of the fraud he perpetuated. >> regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? >> like i said before i'm staying in office for sure. >> that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we'll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we'll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we'll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, november 17th. it's friday. we made it. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we'll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at least through the end of the year that's because late last night president joe biden signed the stop gap funding bill that was passed by the house and senate a few days earlier. the move avoids a government shutdown that would take effect tonight. the continuing resolution as it's known the cr extends funding for several federal agencies until january 19th. that includes departments of agriculte, transportation, housing, and urban development as well as veteran affairs. the cr then funds the remaining parts of the government including the defense department to february 2nd. but that means lawmakers will face another funding fight to keep the government open early in the new year, an election at that. elsewhere on capitol hill, new york congressman george santos is now saying that he will not run for re-election next year after a scathing house ethics committee report found that he, quote, blatantly stole from his previous campaigns. in the 56-page report released yesterday, the bipartisan group of house lawmakers concluded that santos was a, quote, knowing and active participant in a complex unlawful activity. according to the committee santos spent years lying to the federal election commission, banks, and even his own staffers in order to cover up his misuse of campaign funds that spendingllegedly included mo than $10,000 at italian and french fashion stores, nearly $2,500 for botox and other cosmetic trtments, more than $2,000 at atlantic city resorts, and more than $3,000 for a weekend in the hamptons. the report also alleges that santos convinced staffers to hire an organization called red stone strategies to do work on his campaign without telling him that he owned that very company. santos then allegedly transferred money from red stone's bank account into his own personal account. now, of course, questions about santos' background started to arise shortly after he was elected to congress last year, but the ethics committee determined no part of his back story is found to be true. let's say that again. no part of his back story has been found to be true. the report outlines how santos' own campaign staff even encouraged him to drop out of the race back in 2021 after becoming convinced and concerned about a lack of evidence to support some of his claims. the ethics committee has deferred its findings to the department of justice where santos already faces 23 federal fraud charges. in a tweet yesterday, the embattled congressman called the report part of a smear campaign against him but announced he would no longer be seeking re-election next year at least for now he's not going to resign his seat. but santos may be out of the job anyway long before january 2025. that's because later today house ethics committee chairman michael guess is expected today introduce a resolution that would expel the new york republican from congress. an expulsion would need the support of two-thirds of the house, something that appears to be becoming increasingly likely. if you'll recall just a few weeks ago the effort to kick san is an tose out of congress failed with many lawmakers saying they were going to wait until they saw the findings of the ethics report. now many of those who previously voted against expelling santos said they would vote differently next time. the resolution would not to come a vote until after the house returns from its thanksgiving recess, so a little less than two weeks time they're slated today be back on november 28th. joining us now capitol hill reporter for "the wall street journal." great to see you again. so let's start with the ethics report. give us a little bit of sense, if you will, to the reaction you're hearing there on the hill about this truly damning allegations against congressman santos. >> the allegations are damning, are detailed, thoroughly reported. what you're hearing is this increasing march towards expulsion. it is a high bar that two-thirds majority. but what previously was not inevitable is now seeming to be increasingly so. one of the members of that committee did say they didn't recommend certain charges because they would have required at trial which they didn't want to do, so this is the route we've seem to have ended up with. and it's worth noting here you talk about the members who weren't going to vote to expel him until they'd seen the report. well, this is due process at work, and we should opponent out this is one of the norms in washington at least has not been broken. one norm here is still holding. >> this probably is how the process should play out even though the evidence against santos has appeared to be overwhelming for quite some time. his time in congress may be running short. let's get to the other top headline. we opened the show with the news president biden signed the stop gap funding bill, so government is going to stay open for the next couple of months, but set the stage for us just how pitched a battle will it be over government funding early next year? >> the signing of the continuing resolution that two-part bill delays a fight, but it does not end a fight. and in fact, we are going to see a very pitched battle at the start of next year, and that's in part because lawmakers know that if they are not able to come up with some type of solution, a 1% cut in the federal budget is going to kick in the effective date essentially at the end of april. as we saw before congress headed into its recess on the house side, there was still controversy over a number of individual bills. the new speaker mike johnson could not get those off of the house floor, and in that sense he is in the exact same situation as house -- former house speaker kevin mccarthy was, implying that the problem is not a matter of personality alone, it's not just members disliking one speaker, it is, in fact, a situational problem that reveals some deep, deep fights over the level of cuts to the federal budget that republicans are willing to accept. >> yeah, we saw just speaker johnson walking there. he for now has a period of grace from the hard right. we'll see if that lasts during negotiations next year. we know how tenuous his grip on the speakership really it. great stuff this morning from "the wall street journal." thank you so much and enjoy your weekend. we turnover seas now. and israeli troops continue to search gaza's main hospital for more evidence that hamas has been operating out of that building. yesterday israeli defense forces released this video of what they say is a, quote, operational tunnel shaft. they also say they have found more hamas weapons. now, nbc news cannot independently verify those claims but has been able to verify the loekds shown in the video is just outside of the hospital complex. israel says there have been no casualties since the hospital raid began on wednesday. the facility had to shutdown over the weekend due to a lack of fuel and supplies. still, hundreds of patients are inside seeking medical care. the fuel shortage has also caused internet and phone services to collapse across the gaza strip. the breakdown of the communications network, which was crucial for coordinating aid deliveries, will