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If you want a little peek behind the curtain here as to how those of us in the nbc news family read scoops from our own shop like this, you should know, like i said, mark caputo an unparalleled reporter in terms of florida politics. but pete williams being a contributing reporter on this as well, pete williams is like the emperor of the kingdom of understatement. when everybody else has their hair on fire about something going on in the criminal justice system or in the courts, it is pete williams who is the cooling saucer who brings everything down ten notches and makes everybody take a breat...

Mandates from being implemented into the state. florida democrats are criticizing governor ron desantis for going mia has the covid cases and hospitalizations in florida are skyrocketing again. over the weekend florida broke its single day record with nearly 76,000 cases. florida residents and u.s. lawmakers slammed desantis for being missing for weeks. as the state faces a massive covid spike. desantis made an appearance yesterday saying he was caring for his sick wife who is undergoing cancer treatment. joining us now, senior national political reporter for nbc news mark caputo, and dave aar...

Prostitution. when this broke, the ex-girlfriend was talking to another woman who was talking to prosecutors that felt woman may have recorded the call and may have patched in matt gaetz at the time and prosecutors suspect he tried to illicit or entice or suborn obstruction of justice and his ex-girlfriend may have participated in that. that was the basis of her getting an immunity deal. don't charge me for this and i'll tell you the things you want to know. exactly what she told them is key but what's important to note here is that she's an important bridge that unlocks the case or unstalls i...

>> that's a good question. i'll answer it a little differently, which is this. sex trafficking a minor, the underlying big serious charge that everyone's talking about, that's usually not applied in cases like this. this might be a more novel type of prosecution. so, in that regard, gaetz might argue -- now you can't argue in court that you are being selectively prosecuted but if gaetz does take the stand if he gets indicted, he may find a way to do that. he's going to argue, like, look, this is not a typical sex traffic of a minor case. again, he says that he didn't do it but if he did, he ha...

In-wash scent boosters. shop online for downy unstopables, including our new, lighter scent. this morning a new development into the investigation into congressman matt gaetz. his ex-girlfriend testifying before a federal grand jury yesterday behind closed doors. part of the investigation into whether or not gaetz paid to have sex with a 17-year-old girl. gaetz has not been charged and denying any wrongdoing saying he never paid for sex and never had sex with a minor when he was an adult. let's bring in the reporter who has the scoop on the story. mark caputo, one of the leading sexual abuse...