{"id":107910,"date":"2024-11-19T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-transition-live-updates-musk-backs-gaetz-for-ag-amid-allegations\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:05:27","slug":"trump-transition-live-updates-musk-backs-gaetz-for-ag-amid-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-transition-live-updates-musk-backs-gaetz-for-ag-amid-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump transition live updates: Musk backs Gaetz for AG amid allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-18\/Flickr_11224_Trump21.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead. Via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(WASHINGTON) &#8212; President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm the Federal Communications Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, fallout continues for former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump&#8217;s choice to serve as attorney general. The House Ethics Committee was investigating Gaetz for alleged sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Calls are growing for the panel to release its report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nearly 100 House Dems urge release of Gaetz draft report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 House Democrats urged House Ethics Committee leadership on Tuesday<a href=\"https:\/\/casten.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/casten-nearly-100-house-democrats-urge-ethics-committee-to-release-gaetz-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0in a letter<\/a>\u00a0to immediately release their draft report of allegations into &#8220;serious misconduct&#8221; by former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter &#8212; which was led by Illinois Democratic Rep. Sean Casten and sent to committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and ranking member Susan Wild, D-Penn. &#8212; the members wrote that &#8220;given the seriousness of the charges against Representative Gaetz,&#8221; withholding any findings of their investigation might &#8220;jeopardize the Senate&#8217;s ability to provide fully informed, constitutionally required advice and consent regarding this nomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Representative Gaetz&#8217;s abrupt resignation from Congress should not circumvent the Senate&#8217;s ability to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities,&#8221; the letter, signed by 97 Democrats, stated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted the report should not be publicly released, as Gaetz is now a former member of the House. He has also stressed that the same principle should apply to potential access for senators reviewing the nominees.<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News&#8217; Isabella Murray, Lauren Peller and John Parkinson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker Johnson denies discussing Gaetz draft report with House Ethics chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson denied that he has discussed the details of the draft ethics report on Matt Gaetz with House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest, and further denied that President-elect Donald Trump or Gaetz have pressured him to bury the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t talked to Michael Guest about the report. I talk to all my colleagues but I know where the lines are. I have no idea about the contents of the report,\u201d Johnson told reporters as he walked back to his office after his news conference this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Despite persistent questions, Johnson maintained his position that Gaetz\u2019s resignation from the House last week should put an end to the ethics inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job is to protect the institution and I have made very clear that I think it\u2019s an important guardrail for our institution that we not use the House Ethics Committee to investigate and report on persons who are not members of this body,\u201d Johnson declared. \u201cMatt Gaetz is not a member of the body anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson denied that Gaetz or Trump had pressured him to block release of the draft report, repeating that the speaker \u201chas no involvement\u201d in the ethics report and \u201ccan\u2019t direct the ethics committee to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve simply responded to the questions that have been asked of me about my opinion on whether that should be released. Matt Gaetz is no longer a member of Congress and so we don\u2019t issue ethics reports on non-members,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s an important guardrail for us to maintain for the interest of the institution so that\u2019s my position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have that conversation with [Gaetz]. Because that\u2019s not appropriate for us to do that,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cPresident Trump respects the guardrails of our institution as well, and I\u2019m very guarded about those things. So neither of those gentlemen would breach that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News\u2019 Jay O\u2019Brien, John Parkinson, Lauren Peller, Isabella Murray<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Musk backs Gaetz for AG amid allegations: &#8216;Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Billionaire Elon Musk is throwing his support behind Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s pick for attorney general, as allegations continue to surface surrounding what witnesses told the House Ethics Committee regarding the former congressman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Matt Gaetz has 3 critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind,&#8221; Musk wrote on X. &#8220;He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Musk also directly addressed the allegations against Gaetz, stating that he considers them &#8220;worth less than nothing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Musk&#8217;s public support for Gaetz comes as the billionaire continues to play a large role in Trump&#8217;s transition, as ABC News has previously reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Speaker