assignments and they ll take action like that and there s no other way to get him out of office other than having a two-thirds majority to expel him. that won t happen if he opposes it. as long as kevin mccarthy opposes it. and, again, the raw politics with they re afraid to lose a vote. you have accept of his colleagues including five, i believe, from his state, new york, who called on him to resign. a couple of others, as well. the former house speaker was on the lead with jake tapper and says i don t know this guy. i bet he s not here all that long. the fraudulent candidacy he hoped his voters i don t know the guy. my guess probably go through the ethics course. i can t imagine the guy will stay very long. but if that s if the former speaker is correct, ethics investigations can take months and if you want to stall, they re long anyway. if you want to slow them down, you can. is mccarthy s bet i get two
chairs are not going to give him grace to deliver for his constituents. what they will probably do is not call on him to resign or kick him out. the constitution doesn t provide for that. unless he s indicted and kwukted. there will be the pressure and he would be kicked out of the house. but what you ll see is mccarthy and hudson, who is now in charge of the house republicans campaign arm, probably already looking for another republican to run in two years. they don t want santos to get the nomination in two years and lose to a democrat. so they will start to work to find a republican that can beat santos in a republican primary. for those starting to call on him to resign, that s easy now. it would have been harder before last friday s speaker vote. we have to put in context the silence of republicans before the speaker vote. understand if they had forced santos from getting seated last friday, those five republicans
putting committee chairs in place is supposed to be the easy part. we know that mccarthy made concessions during this process that are likely going to had make it more difficult for him to govern. power was taken away from the speaker s office and given more to the rak rank and file. that was the point for many of the hardline conservatives. if you listen to some of the mccarthy allies in leadership, that s not what they are putting out there today. listen to tom. this will arguably not make kevin mccarthy a weaker speaker. this will make kevin mccarthy perhaps the strongest speaker in modern times. reporter: now look. i m sure brendan a has his own take on this knowing what it takes to be speaker, but the broad view on capitol hill is mccarthy made his job more difficult here by showing these hardliners he will capitulate to the thing thas want. chief among them this idea that it takes one member to now
let s talk about another issue facing speaker mccarthy. democratic lawmakers filed an ethics complaint against santos. santos said he did nothing unethical. speaker mccarthy won t comment. he calls the lies to voters an internal matter for those who may not be familiar with the story. george santos misrep ceresented almost every single thing about his biography and republican members of congress are attacking him, criticizing him, calling for him to come clean. it truly is embarrassing. is mccarthy now that he got santos vote in that election, is he going to have to maybe take a look at what is going on here? i think he ll continue to punt this. he may need the vote again in the future. many times. because we have that mechanism, the vote of no confidence in place. i think what the multiple investigations both back in new
build up today. you could hear obscenities, you could see the finger pointing. mccarthy, he may still win this thing but he s got a lot of rebuilding to do. this is madness because what happened is mccarthy s forces asked to adjourn until monday at noon and republicans fell in line, and then mccarthy who was smiling for the first time in an hour or so and holding up the finger indicating one, i don t know what that one means. one more time he s saying, okay, john king our reddant lip reader says he says one more time. looks like they re going to go to a 15th ballot this evening, congressman. and i don t know what to say because every time i say something everything on the floor changes completely. the holding up of the one, that s just the language on the floor for don t close the vote. if somebody yells, you know,