AND WILL KEEP MONITORING AT THIS
HOUR.
WE’LL LET YOU KNOW IF ANYTHING
NEW HAPPENS THERE.
WE’RE ALSO WATCHING NEW LEAKS
COMING INTO THE SCANDAL WITH
CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ, UNDER
INVESTIGATION FOR POSSIBLE SEX
TRAFFICKING AND SEX WITH A
17-YEAR-OLD.
GAETZ DENIES ALL ALLEGATIONS,
HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH
ANYTHING.
NOW TEXT MESSAGES HAVE BEEN
LEAKED FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN
CHARGED.
GREENBERG WAS TRYING TO ENLIST
FRIENDS IN HIS DEFENSE WITH
PRIVATE MESSAGES, SAYING THINGS
LIKE "EVERYONE IS GOING TO NEED
A LAWYER," NOTING HE WAS ALSO
PAYING TO RETAIN A LAWYER FOR A
WOMAN HE KNEW, WHO MAY HAVE
ALLEGEDLY BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS
SOMEHOW, NOTING THE FEDS ARE,
QUOTE, WANTING HER TO TALK.
SHE DOESN’T WANT TO TALK TO
THEM.
POLITICO REPORTS ANOTHER
GREENBERG ASSOCIATE WAS EVEN
PUSHING BACK ON THE MESSAGES,
SUGGESTING THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL
WAS INVOLVED REPLYING TO
GREENBERG, QUOTE, I HAVE NOTHING
TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS.
IT IS INCREDIBLY UNCOOL YOU ARE
TRYING TO LAWYER ME UP TO BE A
PART OF IT.
NOT F’ing COOL.
AND REPORTEDLY ASKING GAETZ TO
USE HIS INFLUENCE WITH TRUMP TO
GET A PARPD, WHICH IS STRIKE ING
WITH REGARD TO "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" SAYING GAETZ WAS LOOKING
FOR A PARDON FOR HIMSELF.
NOW AS EX-PRESIDENT THERE’S
REPORTS HE WON’T EVEN MEET WITH
HIM.
GAETZ, MEANWHILE, DENIES ASKING
FOR ANY SUCH MEETING.
GAETZ BUILT HIS POLITICAL BRAND
ECHOING DONALD TRUMP, AN
APPROACH THAT MADE HIM FAMOUS OR
INFAMOUS BUT NO LONGER IS
GARNERING SUPPORT FROM TRUMP.
>> KNOCK-OFF UKRAINE IMPEACHMENT
SEQUEL, AN ELECTION THAT WAS
STOLEN.
>> THE COLLUSION DELUSION IS
OVER.
>> THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
ATTACKED OUR BODIES.
>> NOW WE’RE AGAINST THE CHINESE
VIRUS.
>> THE SILENT MAJORITY IS
GROWING LOUDER BY THE DAY.
>> THE SILENT MAJORITY IS
STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE.
>> SO THEY RAN TO THE MAILBOX
WITH MILLIONS OF BALLOTS.
>> I THINK THAT MAIL-IN VOTING
IS A TERRIBLE THING.
>> BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH
ABOUT THEM.
>> I’M THE PRESIDENT AND YOU’RE
FAKE NEWS.
>> JOINING ME NOW IS JUSTICE
CORRESPONDENT WITH "THE NATION."
HOW ARE YOU, SIR?
>> I’M GOOD.
HOW ARE YOU?
>> I’M FINE.
THIS STORY CONTINUES TO DRIP,
AND DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF LEAKS
AND INFORMATION, ATTACKS.
HERE YOU HAVE WHAT ARE SUPPOSED
TO BE PRIVATE, ENCRYPTED
WHATSAPP TEXT MESSAGES BUT
ENCRYPTION WON’T SAVE YOU IF ONE
OR EITHER PERSON STARTS SHARING
THEM.
YOUR THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT WINDOW
THIS SHOWS INTO GAETZ’S ALLY AND
WHETHER ANY OF THIS GETS CLOSER
TO GAETZ IN THE PROBE.
>> ONE, JOEL GREENBERG DOES NOT
PRESENT AS THE BEST GUY.
RIGHT?
LIKE IF YOUR WHOLE CASE IS GOING
TO REST ON THIS GUY, THERE’S
SOME WEAKNESS THERE.
HE DOESN’T SOUND LIKE THE MOST
CREDIBLE PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE,
AND SOUNDS LIKE A MAN ABOUT TO
GO TO JAIL, KNOWS IT AND IS
TRYING TO SQUIRM OUT.
IF YOUR WHOLE CASE IS GOING TO
REST ON
HOWEVER I’M NOT USUALLY IN THE
BUSINESS OF GIVING ADVICE TO
CRIMINALS BUT WHATSAPP IS NOT
SECRET.
STOP!
JUST STOP.
THERE’S NO WAY THAT YOU CAN BE
ALIVE IN 2021 AND THINK THERE’S
SOMETHING YOU CAN TEXT ON THAT
PEOPLE CAN’T FIND OUT.
IF JOEL GREENBERG HAS THESE TEXT
MESSAGES AND GAETZ IS
IMPLICATING HIMSELF, WHATSAPP OR
VENMO.
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT -- WE HAVEN’T
SPOKEN TO THE 17-YEAR-OLD, WHO
IS 20 NOW I BELIEVE.
THAT PERSON IS GOING TO HAVE
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT WHETHER
OR NOT GAETZ HAD SEX WITH A
17-YEAR-OLD.
ONCE YOU GET INTO THE WORLD OF
DOCUMENTS, AND THIS IS WHAT
LAWYERS -- THIS IS THE WORLD
THAT LAWYERS LIVE IN.
