i don t think hea ll ultimately succeed. prosecutors are typically able to overcome executive privilege and get the key evidence. the most important take away from the story is we know the justice department is fighting to get these conversations and ed of conversations between donald trump and his most inner circle. not everybody did that. they did not want to have this legal fight and didn t have the time to have this legal fight but we know doj is dug in and thanks to the new reposrting frm zack and evan, we know they are having the legal flight as we speak and they will get access to the communications. let s turn to reporting on congressman matt gaetz. prosecutors have recommended against charging the congressman. this was an investigation into potential violations of federal sex trafficking laws, his dealings with the 17-year-old
that they might be trying to get a material witness to cooperate against him. they already have one person, joel greenberg, this former florida politician, who has agreed to cooperate in this probe. so if they get another person with intimate knowledge of the facts here that is not good news for matt gaetz. i mention, of course, he denied wrongdoing in any of this saying he didn t do anything wrong. didn t pay for sex. the whole allegation, he s violated federal sex trafficking laws by paying somebody underage for sex, crossing state lines, potentially luring her in with gifts and money and other things. so it is an ominous sign for him. yeah. look, the fact he s still employed may be a sign of the times that we are in right now. laura, thank you so much for that. sure. coming up, six states getting hit the hardest from the latest omicron surge may be getting assistance they so desperately need. talking about president biden s plan for that next. plus, welcome to club covid.
domestic violence case against one of his senior aides who was accused of choking a woman in a twist of fate, then attorney general andrew cuomo was supposed to investigate it. as in cuomo s case, many democratic allies tried to urge patterson to step aside, called the reports disturbing including those in the white house at the time. he did drop out of the race for governor in 2010 but patterson served out the remainder of his term. now, patterson found himself in the governor s mansion in 2008 because his predecessor, eliot spitzer resigned in the wake of his own scandal the ambitious attorney who staked his reputation on being a zealous enforcer of the law became known as client number 9, his political career brought to a sudden halt after federal agents caught him on a wiretap arranging to have a woman travel from new york to washington, d.c. for sex, a violation of federal sex trafficking laws. so to be sure, each of these situations is different, but the theme of powerful men bei
probed by federal investigators for charges he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl which broke sex trafficking laws. they are allegations he denies. joining us now nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter. so we talked yesterday about what prosecutors and investigators could need more time with joel greenberg for. you said it suggested that greenberg s lawyers had the sense that this was going well. that a judge granted it, does that confirm that theory? i think the fact that prosecutors in fact agreed with greenberg s own attorneys assertions that this should be postponed, i mean i think if prosecutors had stepped in and said, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, we ll continue with the sentencing in august instead of november, i think that would have signalled they were going to put the pressure on him to either start talking a little bit more quickly or a little bit more truthfully. the fact that prosecutors did not oppose this at all and the judge essentially w
make it look like, it s from another planet. make your new sink work a little harder. make your home everything you need it to be. and make it yours. oscar will love that. [ bark ] however you make it, make your home like no other. there is breaking news that could impact the case against congressman matt gaetz. a request by gaetz s associate and one-time wingman, joel greenberg, to have his sentencing delayed could be the latest sign of what might possible be an implosion of evidence piling up before a judge against gaetz, who is being probed by federal investigators for charges he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and broke sex trafficking laws.