It was December Of 2022 when the Justice Department first announced the historic indictment of a wellknown billionaire and politica sam mangmanfried now under arrest and facing multiple charges. Reporter today Sam Bankmanfried founder and ceo of Crypto Exchange ftx is facing criminal indictments and a wave of civil complaints. The Sam Bankmanfried indictment complicated financial instruments, International Currency s,exchanges, and a who lot more. Ng it was a first of its kind case for the Justice Department and for the judicial system that would hear that case, and it took ten months for that case with all its myriad complexities to go to trial. Sam bankmanfried was indicted infr the month of december. By the following october he was sitting in a courtroom. As it turns out that is a fair lestandard amount of time for major cases. In October Of 2017 former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort was arrested and charged by Robert Mueller in washington, d. C. For Money Laundering and faili
first impeachment of a cabinet official in nearly 150 years. attorney general garland is slated to testify before a house committee later this summer. joining us now is brenden buck, former aide to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner. brenden, there was a time in american politics people let bygones be bygones, but that doesn t seem to be the case during the debt ceiling fight. i personally am surprised the house freedom caucus is still so incensed over that deal. usually isn t it that once a speaker gets it done everybody can move on? that does not seem to have happened here. well, i think maybe they moved on but they don t forget, and i think that s what kevin mccarthy problem is here is that some people gave him a pass. but even the ones you might have been surprised supported him have kind of said, well, we re going to look down through the appropriations fight, the actual spending of money later this year, and if we don t end up
seeks to cut fundish for the department of justice and federal bureau of investigations and rallies around a candidate who may have multiple federal criminal indictments against him. is there not a price to pay for that for conservatives out in the country, swing voters out in the country, independents in america? absolutely there is, and it s a four-seat majority, five-seat majority. and there are moderates who push back and say are we doing, this is crazy stuff. that s not the culture of the house republican conference. the culture is to worry about feeding the base all the time and they don t care about the people who put them in majority. the big question will be whether five of these moderates stand up and say i m not voting for this and push back. how many times can we slip on the banana peel? i don t know. and yet kevin mccarthy is still the speaker. brenden buck, former aide to house speakers paul ryan and
hurdle in the rules committee, and the question is what happens next. how many republicans buck their own leadership for a deal that they forced, and how many democrats fallor in line for a deal they never wanted? joining us now is brenden buck, former advisor to speakers ryan and boehner. also with us the new york times columnist michelle goldberg. the irony of this moment that someone like mattmo gaetz, and he s not majority whip last i checked, but sumging 80 to 100 democrats may beto enlisted, if you will, to get a republican confection across the finish line, do you think democrats will get what i see as the credit they are due for being the grownups in the room on all this? i think democrats have had a messaging conundrum if they either beat the drum too hard how biden kind of made a fairly decent deal in a fairly, you
needed to resign. that is my policies and principles on this. there, brenden, it sounds like maybe he s going to let santos wait this out while this case moves forward irn the court system. i just kind of wonder what the optics at the very least are going to be for the gop on this given the just fantastical number of lies that santos has apparently told, and of course today s news that the titular head of the party has been found civilly liable for sexual assault. and in mccarthy s defense republican and democratic speakers you wait until there s a conviction to actually remove somebody. to your point, yes, this is an incredible distraction that i think everybody would love to have removed. the problem is george santos as we have seen is not a stable person, and most people who get in these situations when they see they re going to be convicted, they say they have no future they get the message and