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offering courses on gender identity and this move is coming a week before the start of the new school year. in florida, two members of the tennessee three will get to finish the rest of the terms in the statehouse. state represents justin jones and justin pearson won back the seats in special elections, and the two were expelled in april setting off a controversy that was seen and read about nationwide. the republican supermajority in the state accused them of breaches of decorum and threw them out. and gloria johnson also faced an expulsion vote, but she was not ousted. john? >> police have identified another victim in the gilgo beach murders. she was previously known as fire island jane doe.
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he's denied any wrongdoing and said this to reporters yesterday. >> i look forward to doing that. i look forward to seeing the process play out. and if the ethics committee finds a reason to remove me, that is the process. i look forward to continuing to defend myself. again, innocent until proven guilty. that is a right we all have. >> joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning. where do things go from here? >> reporter: jose, i'm glad you say that this was santos staying in congress for now, because this is really a way to slow walk him to the exit while the doj investigation continues to play out. we saw, of course, democrats try to mount an expulsion vote yesterday and instead of being able to do that because it would require two-thirds of the majority of the body here, instead we saw republicans continue to allow this to work through the ethics committee. this has been speaker mccarthy's preference the entire time. in part because he still needs santos here for political
reasons because of the tight margins you and i always end up talking about when we talk about george santos and why republicans are tolerating him up here on capitol hill. nevertheless, what we're seeing out of the ethics committee after they have been referred this expulsion vote is the idea that they're not stepping aside despite the fact that there are criminal investigations going on through the department of justice. and, in fact, in just the last few minutes, we heard from the top republican on the ethics committee explaining why they're not ceding that ground because to them, this is not something where he's being probed criminally, he's also got ethic probes going into him and that's why the ethics committee feels that they can operate on a dual track here. let the department of justice continue to do their work on the criminal front, those 13 indictment counts we know santos pled not guilty to, but also looking in on the ethics front to see if they in congress have any say about this and what they ultimately say about it. i will say, jose, ethics committee referrals tend to just go into darkness, so i don't
and neonazis and delivered a keynote address at a conference hosted by fuentes. take a look at some of the other elected members of the republican party. congressman george santos who was arrested and indicted on 13 charges accused of duping donors, stealing from his campaign and lying to congress. yesterday, after his party moved to block an expulsion vote, he defended himself. >> i think that this was the right decision for all of us, and i look forward to continuing to defend myself, again, innocent until proven guilty. that is a right we all have. >> mind you, this is the guy who was busted for lying about his education, his employment history, hifinances, and his philanthropic endeavors. as he was uttering those words, his fellow new yorkers, representatives jamaal bowman and alexandria ocasio-cortez, gave the guy the good old bronx cheer and told him what pretty much every new yorker is thinking, including his constituents. >> no, i did not --
santos embroiled in a host of legal and ethical problems most recently indictment on felony charges but some of his g.o.p. colleagues are not moving as fast as the democrats would like, not surprisingly. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight with that. good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret. the house blocked the democratic effort to expel george santos. the vote 220 to 202. republicans pushed to refer santos to the ethics committee and not vote on expulsion. democrats say that's a copout. >> isn't this about getting those republicans on the record voting against expelling him versus just getting santos out. >> we think everyone should vote on the report whether he should be expelled or not and republicans would have a chance to do so if the expulsion vote came to the floor. >> ironically some g.o.p. members concede privately they made need santos to pass their debt ceiling package. talks continued today. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants a framework by the weekend. the plan will need 60 votes to
broke the law, perhaps that could change the dynamic on capitol hill. it forces members to vote to expel him. there are two ways for santos to no longer be a congressman. one, resign. he made clear he's not resigning. the other is to force an expulsion vote, which would require the support of two-thirds of the full house. kevin mccarthy, is indicating he will let this process play out. he is not yet calling on him to resign as he says that santos has a right to try to clear his name in the court process. but in talking to a number of other republican senators and congressmen, they're making clear in their view it is time for santos to go. >> he should have resigned a long time ago. he's an embarrassment to our party. he's embarrassment to the united states congress. >> would it be better if he resigned? >> absolutely. it is a distraction. and it is a punch line for a lot of commentary regarding the republican party that we don't need.
was reinstated monday the expulsion vote for representative gloria johnson did not succeed. coming up on "morning joe" representative pearson will join the conversation to discuss his reinstatement and how he plans to address gun violence in tennessee. still ahead on "way too early," pro-football fans in getting thr wish, long held wish as a deal to sell the commanders appears to be in place plus baseball history could be made tonight in toronto. we will explain that coming up next ♪ zyrteeeec...♪ works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪ go betty! ♪ let's be more than our allergies! zeize the day. with zyrtec.
is i'll do whatever you need me to do and that's the type of guy he was >> a community ripped apart by violence coming together to heal >> truly tragic situation there. hard to watch. turning now to tennessee the shelby county board of commissioners in tennessee unanimously voted yesterday to reappoint former state representative justin pearson to the legislature. the vote comes almost two weeks after pearson and fellow democratic representatives justin jones and gloria johnson stood at the house podium and used a bull horn to chant with protesters in the gallery calling legislative action on gun violence the trio who became known as the tennessee three face an expulsion vote last thursday while jones and pearson were expelled from the house, johnson, who is white, was not representative jones was sworn into the tennessee house on monday following his unanimous reappointment by the national