majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
continues to perpetrate. he ostensibly came forward to apologize but continues to lie. continues to lie about his jewish religion. he is not usual, but yet he claims he is, quote, jew-ish which as a jew, i find incredibly offensive. but his web of lies, deceit to voters, and voters who voted for steve, i m interested to hear what he has to say about that. but it s not being rebuked by house leadership. there s no comment. and what it really just goes to say is that george santos view of elections is very consistent with republicans view of elections. is that they no longer need to be free and fair. they just need to make sure that republicans win. and in addition to his lies about his background, his education, his work experience, his religion, his properties, i mean, the list goes on and on and on, he s got real, real
fault because they re not speaking out against him and they re welcoming him into congress because they can become an anti-democratic party that does not care about free and care elections. instead, they care about power and winning and they ll do it at all costs. we saw tell with donald trump in 2020 and across the country in recent elections but george santos is the continuation of that attack on democracy. and until the republican party will stand up for democracy, that is the greatest threat for our country. it s not lack of funding for journalism, it s not the fact that the democrats opposition research may have left something to be desired. it s the fact that george santos felt welcome in a party to essentially dely deceive his vo and potentially break the law in doing so so he can be elected. a lot of blame to go around squarely on the republicans and
emmanuel macron held off marine le pen in october. brazilians disposed of jair bolsonaro. and, in the midterm, elections, united states repudiated republicans. frank, raining down on ukraine, despite saying the war is deadlocked. we ve got iran getting closer to russia. we ve got climate change. we ve got afghan girls not being allowed to school. i like this, a need a dose of this? well it definitely going in the face of my deeply engrained instincts. we re accustomed to assuming the worst when good news arrives, it s hard to is assimilate. but it s a master narrative of our times the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.
republicans who picked up anafter 6, again this summer, after the fbi search of mar-a-lago that found the documents held there by former president trump. the sort of attacks, insinuating relations against the fbi. and we have records, statistics, number of threats against federal law enforcement picked up dramatically right afterwards. and now, we have a moment here in california, where this man a january 6th defendant, said fbi agents better come in with their guns blazing. yeah, we re going to see more of this. i mean, we ve seen a couple of attempts. there was one in ohio a few weeks ago, on fbi agents, regional officers. you know, the important thing to remember is there is no evidence of established institutional bias. the fbi makes mistakes like any other institution. and there was a couple of mistakes with the wording of