Johnson says he hasn&#8217;t discussed Gaetz ethics drama with Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Monday he has not talked to Trump about a draft report on the House Ethics Committee&#8217;s investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz &#8212; as members on both sides of the aisle call on the speaker to release the draft despite Gaetz\u2019s resignation and the committee\u2019s lack of jurisdiction over former members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I have not discussed the ethics report with President Trump. And as you know, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time with him,\u201d Johnson, R-La., said. &#8220;He respects the House and the parameters, and he knows that I would not violate any of those rules or principles, and so it has not been discussed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The speaker also said he hasn&#8217;t discussed the report with Trump&#8217;s advisers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;They&#8217;re busy filling the Cabinet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This has not been a subject of our discussion.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Johnson reiterated his position against the release of the draft report. He also brushed off the fact that there is some precedent for its release following a member&#8217;s exit from Congress, saying the House is now in a &#8220;different era.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve made this really clear. There&#8217;s a very important principle that underlies this, and that is the House Ethics Committee has jurisdiction over members of Congress &#8212; not former members, not private citizens, not someone who&#8217;s left the institution,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a really important parameter for us to maintain. I think it&#8217;s important for the institution itself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Johnson said that he would not support a private viewing of the report for senators under the &#8220;same principle.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><em><span class=\"s2\">-ABC News&#8217; John Parkinson, Isabella Murray and Lauren Peller<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Top Dem on House Ethics Committee says Gaetz report should be released<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee &#8212; Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild &#8212; told reporters Monday that she believes the committee&#8217;s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz should be disclosed to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You either are going to disclose it or you&#8217;re not going to disclose it. So, and there&#8217;s plenty of precedents in the Ethics Committee to disclose the report even after a member has resigned,&#8221; Wild said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Wild, who is leaving office at the end of this session, said it&#8217;ll take &#8220;one or more&#8221; Republicans to join Democrats on the committee to achieve a majority vote to release the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Asked if that&#8217;s a possibility, Wild said she hasn&#8217;t talked to all of the members and doesn&#8217;t know, but she stressed that all eight members of the ethics panel now have access to the draft report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;I believe there will be a unanimous Democratic consensus that it should be released,&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Wild said there is a scheduled committee meeting on Wednesday, but said it &#8220;remains to be seen&#8221; what the chairman&#8217;s agenda is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;But I believe we should vote on whether we are to disclose it [Gaetz report] or not, and we&#8217;ll see what happens after that,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., told reporters Monday that he has read the Gaetz report but declined to comment further due to the confidentiality of the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s2\">-ABC News&#8217; Lauren Peller, John Parkinson and Isabella Murray<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Trump nominates Sean Duffy as transportation secretary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump announced Monday he is nominating former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy for transportation secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The position requires Senate confirmation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;He will prioritize Excellence, Competence, Competitiveness and Beauty when rebuilding America\u2019s highways, tunnels, bridges and airports,&#8221; Trump said in a statement. &#8220;He will ensure our ports and dams serve our Economy without compromising our National Security, and he will make our skies safe again by eliminating DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Duffy co-hosts &#8220;The Bottom Line&#8221; on Fox Business and is a Fox News contributor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s1\">-ABC News&#8217; Hannah Demissie<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Trump to attend SpaceX launch on Tuesday: Sources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump is expected to attend Tuesday&#8217;s SpaceX launch in Texas, multiple sources told ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">SpaceX said it is planning to hold the sixth integrated flight test of its Starship megarocket from its Starbase in Cameron County, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who will\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-lead-department-government\/story?id=115796327\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, has rarely left Trump&#8217;s side since the election &#8212; appearing in family photos with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and even traveling with him to New York for Saturday\u2019s UFC fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Trump frequently marveled at the intricacies of the SpaceX rocket launch while on the campaign trail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;It was so exciting, so I&#8217;m watching it, and this monstrous thing is going down, right