Speaker 1: So as we get closer to Tonight's State of the
Union speech, one one would think that the GOP would
actually be working together to show a unified force for
their president. Now, of course that's not the case, all right.
You have many GOP lawmakers who make their distrust of
their party not just known but well known. Of course,
you also have people like James Comer saying that he
supports the president on whatever he wants to do whatever,
play the clip.
Speaker 2: But look, I support the president. We're going to do,
you know, in my congressional office in Kentucky, I'm going
to do whatever the president wants to move his agenda forward.
And I know Mike Johnson and c Scalish are trying
very hard to get the votes. And I think the
President's going to address this tariff situation to not in
his speech along with many other issues like health carecil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he does too, but I hope it's
one that unifies the country, that doesn't turn around and
speak to only half of the country, or at least
half of that room. In fact, I was watching and
I saw Laura Lumer actually posted that she hopes tonight
Trump will actually disown Tucker Carlson during the State of
the Union address. Let me show you what she wrote
in it. Laura writes, the State of the Union tomorrow
is a great opportunity for President Trump to denounce Tucker
Carlson and banish him from MAGA. Trump could turn around
and look Vice President j d Vance and Speaker Johnson
in the eyes on national television and say jew hate
is brainrot. Tucker Calson is a vicious anti Semite and
will never be allowed in the White House again. Remember something,
Tucker Calson was upfront and center during the campaign and
part of even the beginning of this year. Now, while
this infighting isn't anything new, the level of drama, wow,
that certainly changed. Just wait till you hear what Representative
Tony Gonzales did. So welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show.
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well as anywhere that you get your podcasts. So look,
reporting came out yesterday and this is the craziest thing.
That's a cop Texas Representative Tony Gonzalez pressured a staff
member to send him explicit photos of herself and it
is creating, oh, to say the least, a lot of backlash.
Let me show you what the reporting says. In it,
it states Texas representative is pressured to resign over messages
to staff member. Democrats and Republicans urged Tony Gonzalez to
step down after allegations that he had sent inappropriate text
to a staff member and had a sexual relationship with her.
It further goes on to say Representative Tony Gonzalez, a
Republican from a Texas border district, faced growing pressure to
resign on Monday amid allegations that he had coerced a
sexual relationship with a staff member who later killed herself.
Mister Gonzalez sent sexual text to the staff member Regina
Santos Avies and appeared to pressure her into a relationship,
according to Bobby Barrera, a lawyer for Miss santos Aviles' husband.
Mister Barrera said in an interview that he had reviewed
the text messages. The article further goes on to say
in the messages, mister Barrera said he saw Miss santos
Avilis telling the congressman over text message that she didn't
think this is appropriate. And yet despite that, mister Gonzales
continued to coerce her to make requests of sexual nature,
mister Barrera said. And finally, members of the Texas congressional
delegation also began coming out against mister Gonzalez on Monday,
including Brandon Gill and Chip Roy, who's running for Texas
Attorney General. We need conservative warriors in Congress representing the
values of Texans, mister Roy said Monday, and social media
backing mister Gonzalez's opponent. America deserves better, mister Gil said.
Tony should drop out of the race. Now, mind you,
if in fact that that was a Democrat. The swirl
the uproar would have been immediate. It would have been
even more hard hitting. Not only did he have an
inappropriate relationship with his staff member. As a direct result,
she took her life. Now many GOP reps are pushing
back Representative Nancy Mace. She filed a resolution last night
to the Ethics Committee.
