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santos. republican leaders refused to -- no matter how many times he's bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous -- nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. ♪ ♪ ♪ it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation's highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving -- of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote,

consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would -- bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulted to superstardom within that liberal imagination after being rejected by mitch mcconnell and the senate gop as a nominee to fill not john paul stevens seat but antonin scalia's spot on the supreme court. you are forgiven if this slip to your mind. mcconnells smoke and mirrors routine has a way of fogging up the past -- that was not more obvious then with merrick garland who went from our inheritors small seats conservative strain trist to woke liberal pin-up almost on a level with rbg herself. you may be startled to hear that back in 2016, it wasn't garlands left-wing bias that was the top of the town, but his rather staunch habit of backing the blue, rolling in

favor of law enforcement compared to his colleagues on the bench. and fortunately, those are precisely the type of details that are lost in history, when you become a side character in a racist republican hatchet job on the country's first black president. in 2021, when joe biden tapped garland to serve as his attorney general, democrats were largely overcome with ugly. a little schadenfreude, even. and they were -- they weren't really because in the wake of the greatest organized attack on this country's democracy in over 100 years, what biden actually needed at the doj was a fighter. i scrap, or a muhammad ali in a suit. but he wasn't going to concern himself with the fake civility and that kabuki theater that has come to define d.c. bipartisan both sides-ism. is merrick garland a brilliant legal mind? undoubtedly. is he a man of principle? absolutely. is he the right person for this

moment? the fighter at the doj that we need? no. most certainly not. it's bad enough that he has slow walked in the accountability process when it comes to the organizers of the worst attack on our capital since 1812, to the point where even members of the congressional 16 kennedy are wondering why the doj under garland it was not moving faster against trump and his minions. this week was the week it became clear to anybody who had their doubts that a.g. garland is out of his depth and getting outplayed. by, now i'm sure you are familiar with the news that a handful of documents bearing classification markings were discovered by president biden's lawyers at his former office, in d.c., and his wilmington, delaware home. biden's lawyers immediately contacted at the white house counsel's office, reaching the national archive but i have the find. the president himself has expressed frustration with how the debacle has been received, as well as what has been called probably sloppiness, probable sloppiness, excuse me, by his own aides.

i mean, he and his team a step, quarterly. can you blame him for being frustrated? especially given the predictable gop response with a dire rhetoric about the nation's commitment to equality under the law. >> congress has to investigate this. here's an individual that's been in office for more than 40 years. an individual that sat on 60 minutes, that was so concerned about president trump's documents locked in behind. we find as a vice president he's been keeping them for years in the open in different locations. i do not think any american believes that justice should not be equal to all. >> i mean, this is the same bad faith kevin who did not care about justice or equality in the law when it was donald trump with alleged nuclear documents at mar-a-lago, refusing to give them back, by the way. bad faith republicans are everywhere. here is kentucky congressman james comer, speaking on cnn this morning. >> and we want to know the

history logs to the residents. we want to know who had access to the biden center for diplomacy. this is the same type of investigation that the democrats were so outraged and demanded happen to president trump. >> oh, come on. this is the same bad faith james comer who didn't care about which wedding guests at mar-a-lago may have tripped over classified documents while partying at trump's resort home. the hypocrisy and bad faith of the modern gop should be clear to anybody paying attention. perhaps merrick garland just isn't -- his bizarre behavior on this story. consider the timeline. between february 9th 2022 when doj was informed by the national archives and records administration on mayra that the trump team maybe secretly keeping classified materials at mar-a-lago, and november 18th 2022 when merrick garland appointed jackson as a special counsel to investigate the

matter. 282 days have elapsed. 282. we can start with how on november the 4th 2022 the doj was contacted by merit and white house lawyers about the newly discovered when biden logs. by january 12th, 2023, this past thursday, he had signed the order of the special counsel. a mere 69 days later -- >> i'm confident that mr. hurt will carry out his responsibility in and even-handed and urgent matter and in accordance with the highest traditions of this department. >> 280 to slow, plotting days to investigate trump's blatant obstruction. a speedy 69 days looking into biden's sloppiness. in fact, just three days after cbs news broke the story of the biden docks, that's how fast garland moved with biden. maybe kevin mccarthy is right about a two tier justice system in america. one that helps the bad faith

