speaker mccarthy really challenging senators to put up something better watch. we have taken action. what s going to happen here, the senate needs to pass a bill. if chuck schumer believes a clean bill can pass. put it on the floor then the thing you have to realize, you have a 60 vote margin in the senate he can t pass it manchin says he won t vote for that either. they ve got to find something, and they need to negotiate reporter: so look, mccarthy there pointing out the obvious and hoping that it works in his favor, frankly in these negotiations the fact that democrats say they want a clean debt ceiling but they probably can t get that through the senate even though they have the majority there this brings us back to the drawing board as senate democrats now say they re going to continue working and looking, that they still want a clean debt ceiling raise, and republicans of course saying this is what they feel is palatable. i do think it s notable, and this is what i asked spea
someone who is under a state, local, federal investigation as a representative of i m talking about george santos. congress is broken. i think your listeners and viewership understand what proxy voting was. they never took place. i m asking about your santos. i know you re asking me a question. you could put it to a vote. i appreciate if you let me answer. what i m trying to do is change some of these committees as well. like the intel community is you re just not answer my question? you don t get a question whether i answered it. you ask a question. i m trying to i don t think you said the name george santos once. you know once? you re talking about proxy voting and other things. never speak his name. do not speak his name! that was how speaker kevin mccarthy attempting to bluster his way through a question about republican congressman and serial fabulist george santos. interviews like that may be why we got the news today that george santos is taking a ste
once. but you know what you re talking about proxy voting never speak his name. do not speak his name. that was house speaker kevin mccarthy attempting to bluster his way through a question about republican congressman and serial fabulist george santos. interviews like that may be why we got to news today george santos is taking a step back. after a private meeting with speaker mccarthy last night he announced he d temporarily recuse himself from committee assignments while attempting to resist calls for his resignation. the fbi has officially asked the fec, the federal elections commission, not to take any actions regarding santos alleged campaign finance violations not because they think santos is innocent but because the fbi has opened its own criminal investigation into george santos. today we learned santos campaign treasurer officially resigned her position last week.
i m asking about your santos. i know you re asking me a question. you could put it to a vote. i appreciate if you let me answer. what i m trying to do is change some of these committees as well. like the intel community is you re just not answer my question? you don t get a question whether i answered it. you ask a question. i m trying to i don t think you said the name george santos once. you know once? you re talking about proxy voting and other things. never speak his name. do not speak his name! that was how speaker kevin mccarthy attempting to bluster his way through a question about republican congressman and serial fabulist george santos. interviews like that may be why we got the news today that george santos is taking a step back after a private meeting with the speaker mccarthy last
new things coming out about george santos isn t new. it s been going on for weeks. since even before he was sworn into congress. what is new is he met with speaker mccarthy last night. clearly they had a conversation about what he could do in the short-term while we re waiting to see several of these vest gass pan out both at the state and local level, but also in regards to campaign finance violations that could be illegal and thus make it very difficult if not impossible for him to continue serving in congress. so for mccarthy, he s still playing a numbers game here. he is a tight majority as we talked about. that s why santos still counts to that overall number, but stepping off those committees is something speaker mccarthy talked about with santos. that s not resigning, it s different. but you re right. it can be viewed as being on thin ice here. democrats from their perspective are looking at it this way though. watch. they defended putting him on committees and now they re