up
because we were making sliders the other night at home
and I had the bread and butter pickles or whatever,
the butter pickles, and my husband, who's not particular about food, said,
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why don't you get the real pickles, get the dil.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We only have the other pickles.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And I was like, I didn't know that that was
going to be a big differentiation between the butter pickles
and the kosher dill pickles, but apparently it was a
sticking point sometimes. So now I've got a bunch of pickles.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's not about the pickles. Oh really?
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Maybe he had something else going on. Wow, he felt
like you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't think so. How would you know if you
weren't paying attention.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I'm always paying attention except for when I'm here. Can
I talk about the awful forecast for Democrats right now?
If this polling is accurate, which I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You never know, do you?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But listen to this. My head exploded when I read this.
This a poll from Puck News slash Echelon Insights. So
I've never heard of that. I've heard of Puck. Okay, well,
this poll says most Democrats want Kamala Harris to be
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the presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What are you doing? They're ignoring the.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
They are dumb dumbs. Why aren't you learning from your mistakes?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
They say?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Forty one percent of likely Democratic voters said that they
would choose Kamala Harris over Gavin Newsom. Will set the
bar high and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Despite her loss,
Newsom came in second with eight percent support. Now keep
in mind, that's quite the Divide. She had forty one
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percent support. He had eight percent. Shapiro came in third
with seven percent. Tim Walls and Pete boot Edge Edge
both got six percent in the survey about sixteen percent.
We're still not sure who would they who they would choose.
We're a long way away. Obviously, more names will service.
But the fact that forty one percent of people polled
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in this particular survey would roll the dice with her
again is insane to me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I mean, to take an optimistic look at it. You
figure what she did in one hundred days of campaigning.
She she came in I was gonna say she came
in second.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
But they were voting for her. They were voting against Trump. Right,
find someone to vote for.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, that's what I'm saying is they have the mentality of,
look what she did with one hundred days and a
billion dollars. Maybe if we did it over the course
of a year and a half of.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
A campaign, billion dollars come on.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Well, that's that's why they got, That's why they lost.
I mean that kind of mentality. And we've talked about
Nate Silver before, the guy who started five point thirty
eight this polster. He wrote on Twitter today that Biden
should resign. Yeah, today, I know, is there any particular
reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It's a very difficult job. It's terrifying what's going on.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
He said, it's a dangerous world, extremely high stakes decisions
in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out
the last two months.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I mean, that's a real ding dong there between the
two of them. But yeah, this is a he can't
take questions when all of this is going on. He's
not taking questions because he can't. And there's nothing wrong
with that. It's not knocking them, man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
But he's it's just an acknowledgment. Acknowledgement.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
There comes a time in a boy's life when they
start losing your brain. So the Gates reports, Yeah, the
House Ethics Committee did not agree to release this report
on Matt Gates yesterday. Republicans have apparently been insisting that
it's not done, but a couple other people familiar with
the process.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have said, yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Some Republicans in the Senate specifically, are now suggesting that
Gates consider withdrawing his nomination to save himself a wrenching
ordeal of this embarrassing confirmation heary hearing that one Republican
senator told the Hill it would be.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Cavanaugh on steroids.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You remember the Yes, the fiasco that was like Brett
Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, and it's it would.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Be wildly entertaining and awfully embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
And Mike Johnson, we've said the Speaker of the House
has suggested he does not want the report release for
a couple of reasons. Number one, he is also one
that says it's not done, but he also said it's
it would break precedent because of the fact that Matt
Gates resigned from Congress. The Washington Post editorial Board today
points out there's plenty of precedent for releasing reports. Mark
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Foley is one of the more recent ones. Mark Foley
was the guy who was sending inappropriate text messages to
House pages. You talk about the time that I wore
that mesh shirt and pink hotpants on the stage, it
was because we were doing a spoof song.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
On Mark Foley nexting these pages.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Right, it's a complete Tara diddle that day, two days
in a row with the Tara Diddle.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
No, that was Mondy, Is that Mondy?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
It is a Tara Diddle because there's no way it's
about precedent. It's about protecting asses. It's about everyone covering
their ass. In Washington, you start going, I hate to
side with that woman, whatever her name is, with the
three names Marjorie, what tylor.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But she's right.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I mean, they're just terrified of their own dirty laundry
getting aired.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's possible, that's all. It's about the name.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Anthony Wiener has cropped back up in circles because he's
potentially looking at another political run. I don't know exactly
what office he's looking for, but the Ethics Committee was
looking into Anthony Wiener when he he stepped down in
twenty eleven. But then, of course he ran for New
York mayor. He was still transmitting images to women that
he shouldn't have been, and even after his attempted comeback,
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he got sent He got caught sending explicit photos Waite
High school girl in twenty sixteen. Soon after you asked
him if you could look at his phone, and he
said no, hell no.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
The gut never lies, the gut never lies.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Your decisions about men have been correct. That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I was wondering when he was going to pull out
and Matt Gates pull.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Out his name from the who's going to withdraw his
na withdraw.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
His name from because this was going to be a mess.
