President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to serve as his attorney general. MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin reports on the choice, Gaetz's political career and the investigations he has been a part of in the past.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has selected Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the 87th attorney general of the United States, filling the nation's top law enforcement position with a Florida lawmaker who has been under investigation by the department he would be overseeing.
“I don’t care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy, we either get this government back on our side or we defund, get rid of, abolish the FBI CDC, ATF,” Gaetz said in 2023 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. After the Jan.
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