officer on every subway car. this is the ultimate case of let s let the system play out. let s let the process play out. we sort of all agree on that. this was a complicated case. it s a nuanced case. let s let the grand jury do its work. let s let the jury do its work. got it, thank you all. have you ever wanted a vanity plate for your car? well, some new jerseyans do, and they apply for one, and they have some creative ways to have obscene license plates. only in new jersey, elie. elie s from new jersey. i m not responsible. let s find out what his vanity plate is. let s fine out what jay s vanity plate is coming up. i m sleeping much better. in fact,t, it s making me think of doing other things i ve been putting off. like r removing that tattoo of your first wife s name. but your mom s name is vicky too! that s even worse. ( ) inspire. sleep apnea innovation.
meeting any progress has been made on the staff level. i think that they really just starting. i think they have to get a framework and have to have an idea where they re going by the end of the week and right now at this moment they re not. stay with us for this next story. republican george santos will continue to serve in congress at least for now thanks to a vote last night in the house that deferred a democratic resolution to expel him to the ethics committee. democrats wanted a straight floor measure but instead it got pushed to the panel. there s a process in this country. everybody is innocent until proven guilty. you cannot behave as judge and jury in this procedure. i thank leadership for allowing this procedure. i have a right, a constitutional right to defend myself, and i will do that. and i look forward to doing that. i look forward to seeing the process play out. and if the ethics committee finds a reason to remove me, that is the process.
he s denied any wrongdoing and said this to reporters yesterday. i look forward to doing that. i look forward to seeing the process play out. and if the ethics committee finds a reason to remove me, that is the process. i look forward to continuing to defend myself. again, innocent until proven guilty. that is a right we all have. joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning. where do things go from here? reporter: jose, i m glad you say that this was santos staying in congress for now, because this is really a way to slow walk him to the exit while the doj investigation continues to play out. we saw, of course, democrats try to mount an expulsion vote yesterday and instead of being able to do that because it would require two-thirds of the majority of the body here, instead we saw republicans continue to allow this to work through the ethics committee. this has been speaker mccarthy s preference the entire time. in part because he stil
the mentally ill? and then the outgrowth of that is protest. now, let s change it for a minute. police officer got killed. everybody comes out for the pomp and circumstance. the politicians come out. but where is the angry community when a police officer putting life on the line gets killed? where s that? brian: by the way about 1500 down in new york city. maybe some of those men and women might have been on the platform. may have been on the train. we re not doing that. that s why 24-year-old marine had to step in. then we find out, also, that the guy has a history of violent abuse on an actual subway but he is the problem. the problem with this mayor. he came out and said let the process play out. he quickly reversed and brought race into it. mr. mayor, this dates back to the ferguson effects, doesn t it? absolutely. everything has a racist next to it. i can remember being asked questions when i was police in
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