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word with ali velshi, in for lawrence. >> as he said, and i thought to myself, is that not the horse medicine? have ive been getting it wrong? its all in the category of stuff that was not supposed to be talked about during covid. >> its all stuff that has nothing to do with the curing you if you have covid. its for other things, and its in that box in my mind. i do not want any horses to be given the wrong medication. as you know, we take our health care very cc. >> as we should. >> a...

>> and also the truth. >> thank you for that. i appreciate it. have yourself a great weekend, well see you next week. >> you too, ali. >> donald trump has spent six years stress testing our democracy, our laws, our norms, our sense of decency and today, two years after he left the white house and disgrace after his failed attempt to overturn joe bidens presidential victory, hes likely to test us again. donald trump is out of power and facing legal and financial peril for which he belie...

>> i always had a few questions about it. >> reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. >> you know, i didnt know about that. it happened -- i was not notified about that until a later date. >> reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? >> yeah, i didnt know about it until a later date unfortunately. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. >> some ...

State senator jack ernst in a pan out, and quote. throughout the campaign, the red flags continue to pile on. in late 2021, santoss campaign reportedly hired a firm to conduct a, quote, vulnerability study. they turned up any of the issues that the mainstream media did not cover until after he had been elected. his apparent lack of a college degree, eviction records and other serious issues to promote a candidate at the federal level. he said the times describes what happened next. the people wo...

You wrote a great article to irad a few weeks ago in which you outlined how this essentially happened, but this is not a case where the information did not exist, lodging oil existed, some people had it, including some democrats and some republicans, what happened? >> three things happened, there were three fundamental failures in the process. the first was the republican party that nominated mr. santos based on one thing and one thing only, his ideological extremism, his fidelity to donald trum...

Circumstances, mr. santas wouldve been shoot away. republicans in nassau county, which comprises the bulk of new yorks third congressional district, have long been famous for exercising tech control over who runs, grooming and rewarding a staple of candidates like an old school political machine. but with a country in lockdown and the old days of the corner for ice pandemic and a district expected to remain under democratic control, no one else put their hand up to run, and quote. despite the ma...

Santos are being elected to the house of representatives? >> thats a good question, look, if youre looking for a political solution that will have to come from the political arena, but its certainly true that in the context of congress, countries overseas, china and russia, are looking for ways to influence u.s. policy, every day are looking for ways to gain access to congressman and influence their actions. everything we are seeing in the political realm is adjusting and, certainly, its a lot o...

Of scandal, is andrew -- a private equity investor and cousin of -- you reportedly invested $625,000 to their investment firm santos is working at, specifically because he trusted and admired george santos. now, at their investing over two dozen dollars and two cents various political packs, they had a change of heart downturns, quote, i dont want republicans having a bomb representing republicans, and i dont want to have a guy that committed crimes walking free. sentence for his part has admitt...

To get a pension from various media outlets, they ignored the democratic campaign. this is a democratic district, george biden would have won this district by four or five points. this guy santos will not win, so we dont pay much attention to him. he put those two things together, and you now have congressman george santos, which is not only the weirdest story in washington, as you rightly pointed out, ali but also, one of the most tragic, at least for what i used to represent. >> thats exactly ...

And we are so polarized, so tribalist, that people are not that interested in the truth. theyre interested in opinions. and, in my former district, it was a fairly disengage district. i talking a piece about having town hall meetings and we basically had to serve bagels and cream cheese in order to get people to come out in my district. not hyper politics, very moderate and comfortable, and that created the kind of climate that somebody like santos could explain. exploit. >> its a complicated is...