you said only about keeping power? the decision to protect george santos is not driven by principle it s driven by raw political power. even the majority of republicans in the new york congressional delegation have called upon george santos to resign. so there is no reason for republicans to protect him and one of the critical functions of congress s oversight and we should ask ourselves a simple question. can george santos be trusted to oversee federally funded programs like the unemployment insurance program which he is now accused of personally defrauding. the answer to that question is obviously now. we d be my question more broadly speaking is where does the system fail with george santos? you are talking about how to fix it going forward but i guess how did we even get to this moment where you have somebody who is now, somebody bought his own admission a criminal in brazil and possibly potentially one here if he is convicted. how did we get to this moment
principle in the pursuit of power, eventually that catches up with them. that s what i think. i think that s what you re seeing with kevin mccarthy. he has a reputation, on both sides of the aisle as someone interested in raw political power. when you don t have principle and don t stand for anything, you don t have a foundation. i think he is floating around in space without any base of support right now and you re seeing that coming back to bite him. do you think it s odd he s in the speaker s office given he is not the speaker? this has been a complaint some of the rebels, the hard liners have raised, but in practical terms is it odd for him to be in the speaker s office. i think it s odd. but one thing i learned in washington, ego and hue bris can explain what happens here. certainly putting the cart before the horse not something i
theory that nobody in law would believe. it was just a cover story for raw political power. that s why these texts are so significant. they reveal the attempted exercise of this power, you know, with bog news legal arguments through and through. that s why i think this report next week, i m waiting with such bated breath as you are and so many other people, the question about criminal referrals, and there they, who will they recommend to be prosecuted? that sucks up a lot of the oxygen, but the much more important part is just what happened on january 6th, who was saying what to whom, and as you point out, who was saying what to whom in the prior days. for a matter of history, it is so important, for a matter of our world s credibility as these images went around the world, it made us look like our country is falling apart, you know, i obviously think these
fincham is not running for just any office, not cosplague he s running for top job in arizona, secretary of state. that would put him in a resense in the actual driver s seat over one of the states that not only matters for the voters in that state, of course, and all their officials and who s going to be in power there, but one of the states that helped determine the presidential election recently and could again, and that is what he is running on. saying the last one was stolen, which is his way of saying to the public i ll help build the next one. yes, orwellian propaganda works that way. thieves are ones talk about theft. the article says voters can hold enormous sway over the nation s next speaker who could in turn preside over the house and in turn any contested presidential election. this is not a drill. and you take that word
who have taken a different route or are in power and you can learn a story from them. here s a story that s not directly related. i m not telling you ben sasse is acting because of what i just showed you on the screen. he is heading towards resigning from this powerful senate seat. he s also been pretty outspoken against election lies and stood for facts even though he s politically conservative. so why is he leaving? in his case by choice as he eyed what could be a tougher and tougher climate in his party for taking that line. politically conservative, but not an election stealer or liar. he may look at someone with a political profile, who i m sure you heard about, the son of former vice president and bush administration leader dick cheney, liz cheney, who spent her whole career, her whole life in government being a highly ideologically conservative person. that s well known. her sin that got her not only