republican congressman george santos, one day after a scathing report alleged he used campaign funds to pay for everything from botox to luxury spending sprees. also breaking this morning, we ll play for you brand-new audio of former president donald trump telling journalist jonathan carl about what he was doing on the 6th of january. could it end up as evidence in his federal elections case? overseas, gaza residents caught in the middle of another communications blackout as israeli forces say they are searching the region s hospitals for hamas. we ll talk to congresswoman madeleine dean, just back from a visit to israel, about what families there are telling her. and humanitarian crisis at the border takes center stage today as president biden meets with mexico s president in california. and we begin this hour with that breaking news on capitol hill, where the house ethics committee chair has filed a resolution to expel embattled republican george santos from congress.
deeply rooted amid american conservatism for decades, but the attempt to root it into mesh government has new energy sparked by donald trump s first presidency and now fueled by his promises for a second. they want to tear down crosses where they can. and cover them up with social justice flags. but no one will be touching the cross of christ under the trump administration. i swear to you that will never happen. never happen. what more exactly do christian conservatives want in government. we see hints at the congressional level. the separation of church and state is a misnomer. mike johnson, the speaker of the house said shortly after he was made speaker last year, people misunderstand it. it s not in the constitution, he says. we see it in legislation at the state level from laws that ban abortion based on religious opinions of when life starts, to louisiana s just passed mandate to prominently display the ten commandments it every public school classroom. rulings from
want them to have a better life here. so we know that there is a lot of confusion. some of the initial provisions in this law didn t get approved, but people don t know, you know. it was initially proposed that it would be criminalized to transport immigrants within florida or to house undocumented immigrants and that didn t pass and many people don t know that. they re very scared and now community organizers were reaching out to educate them, and to tell them that they still have constitutional rights in this country. a lot of those provisions that weren t passed back to sb 1070 in arizona. thank you for being on set this morning. thank you. with us to talk more about this and much more is florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. a pleasure to see you. you know, in many ways your district kind of is a microcosm of what america is.
a lot of republican candidates lose races in swing states because in the primary they moved way too far to the right. so that is clearly the political calculation that his people are doing, so that he could get past a primary. but are these issues going to be just too restrictive? well, take this immigration issue, which you highlighted. a lot of issues in it that looked like sb-1070 in arizona more than ten years ago. exactly. while a lot of people agree that we have to get the southwest border under control and that we should have legal immigration in this country, a lot of states like florida, there is a degree humanity when it comes to undocumented immigrants because people know them, they see that they re people who are contributing. we re living at a time where there s a labor shortage in our country, it s one of the reasons why we have high inflation.