churning story we have been covering for about a week now. gaetz is a republican congressman from florida. as that headline alludes to. he was a staunch supporter of trump. it was first reported the new york times that matt gaetz is currently under federal investigation for allegations of alleged sex trafficking of an underage girl. now, this is an investigation that started during the trump administration when bill barr was running the justice department. bill barr, as attorney general, was himself reportedly personally briefed on the matt gaetz investigation on multiple occasions. the federal investigation into congressman gaetz is reportedly examining whether federal campaign funds may have been used to facilitate the child sex trafficking ring, whether drug use may have been involved. congressman gaetz repeatedly denied the allegations. he said they re all made up. this breaking news in the times tonight puts those denials in a different light. here s the lede. quote,
congressman gaetz repeatedly denied the allegations. he said they re all made up. he did nothing wrong. this breaking news in the times tonight puts those denials in sort of a different light. ear here is the lead from the new york times. michael schmidt is the lead on this article. along with maggie haberman and nicholas fandos. quote. the times reports it s unclear whether congressman gaetz or the white house knew at the time he was under federal criminal investigation for child sex trafficking when he asked for this pardon, but the times does note that if he was aware at the time he did not tell the white house when he made the request. congressman gaetz didn t get any such pardon from trump, at least one that we know of. the times is reporting tonight that the white house thought that kind of preemptive blanket pardon in the absence of any charges is something that might set a precedent, not that s not the thing they cared about in other scandals. the times r
you cannot govern. i m very happy that i m going to get my moderna shot. vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. i m begging of you please don t take she has a good singing voice. breaking overnight, at least ten rockets strike an air base housing u.s. troops in iraq. steve: no deaths are reported. iraqi officials only saying they were saying no significant losses, no one yet claimed responsibility for the attack, ainsley. ainsley: the base is the same one that was struck by iranian missiles last year, last february leaving more than 100 troops with brain injuries after president biden ordered strike in syria killing one person. steve: payback. brian: we will take a look at the story as it unfolds. jennifer griffin giving us more information. mobile rocket launcher and they were able to find where it was launched from and how much longer we are going to be there. meanwhile, we are happy to be here and we are happy that pete hegseth isn t because he s live at family restaurant in nor
and give the latest from the multiple scandals now rocking the anti-trump lincoln project. now in complete meltdown mode. meghan mccain, wow, unleashed brutal tweets tonight. one of their cone founders, steve schmidt, just resigned in disgrace. but first, the democrats snap impeachment charade sham, it just faced its day of reckoning. finally, the president s legal defense team, they completely eviscerated all of the democrats paper-thin arguments, all of which were, as we told you, unconstitutional. none of which meet any real legal standard that would ever hold up in any court. no rules of evidence matter in any way, shape, matter, or form, and to add to that, they are editing, slicing, dicing, and then purposely ignoring all damaging, exculpatory evidence, and presided over by a judge who already declared trump guilty. wow. this is the united states of america. that s a kangaroo court. the house managers, they were eviscerated on their argument over incitement. their favor
brutal tweets tonight. one of their cofounders, steve schmidt, just resigned in disgrace. but first, the democrats snap impeachment charade sham, it just faced its day of reckoning. finally, the president s legal defense team, they completely eviscerated all of the democrats paper-thin arguments, all of which were, as we told you, unconstitutional. none of which meet any real legal standard that would ever hold up in any court. no rules of evidence matter in any way, shape, matter, or form, and to add to that, they are editing, slicing, dicing, and then purposely ignoring all damaging, exculpatory evidence, and presided over by a judge who already declared trump guilty. wow. this is the united states of america. that s a kangaroo court. the house managers, they were eviscerated on their argument over incitement. their favorite word, insurrection. they were eviscerated on their argument of the constitution. the president s defense team exposed to managers manufactured, select