Matt Gates wasn't going to sit there and let everyone
comb through his dirty past which could be present. He
was withdrawing his nomination for Attorney General.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
He just wrote on Twitter about ten minutes ago. I
had excellent meetings with senators yesterday. Remember he went with
Jade Vance to go discuss this with Senate Republicans. He says,
I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of
so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear
that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the
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critical work of the Trump Vance transition. There's no time
to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington's scuffle. Thus I'll
be withdrawing my name from consideration to service Attorney General.
Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one,
he said, I remain fully committed to see that Donald J.
Trump is the most successful president in history. I will
forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead
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the Department of Justice, and I'm certain he will save America.
Do not forget. He resigned from Congress last week, so
that seat is open. Senator Marco Rubio of the Great
State of Florida has been chosen as the Secretary of
State for the next administration.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
There's two very important.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I mean, obviously the Senate seat is more important than
Matt Gats's congressional seat. But now Rond de Santis has
some decisions to make about who he's going to put
in those places.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A lot of power, and.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
What if what if he appoints Matt Gates to fill
out Marco Rubio's Senate term.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I don't think he would.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
DeSantis is not I don't think he's a curious guy.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, I was just going to say, I'm curious to
see what that relationship is like, because listen, Ronda Santis
is a Trump supporter now, But I don't I don't
get the impression that he's beholden. You know, It's not
like Donald Trump is going to get on the phone
with the Florida governor and say, hey, Matt is looking
for a job, maybe you put him in Marco's seat.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But there is there.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Is all of the political machinations that exist.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Now Matt Gates is replacement not chosen by Ronda Santis.
Now is that a special election will be held in
Florida to fill the vacancy left by Matt Gates. Contrary
to reports that say Rond De Santis can appoint a replacement.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But he will be appointing. He will be a planner.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Arco Rubio's yes, yeah, it'll be a special election.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
All right. Well, that's that is pretty significant.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Breaking news again, Matt Gates has decided that he's going
to withdraw his name for consideration to be the next
Attorney General of the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We have one, right now, we have them one. Oh cool.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
John Decker joins us from the White House, only attorney
in the White House Press Corps. And got to believe
that this is going to send shock waves that not
of such big shock waves. I mean, I kind of
thought that this was going to happen at some point,
with all the talk of all the dirty laundry that
would be exposed.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Well, that's right. I was speaking with Amy King this
morning about this, and I told her the writing was
on the wall. This is not a nomination that would last.
And I also predicted that Matt Gates would withdraw his
name from consideration. Staring Donald Trump could potentially have been
a really messy confirmation process. So not a surprise. I
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think the only thing that may be surprising is the
timing of it that had happened just today after he
was lobbying Republican senators on Capitol Hill to support his nomination.
Obviously that did not go well and as a result,
he dropped out of consideration to be the next Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Does this speak to anything regarding jd Vance? He took
those meetings with Gates the power that he may or
may not have to sway those minds.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Well, jd Vance has only been in the US Senate
for two years. He's not like this wise old senate Republican.
He's a freshman senator. People forget that, and so it's
not like he had the juice to get him over
the finish line. In fact, what jd Vance was doing
in these meetings was just simply making introductions and letting
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Matt Gates do all the talking. So it didn't Yeah,
I wouldn't blame it on jd Vance. Having said all that,
it was Matt Gates that had really an uphill battle
based upon the allegations, the serious allegations that had been
made against the number one and then number two, the
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fact that he had said such unkind things about the
very Republican senators who are ultimately going to pass judgment
on his nomination.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So we know that.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Last week President elect Trump nominated Todd Blanche to be
Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche being one of Trump's criminal
defense attorneys. Does he immediately, just in common think, does
he jump to be the nominee for attorney general or
are they going to start this process over?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
You think, well, that's a great question. You know, whether
or not the number two and number three people that
Donald Trump is already named at the DOJ, whether they
step up, you know, one rung in the ladder. That's
up to Donald Trump to decide that. I know there
are a number of individuals who would describe themselves and
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are loyal Republicans to Donald Trump, who could serve in
the same capacity that Matt Gates would have served in,
but they don't have the baggage that Matt Gates brought
to the table.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
John Decker, of course, White House correspondent we're talking to
right now, how does it work, What does the conversation
look like. Does Gates call Trump and say I'm going
to do this or how does that work? And how
does that go over on Trump?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Well? I think he does give feedback to the President
elect to let him know how those meetings with these
Republican senators went yesterday. And although Matt Gates speaks in
this post on social media that momentum was on his side,
that was not the case. There was no momentum whatsoever.