and it&#8217;s coming down, it&#8217;s first of all, doing all sorts of flips up in the air,\u201d Trump said at his last campaign rally of the cycle in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em><span class=\"s3\">-ABC News&#8217; Kelsey Walsh, Lalee Ibssa and Katherine Faulders<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Democrats could force the Ethics Committee to release the Gaetz report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on the House Ethics Committee&#8217;s expected closed-door meeting this Wednesday &#8212; but it&#8217;s possible that Congress can go around the committee entirely to release the panel&#8217;s findings on former Rep. Matt Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>According to House rules, any member of Congress can go to the floor and tee up a vote on a &#8220;privileged resolution&#8221; that would force the Ethics Committee to release its report on Gaetz, within two legislative days.<\/p>\n<p>The member would only have to argue that not releasing the report impacts the &#8220;dignity&#8221; or &#8220;integrity&#8221; of the House or &#8220;reputation&#8221; of its members.<\/p>\n<p>The action would be unusual, but not unprecedented. In the 1990s, Democrats repeatedly tried to force the Ethics Committee to divulge information about investigations into then-Speaker Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts came up short because Republicans closed ranks around Gingrich and the majority. But Gaetz is incredibly unpopular on Capitol Hill, and it would only take a handful of Republicans &#8212; along with all Democrats &#8212; to pass the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re a member of Congress, do you really want to be in the business of defending Matt Gaetz?&#8221; former Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pennsylvania, who led the Ethics Committee, said to ABC News on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethics Committee was investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use against Gaetz, who resigned last week after being named Trump&#8217;s pick for attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>If the Ethics Committee doesn&#8217;t vote to release its findings on Wednesday, expect more Democrats to raise the possibility of forcing a floor vote &#8212; one that would force Republicans on the record about Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News&#8217; Benjamin Siegel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hegseth flagged as potential &#8216;insider threat&#8217; by Guardsman who was &#8216;disturbed&#8217; by &#8216;Deus Vult&#8217; tattoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Guardsman who in 2021 pegged Pete Hegseth as a potential &#8220;insider threat&#8221; clarified in an interview with ABC News that his complaint targeted a &#8220;Deus Vult&#8221; tattoo on the Fox News host&#8217;s arm, not a cross on his chest, as Hegseth has repeatedly claimed.<\/p>\n<p>As Reuters and The Associated Press first reported, Sgt. DeRicko Gaither sent an image of the &#8220;Deus Vult&#8221; tattoo to Maj. Gen. William Walker shortly before President Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration. The phrase, which translates to &#8220;God wills it,&#8221; has since been co-opted by white nationalist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This information is quite disturbing, sir,&#8221; Gaither wrote in the email to Walker, who has not responded to ABC News&#8217; request for comment. &#8220;This falls along the lines of (an) Insider Threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth &#8212; Trump&#8217;s pick for defense secretary &#8212; claimed in his book, &#8220;The War on Warriors,&#8221; that he was removed from service ahead of Biden&#8217;s inauguration because fellow servicemembers had flagged a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross on his chest as a white nationalist symbol.<\/p>\n<p>But Gaither clarified in a text message to ABC News that his complaint targeted the &#8220;Deus Vult&#8221; tattoo, despite &#8220;the narrative that has been out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just so we are clear. This has NOTHING to do with the Jerusalem Cross tattoo on his chest,&#8221; Gaither said. &#8220;This has everything to do with the &#8216;DEUS VULT&#8217; Tattoo on his inner bicep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaither, who confirmed the contents of his complaint to ABC News, emphasized that &#8220;this wasn&#8217;t then and isn&#8217;t now a personal attack towards Pete Hegseth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The information received and [the] email sent on January 14th was the protocol that had to be followed because of the position assignment that I was assigned to,&#8221; explained Gaither, who was at the time assigned as the Guards&#8217; head of security. &#8220;The protocol was followed and would be followed again if this issue involved any other service member, myself included.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth fired back at the initial coverage of this matter in the AP by claiming it was &#8220;Anti-Christian bigotry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can target me &#8212; I don\u2019t give a damn &#8212; but this type of targeting of Christians, conservatives, patriots and everyday Americans will stop on DAY ONE at DJT&#8217;s DoD,&#8221; Hegseth wrote on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News&#8217; Nathan Luna and Lucien Bruggeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Homan says he&#8217;s headed to Mar-a-Lago to put &#8216;final touches&#8217; on deportation plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incoming &#8220;border czar&#8221; Tom Homan said Monday that Trump&#8217;s new administration is already working on a plan to deport undocumented immigrants and that he&#8217;s headed to Mar-a-Lago this week &#8220;to put the final touches&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fox News\u2019 America Reports, Homan reiterated his plan to &#8220;take the handcuffs of ICE&#8221; and ramp up arrests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ICE knows what they&#8217;re looking for. They just never go arrest them, because Secretary Mayorkas has told them [to] tone down the arrests,\u201d Homan said.