talks like a campaign, and this week, florida governor ron desantis could make his 2024 campaign official. after a weekend of trying to steal the spotlight from donald trump, putting the former president as a loser. a night witness alligator boots and all road trips across the state taking advantage of trump being forced to cancel a planned rally due to bad weather. desantis flipped burgers and it did all he could to call out trump s effect on the gop but did not dare call out trump by name. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024, it s going to get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing and that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. i mean, the courage! clearly talking about trump without saying trump s name. here s the thing, desantis might be younger, he might be more into politics and then donald trump, at least on the national stage, but there is little daylight betwe
there. santos it has not have to resign. i think kevin mccarthy will say, as he has said, i won t support him for reelection, but let the process play out. mccarthy is saying that because he needs santos as much as santos needs mccarthy right now. eugene, i want to ask you, you ve covered this story before in different contexts. this idea of a potential government shutdown of the debt ceiling. i think a lot of times when i talk to voters and they are, like yeah, i have seen this before. i ve seen this before. i wonder if in your sense doing the reporting in washington on the hill that this is like before, or the contours of this feel fundamentally different to you. i think where the voters are concerned is very similar. but the contours does feel different this time. when you talk to people who were around in doing the negotiations in 2011 when there wasn t a default, but there was indeed a credit downgrade, they say this feels even scarier
wild west this cycle. and that s the excuse you are hearing from both sides of the aisle a little bit tonight. you had a high intensity gubernatorial race. you had a congressional districts undecided until the final step. but listen, everybody missed this. and so, they all deserve responsibility. the question, i think, that the democrats have raised is should he be seated. and look, jason makes a good point. lying this much might perfectly qualify for united states congress. but there is a question of whether or not he is actually qualified to be seated on january 3rd. which then leads the question, stephanie, he has expressed his undying support for kevin mccarthy. and we are watching whether or not kevin mccarthy can secure enough votes to become speaker of the house. he needs santos. santos needs mccarthy. bring in the corrupt bargain, if you will, between the two of them to make sure both of them survived january 3rd. okay, could the law save us here, david? fellow congressman-el
point. lying this much might perfectly qualify for united states congress. but there is a question of whether or not he is actually qualified to be seated on january 3rd. which then leads the question, stephanie, he has expressed his undying support for kevin mccarthy. and we are watching whether or not kevin mccarthy can secure enough votes to become speaker of the house. he needs santos. santos needs mccarthy. bring in the corrupt bargain, if you will, between the two of them to make sure both of them survived january 3rd. okay, could the law save us here, david? fellow congressman-elect daniel goldman has suggested federal crimes may even committed here. could he actually be facing legal troubles? if congress won t do the right thing, the law? yeah, the question there comes to some very specific campaign filings. as a candidate and a member of congress, you have to disclose where your income came from, where employment is, any other conflicts. if he misrepresented that, sure, he