keep the united nations from delivering any aid into the territory today. the israeli military also says it has discovered the body of a hostage during its raid of that hospital complex. officials say the body was found in a building that also contained assault rifles and a rocket propelled grenade launcher. the 65-year-old was kidnapped by hamas terrorists back on october 7th. she had been undergoing cancer treatment. her husband was killed during the original attack. still ahead here on "way too early," we'll turn to some other news including how a judge temporarily lifts the gag order in the trump civil fraud trial. we'll show the social media rant from the former president that came down shortly after the decision. plus, the verdict is in against the man who brutally attacked the husband of 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clerk on his truth social page. the judge says his office has been inundated with threats since the trump trial began. meanwhile, david depape, the man who brutally attacked paul pelosi late last year was convicted yesterday of all charges in federal court. during the trial depape looked down and showed little emotion as the jury found him guilty of assaulting pelosi with a hammer in his san francisco home. paul pulousy would go onto sustain a fractured skull because of the attack. depape was charged with attempted kidnappingf a federal officer and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. depape now faces up to life in prison and still faces multiple state charges connected to the home invasion including attempted murder. nancy pelosi not home at the time of the attack. meanwhile, an ohio man convicted of assaulting police officers at the u.s. capitol on january 6th has now been sentenced to prison. a u.s. judge sentenced kenneth owens to four years and ten months behind bars. in 2021 thomas joined trump supporters in storming the capitol and repeatedly physically and verbally assaulted police officers. thomas was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution. so far more than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes in connection to the violence at the capitol. more than 800 of them have pleaded guilty or have been convicted after a trial. to politics now. nikki haley is picking up more campaign cash and support in the race for the gop presidential nomination. some donors who have previously backed south carolina senator tim scott are now shifting to haley, the former governor of that state, after scott's exit from t race earlier in the week. meanwhile, billionaire hedge fund ceo ken griffon who gave millions to ron desantis for his campaign for florida governor, told bloomberg tv earlier in the week that he was actively contemplating backing haley. haley also appears to be building some momentum in the polls as a alternative to donald trump. a new poll by cnn and the university of new hampshire that was released yesterday had trump with a still commanding lead at 42%, but haley is now a pretty clear second choice. she was at 20%, 6 points higher than governor chris christie. next we'll turn to sports and bring you the highlights from thursday night football, a game that lost two stars to injury before half time. that always seems to happen on thursdays. plus shohei ohtani makes history again. all that and a look at the weekend forecast when we come right back. in the pocket. a lot of traffic by nelson to the end zone. somersault touch down. >> that's ravens receiver nelson avular taking it to the end zone for a 34-yard score in the second quarter. baltimore re-claimed the lead on that and never looked back while the they are the clear favorite. lamar jackson got banged up himself but really gets bad for the bengals right here. quarterback joe borough seemed to already have a wrist injury coming into the game and he exited last night's game after throwing that touch down pass in the second quarter. burrow was in a ton of pain not able to return. head coach later told reporters looked like he spained his wrist adding burrow fell on it earlier in the game and really felt it on the touch down pass. bad nouz for the bengals and my fantasy team. meanwhile they did not escape unscathed. he's an invaluable piece of that offense so that is a major blow. to college football now. the university of michigan has agreed to accept the big ten's three game suspension of their head coach, gym harbaugh over an alleged sign steal scandal. the conference agreed to close its investigation while a statement from the big ten said michigan withdrew its legal challenge. harbaugh who already served one game of the suspension last week against penn state will not coach saturday at maryland or in the huge game coming up, michigan's regular season finale against ohio state. to baseball now. and hohey ohtani and ronald acuna jr. are the unanimous mvps. totaun ae now a free agent after another historic two-way season with the los angeles angels is also the first player to win the award unanimously two different times. a historic season featured 41 home runs and the first member ever of the 42nd club. and finally it's official. the a's are moving to las vegas. all 30 mlb team leaders gave their report yesterday. a planned opening set for 228. until then, sad, sad for las vegas. warriors both the raiders and now the a's moving to las vegas. that's a good fan base in oakland. they were served by their ownership, that stadium needing desperate improvements. they didn't get it. and time now for the weather and let's go to meteorologist michelle grossman. it's going to bring big time change tuesday the north east by tomorrow and especially sunday. also looking at rain falling in the northern parts of florida and the eastern parts of florida. that will be swept out to sea with the cold front moving through. and back to the west that's going to bring mountain snow and also some elevation rain, and going to be scattered throughout the day. this is what today looks like, scattered showers in the west, sunny skies throughout the central plains and northern plains although chilly, and we're looking at that cold front bringing rain into interior parts of the north east, tennessee valley, ohio valley and also portions of of the lower mississippi valley and could see light rain from the carolinas, too. and the southwest and rockies as well looking at higher mountain snow. chilly breeze throughout the ohio valley. that is a cold front going to bring the changes. bringing the rain today but then a chilly breeze. new york city you're going to see some rain tonight. into the early parts of saturday, should be out of here by 8:00 a.m. and see temperatures tumble and a chilly, chilly sunday. we're looking at strong storms throughout the central and southern plains and still some snowy rocky mountain snow, the higher elevation snow and lower elevation rain throughout the pacific north west. back to you. >> michelle grossman, thank you so much and have a good weekend. still ahead here, president biden wraps up his west coast trip today. we'll go through his diplomatic schedule and his meeting yesterday with the leaders of japan and south korea at the pacific state summit. 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(car engine revs). powering possibilities. (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) welcome back to "way too early." it is precisely 5:30 a.m. on the east coast, 2:30 out west on this friday morning. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. today president biden will wrap up his trip to northern california after hosting a leader's retreat on the side lines of the apec summit being held in san francisco.