There wasn't one Republican whose arm he could have twisted,
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who had already raised reservations or doubts about about Gates
being the next Attorney general. So I can't tell you
for certain you know who made the call. But Matt
Gates put out the social media post indicating that he
was withdrawing his name from consideration.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
And then, finally, does this have any spillover for the
nomination of Pete Hegseath as a Secretary of Defense because
of the potential, because of the allegations that were made
against him from twenty seventeen that it sounds like the
Trump team might not have known everything.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
About Here's what I will say, And if you don't
know Washington. I know it very well, having covered the
White House going all the way back to Bill Clinton.
It is a pack mentality, and now the focus is
no longer on Matt Gates. The focus of this pack
will now turn its attention to Pete Hegseth, so he
can now prepare for being in the limelight, and that's
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not in a good way as it relates to allegations
that have been made against him, and now the spotlight
will turn to him as to whether or he can
survive of these allegations and be the next leader at
the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah, we're getting a lot of fresh, new graphic details
about what happened in that Monterey hotel room back in
twenty seventeen, So probably going to be hearing a lot
more about that, as you predict.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
John, thanks for your time.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Today, Absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Absolutely, John Becker there from the White House Press Corps.
My point about Ron DeSantis and the potential to fill
Marco Rubio seat Senator Gates is now trending on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, I dig I dug into their relationship because we
were wondering about that because we knew that they did
have a close relationship years ago. Gates was the one
who kind of orchestrated DeSantis's transition team when he was
elected governor, called him the best governor in the country essentially.
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But that was before all of Matt Gates's Matt Gates
stuff came to the surface. So I don't know if
Desantas has as excommunicated him or what happened there, or
if he maintains a friendship.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
All right, breaking news that just came in a short
time ago is that Matt Gates has withdrawn his name
from consideration to be the next attorney general. Already speculation
as to who might be the favorite now to replace
as that nominee, and I mentioned Todd Blanche just last
week had been named the nominee for Deputy Attorney General
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because he was one of Trump's defense attorneys through different
criminal cases. But again, we'll get some more information as
we get closer, perhaps some information reaction from mar Alago
and what's going on with Donald Trump. The problem that
dogged Matt Gates were the allegations or the investigations into
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potential human trafficking, sex with underage girls, hinky money stuff. Again,
no criminal charges have ever been brought against him, and
he's denied those allegations the whole time. There's a problem
with the Secretary of Defense nominee.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Also, graphic new details in a Monterey City police report
have been released. They were released last night involving a
twenty seventeen sexual assault allegation against Pete haig Seth. They
detail a boozy night, a pool side argument, and two
conflicting versions of what took place inside the hotel room
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of Trump's pick for Deaf sec.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
SEC Deaf sec Deaf.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I this twenty two page report, and they said that
it has some conflicting information in it, at least the
portrayal of what exactly was going It is classic, he said,
she said matter right, he did and has admitted to.
This is Pete haig Seth paid this woman as part
of a non disclosure agreement.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
When she was asked about this, by the way, by
I think CNN, she started crying this week.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
At the time.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
So there's a twenty two page police report that cites video, surveillance, footage,
text messages, interviews with witnesses, and a detailed, lurid and
conflicting portrayal.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
So it's October twenty seventeen. He and the woman still
unidentified Jane do were attending a party after a conference
held by the California Federation of Republican Women. This is
up with the Higatt Regency Monterey, and Hegseth at the
time was a Fox News commentator. He was the one
who gave the keynote address to this group.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
After the party, she went to the hotels bar with
a group of women. She says that's when things got fuzzy.
The reason that this police report was filed is because
she went to a hospital four days after this happened
for a sexual assault exam, and at the time she
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told the nurse at the hospital she thought something had
been slipped into her drink. So anyway, she's at the
hotel bar, she says that's when things got fuzzy.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
She said to police that she saw Pete Hegseth acting
inappropriate and including women rubbing women on their legs, and
after they left the bar, they got into an argument
about the behavior towards women at the conference.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It was loud enough to spark a complaint from other
guests about a disturbance near the pool. When the employee
went to respond to this, hag Seth began to swear
to curse, saying he had the freedom of speech. Boy,
and the woman intervened. She apologized for hag Seth. According
to the report, the employee told police that hag Seth was.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Wasted, yeah, but that the woman was standing on her
own was very coherent. Now, hag Seth told police, yeah,
I had a couple drinks. I was buzzed, but not intoxicated.
