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In a historic vote, the House expelling Congressman George Santos, He's the first House member removed from the chamber in more than two decades, the first to not be convicted of a crime in one hundred and something.

Fifty years or so that George Santos saga is officially over three hundred. Eleven members voted to remove Santos, one hundred and five of them Republicans. George Santos began putting out his code even as the vote to expel him was still underway. Within hours of his House colleagues voting to make him just a sixth member in history expelled from office, crews were changing the locks on his Washington office doors. Dan.

They wasn't playing with him at all. They weren't taking no chances right. They changed the lots immediately, though I'm not sure how to do anything. This guy stole money from a six service dog. You think you wouldn't crawl through an advent. But yeah, that, my friends, is the end of former Congressman George Santos. And he knew it was coming too. He put on his coat before the vote was even over. Well, let me correct myself. He put on a coat for all we know there's another

This morning, Felicity Huffman is explaining publicly for the first time why she felt the need to break the law to get her daughter into college.

It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future, and so it was sort of like my daughter's future, which means I had to break the law. And I know hindsight is twenty twenty, but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn't do it.

The Oscar nominee paid fifteen thousand dollars for someone to falsify the results of her daughter's SAT exam.

She says in this that when the whole incident went down, she actually didn't even I think it was real.

Take a listen to her here.

They woke my daughters up at gunpoint. Again, nothing new to the black and brown community.

Damn man, The poor woman is trying so hard not to be racist that she ends up sounding racist. Nothing new to the black and brown community. They wake up with a gun in their face every day, as if that's what we do for alarm clocks. For five more minutes, Officer, I had a late night. White guilt is crazy, man. Imagine a gun is pointed at your daughter, and your first daughter is Black lives Matter? Like, why are you even bringing black people into this? Are you trying to

I'm black, I can say that, okay.

And finally, we are less than one year away from the final presidential election in American history, and we all know it's going to be a choice between Donald Trump, Joe Biden in yourself in the voting move but there are some voters who wouldn't mind other options. And a special event on Fox News last week gave us an idea of what that might look like. On one side, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and guy who just wrestled

A fiery face off between two top governors with presidential overtones, Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis taking on California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom. The governor's clashed over border securities. Newsome criticizing DeSantis's controversial move last year sending migrants to Martha's vineyard.

You're trolling folks and trying to find migrants to play political games, try to.

Get some news intention so you can out Trump Trump. And by the way, how's that going for you?

Ron?

You're down forty one points in your own home state.

This is a map of San Francisco. There's a lot of on that you ain't be asking. What is that plotting? Well, this is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco. And you see how almost the whole thing is covered.

Now, Now, Ron's not wrong. If you've been to San Francisco lately, I'm sure you've noticed a lot of shit on the streets. And obviously he's gonna keep track of it because he doesn't want to get any on his high heels. But is this really a smart campaign move for DeSantis? He's like, America can't have a crazy old man as president. It should be me, a totally sane man who carries around maps of shit in his pocket. Come on a debate between Newsom and DeSantis. Let's turn

Oh?

Yeah, this debate was great, Charlemagne. We got to hear from the guy who's not going to be president and the other guy who's not going to be president. I mean, this was a bigger waste of airtime than softcore porn. Right, who doesn't know about regular hatcore porn. These debates are just a bunch of desperate people having meaningless fights, and it's a cheap rating stunt, and quite frankly, America deserves better.

That's interesting, Ronnie, our debate's a cheap rating stunt. That's the subject of tonight's debate. Let's bring in Dessielideck, Desie, Desie your thoughts. You have sixty seconds.

Wait, what the heck is going on?

Thanks for having me tonight, Charlemagne. As the daughter of a father, I believe this country runs on televised debates times like this. I think of my friend rita daughter of a mother, who works the night shift as a lunch lady in the cornfields. She cries herself to sleep every night thinking about Ronnie Chang, America, we can do better.

Thank you, Daisy. Ronnie your response?

Who is Rita? What is going on? How do I get on a debate stage? Guys, I'm not participating in a stupid debate about.

A debate that's debatable. Look, don't just take my word for it. Let's look at the numbers, Charlemagne. This is a map of all the places in New York City where Ronnie Chang has pooped. As you can see, it's alarming.

Okaybes so once, this is not your business.

Okay again, I'm not.

Debating here, but if I was, this is just a cheap stunt.

I guess Ronnie doesn't want America to know the truth. I urge all voters is to visit Ronnie dumps dot com and see for yourself.

Who cares where I pooped?

Well?

Call me a constitutionalist, but I think the American people have the right to know that you pooped three times at the nine to eleven memorial.

That seems hi, Ronnie, anything you want to say about that.

I didn't pope three times? Okay, one was a false a love stop.

This is stupid.

That's two random people arguing about this.

You know what, Ronnie I agree with you. You're absolutely right we should bring in a third opinion.

