1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, morning to you. 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. 3 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: You could argue was always going to end up this way, 4 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: couldn't you. 5 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: Yes, But this is pretty fast moving, is it not. 6 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: Matt Gates pulling out from the nomination for Chief Justice 7 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: position as Attorney General. It comes as Gates had just 8 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: been on Capitol Hill yesterday as he was saying in 9 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: company with Yate Evans, the Vice President of Electron, to 10 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: compel senators to vote for Gates. Then came this bombshell 11 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: new disclosure that the Ethics Panel had word of another 12 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: sexual encounter at the same party back in twenty seventeen, 13 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: where Gates was said to have had sex with an 14 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: underage girl aged seventeen. What is notable about this new 15 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 2: testimony is that this second sexual encounter at the party 16 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 2: also involved another adult woman who has denied there was 17 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: a thresome. But all this was a bit much. So 18 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: here is the first lost by Team Trump, which has 19 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: been issuing political threats as it tries to keep Senators 20 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: in line. Earlier, the Ethics Panel refused to release the 21 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: report into gates sexual activities. The panel has what five 22 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: Republicans five Dems, they i'd agree to complete the report 23 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: but then one of the Dems came out of the 24 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: media accusing the Republican Committee chair of suggesting they'd reached 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: some settlement. They had not, said this Democrat Susan Wilds, 26 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 2: who said that the committee boys had betrayed the process, 27 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: so senators were playing their games. At the same time, 28 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: the New York Times had released an FBI chart that 29 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: they had obtained showing a series of payments by Gates 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 2: and by his cohort Joel Greenberg, who's serving an eleven 31 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,919 Speaker 2: year prison term for sex trafficking. That FBI chart shows 32 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 2: some twenty seven payments, including some of the ten thousand 33 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 2: dollars in gates payments to the two women who said 34 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: earlier that he had paid them for sex that included 35 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 2: cash for that high schooler, said her lawyer, Joel Leppard. 36 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: The amounts that were provided on the screen during their 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 3: testimony by the House was from one client over six 38 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: thousand payments directly from Representative Gates to my client, and 39 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 3: the the amount was a little or four thousand directly 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,279 Speaker 3: from representive Gets to my client. 41 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 2: So a lot involted all of this. A one Trump 42 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: aid had been warning quote, the message is if you're 43 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: on the wrong side of the vote. You're buying yourself 44 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: a primary, that is all. There's a guy named Elon 45 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 2: Musk who was going to finance it. So so much 46 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: for that. Even as the Gates debarcle was playing out, 47 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: the president lex defense choice. Fox and Friends Weekend TV 48 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: co host Pete Heggss is on Capitol Hill right now 49 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 2: as well, trying to win support as a graphic police 50 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 2: document has just come out on the claim by a 51 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 2: woman he met at a Republican women's conference, a claim 52 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: that he had sexually assaulted her. Higgs Seth denials that 53 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: says he was clear since no charges were brought. At 54 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: the same time, this thing is pretty lurid. This woman, 55 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: whose name is not being released as haig Seth was 56 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 2: hitting on several women at the Republican conference, putting his 57 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: hand on their legs. His accuser says they got into 58 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: an argument. Then she says she believes someone had slipped 59 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: something into her drink. She says she then awoke in 60 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 2: Hegseth's room, that she was hazy and the only barely conscious, 61 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 2: and that he had taken her phone and blocked the doorway. 62 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: Hegg says says the sex was consensual, So that's part 63 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: of that story. Elsewhere, Nikki Haley, who was on Trump's 64 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 2: who was Trump's you Went ambassador in his first season and 65 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 2: his former campaign opponent, of course, is slamming the choice 66 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 2: of Tulsey Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. So that's 67 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 2: another story still playing out that says Haley. 68 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 3: This is not a place for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, 69 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: Chinese sympathizer. 70 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: So the Murdoch, Wall Street Journal and New York Post 71 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: Today also are opposing Gabbard. So will any of that 72 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: prevail against Trump and co? 73 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: And what chance Google get rid of crime? 74 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this is interesting. The Justice Department is proposing 75 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: the breakup of Google and it's a two trigger dollar 76 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: operation along with the number of state states as well. 77 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: The Federal Department is asking the court to force Google 78 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: to v shape competition on the Internet. They want Google to, 79 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 2: among other things, so that web browser Chrome, which dominates 80 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: the market has about two thirds of users the The 81 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: EJ also is asking Google to sell Android as smartphone 82 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 2: operating system, which again is the most popular on the 83 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 2: mobile phone market with an estimated seventy percent plus of 84 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 2: software systems. Debate over this is going to be furiously 85 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 2: challenged by googlers, you'd expect, so don't anticipate any moves 86 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,799 Speaker 2: until late next year at the earliest. 87 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: Have a good week nd Richard Arnold state, so, by 88 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: the way, he's busy Trump at the moment. Susan Collins 89 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: and Makowski, who are a couple of Republicans, but they 90 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: sort of lean centrist, if not left. They've been backing 91 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: up and voting for Biden's picks on the judiciary or 92 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: at the judiciary. And there's still a couple of dozen 93 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: more to go, and so Trump's desperately trying to stop 94 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: the courts as he sees it being stacked with left wingers. 95 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: It's an interesting insight and how much influenced the president 96 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: has on the judicial process since he's been in Senates 97 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: confirmed two hundred and sixty normandies for this federal judiciary. 98 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: There are two hundred and sixty one in place, so 99 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: they are still about what fifty to go. 100 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, Listen live to 101 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 2: News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow 102 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.