can t seem to break free of. after kevin mccarthy literally sold his soul and crawled on his belly to grasp the speaker s gavel, there was but one final task, to complete his conversion into reek. kevin and his fellow house leaders have now finalized their committee assignments. and we now know what maga republican insurrectionist, conspiracy theorists and other national security risks will be up to for next two years. and it should terrify you. four of most extreme maga election deniers got seats on the house oversight committee, marjorie taylor green, scott perry and paul gosar. just to refresh your memory, all four voted to overturn the 2020 election. lauren is the barely reelected colorado congresswoman who made a show of avoiding the house magnatometers and made a video
of representatives because they have such a narrow majority. they are left with this package that s going to follow them around for the next two years. miles, what are your thoughts on this? do you foresee the republican leadership in the house taking a stronger stance on the george santos situation, even with their narrow majority? rev, i think you are trying to give me a laugh by asking if i think the republican party will show background. it worked. i think it s a funny joke. i mean, look, and my former party is not going to do anything about this except the absolute bare minimum until the political pressure is so extraordinary. what they want to do is wait for the ethics committee to tell them that there is a real violation. you ve seen kevin mccarthy say that. you ve seen house leaders say that. they want to buy themselves time to make it go away by saying we will kick it over to the ethics committee and see what they tell us. i don t think any action whatsoever is going to be
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omnibus budget and laughed him off. it s traditional for house leaders to rally their base by flaying the senate but that looked that was such an irresponsible thing to do and it just really was a measure of it was a letter signed on to by a number of freedom caucus members. look, mccarthy knows that mcconnell did him the biggest favor in the world by passing that. the only thing they didn t do was pass the debt ceiling. should have done that. they all knew the omnibus needed to happen. if this group can t get 218 votes will pass a spending bill? it s interesting you mex stefanik because byron donalds ran against her. a republican from florida, ran against her for chair, conference chair this cycle. and his theory of the case was she should be running for something higher-up instead of remaining as the number three or four as conference chair within the house gop and so you wonder first of all what happens to kevin mccarthy if he s not elected speaker? i mean, does he revert
what s also adding to the headache that mccarthy has right now is the latest scandal around congressman-elect santos. and they ve submitted falsehoods to pieces of his resume. this is something that house republicans like mccarthy and other house leaders, house republican leaders have been largely silent on after multiple requests for comment and reaction to that. that some u.s. triggering some sharp condemnations from house democrats like richie torres. i want you to take a listen to a piece of what he had to say earlier. george santos is a republican nominee. so he it is the responsibility of the republican majority in the house to hold him accountable. the republican leadership knew that george santos was a fraud in said and did nothing. and so as far as i m concerned, the republican leadership is complicit in the fraud that george santos has perpetrated against the public. george santos after all flipping that new york district. helping house republicans win back that majorit