. one of the most exclusive clubs in the country has a brand-new member tonight, but it's not a club you'd want to belong to. tonight i'm "laura coates live." how do you solve a problem like george santos? well, no surprise. i think they may have cracked a nut. the house voted today to kick him out of congress. what's his response? why do i want to stay here? to hell with this place. i'm quoting him. that is the epitome of you can't fire me, i quit. from the now ex-congressman who just yesterday refused to resign while wearing ferragamo shoes and arriving in a jaguar. i point that out because of some of the receipts that came in the ethics report. now he's joining a pretty exclusive club. no, not the college volleyball team. this is a really exclusive club with only five members. well, now they have a sixth. the only six members who have ever been thrown out of congress in the 234-year history. and let me tell you, they are a regular -- well, maybe a rogue's gallery might be the appropriate phrase to use. you've got john b. clark, john w. reid and henry c burnett, who were expelled back in 1861 for fighting for the confederacy. also michael ozzie meyers, no, not the one from halloween. i'm talking about a real person here. the one expelled in 1980 after he was convicted as part of the infa miss abscam investigation. he and other lawmakers were caught up in a sting operation taking bribes to help a make-believe arab sheikh. fun fact, it was the inspiration for the oscar-winning movie american hustle. it's friday night. i admit the movie references are getting extreme. then there's this one. james traf i cant jr. who got kicked out after being convicted of several crimes including bribery back in 2002. and that's it, six in 234 yearsmyears. i want to bring in congressman glen ivy. he was one of the 311 members who voted to expel george santos today. he also sits on the ethics committee that recommended his expulsion. congressman, i'm so glad you're here. thank you for joining me today. i got to tell you people were wondering if this day would come the second they started to hear about how he got elected in the first place. is it long overdue or the right time given the ethics report release? >> well, i mean i thought it was important to get the report out. you know, the ethics committee staff did a fantastic job in doing the investigation. and it took time. they went through 170,000 pages of documents and, you know, 40 subpoenas. they did over 40 interviews and depositions. so, you know, we did it the right way, and i think that's an important fact because you have people who were concerned about expelling someone from the congress. i think it was important to show that we'd done a thorough investigation that supported that position. >> yet there are going to be complaints about due process. you've been a prosecutor. your legal acumen is very sound, and you knew this was coming, i'm sure, about the ideas of, well, there haven't been convictions yet. there's a house ethics report, yeah. there are indictments, yes, but not a conviction. should that have been required? >> no, and i think the constitution's clear on this point. it talks about a two-thirds vote as a requirement, which is essentially the safeguard to protect members from being expelled for partisan reasons or, you know, improper reasons. but, you know, i think here obviously we got the two-thirds vote. i think there was way more than you might want to have to make sure that you're putting somebody out for the right reasons. i think the criminal activity, the scope of it, the braeadth o it. i haven't seen anything like this. maybe trafficant, who also had bad bad hair days on a perpetual basis. who am i talk to about bad hair, right? the think the level of this conduct warranted this kind of action. another thing on that point, i think it's important to remember that he got to the office basically on false pretenses. i mean his champaign was a lie, what he said about his background, his experience, his family relationships, all of that stuff. so a lot of the voters in new york wanted him out. they thought they had been tricked. >> that kind of undermines the argument that you're usurping the power of voters to have who they want in office if you're saying they didn't have a chance to know who they were electing based on his conduct. but also he could run again. this is not the finality that maybe other things would have. >> absolutely. this is like the tennessee three. so you had those people were removed from office in tennessee. the voters felt that they removed him primproperly. they didn't have to clear out their offices before they were back. i don't think george santos is coming back. i think he realizes that, and i think that's why he declared a few days ago that he wouldn't run for re-election. >> that was a pretty blue district that was flipped with santos. you've not your work cut out for you. a princeton man on friday night. nice to see you, congressman glen ivy. thank you so much. >> thank you. now that we are seeing some real repercussions for former congressman george santos, you know it's friday night. you know tomorrow is going to be "snl." how are comedians and the late night folks going to cope, to manage? you know what? i've got one with me. matt friend is here, or is it? someone who sounds suspiciously like former president donald trump. sir, what do you think about the expulsion? >> well, excuse me. first of all, it is a really nasty setup. i really resent this setup. it's terrible to be with you on the fake news, cnn. i will tell you what, george santos is a nasty woman. a lot of us know he is a dog. he's a dog. and i'll tell you what. he has the best fashion sent since rob desanctimonious's heels. we all know that to be true. i know more about makeup than he does, better than the apprentice. maybe he'd still be in office if he'd listen to me. thank you very much, china. >> i don't even know what to say about that impersonation. wow. >> thank you. >> how do you think george santos is feeling tonight? >> well, george santos talks a lot about the constitution. and given the fact that george santos was friends with the people who wrote the constitution, our founders, john adams. i had lunch with him last week. i will tell you santos is sad, but he will be appearing on, you know, "real housewives" of course, and andy cohen will be moderating. i think santos will be just fine at his next gig honestly. >> is matt here today? is matt coming because i think i just heard. >> i'm so