the way we are told from sources and the way joel greenberg's lawyer describes it, joel greenberg has potentially pivotal information that could help investigators in the matt gaetz investigation. as i mentioned they both allegedly shared this same girl for sex which would be illegal. we understand from talking to people in this world and other officials that investigators are exploring allegations joel greenberg was the guy that procured women for gaetz. greenberg has credibility issues. one of the things that first got him on the radar was fabricating evidence against another politician. he is not the person you want as a cooperator or witness because jurors, if it came to that, would not very likely believe him. but he could point investigators in the areas they may be didn't think they go or evidence they didn't know existed. his cooperation certainly ups the ante for gaetz but we will see if he pleads guilty, he is still just a negotiations, b, how much he cooperates and c, how honest he is. host: gaetz insists the claims are false but also talked about extortion issues. can you

his name is joel greenburg. we kind of just met him in the media. he's the former seminole county tax collector in florida. one of the reasons he no longer holds that position is because he was indicted and later charged with a slew of counts tied to stalking, illegally obtaining personal information, identity theft, wire fraud, and sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. and it was that sex trafficking investigation into joel greenburg, as nbc news reported, that led to the separate justice department investigation of congressman matt gaetz for possible sex trafficking of a 17-year-old. today in orlando, florida, there was a status update in his case where his lawyers said greenberg is now expected to plead guilty. he's likely to face 12 years in prison according to "the new york times" and legal experts said if mr. greenberg had hope of reducing that sentence, he would have to cooperate with the justice department. it is not for certain he's going to plea and cooperate, but he does, well, that could be extremely bad news for one matt gaetz. here's

when joel greenberg paid them to these girls, it said school and tuition.now from the indictment against joel greenberg that 33 count indictment that was just updated last week, that he's being accused of having sugar daddy relationships and using taxpayer funds to do so. and so what we're trying to figure out, of course, is the next step which is what exactly were these payments for. >> right. >> but we have so much more reporting on this that we have not broken yet that is about his circle, about joel greenberg, about his behavior and about his relationship with this congressman. >> so, this is very subjective, but to be clear, we don't know or you don't know, you're ahead of us on the reporting, you don't know exactly what the money was for and it is not clearly indicated in the venmo slips. i get the constructive suggestion of it and you're still looking into it. >> i want to make sure we're very clear about this. we were able to get these payments because through our sources we had been asking for specific things. we asked for what is the proof that th

but joel greenberg, why? joel greenberg has been indicted for exactly what they say. >> and that case is a bigger name. >> oh, absolutely. but they are investigating him for the same things. that means nothing legally. but they absolutely know each other and there is some strange coordination between the two of them. it doesn't have to mean anything specifically. it doesn't even have be true. joel greenberg is in bad shape. he is a desperate man, and what do desperate men do? >> they flip. >> desperate things. >> let me tell you this. for all of the people out there watching and everyone who is saying, oh, this is just something that the biden administration is doing, this started with the trump doj. >> did you hear trump come out and defend gaetz? >> yeah, i heard him. it was silent. >> sounded like you when a check comes. >> what? >> like you when the check comes. >> no, no. matt gaetz? my pizza is here? >> i got to go. we'll see you. you can use that, don. i know you're going. >> all right. i love you, don

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joel greenberg was elected tax collector in seminole county, florida, in november 2016. as we discussed last night, mr. greenberg basically then immediately sat out on a course of behavior that started off like a fire hose of scandal and ended up like a tsunami of scandal. i mean, i can't even cram all of it into another lengthy news segment here, but just in rough cron cloj call order, looking at the high points, local investigations and audits found that starting basically as soon as he took office he spent millions of taxpayer dollars on contracts and payments to his personal friends and some business partners, including six different people who had all been in his wedding several months before he got elected six members of his wedding p papart just happened to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts and deals from the local tax collector's office right after their buddy joel, the groom from that wedding they were in, took over that office what a coincidence six people from the same wedding, huh a county audit found that mr. greenberg spent tons of taxpayer

it is clearer and clearer that it's joel greenberg who makes the initial overtures to women, and joelerg sending the messages that we have seen that say, please meet here at this hotel, there's $1,000 for you if you come. those are the sorts of things that joel greenberg is doing. it's his name on many of the receipts. it looks like he is the person that is responsible. whether or not he is the person in charge is the open question. because then he quickly hands everybody off to congressman gaetz where they engage in sexual relations. we are seeing the relationship emering between greenberg and gaetz. we are seeing the government put pressure on greenberg as we speak, ratcheting up the charges that he is indicted on the child sex trafficking charges. he is facing very, very severe penalties, and they are clearly trying to pressure him in order to get him to give them more information on other people that they would like more information about. possibly including congressman gaetz. >> is there any indication at this point, katie, that mr. greenberg is cooperating with prosecutors? >> w

