Gaetz courts senators as House ethics panel deadlocks

The House Ethics Committee deadlocked Wednesday afternoon on releasing a report from its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s pick to be attorney general, deciding against releasing the results of an investigation after a party-line vote.

A swarm of reporters waited outside an Ethics Committee meeting for more than two hours before Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.) emerged to announce there was no agreement by the panel to release the report.

Guest told NBC News on his way into the meeting that he didn’t believe the report was complete.