janelle buoy. good job, buddy. thank you for joining us this hour. this morning new york congressman and serial fabulist george santos surrendered himself into custody. congressman santos is now out on bail, but he has been charged with 13he felonies, and if convicted he canphasy up to 20 years in prison. and that s just for the most serious felonies. which ones are the most serious felonies, you ask? congressman santos had had so many scandals it would be genuinely difficult to talk about here. it s not about mr. santos inventing his entire résumé or about inventing spiderman, turn off the dark. it s a weird lie, or not even he was a college volleyball player or that his mother was in the southt tower on 9/11 or steali money from a veteran s gofundme, though the fbi is looking into that one, too. today is about how santos made his money. santos reported a salary of $55,000. by 2022 santos reported a salary of $750,000 a year plus a million dollars in dividends. he d some
face to face, finally. the presidents of two superpowers, playing nice after a year of tough talk. that is tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. tonight, president biden calls important progress between the united states, and china. the specifics may seem small, but the american president calls the areas of agreement, important. on fentanyl, on keeping the phones open between military s, and on artificial intelligence. today, we watched carefully orchestrated diplomatic theater between these two superpowers. a handshake, a walk outside, a hollywood mansion in woodside california, but the stakes are far more consequential than fiction. to take a tumultuous year and, basically, put it to the side. you and i understand each other clearly, leader to leader, with no misconceptions, or miscommunications. we must ensure that competition does not veer into conflict. only a short while ago, at a rare press conference, the president calle
powers issue they would create enough controversy airy and they might pose a question for the supreme court. i don t think they do that. a smart lawyer i talked to about this today made this statement, said i said what s up with all the impeachment staff? and she said it s a fallback position. the argument in the brief is, you can t do anything. if it s an official act, tough luck, buddy. which means if he tells seal team six to go assassinate his political rival they couldn t argue that because it s so ludicrous. so now they ve got this fall back impeachment division. it s just worth playing because it s the classic trump thing. and one venue the argument is like, this is the event. and the other venue, it s not the venue now. here s trump s lawyer. during impeachment, assuring the senators, look, if if you go get a phone to convict, he can of course go get arrested
thing, in one venue the argument is like, this is the venue. and the other venue, it s not the venue now. here s trump s lawyer, during impeachment, assuring the senators, look, if if you go get a vote to convict, he can of course go get arrested and convicted. take a listen. if my colleagues on this side of the chamber actually think the president trump committed a criminal offense, let s understand, a high crime is a felony and misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much overtime. after he s out of office, you go and arrest him. i m there s no such thing as a january exception to impeachment. there is only the text of the constitution, which makes very clear that a former president is subject to criminal sanction after his presidency for any illegal acts he commits. that s donald trump s lawyer at the impeachment hearing making literally the opposite
democratic resistance in ukraine against russia s invasion, which is just scandalous, and outrageous. inda that case he said he doesn believe in winning and losing, which is certainly the first time i ve ever heard him say that before. and when he gets into office, the war would be over in 24 hours, and we heard a lot of promises like that before, but i don t think he s going to get back into office because i think the vast majority of the country understands he s an absolute liar and a con man, and now he s been found by a jury of his peers also to be a sexual abuser and a defamer of women. yeah, i mean the title the hurricane of lies is almost difficult to annotate. you did an admirable job, congressman. mary, before we go there s trump s web of lies in which heh exists, and then there is reality. and reality is what dictates our judicial system. and the reality is trump may be thinking he s in a position to pardon both keepers and proud