>> yeah, so joel greenberg appears to be cooperating. he is an unsavory character to say the least, but that's the nature of cooperating witnesses. as a prosecutor, when you get someone like joel greenberg, you're only going to cooperate him if, one, he can give you a serious target, and, two, he is backed up by other evidence. you're not just going to take joel greenberg's word as a prosecutor. you're going to say show me the receipts, literally. we know about that venmo transaction. okay, that may support something greenberg says. i'm going to say to greenberg, what other financial transactions do you have? did you ever text with gaetz or anyone else? did you ever email? and so you're not just going to take joel greenberg as a matter of faith. you're not going to sign him up as a cooperator until you're sure he's got the goods. >> could it be bigger fish than even matt gaetz that we haven't heard about or we don't know about? >> for sure, don, so we don't know exactly who joel greenberg is giving the feds, but the deal is you have to g

a local republican elected official in florida named joel greenberg. mr. greenberg was arrested last year on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. he's currently in jail awaiting trial. he's pled not guilty to all charges against him. according to "the new york times," the sex trafficking count against mr. greenberg involves the same underaged girl as the gaetz investigation. mark caputo at politico.com has more reporting today that sheds light on the relationship between these two criminal investigations. caputo spoke with three sources who knew joel greenberg before he was charged with child sex trafficking. all three of them told politico that they personally heard congressman gaetz's friend joel greenberg bragging about his sexual relationship with a girl who was 17 years old at the time. at least one of those friends has reportedly testified before a grand jury as part of the joel greenberg investigation. what does this mean? we know these allegations of child sex trafficking against joel greenberg are solid enough to have served

host: joel, we take that feedback. cannot agree more with you about the roundtable point that you made. it is something that we try to do. we reach out to lawmakers and ask them to sit across the table from somebody that they disagree with. and we also very much enjoyed that kind of conversation. ted, you are next, you are a democrat in new york. what grade do you give president biden? caller: you know, i give him an a, mostly because, you know, trump was just an f. biden is a clear a. he is trying to do the right thing, trying to be a government worker, trying to be an employee for the government, instead of being this guy that is on the tv after hour after hour for four years. trump was running a tv show. he was an egomaniac. you know, you have got to give it to biden. he is a normal human being trying to run the government. i am a fiscal conservative, even though i am a democrat, and i am a pro-second amendment, oddly, even though i am a democrat. so i hate being labeled by my sons on the right. you know, i do not k

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joel greenberg even before the feds were onto him had developed a reputation. to power very quickly in florida around the time matt gaetz becomes a congressman but his eccentricities become known around the tax collector's that he now leads. he wears a badge around the office. he institutes open carry, carrying firearms in the tax collector's office. in his neighborhood, according to a police report, he pulls over this woman in what appears to be a private vehicle with a light bar on it, shows a badge like a tax collector badge and yells at her. he alleges that she's speeding. she ends up calling the police saying i got pulled over in this weird way, i don't know what this is about. the police find it wasn't a law enforcement officer who pulled her over, it was joel greenberg. they investigate him but don't charge him for impersonating a police officer. so he was kind of known as an eccentric guy but he was very close and friendly with matt gaetz and then his woes kind of lead federal investigators to be interested in matt gaetz. >> how similar are they? you wr

and the fact that matt gaetz is out there is a lifeline for joel greenberg because joel greenberg is just a local tax collector. matt gaetz is a congressman, so he's clearly a bigger target. joel greenberg knows where all the bodies are buied here. >> let me press you for a little bit of precision here because in fairness, just following the facts, you said, quote, pretty much confirmed. but can we read into that yet? i mean, what greenberg said could be read as confirmation. i understand what you are drawing on to say that, but could he not also turn around in a few days and say, well, i was referring to why gaetz should be uncomfortable given all the allegations but our client is going a different direction. >> ari, i cannot imagine his lawyers are going to allow him to go to trial where he faces a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence for child sex trafficking. he's like a walking criminal enterprise this guy. the only thing he has going in his favor was there is a bigger fish to flip on. i have always felt it was inevitable this day will come. i think his lawyer, though, when you s

