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During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Symone Sanders Townsend joined in to talk about the chaos surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination to be Donald Trump's next attorney general and the cloud being cast over it by a reportedly "damaging" House Ethics Committee report.

With the Florida Republican meeting with GOP senators this week and attempting to downplay accusations he engaged in drug and sex parties with underaged women reportedly alleged in the report, Sanders Townsend wondered aloud why the wife of Gaetz has not come forward to defend her husband.

She also singled out Fox News personality Pete Hegseth who is having to deal with a police report that details an alleged sexual assault in 2017 as he works toward becoming Trump's next Defense Department secretary.

Donald Trump will re-enter the White House in two months with a Republican trifecta, which could set the stage to weaken or repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The former president is a longtime opponent of Barack Obama's signature achievement, and some high-ranking Republicans have made clear they would like to roll back the law's Medicaid expansion, raise the uninsured rate, undo patient protections and increase premium costs, reported NPR.

Sharing a clip from MSNBC colleague Ari Melber's show, the co-hosts of "Morning Joe" counted off eight sitting Republican senators who have been targeted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) with insults who could hold his fate in their hands.

Co-host Willie Geist kicked off the segment, telling the panel, "Matt Gaetz is not popular among his colleagues on Capitol Hill. He made a habit of insulting lawmakers, his colleagues, including those who will vote on his nomination."

"Here is that montage we were talking about from our friends at 'The Beat with Ari Melber.' It shows Gaetz trashing his Capitol Hill colleagues while in office," he added before the Morning Joe producers rolled the clip of the embattled lawmaker smirking on his podcast.

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Gaetz is then seen attacking Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), John Thune (R-SD), John Cornyn (R-TX), John Barrasso (R-WY) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) that included calling them "fools" and accusing them of "corruption."

Following the clip, host Scarborough held up his hands and proclaimed "I counted eight," as other panelists laughed and Geist quipped, "We are counting on our hands and we had to go to a second hand."

"And those are recent insults!" Scarborough interjected.

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President-elect Donald Trump is counting on panic to achieve what his administration cannot do alone — keep the primary promise of his presidential campaign, according to a legal expert.

Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, detailed in a New York Times editorial Thursday the many ways Trump is counting on fear to overcome the hurdles of mounting a mass deportation program.

House speaker Mike Johnson made things worse for Matt Gaetz for weighing in on the release of a "pretty nasty" House Ethics Committee report on his alleged sexual misconduct, according to that panel's former chairman.

Donald Trump nominated the Florida Republican for attorney general the day before the report on sex trafficking allegations was set to be released, and Johnson has said the findings should not be released now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat, but former ethics chair Charlie Dent told CNN the speaker should have stayed out of the fracas.

Donald Trump's transition team was reportedly caught off guard by sexual assault allegations against defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, but an analyst said that was a red flag for the incoming administration.

The former Fox News host paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault to prevent her from filing a lawsuit that could damage his career, his lawyer confirmed, and CNN contributor Christine Quinn was astonished that Trump's team had not been aware of the allegations that California police had investigated.

Disturbing new details have emerged in a police report on sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense.

The city attorney’s office of Monterey, California, released the 22-page report Wednesday night in response to a public records request that provides competing narratives about the Oct. 8, 2017, encounter between former Fox News host Pete Hegseth and the California woman, identified by investigators as "Jane Doe," after he spoke at a convention, reported CNN.

In the midst of reporting on more revelations about Rep. Matt Gaetz's alleged antics at drug and sex parties with women who were reportedly underage, a remark by MSNBC's Willie Geist sent the panel off the rails in gales of laughter.

After watching a clip of Sen. Markwayne Mullins (R-OK) admit attitudes towards the embattled Florida Republican could change if it is proved he has been lying, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough read from the Wall Street Journal, multiple allegations made against Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general.

That led co-host Willie Geist to comment, "Senator Mullins there is the one who famously said that Matt Gaetz would describe how [Gaetz] would crush up ED medication and chase it with power drinks so he could have a longer evening," which caused panelists Richard Haass and Elise Jordan to both burst out laughing, with Jordan raising her eyebrows at the suggestion.

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With co-host Jonathan Lemire sitting next to Geist shaking his head and exclaiming "Wow!" with a grin on his face, host Scarborough turned to Hass and laughed, "Richard, that doesn't happen on 'Good Morning America,'" as everyone laughed more.

An abashed Geist added, "Forgive me, I wandered down that path and realized there was no turning back."

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Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration.

The president-elect has tapped Tom Homan as "border czar," John Ratliffe as CIA director, Brendan Carr as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada, and all four are credited by name in the 920-page manifesto, and so is Russ Vought, whom he's likely to appoint to lead the White House budget office, reported the Washington Post.