So they go to the mostological thing is they go
to his hotel room.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
They go to his hotel room, and the woman told
police that hag Seth asked her who she was texting
and took her phone. She was texting her husband, who
was staying at the hotel with her and their small children.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
That's weird, she says. She tried to leave the room,
that he blocked the door. She recalled, saying no repeatedly,
but not much else. At the time, I should say.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
He was in the midst of getting a divorce from
his second wife after fathering a child with A producer
at Fox said it was a consensual encounter. They both
acknowledged it with something they should not be doing.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
She told him she would tell her husband that she
had fallen asleep in another hotel room.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Her cops.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Her husband told the cops that when she stopped responding
to texts and calls, he went to look for her,
but came back to the room after he couldn't find her.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
She says she returned to their hotel room in the
early morning hours, which to me, I don't know. I
guess if she was trying to hide it and pretend
that she just fell asleep. But why would you stay
with somebody who assaulted you for longer than I mean,
I don't know how it works.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Again, she says that he was blocking the door.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I don't know if he continued to block the door,
but that was that was the way that she described it.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Also, doesn't it kind of make it go away? If
you were assaulted and didn't choose to have an affair
on your husband when your two small children earth in
the hotel room. Doesn't that make it kind of go away?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Well, it's like that show, Oh you haven't finished that show?
She cheats on her husband with this guy, right, and
then it's not.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Has remorse about it or yeah, the story I don't know.
Well that's and again this this is from the police report.
The prosecutors in Monterey County decided not to charge him
with anything right because of those.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Wig the wiggle room, the the two repancies in the stories.
Who knows.
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. I'm sitting in traffic, said traffic
and listening to John and Deborah, and they were talking
about the unisex bathrooms and Congress and fight over having
transgender women and everyone's lost their minds about this on
(01:51):
both sides. And something struck me. You'll have to follow
me on this one. Stick with me. Follow the breadcrumbsmember
the hypothetical, would you rather see a bear or a
man in the woods?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And all the people who lost their minds and said,
I would much rather see a bear. Men are scary.
I'm so scared of men. I never know when they're
going to attack me. Men are awful, yuck men. I'd
rather see a grizzly bear. The same people that we're
saying they'd choose the bear are the same people that
(02:28):
now are okay with penises in their bathrooms. Those are
the same people you are so terrified of that same
penis two months ago with the bear or a man
in the woods hypothetical, so terrified of that penis. But
this one you're allowing into your bathroom. You're fighting for
it to be here, fighting for it. Yeah, You're dying
(02:50):
on the hill to put it in your bathroom. Isn't
that crazy?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I don't think people see the logic. The logicals beat
bumps in that. I don't think they realize it.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, but isn't I mean, it just it struck me
and I'm like, oh my god, Like that is that
is such a glaring, highlighted hypocrisy.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Yes, I totally agree. I mean I have all the time.
I have him in my bathroom all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I know, you know, it's funny. I was listening to
Valentine this I've been listening to a lot of our
radio friends. Good Valentine this morning, was talking about I
meant to go up there and talk to him about it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He was saying to.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
The people on his show that you know the older
security guard, the one who I encountered in the elevator
who told me I had a nice shape.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh yes, yea, yeah yeah, the guy with the really
thick aca accent.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Valentine's like, hey, you guys, you know the older security guy.
And they're all like, yeah, he's a really good guy.
He's got good vibes a whole bit. And he's like, yeah,
I just saw him in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I was in a urinal.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
He was in a urinal and he said and clear
like he's learning English or it's a little litle bit
not fully developed or what have you. And he says, uh,
you know, good morning, And I say good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
How are you? Oh I'm good. I'm a little tired.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And ten seconds go by and he says to Valentine.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You have a nice shape.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, he said, do you feel good after your peep?
Like two grown men? Do you feel good after your peepee?
And I was like, that is so in line with
my interaction with him in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's great, Like you know what, you're.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Learning a leg trying to be trying to be like
cloak Wheel and.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just like it was very complimentary to you, bullie.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I appreciate it, but you know, you just you got
it a little bit wrong, right, You gotta just have
it a little bit wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Very funny. Well, listen, Jesse Smolett, I will never be
the man that this did not happen.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
To God, nobody woke up this morning and wanted Jesse
Smolette news.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
The Illinois State Supreme Court has overturned Jesse Smolette's conviction
on charges that he staged that attack against himself in
downtown Chicago five years ago and lied to police about it.