republicans and one for everyone else. the pace of the inquiry is not the only difference, however. there's also the matter of who garland tasked to spearhead the job. for donald trump, garland hire jack smith, a literal war crimes prosecutor, a man respected and independent as they come. that mattered little to the former president and his allies, all of whom wasted little time in smearing the man as a terrorist and his wife as a partisan extremist. you might think garland learned the lesson of the jack smith appointment. no matter how independent the person you pick is, conservatives will cry by us. best to ignore them and do the right thing, right? wrong. that's not what garland did. when it came time to investigate biden's documents and criminal liability, first garland handed the job to the u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois, john laos, a trump appointee. when he recommended a special counsel for biden, surprise, garland opted for another former trump appointee, robert

her, a man who has attended federalist society events, and has not only clerk for alex given ski, one of the most infamous judges to sit on the 92nd, but also supreme court justice william rehnquist, an ultraconservatives. -- at least conservatives will not be able to claim he's being partisan, right? again, wrong. >> this guy is a swamp monster of the tier one level. he's a government gangster. he is now in charge of the continued crime scene cover-up. >> the vehicle, air not just maga's been dogs -- saying this stuff about robert her, a republican. it's a top republican lawmaker, kevin mccarthy this morning on fox business, and congresswoman elise stefanik who slammed this trump appointee, remember, as a corrupt deep state stooge. all circus is as exhausting as it is absurd. i guarantee you tomorrow

morning merrick garland will wake up once again and pine, pine and paying for more for a stamp of approval from the gop. except, he will never get it. they will never again allow him to be recognized as aren't hatcher's small seat conservative consensus nominee. you will keep trying. what's that quote, constantly misattributed to einstein? insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. and, if mr. tierney general. stop trying to please the unbelievable. stop playing politics. stick to the law, please. joining me now the host of the show on sirius xm and msnbc daily columnist who is also a lawyer by trade, i should add, western university law professor, host of the book dot with -- big dirty money. thank you both for coming back on the show tonight. the, let me start with you. what is your response to

merrick garland's moves this week? i feel like we live in an era where liberals, democrats have just internalized this republican attack on them as we must be biased, they say we are biased, we are biased, we've got to do something about this bias. >> i think it's time for merrick garland to go, to be blood. i think it's time for me to be attorney general of the united states of america, let's see if we can make that happen, i would charge donald trump on day one, mehdi. it's two years and nine days since the january 6th terrorist attack. merrick garland -- investigating donald trump, reporting we learned when cassidy hutchinson testified last july. look at brazil. bolsonaro, they open up an investigation into bolsonaro one week after the attack. that sends a message that we want to protect our democracy. we don't allow coups by former leaders to go unpunished. we are going to hold people accountable. merrick garland, my friend, he's not going to resign. -- investigating joe biden. the failure of maryland is not

this special counsel. it's not charging donald trump two years and nine days. what's the message to fellow americans? what trump could not have been that bad, because if it was that serious, i know it's not an episode of law in order, you could have enough resources to charge him in a year, a year and a half. two years later, the message to fellow americans is, what trump did in attempting a coup and inciting a terrorist act on our capitol wasn't that big of a deal. that's why merrick garland should go. >> jen, just returning back to the documents point, unless i'm mistaken, when it comes to this documents stir, there is no allegation or a clear evidence of underlying criminality when it comes to joe biden's clearly sloppy handling of classified documents, right? during the trump debacle last august at mar-a-lago, the search by the fbi, we were told again and again that you have to have intent to make a criminal case. there doesn't seem to be intent on biden's part, or even knowledge. on what basis did merrick garland appoint a special counsel? >> many, you are exactly right

on the lot. the mere possession of ten or whatever number of classified documents is not any kind of crime. in fact, the kinds of crimes donald trump was being investigated for related to obstruction because he was heightening or -- you asked what's going on here. i have to agree with dean. donald trump was a serial arsonist, crime after a crime that when he came into office, merrick garland could have investigated. the places burning. he sees one with of smoke and he thinks, let's call in the fire department. we have seen, and you put the dates up there, we have seen merrick garland act fast when it comes to democrats. sam bankman-fried, another example, in less than a month, we had that guy -- he was indicted, dated.

