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Isn't much, michael. would you expect more republicans to say something? is there a tipping point you see? >> what i see is those eight republicans saying i can't -- we can't move forward on anything that you want until this is resolved. to ali's point you have eight people who are locked and loaded, use the leverage if you want him to go. but the short answer is, no, there's no cry among republicans for the removal of this guy. and, you know, his response is, again, a form of punking the system. saying, hey, i'm here because i want to be here and you can't do anything about it and 142,000 peo...

>> republican congressman george santos scent is under growing pressure to step down for his serial dishonesty, said again today he's saying put, putting on a podcast for republican congressman matt gaetz. he said he would only leave if he's voted out of office two years from now, by the 142,000 people he said he represents. gaetz also gently asked him about where he got all the money he poured into his campaign. >> one of the principal critiques i have heard is that a lot of money was donated to your campaign by you. 700, 000, i believe. where did it come from? >> i will tell you where it did...

Constituents, and at this point, we have no reason to believe that he would even make good, if for some reason that actually happens. what they want is for him to step down, and for a special election to take place, so best interests of the district will be represented. >> thank you. let's bring you now over to manhattan, new york, work the trump organization is getting hit today with $1.6 million in fines. it is part of a sentence for a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the prosecutors say top executives orchestrated out of pure greed, and the company says it will appeal, all of it. coming after al...

Voters. so when santos came out and said he's here to serve the 142,000 people who elected him, a pretty good chunk that we hear from them are upset the person they thought they voted for is not the person he claimed to be. that's one of the cruxes of this is the lies about a resume but then the potential legal exposure here both on campaign finance where the money was coming from, all of these different things that are now starting to bubble on the state and federal level in terms of investigations. it's not a question of this person fabricated their entire resume, there's some possible crimi...

District. he lost when he ran against tom swazi. when he won, he only got 142,000 votes versus robert zimmerman, the incumbent. this could be a loss of the seat which is why kevin mccarthy isn't going to touch him. >> besides being a special election, when it came to the 2022 election in new york, you had -- from long island running. voter turnout was cranked up. that won't exist for that seat. plus, a lot of people are pretty disgusted with the republican party and what they put up independence and central right republicans. i think it would be -- they would lose the seat and that is what kev...