Welcome to the stage, Michael Costa. Well, Michael, as an independent correspondent.

Your thoughts, We do not need Michael to step in here.

Well you know, well, of course Ronnie doesn't think so.

In his world.

There's only room for two sides in this debate. And look, maybe I don't fit the establishment.

Mold.

You know, ninety percent of my donation are five dollars bills that I take from tip jars at coffee shops. But I still deserve to be taken seriously in this debate. But instead my voice is marginalized by the powers that be. Again, nothing new to the black and brown community.

The way, I want to thank everyone for the bed of your night, Dessie, Rannie and Michael Copper. When we come back, I'll ask you what's your favorite music at a year lost? But I'll go anywhere. Welcome back to the Daily. So if you listen to music on Spotify, you know that last week they dropped their Spotify wrapped. Everyone found out what music they listened to the most. So I hit the streets to find out who listened to what, and then I judged them for it. Check it out.

All right.

It's that time of year where everybody judges everybody for what's on their Spotify rap playlist. So let's talk to some people here in New York and see what's on their Spotify rap playlist. Okay, would y'all say y'all have good taste of music?

I think so.

So do you think your Spotify rap playlist reflects that? No?

Yeah, okay, yeah.

You don't look too confident on the counter. Three right, I want y'all to point at your friend and I want you to say who you think is the number one artists on your Spotify rap one? Two three day? All right, I'm covering my eyes because one of y'all are gonna hand me your phone, and I'm gonna guess who gave you the phones based on what your Spotify rap playlist looks like. Okay, okay, okay, all right, Sizza, Billy Eilish, Dominique, Fike, Frank Ocean, and Taylor Swift. It's

Yes, you've never made it on my Top artist itis the first time this year.

She's had a great year. She has got a big ye who you Got? Who you Got? Who you Got? Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Okay, Miley Cyrus.

Her last album is excellent.

Old play Loud.

Who's It's It's like a music composer, Ransom, He's very cool. Really.

Zimmer recommends him as well. Who the hell is Pom Zimmer? You think it's okay to just based on their race? No?

Not rocking with that.

You think it's okay to people no? Oh no, you think it's okay to judge people based on their effects like gender?

No?

No, no.

But about this Spotify rap playlist? Yeah?

Yeah, absolutely.

Not even a question. You get so judgmental when it comes to that. I think I think it's.

Very telling of lifestyle interests obvious.

There are so many people that are They say they're listening to one artist and then the rap comes out and Taylor Switch is number one. Are you upset that there they like Taylor Swift or just that they lied about liking Taylor Swip?

Maybe both.

I'm not upset about it. I value honestly.

Okay, what's the last thing you saw on somebody's playlist that made you go to Hamilton Heavy?

Metal music like, nothing against it, but yeah, something personally I'm into.

So it's a little too hardcore for me.

Make you suel like they might worship the devil? Yeah, I hope not, but not that.

Anyone who just needs to post it on the story, like anyone who needs.

To tell you.

Maybe country music for me, Taylor, do you think.

You lost a lot of minutes on your Spotify? Let me see what you got? Thirty one thousand, six hundred and fifty five decent.

That's decent, that's whatever.

Yeah, you think you needed like a hobby or something you think you might be.

I just thought, just listen sixty one to the right.

You got producing everything sense. Yeah, you're studying your craft. Yeah, exactly. If you weren't, I'll tell you get a girlfriend or something.

That's crazy.

Are you guys have girlfriends or now you guys relationships?

They're no better meat. There's no red meat.

Oh no, no shorts.

We have each other.

And you got over sixty six thousand minutes listened of R and B. How much sexy you have it? So would you have a ghostart? Dump somebody because it's on that Spotify rap playlist.

I would dump them if they didn't have one because they're using Apple Music.

Wow, it's like, what what about your rather from Spotify?

Oh my god? The title, but definitely not the Apple I don't know about. When we come back, author A. Cobby will be joining me on the show, so I'll go anywhere. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the award winning and best selling author from Southeast Virginia. His latest hit thriller is All the Senters Bleed in the audible original brokedown prophets. Please welcome, say Cosby.

I'm glad, I'm thank you a man breaching bron How you feeling, sir, crazy? It's been a crazy year, so okay, it feels surreal.

Man, it's been a great year for you all the Senates. Bleed made the Washington Post Best Thrillers of twenty twenty three, listened to New York Times Best Crime Novels of twenty twenty three, and Barack Obama said you want his favorite office? How did that feel?

You know what's funny?

It feels like one of those things where it's like a dream and you like, please don't pinch me, don't nobody wake me up? And you know at least I got my pants on because a lot of dreams I don't. So all right, okay, man, I'm not saying I'm by myself with that.

I mean they might not know if you've got pants on that. Stephen King reviewed all the Senate's bleed for The New York Times. He wrote, Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the medal. You know what's it like? In a positive view from Stephen King?

