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According to sources familiar with the matter, two of the people were trying to become New Jersey's U.S. attorney, and the third was the state's attorney general at the time.

A handful of conservatives and all present House Democrats voted on a motion to vacate to remove McCarthy from the top post.

Gaetz suggested the former president supported his effort to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker, but that's not what Trump has said publicly or what his advisers say privately.

Butler, who was the president of EMILY's List, is the third Black woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar's office said he was not injured Monday night in the incident about a mile from the Capitol.

Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. who played a role in the Hunter Biden case, will sit for a voluntary interview Tuesday, sources confirmed to NBC News.

Gaetz, a Florida Republican, is a conservative bomb thrower and top Trump ally on Capitol Hill. The House must vote this week on whether to keep McCarthy as speaker.

Officially, many are keeping their options open. Privately, there are disagreements about whether it'd be a good idea to help McCarthy keep his job — and whether they can trust him.

Butler is the head of the group EMILY's List, which works to elect Democratic women. She will be the third Black woman in history to serve in the Senate.

But Rep. Matt Gaetz says Speaker Kevin McCarthy will need to rely on Democrats to save his job, and the conservative bomb-thrower is vowing to force many votes to topple him.

Congress passed a short-term bill Saturday to keep the government funded through Nov. 17, averting a government shutdown with just hours left until the deadline.