You all want a sound bite, this is the third time we're going through this, I don't care. Nobody cares, if this building, if this city put the effort to fixing our country the same way that they put on expelling me, we'd be in a better place. [00:00:17] But this place is littered in political theater and the american people are the ones paying the price. >> Speaker 2: Honestly, if there was someone who could speak with authority on political theater, I think it would have to be George Santos at this point, come on buddy. [00:00:32] You just you just wanna do the serious policy work and everyone's distracting you with nonsense after years of making up every single part of your background while committing a bunch of crimes, and enriching yourself in a number of different ways. Like seriously, I talked about this the last time we talked about George Santos on [00:00:51] the show, it is so easy, and I understand why people get caught up in the lies. But remember, fundamentally the issue with George Santos is not just lies. He has robbed people to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he has taken from donors, from his campaign coffers and [00:01:08] put through a number of different shady means into his own pocket. He is a massive alleged criminal, so bear that in mind, but importantly he might not be around for that much longer. Now, there's a couple different ways where potentially you could get rid of him, [00:01:23] the one that the republicans want that apparently speaker Johnson, according to this tweet in a closed leadership meeting, had been pushing for him to resign. That way Republicans wouldn't have to take a tough vote, but tough for Mike Johnson because apparently that's not going to happen, watch this. [00:01:42] >> Speaker 1: To set the record straight and put this into record I will not be resigning, and with that, I yield back the balance of my time. >> Speaker 2: [SOUND] I wish he could yield back all of the time that he has taken from us and from the country, but no he's not going, and so [00:01:57] we are gonna have to do this the hard way, I guess Francesca and we're getting close. It's apparently gonna happen on Thursday, we'll get to Mike Johnson's thoughts about that vote, but what do you think? >> Speaker 3: [LAUGH] They're not gonna expel him, that's what I think. [00:02:14] And they just don't wanna look like they are throwing down with an obvious criminal, other than their lord and and saviour Donald Trump, who is like criming on a whole other level, this is like really low level George Santos' crimes. All I have to say is, I think if he wants to prove that he didn't have Botox, [00:02:33] he should really put the glasses back on because George Santos sands Botox is like, buddy, your forehead don't move, you know what I mean? I made the mistake I got Botox once and then I was like, I can't move my forehead I need this to know expressions and stuff. [00:02:49] Not going to lie, and so but my dude is like he's giving sorry, guys he's sorry, kids, he's giving some Matt Rife vibes, like too many soft edges, although Matt Rife, notably like the chin, John probably has no idea what I'm talking about. [CROSSTALK] But I love his he loves the spotlight, [00:03:06] you guys just want your sound bite, like there's so many things, do you remember that he also assaulted a staffer, as many other Republicans have done? But I say put it to a vote, I love that he's not resigning, I love that he's gonna [00:03:23] force Republicans to basically look, they may oust him, but my prediction, since he said he's not gonna run for re-election, is that they're gonna wait. >> Speaker 2: Yeah- >> [CROSSTALK] What's safer, John maybe the seat, who does the seat, I believe is it the governor [00:03:43] that appoints his successor, his replacement if he resigns? I believe that is the case >> Speaker 2: Yes, I believe so but also it definitely comes down to when this would be happening, and theoretically the expelling is sooner rather than later, so maybe that simplifies the process. [00:03:59] But yeah, it's complicated to make the predictions because theoretically, there's a lot of Democrats that would vote for this, although they could do the sort of cynical pragmatic thing of, no leave him around so that you can run against him. Not only for that, assuming that he did actually run for re-election, or [00:04:16] just that he was still in elected office, you could theoretically do that. But there's also a lot of New York Republicans that they don't wanna be associated with him anymore, so they could vote to expel him. A lot of Republicans might not want that being an extra weight around their necks, but yeah, there's a lot of factors, it's very difficult to predict. [00:04:34] I think that we might have finally crossed sort of the critical mass, but the real question is where the Republicans are gonna come down on this. [MUSIC]