was going to go there, but if it popped into your head. he s been forcefully recused from fox news where he used to go on constantly, and the numbers actually are pretty telling. in three months inside reports from a fox news darling to being, quote, excommunicating from the networks many shows. he was on fox at least 19 times they counted, making one of the most booked members of government in april, may and so far in june, well, laura, he s done to zero. your thoughts of where he fits into the face of the republican party? yeah. i mean, i don t think fox news suddenly decided to have ethics and removed him because he s being accused of a crime. what happened is he went on and he directly accused tucker carlson of some kind of he did a frat bro thing and said you and i have both been falsely accused of a sex crime. you could see the misery on
last night brazenly attacking the fbi, which is the arm of the doj that s been investigating him under the lawful approval of judges. we have no reason to think there is anything wrong there. take a look. i think that the fbi has morphed into a political opposition research organization and a political activism organization more than a law enforcement organization, an agency that has a whole lot of swamp left in it that needs to be drained. laura? look, i think the biggest problem here is that matt gaetz is still sitting on the judiciary committee in the house, which is overseeing the doj, which is investigating him. and he is out on newsmax, on fox news spreading baseless conspiracy theories saying that the fbi was involved in planning the january 6th attack on the capitol, which wasn t make any sense. and, frankly, he hasn t been
will prevail. do you think you will be indicted? no. we re joined by the florida state attorney for palm beach county and msnbc columnist laura bassitt. i credit abc. they have the reporting suggesting problems for gaetz and others as i read their sourcing and it suggests some sort of resolution, soon. you are down there. you have been an analyst on these stories before. does that ring true to you? it does. it is what i expected because this investigation seems to be wrapping up. they have the cooperation of the man at the center of this whole thing, joel greenberg, according to, along with reports, cooperation with matt gaetz s ex-girlfriend and the 17-year-old girl who allegedly is the victim of child sex trafficking. it is ironic that it is the person who is the most culpable
accused of anything. but you would think, it s basic common sense that if he s being investigated, he should at least be temporary be removed from the committee that oversees it. he has displayed frat boy behavior since he s been in office. he allegedly showed nude photos of women he slept with on the house floor. the man is gross and no respect for women. and so i think it s insane that he is still overseeing this massive justice department and sitting on this massively important committee and representing thousands of people when it looks like he s guilty of these crimes. all fair points. and he certainly has not done the voluntary recusal, as you mentioned, from that committee. you know where he has been recused from, laura? what? am i supposed to answer that? he s been recused from i
and it helped to get the republican elected. it also worked in miami-dade county. there is a former state senator under there currently under indictment for that. they re looking into that same thing in central florida, and there are allegations that matt gaetz was involved. prove that the other provable election fraud seems to be on the republican side. so there is other things like apparently there is a bunch of no show jobs that joel greenberg gave out to his office to friends like big joe, and that could be a rico violation. you need to show corrupt intent, which is probably why this investigation is taking longer than most people expected. yeah. it had been out of the news for a while because there hadn t been any clues. here you have a bunch according to that sourcing and a sign of resolution wherever it goes. dave and laura, thank you for kicking this off tonight. we have a lot on the broadcast including maya wiley back on the beat, this time as a