Felony counts doing everything he can to get the case against him then out of courts. There are big developments in beth of those stories, and were going to get to all of them this hour. But if theres one person that embodies the dual crysies facing the gop right now, the dual crises of chaos and Lul Criminality it is this guy, congressman George Santos, a Serial Fabulist who remains in the house despite being charged with 13 counts of fraud, Money Lawderring and theft. That staffer admitted to having made up Fake Campaign donations for Santos Campaign and that Conspiracy Charge is part of the broader case against her boss, George Santos, whos been accused of crimes from defrauding voters to falsifying official paperwork to lying to the government in order to get pandemic aid. So the fact this san toegs Campaign Official is now admitting to that ledge scheme that is bad news for congressman santos. And yet he remains in Good Standing with the house. I mean if anything George Santos is
Right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve the objects my friend from virginia laid out and achieved them in divided government. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning whether i win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and im be extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for, the Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that i reserve the balance of my time. [applause] the gentleman from oklahomas time is reserved. The gentleman from florida. My friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country in to chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody that we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats and many of us reason the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to all of us at one po
that s what i mean by disastrous. how about this. how about this? go ahead. those people are financed by special interests who are paying them to do that. america has the government that was purchased. so they re not just a disaster, they re also disgraceful? they are bought! they re purchased. they re purchased. to not deal with the problems that you want them to deal with. because dealing with those problems is threatening to financial systems. it s threatening to health care systems, it s threatening so dylan, what you re saying is, if these individuals were to be cooperative in the functioning of government, they d end up losing the income that they draw, is that what you re saying? yeah, of course. you re doing a wonderful job of playing ignorant to my offerings, martin, but, yes, that is what i m saying. that the lobbyist fund-raisers dictate policy, not just in what we talk about, but what we don t. and i must continue to actually talk about this exact subjec