Ethics panel chair: Johnson won't influence whether Gaetz report released

Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chair of the House Ethics Committee, said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) won’t influence whether his committee releases its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who vacated his House seat last week after being tapped to become President-elect Trump's attorney general.

Johnson has urged the Ethics Committee against releasing the Gaetz report, saying it would be “a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule,” since Gaetz is no longer a House member.