'It would not break precedent': CNN host butts in as MAGA lawmaker defends Matt Gaetz
November 21, 2024
CNN host Pamela Brown jumped in to correct a Republican congressman multiple times Thursday as he tried to paint Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth as victims of a witch hunt designed to derail their respective appointments to Donald Trump's cabinet.
Ohio Republican Rep. Warren Davidson was pressed on whether a reportedly "damaging" House Ethics Committee report involving sexual abuse allegations made against Gaetz should be made public, with Brown asking, "Don't Americans deserve to know what Congress learned about the person who could be the next attorney general? "
"No, I really don't think so, because it would break a precedent that they've had," the GOP lawmaker replied. "And in this case ... ."
"It wouldn't break a precedent," Brown interrupted. "
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"It would," he replied as she shook her head. "And frankly, if you want to disclose them all, I think that the people have said, 'Fine, let's publish all of them if you want transparency, we'll drop it all out there,' and I think that's mutually assured destruction."
"I think, look, Matt Gaetz has been targeted by all kinds of people," he continued. "It's not a secret who Matt Gaetz is and people are accusing him of things that even the FBI under Joe Biden's administration found weren't crimes. In fact, the people that were trying to blackmail him and his family are the ones that wound up in jail, not Matt Gaetz."
"Okay, I just want to follow up on this," Brown countered. " Frst of all, there is precedent of a member of Congress resigning and then the Ethics Committees continued on with the investigation and releasing the findings, and at least two examples, so there is precedent for that."
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