if those four ring a bell, they should. they were the four hold-outs out of the 20 to mccarthy s bid for the gavel. they are all eager, neil, to hit the ground running on president biden s classified documents. those are the documents that joe biden had in his possession apparently before he became president of the united states. how long were those documents there? what was the situation around the handling at the penn biden center. oversight chairman james comer is also interested in theperson biden center. today he sent a letter to the university of pennsylvania calling on the school to release a bunch of different records related to the penn biden center including all documents connected to donations that originated from china. democrats say any gop-led hearing that we might see this session about the president is just going to be a big waste of time.
surface, almost daily, about santos past, him lying about his past, admitting to a lot of the lies and new revelations about this company that faced these very serious accusations. he claimed he didn t know about these accusations at the time, contending in 2020 it was a legitimate company. santos is facing calls from many republicans to resign. yesterday former speaker paul ryan said he should resign, that it wasn t just an embellished can t daes, it was a fraudulent candidacy. how is santos responding? reporter: he is still digging in. today the house is not in session, but he s making it very clear that he s not going anywhere. he s got the support of house speaker kevin mccarthy, who indicated that it is up to the voters to decide. but he does not have the support from seven of his colleagues, including five from the new york delegation, one of which is named brandon williams who said on our air last hour that, responding to mccarthy, he said
army officer. so it may of frankly. they re probably have skiing the same question that you are asking, especially with the trust element. trust of course in our democracy has become imperiled in recent times, either through feigned accusations of not having a fair and free election, we do. or the idea of having to sow discord and distrust between people to have the self gain that you are talking about. you have written to mccarthy, speaker mccarthy, today. you called santos a direct threat, and i m quoting, a direct threat to national security. that something that s goes beyond the idea of misplaced trust or rejected trust. why is he a direct threat to national security? i think it s important, the american people understand that when you re elected to congress you essentially automatically get access to top secret national security information,
the margins are for house republicans. santos support was critical to mccarthy s victory. if mccarthy continues to need that vote, do you think santos likely remains safe? it s very clear that the republican leadership has not at any point rebuked or condemned santos conduct, his web of lies that has come out more and more seemingly every day and every week. in fact, there was reporting last month that it was perceived to be a running joke among republican leadership. george santos is essential to kevin mccarthy getting the speaker s gavel. he is essential to continuing their majority. what is clear is the gop leadership has wrapped themselves around george santos, a serial liar, and complete fraud, as part of who they are. what do you think the consequences should be for santos? based on what is known about the lies he told, there are those who say, deny him committee
congress. after 12 ballots, he was ousted from the position and replaced by philipp barber, a slave owner from virginia. and then in the years leading up to the civil war, the fight over slavery would become even more of a central issue in the contest for speaker. the three other times when the contest for speaker took longer were 1855, 1849, and 1859. those were the years when the rancor over the issue of slavery was reaching its peak, and as a consequence, bitterly divided congress even those who were even in the same party. obviously this is a very different situation from what we witnessed in the house last week as far as anyone could tell, matt gates and his troop of mccarthy hard-liners didn t appear to be ideologically opposed to mccarthy s agenda or that of the rest of the party, but they used the opportunity to broker some sort of deal that you are not entirely sure of yet, for more power and influence for a chance to drag the republican party further to the right. and that is