in 2021, the cia whistleblower john kiriakou also revealed an aide to giuliani had told him a pardon would cost $2 million. kiriakou appeared on democracy now! in 2021 and talked about meeting giuliani at the trump hotel in washington during the summer of 2020. >> one of his aides who was there at the meeting then said to me, rudy does not talk about pardons, up to talk to me. and he going to ask you for $2 million. and i laughed. i said, i don't have to lean dollars. i said, are you out of your mind? why would i spend $2 million to recover a $700,000 pension? that does not make any sense. and i dropped it. but he said that is what the price was. amy: and in news from capitol hill, california democratic congressmember robert garcia has introduced a resolution to expel republican george santos, who was indicted last week by the justice department for wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds. garcia introduced the resolution through a process called a privileged motion in an attempt to force the house to vote on it within two days. santos would be expelled if two-thirds