>> anytime that he looks -- any times where he wants to show his independent credentials to the right. it's fast. it does seem to be the case. -- dean, i want to get your reaction to this tweet from ron filipkowski who monitors the right on line. he put together some of the smears donald trump has tossed that special counsel jack smith in that last week. lunatic, frog, mentally deranged. i want to know, what is joe biden been saying about rob her in the past week? has he said anything like that about him? >> not one democrat has said that. congresswoman omar, our friend was an msnbc yesterday, that she was placed special counsel was appointed. i'm sure not all democrats agree with that. all democrats i have heard say you should look at -- why classified documents in someone's homes, the one thing when you look at this language

of donald trump there, i want to remind people, after the mar-a-lago search in august, donald trump called the fbi -- they found documents there that kevin mccarthy -- marco rubio did. we had a terrorist attack at an fbi office. the gunman was killed. there was a legion of threats -- fbi agents as a result. we can look at that and go like, wow, donald trump is mentally unhinged. there is no -- radicalized more of his followers. that's why the gop is a fascist movement. it uses thugs and donald trump never denounced the attack on the fbi. i wrote about it last august. he never denounced it. >> very good. i'm glad you've reminded everyone. i would also remind people that joe biden has not accused the fbi of planting documents in his house. dean, jen, stick around. much more to discuss. up next, the ever expanding web of lies spun by republican freshman congressman george santos, if that's even the name he actually uses. what's up, einstein?

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just today the washington post reported that the investment firm where santos work engaging with the sec calls a classic ponzi scheme, that defrauded -- excuse me, defrauding people out of millions of dollars. that company is no longer an operation. santos's lawyer claims he has no knowledge of any wrongdoing. for a man he was lied about everything from his education to his religion, to his net worth, that's rather hard to believe. now we are left asking where is santa's getting his money, including $700,000 he donated to his own congressional campaign. who knew about his lies and when did they know about it? the new york times reported that vulnerability researched -- his own campaign in late 2021 exposed the pattern of deception so startling and brazen that some members of his own team quit. two sources also told the times that the head of the main house gop super pac and a close ally of house speaker kevin mccarthy, he expressed his own concerns to lawmakers and donors behind the scenes that santos could be

exposed as a fraud. what did kevin mccarthy know and when did he know? it -- back with me now. dean, the new york times reports the chair of the main house republican -- was so concerned santos could be exposed as a -- also reports santos's own campaign team members quit after his lies were internally covered. why didn't any of these many republicans not tell any of us in 2022? is it just because mccarthy, the republican party, cynically needed his seat, his vote? >> you win, you've got it. that's it. that's all it is, mehdi. very simple. george santos is not just a self made man, he's a self made up man. i've never seen anyone like this in my life. the volleyball, i mean i'm glad he has -- we don't need that. we don't want it. he's not muslim. we've got enough challenges. you have now --

the last week, the national republican leadership, the brunt of his district came out and not just announced him, they called for action. they called for him to resign. i have never applauded republicans in my life, but i am. there is -- they will lose that seat if there's a special election. they know it. they don't care, they will lose power for principle -- we stand for something. kevin mccarthy, it doesn't matter. it is our at any cost all costs, kevin mccarthy denounced trump week after january 6th, two week later, this is the gop we are dealing with. >> indeed. to be clear, dean, if he did claim to be muslim, george santos, of course, he wouldn't say he was muslim, he would just say he means he is muslim -ish. santos, jen, is being investigated by local and federal prosecutors. you are a law professor. what criminal liability for someone like george santos accused of fraud, accused of

defrauding other people, accused of lying about his background, ponzi scheme's, the brazilians are investigating. what is his legal exposure here? >> at the federal level, some of this can be mail fraud and wire fraud as well as campaign finance fraud. mehdi, what bothers me the most is he is quite similar to donald trump in that this is a guy who, if the white-collar criminal laws had been enforced before he ran for office, he would never have been in office. he was working at that time, at that ponzi scheme in april. the sec brought broad churches -- charges, civil charges, they could have brought a criminal charge at the same time against the enterprise and even him. it is frustrating to me that we see this time and time again, that there is a correlation between people who want power at all costs and will lie and steal to get it, and now

