. >> i want to bring in robert zimmerman a former congressional candidates who ran and lot of against george santos in 2022. robert thank you for being here. first i echo what maureen had to say about allpolitics being local. there were actually just going through it there were thousands of dollars spent on designer goods and botox and only fans on the campaign dime. what is your reaction and what are you hearing from the folks in your district about all these revelations? >> look. let's say first to maureen and her publisher for their excellent work they did. we took their articles and circulated them throughout the district. i think 80,000 texts went door to door. we sounded the alarm as best we could. we were the only ones amongst the candidates who didn't santos has been running four years and republicans never raised these issues, democrat who ran before me never did opposition research on him. so we did our best as well and i think blank slate media steve and others tried to sound the alarm but i think when you look at the results today, look at the stories today it's vindicatio

. >> i want to bring in robert zimmerman, a former new york congressional candidate that ran against and also lost to congressman santos back in 2022. robert, thank you for being here. first of all i want to echo what maureen had to say about all politics really being local, this might be another indication of the power of those stories. but there were actually, just going through, it robert, there were thousands of dollars spent on designer goods. and botox, and onlyfans, all on the campaigns dime. i wonder, what is your reaction tonight? what are you hearing from the folks in your district about all these revelations? >> well, i must say first to maureen and to her publisher, for their excellent work they did. we certainly took their articles and recirculated them throughout the district, 80,000 went door to door and homes, we shouted the alarms as best we could, we are the only ones amongst the candidates whoever did. santos was running for four years, and never -- republicans never raised these issues, the democrat who ran before me never did opposition research on him. so we did

still shocked he actually got through, and the fact that you have -- you have a democrat such as robert zimmermanven tom swazy before who had not bothered to do any type of opposition research. so it was easy for them to slip through the cracks, because there was an assumption that his district is a deep plus two, and he was able to slip through the cracks due to negligence. >> let me push you on that. you make a political point that's fair. democratic leaning, wasn't vetted, some of that came after he wonk but here we are learning new things about the speaker, the most important position in the house, because the republican party yet again on its post important post spent weeks in chaos and rushes through someone without doing the vetting. is there a larger pattern? >> there seems to be a pattern right now, and i'm hoping that these are lessons that we can take forward into the next election cycle that we start doing more vetting and start working together a little bit more. as you said, it took almost three weeks just for house republicans to come down to having someone be the speaker of the ho