share information about ongoing investigations. including donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. what that means for the gop s efforts to probe the agency. plus, donald trump dropped the lawsuit against new york tierney general letitia james a day after he and his lawyers or saw plus 1 million dollar fine for another, quote, frivolous case brought against hillary clinton. could we see trump upending even more lawsuits? and, congressman george santos long list of lies and controversies just keep piling up. a small newspaper exposed much of his inconsistencies weeks before the election. but, no one paid attention, why? i ll put that question to the papers publisher straight ahead. we have a team of reporters from capitol hill to the white house and ukraine following the latest for you this morning. and a good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. thanks for starting your saturday here on msnbc. house republicans have made it clear that they plan to use t
plus a look ahead at what is expected to be one of the key political storylines of 2023. trump versus desantis. more on that ahead. we are going to start with some breaking news. kevin mccarthy set to hold a call with a gop conference in about an hour s time. he s facing some tough numbers in his fight for the house speaker. abc s ali roth joins me now from capitol hill. ali, what more can you tell us about your scoop. just about an hour from now, this big gop meeting. yeah, lindsay, my colleague haley talbot and i getting the scoop about an hour ago that really explains what kevin mccarthy is doing in these last two days before that make-or-break moment, the speaker s election on tuesday. sources are telling us that in less than an hour at 4 pm he s going to hold this call with members of the house gop caucus, really trying to solidify every last gop vote, every ounce of support he can be for that critical vote on tuesday. the last thing he wants to happen is for, is to no
was first at nbc and then at abc. but, you know, she lived for her work. she absolutely lived for her work and that was everything to her. and she didn t particularly enjoy the vacations. she would go up on vacation and complain how she would get board because she couldn t wait to come back. typical journalist. i think when she finally left television, she just i don t i mean, i think she just didn t want to live anymore. and i haven t barbara was one of my closest friends and i haven t seen her in at least five or six years. and she once she left television, we had one really long lunch and she was very sad and she didn t talk much and it was very quiet and she hugged me. it was right around the corner from her house and she called me darling and sweet heart and we hugged and she said good-bye. she was using a cane and i never saw her again and she stopped answering phone calls from everybody, even her closest friends. and i mean, i would check in like i d email
Santos has come under fire for vibrating much of his resume in biography, and falsifying his assets. he has apologized for some of what he describes as embellishments. ? one newspaper says, told you so, the north shore leader, a local paper in long island was the first to flag santos inconsistencies even before the november election, including his reported access, going from a net worth of nothing in 2022 as much as $11 million in two years. he also highlighted some discrepancies about his heritage. four months later, other news outlets like the new york times published their own stories. by this point, santos had already won the election. the publisher of north shore leader, grant lolly, is here with me, joining me to kind of break it all down. grant, thank you so much for joining me, i want to start by asking you, the origins of the santos story that really began with your paper. you told the washington post that you have met santos for lunch three years ago when he was seeking suppo
It was an 87-page report. it laid out a number of issues that we use in our campaign. george santos and his involvement in the needs direction movement, his lies about his position on reproductive rights. comparing abortion to slavery. for that matter, saying women use rape as an excuse to get an abortion. we use many aspects of the opposition. there are many red flags, they re brought to the media s attention, regrettably, because there are major and national hot midterm election, we could get the national media s attention. many of them, frankly, we re just overstaffed and had the personnel to do it. so, i don t agree with that analysis. we took the opposition and did the best sound the alarm. to the credit of local media, steve a blank state media for that matter, grant lolly of the nor sort leader, members of the staff at newsday, they raised many of these issues and did sound the alarm. unfortunately, it wasn t enough. that was ultimately the frustration with it. we certainly di