i'm joined now boo harry lipman, former deputy assistant attorney general, legal affaired columnist for the los angeles times, and host of the talking feds podcast, and rick wilson, former republican strategist and cofounder of the lincoln project. rick wilson y have literally been waiting all day with bated breath, much excitement, to hear what you, my friend, have to say about george santos' expulsion. please, please, please tell us what you think. >> joy, thank you for having me on today because i have been watching the george santos thing, the uppance has finally come for this guy. this is probably one of the most egregious, weird, scumbags that has ever graced the halls of congress, including that one guy from the civil war you showed with the giant facial hair. but this is a truly strange guy who only could be elected in the donald trump era's republican party. there used to be a function of the republican party where the county chairman would say to the national committee, that guy is running. he's kind of a weirdo. you don't want that guy in there. now, the process and the incen

. >>> all right, right now, joining me to talk more about this is harry lipman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. great to see you, harry. so your reaction to trump's decision to no longer take the stand tomorrow. >> yeah, i wasn't particularly surprised. i had always thought that was kind of posturing and that he might well back down at the event. it's the smarter legal move. he's got very little to gain. he would probably have taken the stand and given the same kind of infomercial that donald trump jr. gave, but it wouldn't have gone to the evidence and most dangerously, he would have faced cross-examination, which is the rules really permit a probing yes or no set of answers, and that could have put him in hot water for either having to tell the truth or commit perjury. so this is a case that he already realizes he's going to lose. and the only value, when it goes up on appeal, they're going to ask, did the judge below have enough there to say he was guilty? and whatever he might have added on his side of the ledger wouldn't really affect

joining us now is lisa lipman, real estate broker at brown harris stevens, the number one agent in the year ago everyone was talking about how manhattan was hard to live in, but billionaire's row is showing you otherwise. what's going on what is going on -- what is going on? lisa: david: i think there was a narrative -- lisa: i think there was a narrative for a while that people were leaving, but like everything else, people end up moving to where they want to live and it's not all about taxes. for some people it is, but most people -- people choose to spend money where they want to live. even in the 1970's, people were choosing to live in and invest in new york. we got through covid better than a lot of other places. people were masked more, got vaccinated more. our economy came back very quickly. and if you walk around new york city now, it's packed with people. we had a lot of people in for the holidays, still there for the holidays, and, you know, tourist attractions, and just local people. really hard to get reservations. private and public schools are full. the streets and subway