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joel greenberg is currently sitting in jail.-three-dozen counts, on a range of different corruption. the government has immense leverage over him. and, you know, he -- he has intimate knowledge of what went on with matt gaetz. and as we -- as we sit here tonight, joel greenberg is in -- is in jail, awaiting trial in june. and, you know, facing a -- many, many, many years in prison. >> michael schmidt, stunning reporting, tonight. thank you, very much, for joining us on this breaking-news story, with your breaking-news report. really appreciate it. and andrew weissman, thank you for adding your experience, as a prosecutor, to this discussion. really, appreciate it. thank you, very much. >>> and up next. very bad news for defendant trump. a judge has ruled that the nondisclosure agreement donald trump forced his campaign staff to sign is invalid. the latest lawyer to beat donald trump in court, and get that nondisclosure agreement ruled invalid will join us, next. oin t —- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indi

joel mchale.grown-ish," actress yara shahidi author mark harris featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how is everybody doing tonight how are you doing jeff >> good. [ laughter ] >> seth: let's get to the news president biden said yesterday that the country was on track to administer over 100 million vaccine doses and send 100 million stimulus checks in the next ten days. but don't forget, by this point in his presidency, the last guy completed almost 100 million putts. "99 million. i think you guys over counted. vice president kamala harris traveled to colorado today to promote the coronavirus relief package and visited a vaccination clinic and a restaurant hopefully, in that order republican senator ron johnson said in an interview last week that he was not concerned for his safety during january's capitol attack well, yeah, you're all trump guys that's like a bird saying it wasn't concerned for its safety in "the

so this isn't just about joel greenberg.ause it was written by him and comes from him, given the fact that he was matt gaetz's friend and his wingman in all of this. but there are girls that were involved, and they could provide testimony that backs a lot of this up. >> that is true. jose bag lee airy, thank you for providing pieces to the puzzle. thank you for answering the questions about your reporting. that's why you continue to get a platform on this show. appreciate you. >> thank you, chris. >>> all right. i have good news on the other side of this break. arguably two good pieces of news. but the best, "cuomo prime time" family growing, next. [sfx: psst psst] allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good when we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work. building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. creating a coast to coast network to deliver your

joel greenberg is ready to at mitt to really bad crimes. and if it comes to that, he's going to turn on matt gaetz too. he has the gooz. he has the venmo receipts. pardon him. you'll save gaetz. don't pardon him, he'll do what he has to do. >> is there any weakening of republican backing for matt gaetz here? he still maintains his position on the judiciary committee. he says, you know, and others denied it, give him a shot. behind the scenes are there more doubts? >> there are so many doubts. i'm sure you're hearing the same thing. i am. it's not as if matt gaetz as this, you know, huge reservoir of support even among his fellow republicans. right now it's about precedent setting and even people who really, really would prefer in the heart of hearts to see him go. they don't want to push him off the judiciary committee until or unless he is actual indicted, until there are actual charges brought against him f that happens, that's going to be a whole different ball game for him. not just legally but politically with regard to his seat. >> da

after all he was associated with joel greenberg.ngaged in activity that a lot of people find very distasteful. and in the case of joel greenberg, he's been indicted for sex trafficking a minor and other offenses that gaetz is not accused of. so, you know, gaetz in gaetz's view is that if he's quiet he's going to look guilty. so, he's going to be talking. that comes on the heals of him hiring a new legal team. >> in terms of the drip, drip, drip, from your reporting and others, this seems to be a significant investigation now. and, you know, any time that there's someone who faces a bunch of charges and then appears like they're going to plea, that's usually bad news for the people that might be associated with them. but there's also a different points of this. there's joel greenberg who is a county tax assessor. there is a hand surgeon and marijuana entrepreneur who also appears to have had some dealings with mr. gaetz and also is under investigation. it seems like a fairly broad scope. >> it's fair to say that the investigators are

matt gaetz is reportedly a close friend of joel greenberg's, and when investigators charged greenberg with violating child sex trafficking laws, they turned up information that led them to start investigating matt gaetz for similar conduct. "the new york times" has reported the sex trafficking count against joel greenberg involves sex with the same underaged girl as in the gaetz investigation. since the story first broke, matt gaetz has issued a blanket denial of every detail. he says he has never paid for sex. he denies having sex with an underaged girl. he says the whole bahamas thing is a giant fishing expedition. and his friend joel greenberg has denied all of the criminal charges brought up against him as well, until now. today joel greenberg's lawyer told the judge greenberg might be willing to change his not guilty plea and instead strike a plea deal with prosecutors in this case. it is not yet clear how far along these plea discussions are. a judge has asked for an update on those discussions about one month from now. but that potential plea deal, that is the reason that joel

