congresswoman nicole malliotakis and republican strategist chapin fay. all right.let's get back into it. you both. congresswoman, let me begin with you here, right? when you look at the totality of who is going to be on this stage tonight between these 4 candidates who needs to perform well here and who can make a real impact moving forward in the republican race. >> well, i think in the last debate, nikki haley did really well. and i think that she has the opportunity to continue to build a little bit of momentum. as i said, it's going very difficult for any of these candidates to catch up to president trump for the nomination. but i think they are in many ways are to be the vice president or nikki haley's case. you can certainly be a great secretary of state considering her background as ambassador to united nations. >> and take the mone. you the same question here about who you're looking for to make the most impact when it comes to what you're looking for on the stage tonight. >> are the converse of is exactly right. everything she and i there will be some fire

nicole malliotakis is here with more on that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ ♪ ♪ be ready for any market with a liquid etf. get in and out with dia. >> in self-evident and all that the court make that decision but you certainly supported insurrection, no question about it, nine, 0. maria: president biden claiming there's no question from trump supporting and insurrection. the new fox business poll finds nearly 6% of iowan republican voters say president trump did nothing wrong with it comes to january 6 in efforts to overturn the election. only 14% said that trump did something illegal biden he poses many threats but the greatest is to our democracy, trump responded untrue social readiness in all caps, cricket joe biden is a threat to democracy, joining us near congresswoman nicole malliotakis the house ways and means committee. thank you very much for being here this morning, your reaction to all of us. >> i think the people at home need to consider what is a party to the threat of democracy, to cl

new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis is with me now.if not, why not? >> i think it's a little bit more complicated than what the democrats are saying. and for my mayor who wanted people to work as, you know, this has been going on for well over six months. the vast majority of the people coming to new york city are now eligible to vote, and the president also allowed venezuelans to apply for illegal work status, and only 2,000 people of 100,000 actually applied. so the issue is more complicated. and i think the other problem, stuart s there's a real backlog at all these agencies. it's not just cbp who's at the front lines of the border who not handle these individuals and is being forced to release them into the country, we have immigration services. you're waiting 10 years to be able to get an appointment to go to court. i actually have constituents that have a green card, have to get it renewed and can't get it renewed and are in jeopardy of losing their employment because they are stuck in this system that has been inundated by this

promising to file monday morning ethics complaints against new york republicans nick lalota, nicole malliotakisnd mike lawler, as well as new jersey democrat rob menendez, each of them dismissing santos' threat he is a scorned and known serial liar menendez spokesman saying we will not expend any energy responding to his botox-fueled fits of rage 311 house members voted to remove santos on friday. 105 of them republicans. his name almost immediately removed from his now former house office, moments before the locks were changed the ouster coming on the heels of a house ethics report that said he used campaign money to pay for designer clothes and casino trips and after federal charges that he defrauded donors and laundered campaign money santos has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. >> i need people i can work with and george santos just took up space. >> reporter: new york's governor saying she'll announce a special election date to replace santos soon a crucial contest that could narrow the gop's already razor thin margin in the house voters in the empire state's third congressional di

. >> and joining me now is republican congressman from new york, nicole malliotakis. congresswoman thank you so much for joining us. i'll start off by simply asking, is trump right? that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country. >> i don't think that's what he was saying. when he says they are poisoning, i think he was talking about the democratic policies. i think he was talking about the open border policy. and if you look at what my, mayor our mayor here in new york city's saying. this migrant crisis is destroying new york city. i think it's pretty much the same thing. what we are trying to say here is that we need to have secure borders. it's actually poisoning america, is the amount of fentanyl that's coming through our open border. so this is a really serious issue, i think that's what he's talking about. that the open borders are unsafe, that it's unsustainable, and that it's bankrupting cities like ours. we need to address it. >> congresswoman you're saying that's what you think he is saying. but he was pretty clear, he was saying that the immigrants

nicole malliotakis gave a press conference about this. that why we have a wide open border, putting our country in a vulnerable position, national security threat to american citizens because they think that these people will eventually become voters of the democrat party? i don't know. i don't have the answer. i don't have the answer to why they're allowing this dereliction of duty at our southern border. we are talking about it this morning. we've got roger marshall coming up, the kentucky senator who has been at the border many, many times. and he's going to address the fact that the other day there were 12,000 people in just one day. when i was going to the border regularly, i've been there five times plus, there were 8,000 people a day. we're up to 12,000 people a day which is why frankly i'm not surprised at the number that 5,000 are let into the country. i would expect it's even more than that, more than 5,000. we're going to talk with senator rand paul about this because senator paul has been discussing this new rheumatoid sicknes

santos said his eyes on a new york republicans mike lawler, nikola lowder and nicole malliotakis as theechanic new jersey congressman ron menendez he is accusing for committing crimes like insider-trading as well as campaign fund violations and even line about employment history. santos giving other people online. santos as hell submit ethics report on each of them tomorrow not of the lawmakers have yet responded. the kansas city chiefs arrived in wisconsin yesterday for today's game against the packers. as sparks fly between ty and travis kelce and taylor swift actor in chiefs fan eric stonestreet is not worried that it will impact the team's super bowl chances. >> i know travis and how much he loves winning and i don't worry about the distraction. we love having taylor in kansas city and we love that he's happy and the number one pop superstar the most famous person in the world coming to kansas city. it's great for the city and great for football and i love it all. rachel: a lot of people love it. the coach of the green bay packers suggested that swift is expected to attend today's g

