Late-night hosts discuss House Republicans’ nomination of Steve Scalise to maybe become speaker and more fraud charges for Santos
Late-night hosts kept abreast of the chaos in Congress on Wednesday evening, as House Republicans chose Louisiana’s Steve Scalise to maybe take over as speaker of the House.
Scalise is a far-right Republican who voted to overturn the 2020 election and has refused in interviews to state without equivocation that Joe Biden won. In a 2021 interview with ABC News, Scalise also declined to pin responsibility for January 6 on Trump, saying he “ended up” at Mar-a-Lago to meet with the then-president post-insurrection. “No one just ends up at Mar-a-Lago,” said Meyers.
Colbert also returned to the butt of many a late-night joke, Santos, who “might be the lying-est liar lying in Congress” and now faces 10 new federal fraud charges including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and false statements to the Federal Election Commission. The new charges brings the total number of counts against him to 23. “Congratulations, George, 68 more and you can run for president,” Colbert quipped.Scalise may be the GOP nominee for speaker of the House, but “it’s still unclear, though, if he has enough votes to win the speakership,” said. “Because that would require Republicans to accept the result of an election, and that’s really not their thing.
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