host: joel, retired member of law enforcement. if you are a member of law enforcement you can give your input. you heard from chuck grassley giving his thoughts on the issue of guns, the chair of this hearing that the committee took place, senator dick durbin, here are some of his thoughts. >> last weekend in the city of chicago 20 people were shot. 20. dr. rogers, you know that well, you know what happens in your hometown, four of them died. across the nation every day we lose on average 109 american lives to gunfire, 109, suicides, domestic violence shootings, accidental shootings, homicides, and another 200 americans are injured by guns. the numbers are sobering. each number is an individual person, loved one, a neighbor, a friend, a husband, father, a son, or a daughter. we have seen too many desperate trips to the emergency room, too many funerals, too many families and communities card forever by gun violence. we have come to accept it as part of american life. disproportionately this violence affects people of color, but no

if matt gaetz pays joel greenberg a certain amount and joel greenberg transfers that to a woman who admitted had sex with matt gaetz in the bahamas, you are closer to building a case. >> you pay tensattention to a d here that we were told may 15th is the date the judge set to work out a plea deal. why does that matter? >> it matters for a couple reasons. first, nobody pleads guilty to a case in federal criminal court unless they are cooperating. it's exceedingly rare someone comes in and says, didi did it pleads guilty. if we know they are planning on a plea on may 15th, it's almost 100% that greenberg is cooperating. if they are scheduling the plea for may 15th, it means that they have already proffered joel greenberg. that makes sense. we hear investigators are interviewing women who allegedly participated in these events, men who allegedly participated in the travel. it's possible that they got that information from joel greenberg. you can't go to court with just joel greenberg as a witness. he is banged up in all kinds of ways. you need to corroborate everything he says. investigators ar

and so, this isn't just about joel greenberg.written by him and comes from him given the fact that he was matt gaetz's friend and his wing man in all of this but there were girls involved and they could provide testimony that backs a lot of this up. >> that is true. jose, thank you for providing pieces to the puzzle. thank you for answering the questions about your reporting and that's why you continue to get a platform on this show. appreciate you. >> thank you, chris. >>> all right. i have good news on the other side of this break. arguably, two good pieces of news. but the best? "cuomo prime time" family, growing. next. (burke) phone it in to 1-800-farmers to get policy perks, like a home and auto-bundle discount. (man) i'm phoning it in and just saved twenty percent. (burke) get your policy perks by calling 1-800-farmers. go ahead, phone it in. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the ha

minor, and that case grew out of a broader probe involving a close associate and ally, a man named joel greenberg who's facing an array of federal charges himself, also including sex trafficking. it appears tonight that greenberg may be ready to strike a plea deal with federal prosecutors a move that presumably would bolster their case against matt gaetz. greenberg was not in court today but his lawyers say his client will like i take a plea and avoid a trial although he said the deal was not yet finalized. that possibility was revealed during a brief court hearing in orlando, florida. after the hearing greenberg's lawyer offered this ominous assessment. >> i'm sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. >> does joel consider matt gaetz a friend or has he cut ties? >> in any case i have, if there's other potential co-defendants, or, you know, i preclude my clients from talking to them. >> joel greenberg's lawyer would not say specifically what his client knew but "the washington post" reports he added, quote, his client was uniquely situated to help prosecutors and was seekin

>> reporter: wolf, that key associate is joel greenberg. as part of a plea deal, he could be required to provide prosecutors with evidence against congressman gaetz in that ongoing sex trafficking investigation. tonight, the investigation surrounding florida congressman matt gaetz enters a new phase as a key associate signals he might strike a plea deal with the government. >> it really is an honor to be here today. >> reporter: joel greenberg, a friend of gaetz and a former traxtax collector in seminole county, florida, is likely to strike a deal. >> i'm sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. >> reporter: greenberg's attorney was in court today and said any potential for cooperation will be worked out in conjunction with a plea deal. >> if somebody signs a cooperation agreement, they're required to cooperate. >> reporter: the two have been friends for years, posting photos together. gaetz even told a local radio station in 2017 that greenberg would make a good member of congress. >> joel greenberg has gone into the seminole