Speaker 3: Play that clip, Good morning everyone, just watching this whole
Tony Gonzales thing play out, Corey millsk thing play out,
the Elanomar thing play out, the Stacy Plasket thing play out,
all the things. The reason, then, no one has ever
held accountable here in Congress for their transgressions is because
both sides protect the other. They want power other than
the people, and so nothing happens. You case, actually harassed
your employees on the hill, and there is immutiately no
accountada late, no responsibility, no transparency. And this stuff was
on all the time. And in fact, I filed a
resolution last night that would exposed sexual harasspect by numbers
of Congress here off being. The only question is do
I file it as a privilege motion to expose all
of it and all of them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean true, except it will probably make Nancy
Mace the most Now targeted person, because, as I write,
even in my sub stec of today, state of the Disunion,
this entire thing, it's supposed to be a moment of
national reflection. And I never agree with Nancy Mays on
practically anything, though I totally agree with her. It's supposed
to be a shared civic ritual. Instead, as she appropriately says,
it's become just nothing other than literally a battlefield. And
until leaders on both sides are willing to risk angering
their party, angering their base, in order to actually speak
to one another, to be right, to be fair, this cycle,
this cycle will continue. Lauren Bobert actually told Representative Gonzales
to resign as well. Let me show you what she
wrote in it. She writes, the texts also indicate Gonzales,
so what explicit photos from his former staffer, which she
pushed back on. She turns around and she goes two,
Representative Tony Gonzalez resign. Now I'll go in one step further.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna. She also spoke out by posting
let me show you what she said in it. She wrote,
the entire Texas delegation, as well as every single other
member of Congress, should be condemning a sitting member of
Congress asking for explicit photos of their staff as a woman.
This is really disgusting to see, not to mention, it
brings dishonor on the House of Representatives. I'm so sick
of people not calling this crap out again. Like I've
said before, this is not the only case of this
crap up here, Representative Tony Gonzalez, Shame on you. Shame
on you, because even further than that, they should right
now have an action to censure him. They should be
removing him. By the way, Congress can actually vote to
remove another member. This is so out of control, especially
especially in light of everything that's going on right now
with the Epstein Files. I mean, have you not thought,
I guarantee, as I'm talking about Tony Gonzalez, each and
every one of you were thinking to themselves, wait, wait,
and this is the same sort of cover up, nonsense,
just abuse of women that we saw, for example, in
the Epstein Files, except now it's not children, now it's
even adults. Seriously, at what point in time do we
turn around and we say to power, enough is enough
and finally speak a mag of Mike Johnson, Well, he
was asked if he will call unrepresentative Gonzales to resign
play the clip, why why should why.
Speaker 3: Should Tony Gonzales resign given these very serious accusations.
Speaker 4: There are serious accusations, and it must be taken seriously.
And I've told him he's got to address that with
his constituents and uh and and he's in the process
of doing that, is my understanding. There's an investigation in
the state of Texas on these matters and has been
going for some time, and the Office of Congressional Conduct
has also It's been reported they've been looking at it.
And although that was news to me, but I think,
as in every case like this, you have to allow
the investigations to play out and all the facts to
come out. You know, I've been intellectually consistent about this.
You're talking about Republicans or Democrats. You have to let
the system play out. If someone you know, I was against,
for example, the expulsion of George Santos a while back
because he had been accused of crime and indicted but
not found guilty. If if the accusation of something is
going to be the litmus test for someone being able
to continue to serve in the House, you'll have a
lot of people would have to resign or be removed
or expelled from Congress. So I think you've got to
allow this to play out. I think it is very serious.
The allegations are clearly very serious, and Antoni Ganzelz will
address it. I think he will.
Speaker 3: He deserve to win reelection.
Speaker 4: Do deservee later, guys, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's put a pouse on Maga Mike Johnson for a second.
It's one thing to be accused of something. I'm with him.
I totally agree. Accusal does not mean guilt. However, there
is something called documentary evidence, and that that's his text
messages as well as the text message to miss Avius.
Let me be crystal clear, there is no getting around this.
There is no This is just a matter of time.
So if that's your point, is that you know you
need it for a vote or something, and that you're
going to keep him there so that he could vote
along's party lines, sure, then just say so. But don't
turn around and say that this is just an accusation.
This is not an accusation. There are text messages back
and forth. This is a staffer, mind you inappropriate. We
saw what happened years and years ago with Bill Clinton,
with a staffer who is being pressured by a member
of Congress, by her boss, and things got so rough
for her she took her own life. This is how
I describe it, for example, in my substack, State of
the Disunion. This is poison of governance. And here's the
worst part. We are drifting right now as a country
towards this permanent stalemate where you have people like Maga
Mike Johnson, even in light of something like this, stand
the party line instead of holding strong to principles and values,
not of the Republican Party, not of the Democratic Party,
not of the Independent Party, but of Americans. We should
never allow something like this to ever take place. And
no member of Congress should be afforded, nobody should be
afforded a single second of holding off from accountability under
circumstance like this. And that's why we're existing right now
in this state of disunion. And as always, thanks for listening.
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