thrilled to be here. first time on cnn. thank you so much for having me. >> look, i'm blown away by your impers impersonations. that is uncanny for so many reasons. >> thank you. >> you have no shortage of material. is that why you think people have been so fascinated? a part of me at some times thought it was perhaps sacha baron cohen who was playing a branch on all of us. i was waiting for that moment to go, what's happening here? >> this is just a giant scooby-doo episode. george santos was the criminal who was going to take the mask off at the end. i feel like we're so drawn to this character because in the post-trump presidency, i feel like we need something to pay attention to. it's like an hbo miniseries. inventing anna to the next level. maybe it will be on cnn+. >> oh, okay. >> i will say that i think i am just as qualified to be on this show as santos was in congress. i'm like what am i doing here now? this is cnn. it's amazing. but i am qualified to do a santos impression because we are both two very proud jews, and that is a fact. >> matt, where are we going to see george santos next? >> i think we're going to see george santos probably on "watch what happens live" with andy cohen because i think i could picture santos in the clubhouse. shot skis with santos. that's the next episode. >> i know exactly every head motion you're doing because clearly i have watched all those episodes too. matt friend, you put a smile on my face today. >> it's so crazy, this news, that even mitch mcconnell saw santos was out. mcconnell said, wait a second. you mean to tell me that george santos is out of a job? what's he going to do next? >> where do i go from here, matt friend? there's nowhere else to go. the prairie chicken. you said the mitch mcconnell prairie chicken comment, i would have lost my mind. a professional on prime time television and here you come on a friday night. >> i learns from the best. all those george santos press conferences. he knows what he's doing. >> i'm not even going to pretend. goodbye, matt friend. see you later. i'm going to do a quick turn. oh, my god. i had an eyeliner. it's all ruined now because of him. it's bad news tonight for the real president, because a federal judge in trump's election subversion case in washington says, nope, you do not have absolute immunity for what you said and what you did after the election. and, nope, i'm not going to dismiss the charges. so what does all this mean for donald trump's attempts to hold criminal cases -- and there are a bunch of them -- at bay? joining me now is gwen keyes, former dekalb county district attorney. don't worry, gwen, i am not going to ask you to do an impersonation, but if you have one, it had better not be of laura coates. i will not have you do it. you and i both impersonate former prosecutors. judge chutkan denied trump's request for a dismissal based on presidential immunity. i'm going to read the quote on what she had to say. defendant's four-year service as commander in chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens. now, that is about as unequivocal as a judge can get. so what are the implications? >> well, in that particular case, it's clear that judge chutkan is saying what the law is, that there is not absolute immunity for the former president and that his actions done for campaigning, he was acting like an ordinary citizen. as such, he would be held accountable as an ordinary citizen. and what i like is the fact that that is also the sentiment that you're hearing out of the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. i love the way they also came to that same conclusion and clearly said that campaigning for re-election is not a presidential act. and therefore you cannot have presidential immunity for the things you say and do in the course of a campaign. >> will this hold up, this ruling, on appeal because it's going to be appealed before the march trial date. >> it's going to be appealed. that's the interesting thing. judge chutkan's decision is going to be appealed to the very court that also had a similar ruling today. so i think what many of us are looking for is to see what happens in terms of whether it ultimately gets to the supreme court, where we could have those nine justices actually weigh in on this issue. >> we're like 340 days away from a presidential election. i mean the timeline of all of this is really, really intense. let's go down to georgia because in georgia, trump's lawyer made the argument the charges against him ought to be thrown out on first amendment grounds, which is an argument the judge has already rejected with other defendants. so why is he trying this again? >> well, i think a lot of this now, as you know, is to preserve issues for appeal. they don't raise them at the various levels of trial and in motions. they lose the right to raise them later. so even though the judge has ruled against these same type of arguments against other defendants, each defendant is different. so they're going to take their shot. we can anticipate that judge mcafee is going to be consistent. i don't see any reason for him to rule any differently on the issue this time around. but there were some other creative arguments again today in terms of how having this trial in the middle of the election will be the greatest election interference occasion ever known. and so the irony in that, i think, can't be lost given the fact that we are talking about one of the greatest election interference challenges in georgia and really on january 6th. >> there's so much more to unpack, and there will be many other opportunities for you and i to converse. gwen keyes, i'll see you again soon. >> i look forward to it. thanks. you know, we lost a giant in the law today, justice sandra day o'connor. the first woman to sit on the supreme court of the united states. and i'll never forget what she told me the day i had the opportunity to meet her. i'll tell you about it next. you know, tonight the world remembers the daughter of an arizona rancher who rose to the heights of american law. justice sandra day o'connor was once considered the most powerful woman in the country. the first woman to serve on the united states supreme court. justice o'connor's pivotal opinion shaped the law in this country on issues as varied at affirmative action, abortion, voting rights, and religion. and tonight as so many people are sharing their stories and memories, i'd like to share my own. it was back in 2014 when i was still a federal prosecutor and i was pregnant