did you see any of this coming once the joel greenberg case broke open last year?is friendship and relationship with congressman gaetz was not a secret. >> it wasn't. i think the alice in wonder land line, curiouser and curiouser comes to mind. it gets weirder and weirder. a mutual friend of a lawyer who represented the political opponent of greenberg had reached out to me many months ago and said, hey, you should interview this guy because joel greenberg the tax collector tried to smear him as a pedophile and now arrested for it. and then that just mushroomed out into this really bizarre investigation. so, you know, every day there is a new allegation. unfortunately, i can't discuss all of the things that we've been making calls about. but the doctor is among them. this bahamas trip has been long rumored there is a possibility that other florida officials might be wrapped up in this report. republicans might be wrapped up in this as well. >> mark, onest things that i feel like i've seen referenced a lot, both in court documents related to mr. greenberg and in a lo

cnn is following the latest on congressman matt gaetz and joel greenberg. walk us through what this letter pro-ports to show. >> good morning. joel greenberg wrote a letter that he and gaetz paid for sex including a minor just 17 at the time. and that he asked roger stone, a friend of president trump, to help obtain a pardon in the final months of the trump administration. in a letter obtained by the daily beast. greenberg claims they thought one woman was 19 years old but actually under-age. greenberg says when he learned of this he called the congressman and warned him to steer clear. cnn has not seen the letter and can't verify the details. we have spoken to several women involved with these men and warned greenberg paid on behalf of gaetz after some as well matters. chris cuomo spoke to roger stone last night. stone says he doesn't recall any letter and never heard greenberg implicate gaetz and never tried to get greenberg a pardon and stone said he never asked for received any money from greenberg. >> tell us at ga-- about the response? >> he said he n

you know matt has been losing a lot of sleep since joel greenberg was arrested last year. as the investigation has unraveled, you see more and more information. greenberg say walking crime machine. he's like the perfect person to flip, because he's facing up to life in prison. this is his only way out of it. and i think it is inevitable that he is going to flip against matt. >> dave aronburg, we'll continue this conversation down the road. thank you for being with us. >>> taking a close look at congressman gaetz. sunlen, the florida republican has been a lightning rod during his brief career. update our viewers. >> that's right, wolf. he certainly has garnered a lot of national attention, mostly focused on his political stunts and combative ways on capitol hill. not on making deep relationships or passing any legislation, but for matt gaetz, that strategy is nothing new. >> the left in america has incited far more political violence than the right. >> congressman matt gaetz, antag antagonistic, unapologetic. >> my fellow patriots, don't be shy, and don't be sorry. >> repor

joel edgerton. and also, they're both australian, which makes it more confusing.o good on the show, but there's a slight tell which is every time he hears about a new murder, he says, "crikey! [ laughter ] which takes me out of it a little i don't want to, like -- and he must do it every take because why would they keep it in so this week, and we talked about they have identical twins, and they found out one of them is not hers. and detective delgado suspects that one of them is the murderer and lis, the mom, basically explains to him, it can't be every night there was a murder the boys were home they were here and then packer, the husband, played by joel edgerton, points out they always heard both twins but only saw one of them and you just realize, oh, that's a thing twins can do because they have the same voice so basically i think what happened would be, like for example, say just say, "hey, where's your twin brother? >> hey, where's your twin brother? >> seth: "ugh, let me get him. and it would be like, "hey, dad wants you. "uh, i'm busy right now. "okay, you

a local official named joel greenberg.arrested on an array of charges including sex trafficking of a minor and is in jail. the sex trafficking count against mr. greenberg involves the same under age girl. new reporting today sheds light on the relationship between gaetz and greenberg and the relationship between the two criminal investigations. he spoke with three sources who knew joel greenberg before he was charged and all three told joel greenberg bragging about a relationship with a girl 17 at the time. we know that the allegations are solid enough to have served as the basis for very well charges and that there are witnesses that testified to the grandeury about those charges. all of that would show the seriousness of that charge against mr. greenberg. but what is the relationship between this child sex trafficking charge against mr. greenberg. and the matt gaetz investigation for child sex trafficking. on that one more interesting piece of reporting. some people in joel greenberg's orbit suspect that greenberg might

