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speech that santos announced on x that he'll run against sitting new york republican congressman nick lalota. now santos was expelled from congress after being charged with multiple counts of fraud and stealing from donors. >>> severe storms threaten more than 20 million people across the south today and tomorrow. we could possibly see tornadoes, large hail, and flooding. the storms will first move through parts of eastern texas larks la, and mississippi today. they will push east arriving in alabama and georgia later this afternoon. saturday a risk of severe storms extends in florida, from the florida panhandle, rather, to the carolinas. the chance of flooding will be highest in parts of the georgia and alabama where six inches of rain will be possible through saturday. >>> an active duty army soldier and intelligence analyst is set to make his first court appearance today on charges of selling sensitive military documents to china. sergeant korbein schultz allegedly received more than $40,000 for information about weapons and missile defense systems, as well as the u.s. defense of taiwan.

and i, after listening to members such as nick lalota and anthony esposito, i agree with him. i mean, it's a joke. and one of my biggest questions is, you know, do we need to go back? and i think congressman richie torres has already begun filing legislation that would revoke his floor privileges. yeah. >> just for those confused about why he was even allowed on the floor of the house last night, he has lifelong floor privileges despite being expelled. and as you know, richie torres, a different, well, a different congressman from new york. he's a democrat. and this is according to punchbowl, quote, is introducing a new rule, the george rule. george stands for getting expelled, officially revokes guaranteed entry rule. that's pretty clever, actually. that would revoke house floor privileges for expelled members of the house of representatives. you you think that that's a good rule? >> i think it is a good rule. i mean, let's just remember to only i think this is he's the sixth member of congress who has been expelled. so the last history in the history, so the last one that wa

improbable that he'll be able to mount any sort of serious challenge to an incumbent republican nick lalota who is, as you note, the first congressional districts and comic congressman he's one of the new york republicans. the push to expel santos is this about revenge then maybe do you think because it doesn't sound like it's a very serious candidacy. if it's in june and he's challenging an incumbent, maybe he just wants to attack lalota. >> i think it's a little bit of both. once again, i don't know if it's a little bit of a rabbet, a taylor swift have a wrench store or but it's also for someone who literally had said that he to hell with this place. so i'm just a little surprised. i thought, you know, doing great with cameo so again, i but i will say this about congressman lalota. i would take this very seriously because once again, we could see something slipped through the cracks well, just like let's think back to 2014 with former majority leader eric cantor when he lost to dave brat out of the blue. so it's just it's one of those. is it a joke? yes. but also it's an opportunity to to

get in the arena. >> so john, president biden won by a very slim margin in 2020 in that district, nick lalotaat district and what are people talking about as you go out and shake hands? >> lalota is the first one of those republicans ran. he's one of these trump flunkies. he's a follower, not a leader. i think that's out of step. this is a swing seat, that means there are a lot of, you know, moderate republicans, those folks who are voting for nikki haley this time around, who i think are persuadable. there are independent voters who i think you can win a majority over, if you fire up the base. and i think this election is going to be a very different model than '22, for example, when lee zeldin, the former congressman who held this seat was running for governor. >> is it immigration, john, the economy, what are you hearing most? >> immigration and crime are issues for sure. we saw that in tom suozzi's race in neighboring new york 3. but as a knock on doors, it's petitioning time, so i'm knocking on doors in northport and brook haven. and i spoke to one woman named beverly. and what she said

. >> santos says he will challenge the seat held by republican nick lalota, who led the charge to oust. santos was expelled from the house after an ethics report criticized his conduct and alleged misuse of campaign funds. new york's primary is in june. now to your money and some good and bad news when it comes to inflation, some prices at the grocery store up and others are down. abc news reporter andrew fujii explains what you're paying more for. >> applause on wall street as the s&p 500 hit a record high yesterday. investors shrugging off a new report that finds inflation once again rose last month. consumer prices were up 3.2% from a year ago, slightly above what was expected. and americans are noticing i love honeycrisp, but eight $9 for a bag of apples. >> now that's not good. >> the main culprits keeping prices high. gas rose 3.8, rent rose 0.4, clothing up 0.6, grocery prices overall were flat last month, but cereal and egg prices rose again, with eggs up nearly 6. >> i'm living paycheck to paycheck because it's so hard, really, to save president biden touted tuesday's inflatio

against one of the new york republicans who lead the charge to get him out of the house that person nick lalota of new york's first district in a tweet. lynda made clear he's not afraid of challenging george santos. george santos responding, pathetic little man, since you refused to move to the district, i'm coming in hot lota is a democrat, right? rhino within abysmal record now, obviously george santos facing a series of allegations against him 23 federal charges. he has pleaded not guilty, but this is something as the fabricator as someone who lied about his resume as someone who is now facing these charges. because it's gonna be hard to beat lota in a primary, but george santos making a little news last night at the state of the union. >> all right. lauren fox. thank you very much. great to see you. a new magical hour of cnn news central starts now >> president biden is hitting the road oh, to take his fiery message from last night directly to voters today. >> while the president is doing that, the former president donald trump, welcoming the far-right authoritarian prime minister stirrup,