running for office in the republican party. it is shameful that they have not denounced him. >> and a future memoir, any future biography of merrick garland should have the headline you just used, where was the doj? all stories lead back to where was the doj. there have been re-for -- reports that the congressman does not use the name george santos. we've seen videos of him around the internet saying i'm anthony. -- when he was called on to vote. >> sanchez? jeffries. santos? santos? >> baylor, baylor. there is no response from the guy. he does not respond to santos. >> he is the keyser söze of all of this. he is the guy. many, i could be george santos.

none of this makes sense. we call it hypocrisy of the, right not denouncing him, not because they will change their conduct, it's not like kevin mccarthy is like, mehdi has on, that muslim guy that was on that call this out, let's swipe this ship. you can't shame them. we go out there, your lies and hypocrisy for their insanity. we would be gaslighting ourselves. george santos should not be in congress. he's going to be investigated and one thing about the financial stuff, in 2020 he ran and literally put his financial -- zero money in the city account. 19 months later he said he had one to $5 million in cash and savings, $100,000 in his checking and 1 million to $5 million in diffidence. you are telling me nothing from that bonds came he worked before? no one makes money like that, not even donald trump. he doesn't make any money, i am kidding. >> we are out of time, 30 seconds. 30 seconds, very quickly. what do you think the sec doj

should be doing to take a tougher stance on stuff like this? you are the expert. >> and they need to not be so afraid to bring cases. i'm thinking of merrick garland in this case. you don't have to wait to find a democrat just because someone is a republican to bring charges against them. i think that's one thing. the other thing is, you need to not just leave these broad cases -- of a civil level with agencies, you need to work harder to bring the criminal cases. we would not have these people rising to power. >> we will have to leave it there. dean and jennifer to, thank you both very much. much appreciated. still ahead, as we prepare to mark martin luther king junior day on monday, where will we actually recognize dr. king for the radical he was, not the kumbaya whitewashed version, the republicans in particular

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culture war nonsense and imaginary bans on gas stoves they are getting mad about on fox. i thought about the most insane active for outrage this week. i heard about a new d.c. comic that features a pregnant joker. fox covered this earth shattering story with their typical nuanced and restraint coverage. >> and the joker becoming pregnant and giving birth. this is a statement you could not say ten years ago. they are doubling down on woke. >> no longer the joker, now he is the woke or. >> it's disgusting to me to see this. we cannot -- >> leave iconic characters alone, robin and superman are not gay. the joker isn't a birthing person. enough! >> here's the thing, that comic book storyline has nothing to do with trans people. a magician character places a spell on the joker that gives him a stomach bump to make him think he is pregnant.

the joker has not become a transgender character. the right is so upset with it and fearful of the transition that they are inserting it into fictional stories where they are not part of the story. -- writes in her substack, and the president age, quote, even if it were true the host of fox news almost certainly didn't know -- trans character in it, this is an absolute over the top response that needs to stop now. indeed, it does. -- joins me now. parker, thanks for coming on the show this evening. which culture war story is the dumbest of the week? if he woke feminist m&ms, and the non existent gas stove bands, or this made-up story about a trans pregnant joker? it's hard for me to keep up. there are so many of them. they keep coming and coming. >> yeah. it was a big week for fake outrage. just last week, as you said, there was the joker outrage, the m&ms outrage.