But and this is important, he's going to walk around saying, see,
I told you it really happened. That's not what the
Illinois Supreme Court decided in this case. What the Illinois
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State Supreme Court said was that a special prosecutor should
not have been allowed to intervene because the state's attorney
for Cook County initially dropped the charges and made a
deal with Jesse Smolett ten thousand dollars bond something like
eighteen or twenty hours community service, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And the ruling.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And the appeal did not address any of the continued
claims of innocence because remember after the deal was struck.
That's when the special prosecutor came in and they put
him on charges, and they found him guilty of a
felony and you know, one hundred and fifty days jail.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Whatever it was. It'sophole. It's a legal loophole.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And this is the thing that I think people forget
about or people are lazy about.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When it comes to legal cases like this.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
This is not a determination that Jesse Smolett did not
fake that whole thing and make it up. It's a
determination that the prosecutors went about prosecuting him in the
wrong way to do process violation. It's similar to other
court cases, high profile cases. Take the classified documents case
involving President Trump down in Florida. It's a similar decision
(06:29):
in that judge A Lean Cannon in that case decided
that Jack Smith was appointed incorrectly.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Not that.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Former President elect Trump should not have had those classified
documents and violated law. It was that the prosecution due
process portion of this case was done incorrectly.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So let's not forget that.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
These are not we're not exonerating who wrote that on
your computer, who left you these notes?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
These the notes it say things like Shannon smells or
your show sucks or your tacky and everybody knows it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, do you know who wrote them?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, let's just say it's retribution. I started it. See
it's always the second punch. It's always the one who
throws a second punch that gets in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I didn't see the first one. So this goes back to.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
When I wrote a bunch of post its on left
a bunch of post its on Oscar's computer. This was like,
I don't know, a year ago. Now, Oscar sucks. Oscar
is the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Upset You upset people who are not Oscar.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
People lost their minds, like HR was called in and
there was you know, bosses contacted about this. And I've
known Oscar for five hundred years and this is our
love language. This is how we speak to each other.
You suck, No, you suck. And the people that saw
the notes thought that this was just like workplace bullying
(08:00):
or something that they don't understand the relationship.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Someone would actually write that intending to be mean.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Right, Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Now that everyone's been fired, I can go back to
being a bully to Oscar outwardly, and he is and
he is dishing it back.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
That's oh okay. So you're saying Oscar did it? Yeah, okay,
Well that's good. At least I feel like I didn't
know who it was, and I was considered.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You were offended for me, you're aggrieved. No, I just didn't.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I didn't want there to become another weird controversial, the
non existent fight conflict between shows or whoever it was.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh, you thought it was the Woody show that les these?
I actually did. I think I thought it was Morgan.
That's so funny.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Now they just leave pickles, Yeah, pickles. They don't know
there were dill and bread and butter pickles on the
Oh County. Well, it's funny that you bring that up
because we were making sliders the other night at home
and I had the bread and butter pickles or whatever,
the butter pickles, and my husband, who's not particular about food, said,
(09:12):
why don't you get the real pickles, get the dil.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We only have the other pickles.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And I was like, I didn't know that that was
going to be a big differentiation between the butter pickles
and the kosher dill pickles, but apparently it was a
sticking point sometimes. So now I've got a bunch of pickles.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's not about the pickles. Oh really?
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Maybe he had something else going on. Wow, he felt
like you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't think so. How would you know if you
weren't paying attention.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I'm always paying attention except for when I'm here. Can
I talk about the awful forecast for Democrats right now?
If this polling is accurate, which I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You never know, do you?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But listen to this. My head exploded when I read this.
This a poll from Puck News slash Echelon Insights. So
I've never heard of that. I've heard of Puck. Okay, well,
this poll says most Democrats want Kamala Harris to be
(10:15):
the presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What are you doing? They're ignoring the.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
They are dumb dumbs. Why aren't you learning from your mistakes?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
They say?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Forty one percent of likely Democratic voters said that they
would choose Kamala Harris over Gavin Newsom. Will set the
bar high and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Despite her loss,
Newsom came in second with eight percent support. Now keep
in mind, that's quite the Divide. She had forty one
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percent support. He had eight percent. Shapiro came in third
with seven percent. Tim Walls and Pete boot Edge Edge
both got six percent in the survey about sixteen percent.
We're still not sure who would they who they would choose.
We're a long way away. Obviously, more names will service.
But the fact that forty one percent of people polled
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in this particular survey would roll the dice with her
again is insane to me.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I mean, to take an optimistic look at it. You
figure what she did in one hundred days of campaigning.
She she came in I was gonna say she came
in second.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
But they were voting for her. They were voting against Trump. Right,
find someone to vote for.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Well, that's what I'm saying is they have the mentality of,
look what she did with one hundred days and a
billion dollars. Maybe if we did it over the course
of a year and a half of.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
A campaign, billion dollars come on.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Well, that's that's why they got, That's why they lost.
