From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro. This is the Daily.

After just nine days as Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, former congressman Matt

Gates of Florida has withdrawn from consideration.

Today, Mike Schmidt on the revelations and the reporting that doomed Gates' nomination.

It's Friday, November 22nd.

Mike, welcome back to the studio for your second recording of the day.

Sure.

We had a couple of hours ago finished recording a roundtable with four of our colleagues, including you, and Katie Edmondson, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan.

Literally, we finished, we said thank you, we walked out of this room, and we learned that Matt Gates was withdrawing as Trump's pick for Attorney General

because that piece of information rendered our entire conversation out of date.

Correct.

So we want to thank them for their work, which will never be aired,

and thank you for sticking around to tell us the rest of this story.

Let's go.

Okay.

So at the start of this week, the question which we had posed in an episode of the Daily

about Matt Gates was whether we were going to see the results of a House ethics investigation

into his alleged sexual misconduct, including allegedly sex with a minor,

and his alleged drug use. And like, one of the first things that happened after our episode ran

was that the Republican Speaker of the House weighed in on that question. Just start the clock there.

So Speaker Johnson came out and said, I don't think this report

should be released. The Ethics Committee had looked at a range of his different conduct, and they

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