will bret: also breaking tonight george san toast is digging in his heels tonight even as support for him in his home state dwindles, santos is refusing to resign local and state republicans insisted he should. under fire for a series of questionable claims, exaggerations and lies about his resume as well as possible campaign finance irregularities. aishah hasnie has details from capitol hill. why won t you resign. pardon me? george santos defiant calls to step down after admitting to lying during his campaign. he has disgraced the house of representatives and we do not consider him one of our congress people. today, he tweeted i was elected to serve the people of new york 3. not the party and politicians. i will not resign. he won t face any pressure from house speaker kevin mccarthy.
bret: josh, where do you think this heads? obviously the majority for republicans in the house is very slim and kevin mccarthy as leader trying to be speaker is counting every head as everybody gets sworn in on tuesday. yeah. well, the one difference between santos and biden is that we don t know who this guy is. like almost every element of his biography is literally made up or has been falsified. so, and there is a big question about how he raised money. he raised quite a bit of money for his campaign. and there s some questions about where that came from. i think that s the next shoe to drop in this case. you know, the complicating factor for republicans in the house is they need george san toast s vote. kevin mccarthy needs his vote, in particular. to become speaker. it s a very narrow republican majority. so, i don t think you ll hear a lot from republicans in washington. at least until you have those leadership votes at the beginning of the year. that s what makes this very a
freedom he had his churchill moment. am i doing my loser now? mike: yes. loser congressman george san toast from new york. his whole life story appears to be fabricated all falling apart. what an embarrassment for the republican party in new york. mike: all right, byron, bring us home. my winner is the status quo. i m talking about the big omnibus bill here. for years reformers have tried to stop congress from waiting until the very last second to pass a huge spending bill that nobody reads and that s what they have just done again. the status quo has won again. the loser is the fbi. i mean, the twitter papers have revealed the fbi s meddling in our politics was a lot more extensive and more sinister than some people imagined. if you thought you were being paranoid for suspects these things, you weren t. vince, marie, byron, merry christmas to you and your loved ones. merry christmas, mike. mike: thank you, panel. monday on special report our
we have been following nicole s path and get much more by down loading the fox weather app. steve, you have got very important guest with us. steve: indeed, brian. historic victories in new york state for republican candidates who flip deep blue democratic districts bright red. in a h humiliating loss for democrats. mike lawler beat dccc sean patrick maloney, the chairman, becoming the first to oust a sitting house campaign committee chair since 1992. on long island, george san toast defeating democrat robert zimmerman by nearly 10 points in a long island district joe biden won by double digits. and in the next district over, retired new york city police department detective anthony d espisito winning a house seat held by democrats for roughly two decades. here now on their very exciting week those three new york congressman elect. good morning to all of you. good morning. good morning. steve: all right. so, mike, you know, we have been talking about where s the red