Man, it's again, it's the craziest thing.

Man.

You know, I grew up in souther Nvirginia, really poor. I never could afford to buy Stephen King books, so I'd always go to the library and read them and like be transported this other world that he's creating, and like for him to say that about me, it's the best thing ever. I mean, it's like, it's not yeah.

What I like though?

Man?

I like I like your story of how you just kept it going because you know, four critically acclaimed novels in just five years, but your first novel was rejected sixty three times.

Yes, yeah that sucks.

Why were you keeping count sixty three times? What made you keep going?

You know?

I just felt like I had this thing inside me. I had to do it. I had to tell a story. My mother.

She's passed away, but she used to say when I get down, she's like, you know, birds got to sing, bee's got to sting.

You gotta write. So you know.

You from the country, Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, down on scrapple and bacon and peak feed. So and that's what I like about your book too, Like, you know, a lot of your protagonists are African American men in rural Virginia, you know what I'm saying, not the typical, you know characters you see in national bestselling thrillers.

Was it hard to find publishers? Did they not understand the world that we come from? Come from South Carolina?

Yeah, it was very difficult to up out.

The publisher tell me that my books weren't black enough because they weren't set in like Philly or New.

Jersey or New York. And I was like, but I'm pretty black.

I mean, you know, there's nothing blacker than the South exactly, part and soul of black Americas exactly. I think over what sixty percent of all black people in Americas lived in the South.

Everybody that came up in North and the great migration came from the South.

You know, we started in Virginia. We built this country.

So for you to tell me, oh, because the people my books have accents that we're not black enough, It's like, all right, well you come down my neck it was, and see what you think now.

It's not a threat. I'm just saying.

That sounded like with that song catch you in a small.

Town like me? They tried they can try it.

Now. All the sinners bleed about a black sheriff trying to catch a serial killer raisabl Tis two x con seeking revenge for the murder of their gay signs. Do you start with developing the mystery or the social commentary?

I actually start with the characters.

I mean, like I think the plots, they're not There's only a couple you can do.

You know that.

You know, it's not that you're not reinventing the wheel here. It's always about the characters and what their story is. You know, I'm not the most original writer, but I think I'm a pretty good elaborator.

So are they all linked? No?

Not what they all like in the sort of essay cosby shared universe. But you don't have to read any of them in the order. You can read them anytime you want. Other people from some books make appearances and others. And I like putting those Easter eggs in there. And so it's funny though, because you'll have a reader that will like find that character.

Like, what were you thinking when you wrote that? I'm like, I wrote that book a year ago.

Man, Like, I appreciate you buying it, but like, you know, I don't know what to tell you about that.

When you're laying in the bed with no pants on, do you ever start does the freak you out that you have to start thinking like a serial killer? Do you ever think, damn, I'd be good at this?

You know, I really don't think like a serial killer. I sort of like like I had a conversation with Dennis Lhanyanes a couple of years ago. It's like one of my writing idols, and he was talking about how difficult it is for him to write really dark stuff. I don't know if it's something wrong with him, something wrong me, because it don't bother me. Like I'll chop some people up in a witch up and then go play my cat that doesn't phase made in the book? Yeah,

Yeah, you know we've worked together along with Kevin Hart on the audible original Broke Down Profits. Yes, yeah, the novel is performed by a full cast instead of a single narrator. When you are writing for an audio production, are you directing it in your head as you write?

It's so funny because I'd never written a script or anything like that before. So when y'all guys approached me about it, I was like, all right, I mean, I'll do it. I'll try and see what happens. And I downloaded a whole bunch of like screenwriting apps and books and stuff like that. But what happened was it became really for me. It was almost easier than writing a novel, because you don't hate a novel. You have to describe everything. You have to do the internal monologue, all that kind

So like I got around that.

Doing all dialogue and it was really fun. It was incredible experience for me and a really an honor to work with you.

Guys.

We like working with you too. You say tragic and toxic masculinity runs through your work intentionally, Like, I'm aware of toxic masculinity, masculinity, But what do you mean by tragic?

I think tragic masculinity is the idea that you can change, you can be better, you can communicate, you can be honest with your feelings, but it's just outside of your reach, and.

It's the idea that you want it.

I think when you have somebody who's imbue with toxic masculinity, they're not thinking that way.

They're not doing any kind of self analysis.

But my characters, I call it tragic masculinity because they do think about the mistakes they made, the regrets, the recriminations that they've been through. So for me, it's almost an optimistic way of looking at a very difficult subject.

You love the South like I love the South, but you say it's a microcosm for what's wrong with the nation. If you were to write a thriller about the political state we're in, what would you call it?

Ain't just some shit.

And brought down prophets off there. Now we're gonna take a quick break, but well be right back after this.

Appreciate it absolutely, Thank you so much.

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