I mean that kind of mentality. And we've talked about
Nate Silver before, the guy who started five point thirty
eight this polster. He wrote on Twitter today that Biden
should resign. Yeah, today, I know, is there any particular
reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It's a very difficult job. It's terrifying what's going on.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
He said, it's a dangerous world, extremely high stakes decisions
in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out
the last two months.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I mean, that's a real ding dong there between the
two of them. But yeah, this is a he can't
take questions when all of this is going on. He's
not taking questions because he can't. And there's nothing wrong
with that. It's not knocking them, man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
But he's it's just an acknowledgment. Acknowledgement.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
There comes a time in a boy's life when they
start losing your brain. So the Gates reports, Yeah, the
House Ethics Committee did not agree to release this report
on Matt Gates yesterday. Republicans have apparently been insisting that
it's not done, but a couple other people familiar with
the process.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have said, yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Some Republicans in the Senate specifically, are now suggesting that
Gates consider withdrawing his nomination to save himself a wrenching
ordeal of this embarrassing confirmation heary hearing that one Republican
senator told the Hill it would be.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Cavanaugh on steroids.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You remember the Yes, the fiasco that was like Brett
Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, and it's it would.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Be wildly entertaining and awfully embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
And Mike Johnson, we've said the Speaker of the House
has suggested he does not want the report release for
a couple of reasons. Number one, he is also one
that says it's not done, but he also said it's
it would break precedent because of the fact that Matt
Gates resigned from Congress. The Washington Post editorial Board today
points out there's plenty of precedent for releasing reports. Mark
(13:51):
Foley is one of the more recent ones. Mark Foley
was the guy who was sending inappropriate text messages to
House pages. You talk about the time that I wore
that mesh shirt and pink hotpants on the stage, it
was because we were doing a spoof song.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
On Mark Foley nexting these pages.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Right, it's a complete Tara diddle that day, two days
in a row with the Tara Diddle.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
No, that was Mondy, Is that Mondy?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
It is a Tara Diddle because there's no way it's
about precedent. It's about protecting asses. It's about everyone covering
their ass. In Washington, you start going, I hate to
side with that woman, whatever her name is, with the
three names Marjorie, what tylor.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But she's right.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I mean, they're just terrified of their own dirty laundry
getting aired.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's possible, that's all. It's about the name.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Anthony Wiener has cropped back up in circles because he's
potentially looking at another political run. I don't know exactly
what office he's looking for, but the Ethics Committee was
looking into Anthony Wiener when he he stepped down in
twenty eleven. But then, of course he ran for New
York mayor. He was still transmitting images to women that
he shouldn't have been, and even after his attempted comeback,
(15:10):
he got sent He got caught sending explicit photos Waite
High school girl in twenty sixteen. Soon after you asked
him if you could look at his phone, and he
said no, hell no.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
The gut never lies, the gut never lies.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Your decisions about men have been correct. That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I was wondering when he was going to pull out
and Matt Gates pull.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Out his name from the who's going to withdraw his
na withdraw.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
His name from because this was going to be a mess.
Matt Gates wasn't going to sit there and let everyone
comb through his dirty past which could be present. He
was withdrawing his nomination for Attorney General.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
He just wrote on Twitter about ten minutes ago. I
had excellent meetings with senators yesterday. Remember he went with
Jade Vance to go discuss this with Senate Republicans. He says,
I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of
so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear
that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the
(16:10):
critical work of the Trump Vance transition. There's no time
to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington's scuffle. Thus I'll
be withdrawing my name from consideration to service Attorney General.
Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one,
he said, I remain fully committed to see that Donald J.
Trump is the most successful president in history. I will
forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead
(16:32):
the Department of Justice, and I'm certain he will save America.
Do not forget. He resigned from Congress last week, so
that seat is open. Senator Marco Rubio of the Great
State of Florida has been chosen as the Secretary of
State for the next administration.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
There's two very important.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I mean, obviously the Senate seat is more important than
Matt Gats's congressional seat. But now Rond de Santis has
some decisions to make about who he's going to put
in those places.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A lot of power, and.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
What if what if he appoints Matt Gates to fill
out Marco Rubio's Senate term.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I don't think he would.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
DeSantis is not I don't think he's a curious guy.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, I was just going to say, I'm curious to
see what that relationship is like, because listen, Ronda Santis
is a Trump supporter now, But I don't I don't
get the impression that he's beholden. You know, It's not
like Donald Trump is going to get on the phone
with the Florida governor and say, hey, Matt is looking
for a job, maybe you put him in Marco's seat.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But there is there.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Is all of the political machinations that exist.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Now Matt Gates is replacement not chosen by Ronda Santis.