ONCE YOU GET INTO THE WORLD OF
DOCUMENTS THERE’S EITHER GOING
TO BE EVIDENCE THAT CORROBORATES
WHATEVER GREENBERG IS SINGING
ABOUT OR THERE’S NOT. IF THERE IS, GAETZ HAS REAL
IF THERE IS, GAETZ HAS REAL
REASON TO BE CONCERNED.
>> TELLING HIS ASSOCIATES TO GET
A LAWYER.
THE FACT THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE
RESPONDED, SAYING IT WAS, QUOTE,
UNCOOL, A STRIKING WAY TO
RESPOND TO THE SERIES FELL ONONI
AT ISSUES HERE.
YOUR POINT ABOUT WHO THIS
PERPENDICULAR IS AND, AGAIN, FOR
VIEWERS WHO SAY HOW MUCH DOES
EVERYONE CARE ABOUT GREENBERG?
NOT A TON OTHER THAN IT’S A
LOCAL CASE WHERE AUTHORITIES MAY
SEEK JUSTICE.
THEY’VE INDICTED HIM ON SEVERAL
CHARGES, OBVIOUSLY.
IF THIS IS WHO GAETZ WAS LINKED
TO BY EVIDENCE, TRAVELING WITH,
SPEPDING TIME OR WORSE, THEN IT
MATTERS.
YOU HAVE THIS TIGER KING
COMPARISON HEADLINE.
LIKE THE TIGER KING GOT ELECTED
TAX COLLECTOR INSIDE THE CASE
THAT ENSNARED MATT GAETZ.
THIS GREENBERG CHARACTER WOULD STRUT TO WORK WITH A PISTOL ON
STRUT TO WORK WITH A PISTOL ON
HIS HIP, HUPS OF THOUSANDS OF
DOLLAR S
DOLLARS.
WALK US THROUGH ANY OF THIS
STUFF THAT INVOLVES
MISAPPROPRIATION OR MISUSE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS, JOBS, ET
GOVERNMENT FUNDS, JOBS, ET
CETERA, THAT THAT ALONE.
>> STATUTORY RAPE IS NOT
ZPLNCHTS THAT’S NEWS TO
REPUBLICANS.
THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT FUNNY.
THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT A NOTHING
THING.
ONE OF MATT GAETZ’S DEFENSE
LAWYER, HE’S ENGAGED NOW.
BEFORE HE WAS ENGAGED, HE DIDN’T
LIVE LIKE A MONK.
IT’S NOT A QUESTION OF LIVING
LIKE A MONK.
THIS IS A QUESTION OF STATUTORY
RAPE AND SEX TRAFFICKING.
THAT IS SERIOUS.
THERE’S IMPLICATION THROUGH SOME
OF THESE TEXTS WHICH AGAIN I’VE
NOT SEEN MYSELF.
I DO NOT KNOW.
DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER.
THERE’S THE IMPLICATION THAT
GAETZ PERHAPS ALSO TRADED
POLITICAL FAVORS WHICH WOULD BE
AN ABUSE OF HIS POLITICAL OFFICE
WITH SOME OF THESE -- IN
ADDITION TO PAYING FOR GOD KNOWS
WHAT, SCHOOL AND TUITION,
ACCORDING TO HIS VENMO.
THERE IS NOTHING NOT SERIOUS
ABOUT THIS CRIME, ABOUT THIS
POTENTIAL CRIME.
BUT IT GOES TO A LARGER ISSUE OF
PERMISSIVENESS WITHIN THIS
CIRCLE, IT SEEMS.
I KNOW YOU READ "WASHINGTON
POST" COLUMNIST.
I THOUGHT SHE HAD THE BEST TAKE
ON THIS.
SHE POINTED OUT THAT THIS IS THE
KIND OF THING THAT SHOULD NEVER
HAPPEN AND ONLY HAPPENS IN THE
CULTURE OF PERMISSIVENESS WHERE
IT’S A BUNCH OF FRAT BOYS WHO
THINK THIS IS PART OF BOYS BEING
BOYS AS OPPOSED TO JUST BASIC
LEGAL STANDARDS.
YOU SHOULD NEVER BE IN A
SITUATION.
AND I DON’T FEEL -- THERE IS NO
KIND OF -- MY EARS ARE NOT
BURNING.
THERE’S NO SKELETON IN MY CLOSET
THAT MAKES ME WORRIED ABOUT
SAYING THIS.
YOU SHOULD NEVER BE IN A
SITUATION WHERE YOU NEED TO LOOK
UP THE AGE OF CONSENT.
YOU SHOULD NEVER BE CLOSE TO
THAT.
AND ASK INGING --
>> RIGHT.
I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY TO YOUR
EARLIER POINT, WHAT WE’RE
COVERING IS A FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION.
AND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT IT IS
THAT IT INVOLVES FELONIES.
SOME OF THEM INVOLVE ALLEGED SEX
TRAFFICKING, SEX CRIMES.
ALL OF THIS IS THE FEDS ARE LOOK
AT IT PAUSE THEY SEE SERIOUS
FELONIES, NOT MINOR
MISDEMEANORS.
THAT’S WHY IT’S ONE OF THE
BIGGEST STORIES ENGULFING DONALD
TRUMP’S LARGEST ALLIES.
IT’S NOT TRYING TO LITIGATE
SOMEONE’S MONK OR NONMONK-LIKE
PRIVATE LIFE.
THIS SAY BIG DEAL BECAUSE THE
FEDS HAVE INDICTED ONE SUSPECT
AND ARE LOOKING AT ANOTHER ONE.
ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOUR