Republican Sen. John Cornyn is calling for more information on Gaetz, saying it could help 'protect the president.'
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Representative Matt Gaetz, has caused a stir in the newly Republican majority Senate, with Senator John Cornyn calling for Gaetz's ethics report to determine his fitness and 'protect the president.'On Wednesday, Trump tapped Republican Gaetz to be his attorney general. That same day, Gaetz resigned from Congress as the representative for Florida's 1st Congressional District.
The Texas senator said, 'I can't understand any situation under which we would deny ourselves access to full and complete information,' according to Punchbowl News.He continued, 'Part of this is not only to determine fitness for the nominee, it's also to protect the president. Because there may be information that the investigation would find forthcoming that would ultimately be an embarrassment to the president.
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