my favorite, i think, though, it's how they spent in the back half of the week pretending that biden was going to send -- from the u.s. cpc over to steal everyone's stoves. the joker one is pretty out there. >> yeah. you mentioned in your article that you reached out to the fox host in that segment for comment after you corrected their lies. realize that they pushed on that segment. dare i ask, have you heard from fox? has there been a correction? >> i have not heard back from fox, unfortunately. the story is nonsensical. they don't care if it's true. in the case of the joker, as you were saying, the premise was good. it was a magic spell. there was a mud creature who turned into a small joker clone and runs away. it was a classic throwback to the silver age comics books of this 50s, 60s, and 70s where it

was over the top, fantastical, a little silly. and they did that. fox was a little upset by the whole thing. >> the paraphrase the, old upside of seinfeld, jokers a trans in this comic, quote, not that there is anything wrong with that. even if there was a new transgender character in the batman comics, why is that such a big deal? is it just the right admitting that they want a total erasure of trans people, even from works of fiction, even comic books? >> yeah, that was what put it on my radar. just the fact that you had this in the video one of the hosts is on the verge of tears, basically. you can't escape this stuff. what? steph foxx talks about trans issues more than any other channel, really. they can't escape this stuff because they are seeing it everywhere. even where it's not. ultimately, it is meaningless.

it's not like trans people saw that and were like, finally some representation as the joker. you know? >> as a villain. what representation that would have been. which it wasn't. one last question. >> go ahead. >> sorry. i was going to say, it's not just the dishonesty that gets me, it's the hypocrisy. the right, as you and i, know loves to accuse democrats and liberals are being triggered easily, but how much more snowflake he can you get vent freaking out over the genders a fictional comic book characters or m&ms? >> it doesn't get any more fragile than that. more fragile than the candy shells of the m&ms, i suppose. >> well said. parker malloy, we will have to leave it there. thank you so much for your reporting. appreciate it. >> thanks so much for having me. >> up next, it's time to stop

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junior day, a federal holiday but this country has marked since 1986. it sadly took nearly two decades after's desk for congress to agree to add any pin and then plenty of prominent republicans at the time like the late senator john mccain and the current gop leader chuck mcgrath voted against it. still, today, like the americans as a whole, republican party claims alum elemental can what he stands for, or at least what they think he loves and stance for. for most people they think he

is just -- and they repeat it ad nauseam. >> we embrace the noble vision of reverend martin luther king junior, and believe that people should not be judged based on the color of their skin but the content of their character. >> you think about what mlk stated for, he said he didn't want people judged on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. >> where he said, most critically i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged on the color of their skin but by the content of their character. >> we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin but rather the content of their character. >> but it isn't just republicans who don't quite get dr. king, want to for wanting a better word, whitewash mlk.

it is the american public, american society is a coal that has sent spent decades -- sent a club suffocation of martin luther king, santa ties -ing and domesticate-ing doctor luther king. to quote doctor. westover christmas i'd family visiting me in california why took them to d.c. -- late civil rights leader. we took photos by the legendary mlk quote up on the walls there, you know the ones, the arc of the moral universe is long but offense towards justice. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. but you know what was missing at that memorial? the quotes from the late doctor king that show what a radical he was. for example, when he said in his beyond knit vietnam speech, -- a year before his death. and they quote, i knew that i could ever again raise my voice against the violence of the

oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. that quote we urgently didn't make it on to any of the walls at his memorial. by the way, can you imagine if aoc or ilhan omar had said that today? but the greatest purveyor violence in the world today was the american government? it wouldn't just be republicans losing their minds, it would be their fellow democrats and it would be the liberal media to, and many ordinary, patriotic americans. but dr. king said it. because dr. king wasn't just passing us shouldn't lee anti-racism, he was proudly anti-war, he was ferociously anti politics. for dr. king, as he pointed out in the riverside speech what, needed to be conquered with the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism. today, we remember dr. king struggling against racism and we try often in his name to continue his struggle against racism. the george floyd protests in the efforts to restrain the

police department to tackle the racial inequality baked into america from the campus to the sea sweep to congress. how about the struggle against militarism without full of -- endless wars that have left so many people dead. what about the struggle against most extreme materialism that has left millions in poverty and institutional allowing the creation of billionaires who exploit workers and dodge taxes? you know, the new new york times, the liberal new york times back then, three days after the riverside speech dr. king's top of the giant triplets and american violence, the times slammed him in and it dettori ul-haq lined doctor king's error. it accused him of wrongly fusing to public problems, racism and war, that are distinct and separate. but dr. king didn't back down. racism, war, poverty, they were all interconnected for him. racial justice had to go hand in hand with economic justice. what good is having the right

