deals with that caucus after the small but effective group of republicans showed impact. yanked away mid tirade against congressman gaetz. now, that process was used to take new powers away from leadership and em power mccarthy foes. in a new piece reporting that whatever everyone think of gaetz his critics across the spectrum acknowledge he must be dealt with after the speaker clash, and mccarthy allies don t like it, saying it s not the outcome they preferred but gaetz s stature has been elevated. true on house rules and visibility as well. mccarthy setbacks in this early period, they often played as gaetz s gains. there are a handful of far right holdouts and they warn they will not support him. the more conservative freedom caucus members pledged not to vote for kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy celebrating a victory that almost didn t happen. this looks like a bit of a heated conversation. this is incredible. this is an incredible moment. mccarthy is directly enga
cases were opened or closed after trumps about the trump board case which deals with different finances. here s what he said. we follow the facts, and this is part of a broader piece of work that we have been doing since i joined the office in january, and we re going to continue it. obviously we pause because it s quite consequential, a criminal conviction for the president, his namesake corporations, but the work continues. the work never stops. and we re going to continue to do that. the work never stopped. there he was describing a case that didn t reach trump personally, a case against his cfo and the org as a cororate entity. then you have this a former sdny u.s. attorney elie honig with some new leaking or reporting. characterize it as you will given his experience that
cassidy hutchinson is a known liar. there s testimony she s given that directly results in perjury, so i would certainly take exception with her testimony. i do not remember it the same way eric hirschmann does. i did have conversations with him about group of people that could receive pardons, even including some of the people who may have committed a technical violation of law but weren t engage in the violence january 6th. so hold on, now. let me finish here. yes, you may finish. i had a lot of conversations with mr. mcatee about pardons for lawmakers. whether or not lawmakers fell in those groups were discussed. but in term of was i asking for something specifically for me, the answer is no. did you advocate for other lawmakers were mr. mcatee or others? there were discussions about president trump, his family members and ally, and presumably
stolen. on december 21st, some republican members of congress met with president trump in the white house to talk about overturning the 2020 election. mr. gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon, and he was doing so since early december. advocated for there to be a blanket pardon for members involved with that meeting. i want to give you the benefit of responding but also want to take this process seriously. you have individuals who are not known to be coordinating in any way. they all have their own counsel. they have an incredible legal liability if they lied about this, and multiple individuals, all of whom by the way, republican appointees are testifying in that period after that december meeting, you, sir, requested a pardon for yourself and other attendees at the meeting. the question is, can you really say all of them are committing perjury, lying on you, a. and b, if a pardon was requested, why not tell us, what were you worried about, what was it you thought others m
hugh hefner. that is what gaetz wants us to do. he want us to be outraged at his presence in congress, at his presence on our air waves, and that also hides the actual policies, if you want to call it that, that gaetz was actually behind and is actually proposing. let s turn of course to the secret deal. as for the fact check, i said to him, i ll mention it here, there s a lot of amazoning testimony against him by a loft individuals. you have to believe the trump folks conconnected this as great deal personal legal risk or he did seek a pardon out. the reason i d add that could be something that is difficult for him is it would suggest he knows he did something that he d rather be pardoned more than face investigation for. we also covered what has been reported about the apparent resolution of the doj s florida case. then on the secret deal, and a lot of talk about he acknowledged something, so we got confirmation.