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then gaetz would be just as guilty as joel greenburg for the crimes that joel greenburgcommi.re is no good outcome here and if he sure vovives it in a criminal justice system, he would be lucky just to avoid a lengthy prison sentence here. >> pretty incredible to think about. i want to play some of the audio message gaetz and greenburg together because it makes the point a, they are together doing all these things and together and leave the voice mail together for florida state representative. let me play it again. >> my dear honor, this is your favorite tax collector. i'm up in the panhandle with your favorite u.s. congressman, mr. gaetz. >> hi, anna. >> we were just chatting about you and talking about your lovely qualities and -- >> we think you're the future of the democratic party in florida. >> so katy, obviously, you know, you hear them together, you know, sort of on that call. tell me what that kind of -- the point that that makes here. they do sound like buddies. >> sure, i mean, we know they were really close friends. we know they were tight and part of this circle o

mike, bring us up to speed here on joel greenberg.erg may be flipping on his buddy, matt gaetz here. >> yeah. as you guys were pointing out, fritz sheller is a long time florida attorney. he represented the wife of the pulse nightclub shooter who was indicted and went to trial against the government to fight them and won. and, you know, whatever folks, you know, on the left or the right think of, you know, a lawyer, a lawyer like that, he is not going to go out and say that and not know the message that he is sending. clearly, that is a message directly to the public and to the government and to matt gaetz about the direction of where this is headed, about, you know, what his client is willing to do, because you have to remember, joel greenberg is someone that we, certainly in the national media and anyone following politics had no idea was up until about 10 days ago. but joel greenberg faces an enormous amount of time in prison for a range of charges, including sex trafficking, that he has been indicted on. and the only way that he c

take me through some of these text messages that you got your hands on that connects the feds to joelenberg, that florida businessman, and congressman gaetz. >> so, let's take a look at a name that frankly most people would never hear of, joel greenberg, elected to be the tact tax collector in seminole county and when he started, he ticked a lot of people off. he started accepting bitcoin for his kind of energy, started taking all kinds of freedoms, wearing a badge, pulling someone over, acting like a cop, and eventually he fell under the watch of the feds. now, we know that when the u.s. secret service started approaching former employees of his, they presented him with text messages that joel greenberg had explaining why in the world he was visiting one of his offices late at night on a weekend, april, 2018, with congressman matt gaetz. now, this is really important, because in the text messages that we got ahold of, joel greenberg is explaining that he happens to be there with gaetz, they're hanging out on the weekend in this office. but we now know that greenberg will later be ind

>> well, yasmin, joel greenberg is more than just a friend and an acquaintance. he is the self-professed wingman to matt gaetz. they go way back, and in typical florida man fashion, there's a whole lot of intertwined entanglement of even some local florida politicians but when it comes to joel greenberg, he has to save his own skin, yasmin. he is looking at dozens of years of federal prison, and so what the federal prosecutors are going to do in the middle district of florida, which is currently investigating and prosecuting joel greenberg, and they're going to want to know, what do you think? more importantly, mr. greenberg, what do you know about people that are higher up in the food chain? people like matt gaetz. people like maybe even roger stone who is on our screen right now, but joel greenberg has had an involvement with matt gaetz that has been corroborated through flights records, through things like venmo transactions. i mean, these are objective things and evidence that prosecutors can look at for purposes of being able to bring a case. and you know wh

joel greenberg isn't just being charged with child sex trafficking.s identity theft and wire fraud and a host of other things. matt could be charged if he was part of a conspiracy with joel greenberg and there is evidence that he was. there is evidence that he was caught on video inside the tax collector's office rummaging around through ids as part of an id theft ring. things are looking really badly for him. >> yeah. in conclusion, since you mentioned that, we'll put up briefly on the screen "the daily beast" reporting on that, which include this pursuit of allegedly fake ids. so as you mentioned for viewers, we want to give the evidence. there is a lot here. our standards and rules require us to mention that mr. gaetz denied all wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. but i think what dave, david and reporting here mentioned shows is there is a lot of questions and what appears to be quite substantial evidence in the story. thanks to both of you. we have to fit in a break. but coming up, the sustained pressure on georgia's voting law just

while joel greenberg has been indicted on federal charges, including for trafficking, his connections to gaetz on these matters are still to be established. gaetz is denying all of it. greenberg, a friend of gaetz, who could face decades in prison on 33 federal counts, including identity theft and sex trafficking of a maynor, said to likely strike a plea deal, which could mean a whole lot of pressure on matt gaetz. or in the words of greenberg's attorney, this. >> i am sure matt gaetz not feeling very comfortable today. >> probably not. and that's not all. the feds are looking the a trip gaetz took to the bahamas which could be a federal crime if women traveled with him. a lot more to come. senator joe manchin in the spotlight as a crucial 50th vote for democrats in the senate sits down for a cnn exclusive explaining why he says congress can't go this wake and democrats and republicans have to work together. >> january 6th changed me. i was clear with everybody. i never thought in my life, i never read in history books to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of g

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