After just nine days as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration. Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The Times, discusses the revelations and the reporting that doomed the prospective nomination of Gaetz, a former representative of Florida. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, covering Washington.
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After just nine days as Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, former Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida has withdrawn from consideration today.
Mike Schmidt on the revelations and the reporting that doomed Gates nomination.
It's Friday, November 22nd.
Mike, welcome back to the studio for your second recording of the day.
Sure.
We had a couple of hours ago, finished recording a roundtable with four of our colleagues, including you and Katie Edmondson, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, literally.
We finished, we said, thank you.
We walked out of this room and we learned that Matt Gaetz was withdrawing as Trump's pick for Attorney General because that piece of information rendered our entire conversation out of date.
Correct.
So we want to thank them for their work, which will never be aired, and thank you for sticking around to tell us the rest of this story.