for example, congresswoman nicole malliotakis. can people down a river. her office said they're not going to comment because he's a serial liar. not exactly graciously bowing out. >> no. he's on a revenn tour, and he also went after other republican members of new york's congressional delegation -- howard: yeah. >> mike lawler, and then he threw in bob menendez for good measure -- howard: yeah, bipath san. >> -- with egyptian gold bars. the point is he's done, he's gone. now this seat that's going to be fought over, and governor hochul will appoint somebody, but you're going to have a special election very soon -- howard: yeah. >> -- will there be the kind of scrutiny on that seat and other members of congress as we go into an election year for a guy like this? howard: speak of media with scrutiny, you alluded to this earlier. "the new york times" broke the story about george santos hadn't graduated from these college, didn't play on the volleyball team, wasn't jewish, as you note. but that came after the guy was elected. so didn't

those are the four george santos said he will go after, mike lawler, nicholas lulada, nicole malliotakisb menendez. we heard from john fetterman pointed out, get rid of santos you have to look at menendez. saturday night live gave us his farewell address. >> if i'm guilty of anything, it's for loving too much/fraud. you want he me so say i'm lost,m humiliated, fine, i'm no longer congressman santos, i'm regular old professor major reverend at troastronaut santos, protecter f the relm and genovia. seems to me like i live my life like a scandal in the wind, never knowing who to cling to when the law closed in. ♪ and i would have liked to have known you. ♪ but i'm a different guy. ♪ my name is carlos done kin hines. ♪ don't -- dunkin hines,. ♪ don't look me up, i died. rachel: i think somewhere george santos is watching that clip and loving it. [laughter] rachel: he loves that he's on snl and they're mocking him in that way. >> he loves the attention. he seemingly did not love the vote for being expelled yesterday. >> professor major general protecter of the realm, astronaut. [laughter] >>

for more i'm joined now by new york republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis. thanks for being with us, congresswoman. want to know what you make of this news that there's going to be a reciprocal trip, a mexican delegation's going to meet president biden at the white house this month, sometime in the next handful of weeks, to continue this conversation that they started at the beginning of this week about the border crisis. what do you hope to see come out of that meeting at the white house? >> look, i think this is all show, all talk. we don't need to consult with the mexican government. what what we need to do is get our president to rescind the executive orders that he himself put in place. look, we can certainly work with other countries, but to knauss is on the united states -- onus is on the united states with government to secure its borders. if we cannot secure our own borders, what does that a say about our country? this is very dangerous. they just hit another 80,000 gotaways this last quarter on top of the 1.7 million individuals that have entered o

joining me now new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis, member of house border security caucus andember of the house ways and means committee. i was going to start in a slightly different place, i just heard from grady no talk at all in the meeting down in mexico about fentanyl? no talk? the same thing that happens when biden and his people go to china, no talk about fentanyl. that is harming americans more than anything else coming from the border right now. 100,000 americans died as a result of the fentanyl crisis and they're not talking about it at all. how do you respond to that? >> it is absolutely outrageous, thousands of people died here alone in new york city because of this open border allowing for the fentanyl to stream over. it is making the drug cartels billions of dollars a year. the fact that our president and this administration, not only refuses to secure the border but even refuses to bring up the issue of fentanyl that we know is coming from china in the form of ingredients to mexico and then over our open border. the president has to do more to be proactive to st

there is a report about new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis in staten island, and she says shef -- she submitted a request through the freedom of information law, and she got a portion of the contract between a nonprofit organization tasked with we recollecting emergency shelters for migrants, and she found in that contract that it obligates contractors of migrant shelters to hand out voter registration the cards. to hand out -- to help migrants in registering to vote and circulate campaign or materials within the shelter premises. is that what you know? do you have any information about that? is that a the point here? to get these migrants to vote democrat? >> absolutely. that's the only thing you can assume. if joe biden wanted to secure the border, he could secure it. but they're doing this in all government institutions whether it's a place you go to get your food stamps or whether it's a place you go to get free health care, they're infiltrating all of those, they meaning the biden administration with taxpayer dollars are out there the trying to get people rebelling areste

so with that, i yield two minutes to my friend from new york, nicole malliotakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. mallioitakis: thank you, mr. speaker. we all remember that day with september 30, 2023. at 11:59 a.m. that was when the democrats called for a motion to adjourn. it was a tactic to stop the vote from taking place. we were just 12 hours away from a government shutdown. it was also the day that the leader on the other side tried to give a speech to delay the vote even further. but perhaps the most egregious thing we saw was when one of the members -- remember, we are members of congress. a member on the other side of the aisle would pull a fire alarm to disrupt proceedings. it was certainly an attempt to interfere with an official proceeding. the speaker who spoke on his behalf said, no, no, no. he was rushing for a vote. that's what the statement from mr. bowman was. he was rushing for a vote. then why after pulling that alarm did he show up to vote an hour later? if he was such a rush to come to the capitol to

so with that, i yield two minutes to my friend from new york, nicole malliotakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. mallioitakis: thank you, mr. speaker. we all remember that day with september 30, 2023. at 11:59 a.m. that was when the democrats called for a motion to adjourn. it was a tactic to stop the vote from taking place. we were just 12 hours away from a government shutdown. it was also the day that the leader on the other side tried to give a speech to delay the vote even further. but perhaps the most egregious thing we saw was when one of the members -- remember, we are members of congress. a member on the other side of the aisle would pull a fire alarm to disrupt proceedings. it was certainly an attempt to interfere with an official proceeding. the speaker who spoke on his behalf said, no, no, no. he was rushing for a vote. that's what the statement from mr. bowman was. he was rushing for a vote. then why after pulling that alarm did he show up to vote an hour later? if he was such a rush to come to the capitol to