with my first -- my first daughter, my second child. i was asked if i would want to come and meet the supreme court justice, and i could not say yes fast enough. are you kidding me? i would love to meet her. i didn't know what the opportunity would actually mean. i wasn't sure what type of person she would be when you finally meet a kind of hero of yours in the law. when i met her, she was so sweet, so kind, so humble. what i loved most is what she said to me about my pregnancy. when we spoke, she asked me what i was having, and i was a month away from having a little girl. and i said as much. she said, oh, thank god. now, let her be a lawyer. even if that moment, as she touched my belly and empowered and thought to tell me ways to empower my own daughter, it was indicative of who she was as a supreme court justice. now, of course, if you knew my little girl, you'd know the next part is entirely true as well because my daughter kicked out, kicking at the supreme court court justice of the united states and she just took it and commented on the spunk she did end up having. and it's her legacy that i want to remember tonight. she joined the court just under a decade after roe was decided by a court of 12 men and was pivotal in protecting the right to abortion in 1992's planned parenthood versus casey. now, she would live to see the high court overturn roe v. wade and upend the right to reproductive care that had endured for decades, a ruling that has spurred now a new generation of women into politics. women like my next guest, who was forced to travel from her home state of tennessee to new york to end a pregnancy that was putting her life at risk. well, now she's running for state office in her home district to make sure other women don't have to go through what she went through. allie phillips joins me now. thank you so much for joining me. tell me about what happened that has really led you to know now that you want to be in politics. >> that is a loaded question. i had no interest in being in politics until what happened to me happened. and it really wasn't just one thing. it was my story of being diagnosed a fatal pregnancy and not being able to get the health care in tennessee, having to fly to new york city only to find out my daughter died in utero at some point in that time frame, to then hearing story after story coming out of texas and florida and idaho. and i say it was the 10-year-old girl in ohio who had to travel across state lines because i have a 6-year-old daughter, and i couldn't imagine the trauma that a little girl at that age had to go through to get an abortion. and it was that amongst many other things that truly pushed me to make the decision. nobody's going to fight for my daughter and myself the way i will. and i need to step up, and i need to make sure that nobody else faces what i went through. if i have anything to do about it, i'm going to make sure it doesn't happen. >> you actually tried to work with your existing lawmakers, trying to advocate with them to get the objectives met, and that did not satisfy you. it did not, in fact, culminate in any achievable, measurable goal. >> it truly just solidified what we already knew about our super majority gop men in tennessee. i met with my current representative, who is now my opponent, for two hours, and he said to me that he only thought the first pregnancies could go back, referring to the fact that this was my second pregnancy and first loss. and on top of that, he had -- i tried to humanize my story because he has a daughter not too much younger than i am. and he pretty much said that if she had the same situation as me, the way he grew up is he would tell her he thinks she should continue her pregnancy, and that if she got an abortion, he wouldn't be happy about it. so for me, all that said was that you don't even care about your own daughter's life. how are you going to care about your constituents and the rest of the tennesseans? and i think along with that, i was like, you know, we hear that these pro-life republican men truly don't understand women's health care. but when you're sitting across the table two feet from one of them and hearing what they actually have to say and the little bit that they do know, if anything at all, it's terrifying knowing that they're voting on these laws. >> have you heard from other potential candidates or other women across the country, and men also who have shared in the experience that you have talked about with your own husband that are now deciding, why not me? >> i have, and i've been very fortunate with the outpour of support that i've received with sharing my story online. there have been a few women who i have spoken with personally who said that my story and my inspiration and ideas for running inspired them to look into it themselves. i don't know if they're going to run in 2024. i don't know, you know, when their cycle is going to be the best time for them. but the fact that they're thinking about it just says house powerful just a single story can be and how persuasive it can make others be like, you know what? i have a story like this. i don't like my current representative. i think i have better ideas that can take care of my neighbors. and so i think we're going to see more people step up. >> as they say, allie phillips, you know, people think abortion will be on the ballot, if not in real ink, maybe invisible ink. but it certainly has spurred people who want their names on the ballot to make sure that they perhaps can be the change they want to see in the world. allie, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you so much. coming up, cnn's presentation of hbo's overtime with bill maher. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to a $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yep, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network and that powers more businesses than anyone else. learn how you can get $1000 back for your business today. comcast business. powering possibilities. well, now let's turn it over to our friends at hbo because every friday after real time with bill maher, bill and his be guests answer viewer questions about topibcs in the national conversation. here is overtime with bill maher. >> welcome to real time on cnn. we're here with democratic strategist and host of the politics war room podcast james carville and dave rubin. here are the questions. for dave, what did you think of elon musk's trip to israel? 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