to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger, he says. and remember, in march 1968 mlk was assassinated in memphis and he was in memphis to support sanitation workers who are on strike for better pay and conditions. are -- his poor peoples campaign. >> and one white marathons telling negro to lift himself up by his own boot straps, they don't look over and see the legacy of slavery and segregation. i believe we do all we can and seek to list our selves up by our boot straps but it is a cruel just to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift him self up by his own boot straps. many negroes by the thousands of millions have been left

bootless as a result of all of these years of oppression and it was a result of a society that deliberately made color a stigma and something worthless and degraded. >> and here's something else that they don't tell you about dr. king. he wasn't a capitalist. he was a socialist. yeah. the s-word that keeps everyone from donald trump tonight closely the jitters. and yet martha martin luther king junior was a socialist. as a 23 year old -- 1952, mlk said i am much more socialist stick in my economic theory than capitalistic, and that capitalism has outlived its usefulness. over a decade later, just a couple of years before he died, dr. king said that something is wrong with capitalism, and that there must be a better distribution of wealth. maybe, he said america must move towards a democratic socialism. you will be surprised to hear that that quote isn't on the wall in his d.c. memorial

either, -- or democratic politicians today. so, on this mlk day, let's be honest with ourselves and with his legacy. let's remember wherever the reverend martin luther king junior as the proud socialist he was, not as the man we conveniently want or imagine him to be. coming up, at the top of the hour, with aim in the future of the supreme court and the controversial but growing cause for liberal justices to retire while democrats still control the senate and white house. that is at nine eastern, and when we come back, a man will be here to discuss with me, george santos, and ilhan omar, why is the gop -- minority politician -- why is he giving george santos a pass? a pass

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will be right back here next sunday at 8 pm eastern. you can find the show on the msnbc hub on peacock. new episodes of the mehdi hassan show on peacock are posted monday through thursday. it's time to hand it over to my good friend, ayman mohyeldin. a man, george santos is a ludicrous figure, as we pointed out tonight on the show. he has fabricated his entire résumé from his entire life story. this is what he's leader kevin mccarthy says in defense of him, have a listen. >> you apply the constitution

equal to all americans. and the voters of his district have elected him. he is seated. he is part of the republican conference. >> i think to myself, imagine if omar had misrepresented her name, her education, her career, her religion. imagine the gop responsive, a would go crazy. in fact, even without her doing any of what santos has done, this is what mccarthy wants to do to her. >> there is a congresswoman, omar, i promised you last hear that as speaker she no longer would be on foreign affairs. i'm keeping my promise. >> amen, george santos total fraud republican can sit on congressional committees, -- refugee democratic women cannot. that is the mccarthy position, it seems. the double standard is pretty brazen, even by modern republican standards.

>> you don't even have to imagine if ilhan omar did those things because we've actually seen firsthand when qualified democratic politicians or judges run for office in this country or if they are nominated for a seat on the supreme court, the right wing in this country goes totally bonkers and calls for investigations into their backgrounds and everything from, i don't know, birth certificates to test scores. i'm old enough to remember when the right-wing were calling for supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson's lsat scores and president barack obama's birth certificates. here are the receipts. watch. >> it might be time for joe biden to let us know where ketanji brown jackson's lsat score was. >> i was just informed while on the helicopter that our president has finally released a birth certificate. >> now when george santos's name, not to mention his qualifications, education, and

devise a citizenship status, are being questioned and doubted, what do we hear from republicans on this? nothing. crickets. the silence is so deafening. at this point, honestly, with everything we are learning to be false about representative santos, if that is his real name, i wouldn't believe any document he provides to substantiate who he camps to be. to your point, it is another example of the glaring hypocrisy republicans display in the name of seeking and keeping power in this country. >> what is so fascinating is that local republicans in new york are saying you should stand down. my position on santos's while he's a ridiculous figure, pretending to be a volleyball champion is the icing on the case, he's very much a republican figure. donald trump lied about his education and businesses. herschel walker pretended to be a police officer with a badge. he fits in with the modern republicans, sadly. >> you've said it many times before, republicans are out -- all about projection-ism. what they are projecting is