The past few days have been pretty wild for a colleague, Sadie Gurman.
She covers the Justice Department and has for the last seven years.
In the annals of my experience covering the Justice Department, even this one was a bit of a crazy week,
we started the week investigating sexual misconduct allegations against Trump's first attorney general,
Pick Matt Gaetz, and every day there was just this drip, drip, drip of bad news about Matt Gaetz.
For years, the lawyer and former Florida congressman has faced allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use,
allegations that he's denied.
But with Gaetz poised to head a powerful federal department, concerns about those allegations grew.
And yesterday, you know, maybe around noon, I just hear people start shouting, Gaetz is out, Gaetz is out.
Oh my gosh.
And so, you know, then that sort of started this long rolling day.
Gaetz's withdrawal was a hit to President-elect Donald Trump,
who sees the job of attorney general as one of the most important roles in his new administration.
The DOJ Department of, I call it the Department of Injustice.
I will direct a completely overhaul DOJ to investigate every radical out-of-control prosecutor in America for their illegal racist and reverse enforcement of the law.
Because they're using the Department of Justice to rig the campaign.
The attorney general, Pick, has been Trump's number one personal priority,
and he has long considered this, remaking the Justice Department, one of his central issues and his agenda.
Now, Trump has a new pick to lead the department, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi.
Bondi is somebody who's been by Trump's side from the very beginning.