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To mccarthy and stefanik, a few others. in light of recent public reporting, indicating each of you, at least some a lot of the web of lies used by congressman george santos to deceive his voters, we write to requests that youre proactively and forthrightly cooperate with all current and future investigations into mr. santas, including investigation by the house committee on ethics. are you confident the timeline for those investigations is going to be sufficient? >> well, i assume it will be. t...

Situations like McCarthys treatment of Buchanan become a problem when so many newbies are fumbling around, trying to master the extraordinarily complex workings of committees.

Different party to step up if they want to fight within their own party. >> perhaps thats true. i the end to agree that the first rule of electoral politics is self-preservation. she is worried about a challenge back home and she might have some disagreements with her party ideologically, the fact of the matter is she is going to keep her committee assignment and continue to vote for the presidents nominees. she voted with joe biden 90% of the time last congress. i expect that to continue. this ...

-- controversies, what is different here? >> the nature of what was said. feeling like some things others said in the past were condemning of other people. i mean, basically, he said some things about himself. >> so in just a point of clarification, santos district represents 776,000 people, not a million people but that same district is a blue one. one that joe biden carried by eight points and that is a major factor in how republican leaders are dealing with it. the last thing they would want ...

Restrictions in this country, people in arizona will have to travel all the way to mexico, though it is only a couple hours drive depending on where you are. in order to get cheaper drugs, and actually imported back to the united states. they cannot do that because then farro not to keep funding them in the future, so their answer can only be more fear and more distraction because at the end of the day it could not fulfill their promise because it is not in their nature to actually go against th...

We come on the air with new demands for answers from the head of intel, airlines scrambling to get planes back in the air and the congressman being put on the back burner, lets start with what is going down in the senate where key leaders are asking the director of national intelligence for more information on the classified documents found at president bidens former office, with the white house press secretary, and what she is saying now in the first comments from the podium, just in the last c...

Mccarthy said in november washington has a check and balance, the american people have a say in their government. well in his purview, i remember nancy pelosi to remove marjorie taylor green and paul gosar from committees. >> he believes eric swalwell is a threat to national security and would not be able to get a security clearance in the private sector so does not want to give him a committee assignment. adam schiff for years used and abused his position as the intelligence committee house cha...

Assignment aligns with your professional or life experience. but in this case we dont know what that is.. all right, melanie zanona, thank you. so house republicans kicked off their conference meeting today by attempting to ease some tensions from the speaker drama. they played the bad lip reading parody of this heated moment between kevin mccarthy and matt gaetz. >> a really rich doctor said you were a bummer and i think you dont know algebra. >> no, were talking science, bud. >> the science ...

The reminder, he ran against mccarthy, and was the original vessel for this whole anti- mccarthy movement. so, he is in a position to maybe extract some additional concessions, and then deliver for leadership. i think it is also smart that mccarthy is bringing everyone back tonight it is friday night, people want to get home, there is a psychological element to all of this, they are hoping that can push these members, and maybe they are also hoping they can get lucky and a couple of democrats ma...

Unable to govern. certainly we can lock into arguments over transparency and how the house conducts business. and you can say i would like to have more access to the speaker. i would like to have more say over how legislation is done. i would like to have an easier path to get a committee assignment. but, when you stop and say, wait a minute, does this mean that we can govern the country more effectively? do we have more faith that, in fact, if kevin mccarthy was somehow now through these conces...