Now is that a special election will be held in
Florida to fill the vacancy left by Matt Gates. Contrary
to reports that say Rond De Santis can appoint a replacement.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But he will be appointing. He will be a planner.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Arco Rubio's yes, yeah, it'll be a special election.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
All right. Well, that's that is pretty significant.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Breaking news again, Matt Gates has decided that he's going
to withdraw his name for consideration to be the next
Attorney General of the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We have one, right now, we have them one. Oh cool.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
John Decker joins us from the White House, only attorney
in the White House Press Corps. And got to believe
that this is going to send shock waves that not
of such big shock waves. I mean, I kind of
thought that this was going to happen at some point,
with all the talk of all the dirty laundry that
would be exposed.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Well, that's right. I was speaking with Amy King this
morning about this, and I told her the writing was
on the wall. This is not a nomination that would last.
And I also predicted that Matt Gates would withdraw his
name from consideration. Staring Donald Trump could potentially have been
a really messy confirmation process. So not a surprise. I
(19:06):
think the only thing that may be surprising is the
timing of it that had happened just today after he
was lobbying Republican senators on Capitol Hill to support his nomination.
Obviously that did not go well and as a result,
he dropped out of consideration to be the next Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Does this speak to anything regarding jd Vance? He took
those meetings with Gates the power that he may or
may not have to sway those minds.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Well, jd Vance has only been in the US Senate
for two years. He's not like this wise old senate Republican.
He's a freshman senator. People forget that, and so it's
not like he had the juice to get him over
the finish line. In fact, what jd Vance was doing
in these meetings was just simply making introductions and letting
(19:55):
Matt Gates do all the talking. So it didn't Yeah,
I wouldn't blame it on jd Vance. Having said all that,
it was Matt Gates that had really an uphill battle
based upon the allegations, the serious allegations that had been
made against the number one and then number two, the
(20:16):
fact that he had said such unkind things about the
very Republican senators who are ultimately going to pass judgment
on his nomination.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So we know that.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Last week President elect Trump nominated Todd Blanche to be
Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche being one of Trump's criminal
defense attorneys. Does he immediately, just in common think, does
he jump to be the nominee for attorney general or
are they going to start this process over?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
You think, well, that's a great question. You know, whether
or not the number two and number three people that
Donald Trump is already named at the DOJ, whether they
step up, you know, one rung in the ladder. That's
up to Donald Trump to decide that. I know there
are a number of individuals who would describe themselves and
(21:07):
are loyal Republicans to Donald Trump, who could serve in
the same capacity that Matt Gates would have served in,
but they don't have the baggage that Matt Gates brought
to the table.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
John Decker, of course, White House correspondent we're talking to
right now, how does it work, What does the conversation
look like. Does Gates call Trump and say I'm going
to do this or how does that work? And how
does that go over on Trump?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Well? I think he does give feedback to the President
elect to let him know how those meetings with these
Republican senators went yesterday. And although Matt Gates speaks in
this post on social media that momentum was on his side,
that was not the case. There was no momentum whatsoever.
There wasn't one Republican whose arm he could have twisted,
(21:55):
who had already raised reservations or doubts about about Gates
being the next Attorney general. So I can't tell you
for certain you know who made the call. But Matt
Gates put out the social media post indicating that he
was withdrawing his name from consideration.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
And then, finally, does this have any spillover for the
nomination of Pete Hegseath as a Secretary of Defense because
of the potential, because of the allegations that were made
against him from twenty seventeen that it sounds like the
Trump team might not have known everything.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
About Here's what I will say, And if you don't
know Washington. I know it very well, having covered the
White House going all the way back to Bill Clinton.
It is a pack mentality, and now the focus is
no longer on Matt Gates. The focus of this pack
will now turn its attention to Pete Hegseth, so he
can now prepare for being in the limelight, and that's
(22:52):
not in a good way as it relates to allegations
that have been made against him, and now the spotlight
will turn to him as to whether or he can
survive of these allegations and be the next leader at
the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah, we're getting a lot of fresh, new graphic details
about what happened in that Monterey hotel room back in
twenty seventeen, So probably going to be hearing a lot
more about that, as you predict.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
John, thanks for your time.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Today, Absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Absolutely, John Becker there from the White House Press Corps.
My point about Ron DeSantis and the potential to fill
Marco Rubio seat Senator Gates is now trending on Twitter.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, I dig I dug into their relationship because we
were wondering about that because we knew that they did
have a close relationship years ago. Gates was the one
who kind of orchestrated DeSantis's transition team when he was
elected governor, called him the best governor in the country essentially.