<\/p>\n<p>Homan also repeated his claim that ICE will &#8220;arrest the bad guys first.&#8221; He said that under the Biden administration, the removal of &#8220;criminal aliens&#8221; has decreased 74%. ABC News has not independently verified the accuracy of that claim.<\/p>\n<p>Homan acknowledged during the interview that a mass deportation plan will require significant resources and that he doesn&#8217;t know what the current ICE and Customs and Border Protection budgets are, though added that Trump is &#8220;committed&#8221; to getting the funding for his plan.<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News&#8217; Armando Garc\u00eda<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>&#8216;Dangerous&#8217;: Caroline Kennedy weighs in on RFK&#8217;s views on vaccines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Caroline Kennedy weighed in on her cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.&#8217;s views on vaccines during remarks on Monday after he was announced as the nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I think Bobby Kennedy&#8217;s views on vaccines are dangerous, but I don&#8217;t think that most Americans share them. So we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what happens,&#8221; she said at the National Press Club of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You know, I grew up with him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So, I have known all this for a long time and others are just getting to know him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennedy added that her uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, had fought for affordable health care, and that her family was proud of President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act, which she said was built on Sen. Kennedy&#8217;s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I would say that our family is united in terms of our support for the public health sector and infrastructure and has greatest admiration for the medical profession in our country, and Bobby Kennedy has got a different set of views,&#8221; Caroline Kennedy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211;<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">ABC News&#8217; Oren Oppenheim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Trump transition live updates: Ethics Committee expected to meet on Gaetz: Sources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm the Federal Communications Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, fallout continues for former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump&#8217;s choice to serve as attorney general. The House Ethics Committee was investigating Gaetz for alleged sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Calls are growing for the panel to release its report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8216;Dangerous&#8217;: Caroline Kennedy weighs in on RFK&#8217;s views on vaccines<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">Caroline Kennedy weighed in on her cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.&#8217;s views on vaccines during remarks on Monday after he was announced as the nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;I think Bobby Kennedy&#8217;s views on vaccines are dangerous, but I don&#8217;t think that most Americans share them. So we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what happens,&#8221; she said at the National Press Club of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You know, I grew up with him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So, I have known all this for a long time and others are just getting to know him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennedy added that her uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, had fought for affordable health care, and that her family was proud of President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act, which she said was built on Sen. Kennedy&#8217;s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I would say that our family is united in terms of our support for the public health sector and infrastructure and has greatest admiration for the medical profession in our country, and Bobby Kennedy has got a different set of views,&#8221; Caroline Kennedy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211;<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">ABC News&#8217; Oren Oppenheim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>House Ethics Committee expected to meet to discuss Gaetz report<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet on Wednesday and discuss its report of Rep. Matt Gaetz, multiple sources tell ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">While the meeting can still be cancelled, sources said the committee could potentially take a vote on whether to release the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em><span class=\"s1\">-ABC News&#8217; Rachel Scott and Will Steakin<\/span><\/em><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>&#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; co-hosts say they met with Trump on Friday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said on Monday morning that they had met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday at Mar-a-Lago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">The goal of the meeting, they said, was to &#8220;restart communications&#8221; among the liberal-leaning morning show hosts and the incoming administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast, and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself. On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years,&#8221; Brzezinski said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">Scarborough said the hosts and Trump did not &#8220;see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;What we did agree on was to restart communications,&#8221; Brzezinski added, noting that Trump seemed &#8220;cheerful&#8221; and &#8220;upbeat.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8212;<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">ABC News&#8217; Oren Oppenheim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead. 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