(23:54):
But that was before all of Matt Gates's Matt Gates
stuff came to the surface. So I don't know if
Desantas has as excommunicated him or what happened there, or
if he maintains a friendship.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
All right, breaking news that just came in a short
time ago is that Matt Gates has withdrawn his name
from consideration to be the next attorney general. Already speculation
as to who might be the favorite now to replace
as that nominee, and I mentioned Todd Blanche just last
week had been named the nominee for Deputy Attorney General
(24:30):
because he was one of Trump's defense attorneys through different
criminal cases. But again, we'll get some more information as
we get closer, perhaps some information reaction from mar Alago
and what's going on with Donald Trump. The problem that
dogged Matt Gates were the allegations or the investigations into
(24:53):
potential human trafficking, sex with underage girls, hinky money stuff. Again,
no criminal charges have ever been brought against him, and
he's denied those allegations the whole time. There's a problem
with the Secretary of Defense nominee.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Also, graphic new details in a Monterey City police report
have been released. They were released last night involving a
twenty seventeen sexual assault allegation against Pete haig Seth. They
detail a boozy night, a pool side argument, and two
conflicting versions of what took place inside the hotel room
(25:31):
of Trump's pick for Deaf sec.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
SEC Deaf sec Deaf.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I this twenty two page report, and they said that
it has some conflicting information in it, at least the
portrayal of what exactly was going It is classic, he said,
she said matter right, he did and has admitted to.
This is Pete haig Seth paid this woman as part
of a non disclosure agreement.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
When she was asked about this, by the way, by
I think CNN, she started crying this week.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
At the time.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
So there's a twenty two page police report that cites video, surveillance, footage,
text messages, interviews with witnesses, and a detailed, lurid and
conflicting portrayal.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
So it's October twenty seventeen. He and the woman still
unidentified Jane do were attending a party after a conference
held by the California Federation of Republican Women. This is
up with the Higatt Regency Monterey, and Hegseth at the
time was a Fox News commentator. He was the one
who gave the keynote address to this group.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
After the party, she went to the hotels bar with
a group of women. She says that's when things got fuzzy.
The reason that this police report was filed is because
she went to a hospital four days after this happened
for a sexual assault exam, and at the time she
(27:01):
told the nurse at the hospital she thought something had
been slipped into her drink. So anyway, she's at the
hotel bar, she says that's when things got fuzzy.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
She said to police that she saw Pete Hegseth acting
inappropriate and including women rubbing women on their legs, and
after they left the bar, they got into an argument
about the behavior towards women at the conference.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It was loud enough to spark a complaint from other
guests about a disturbance near the pool. When the employee
went to respond to this, hag Seth began to swear
to curse, saying he had the freedom of speech. Boy,
and the woman intervened. She apologized for hag Seth. According
to the report, the employee told police that hag Seth was.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Wasted, yeah, but that the woman was standing on her
own was very coherent. Now, hag Seth told police, yeah,
I had a couple drinks. I was buzzed, but not intoxicated.
So they go to the mostological thing is they go
to his hotel room.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
They go to his hotel room, and the woman told
police that hag Seth asked her who she was texting
and took her phone. She was texting her husband, who
was staying at the hotel with her and their small children.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
That's weird, she says. She tried to leave the room,
that he blocked the door. She recalled, saying no repeatedly,
but not much else. At the time, I should say.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
He was in the midst of getting a divorce from
his second wife after fathering a child with A producer
at Fox said it was a consensual encounter. They both
acknowledged it with something they should not be doing.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
She told him she would tell her husband that she
had fallen asleep in another hotel room.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Her cops.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Her husband told the cops that when she stopped responding
to texts and calls, he went to look for her,
but came back to the room after he couldn't find her.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
She says she returned to their hotel room in the
early morning hours, which to me, I don't know. I
guess if she was trying to hide it and pretend
that she just fell asleep. But why would you stay
with somebody who assaulted you for longer than I mean,
I don't know how it works.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Again, she says that he was blocking the door.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I don't know if he continued to block the door,
but that was that was the way that she described it.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Also, doesn't it kind of make it go away? If
you were assaulted and didn't choose to have an affair
on your husband when your two small children earth in
the hotel room. Doesn't that make it kind of go away?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Well, it's like that show, Oh you haven't finished that show?
She cheats on her husband with this guy, right, and
then it's not.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Has remorse about it or yeah, the story I don't know.
Well that's and again this this is from the police report.
The prosecutors in Monterey County decided not to charge him
with anything right because of those.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Wig the wiggle room, the the two repancies in the stories.
Who knows.
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