Look, he's a sick puppy, he shouldn't be there.
I didn't expect that he'd be standing there trying to shake hands with
every senator and the president of the United States.
Given the fact that he's under ethics investigation,
he should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet.
>> Senator Mitt Romney does not appreciate the existence of congressman,
freshman congressman of course, George Santos, a well known notorious liar.
And he had an uncomfortable moment with him right
before Joe Biden's state of the union address.
This is the moment that we're talking about.
Everyone noticed it.
Everyone was wondering what was happening.
You can see him getting accosted by Senator Mitt Romney.
You can't hear what they're saying, but you can tell that it's combative.
And so reporters managed to catch up with Romney later and
he explained why he has such an issue with George Santos.
So why don't we watch the rest of that video?
>> He says that he embellished his record.
Look, embellishing is saying you got an A when you got an A minus.
Lying is saying you graduated from college you didn't even attend.
And he shouldn't be in congress and they're gonna go through the process and
hopefully get him out, but he shouldn't be there.
And if he had any shame at all, he wouldn't be there.
>> Why did you make a point to say that though?
I mean, it was kind of out of your way to- >> He was
standing right there in the aisle shaking hands with everybody.
>> Did he respond to you?
>> He may have, I didn't hear anything he said.
>> Punk may have, but I didn't hear anything he said.
Look, I for the most part have no problem with Mitt Romney
accosting George Santos and calling him out for what he is.
George Santos for his part feels that this was a unmormon like behavior coming from
Mitt Romney, I know, I know.
>> And George Santos is in a position to criticize, he is after al Mormon.
>> Right, right.
>> Right now.
>> Hilarious.
Now with that said, I do have a critique for Mitt Romney.
Before I get to that critique, I wanna give you a chance to jump.
>> Yeah, I would just love to get into Mitt Romney's head very briefly and
figure out is he doing a sick puppy thing, which is a good insult in
this particular case because George Santos stole dog cancer funds.
Is that why you mentioned it?
>> Maybe, I didn't think about that.
>> And is that a worthwhile burn to do risking that people might remember that
wasn't Mitt Romney that like put the dog on the roof of the car or whatever?
Wasn't that a big thing during his presidential debate and
he had it in a cage or whatever up there?
>> Thank you for bringing that up, because when he said sick puppy I'm like,
Romney, this would have been a win, 100% win, if you found a different insult.
Because when you say puppy or when you make a reference to canines, the mind
wanders to an incident that we learned about when you ran for president in 2012.
And that incident had to do with your family dog, Seamus.
So in 1983, he and his family were on a trip to Canada.
They're on the road,
they're going to travel hundreds of miles to go to this place in Canada.
But they want to take their family dog Seamus with them.
They put the dog in like a crate and
then they put the crate on top of the car.
Okay, that is insane.
The trip was over 600 miles long, 12 hour trip.
No, get a load of this, okay?
I went back and read up about it just to remember all the details.
Their dog Seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of
the family Chevrolet Capri station wagon for the 12 hour trip.
Romney had built a windshield, is he not merciful?
A windshield for the carrier to make the ride more comfortable for
the dog, but apparently it didn't work.
Wanna know why?
During the 650 mile trip, Seamus got diarrhea.
The Romneys were first alerted to the Irish Setter's bowel issues when Tagg,
their child, noticed brown liquid pouring down the back window,
followed immediately by him and his younger brothers yelling and discussed.
Romney stopped at a gas station to wash the dog, the carrier, and the car.
With Seamus back in the carrier, the family continued on their way.
Why did you say sick puppy Romney?
Not good, very bad.
Also, you're an awful person for doing that to the dog, like awful.
>> I think it might be Sheamus.
I just don't wanna insult our Scottish audience.
>> Apologies to the Irish, I've never heard of that name.
>> I'm so glad that you did that research because I don't know that I was here when
that story first came about.
I didn't know that he built the windscreen.
I thought it was an accident that he put him up there.
He intentionally put him up there?
That's so much worse than what I already thought.
>> And after the diarrhea incident, he's like yeah,
I'm gonna put the dog back in the crate.
>> That is just wild.
Don't bring the dog then or leave Tagg home, I don't know.
>> One of our producers, I'm not going to name who it is, just wrote in and
said jokingly, but probably not, death penalty for Romney.
>> [LAUGH] >> But by the way,
if anyone did that to my dog- >> My God.
>> Anyway, other than that, I like his indignation over George Santos.
He seems like an old school old money kind of rich person who sees government
services a thing I'm gonna do and then also gonna benefit corporations or
whatever.
So he's exactly the sort a person would be most personally offended by George Santos.
But yeah, I hate seeing him shaking hands and stuff.
I mean I'd be equally mad at seeing like Marjorie Greene shaking hands and banging
the gavel and pretending that she's a congress person or a human or whatever.
But yeah, I can understand his frustration, but
I'm never gonna forgive him for what he did to poor Seamus.
>> No, me either.
I can't forget that.
Now that he referenced sick puppies,
it's like how could you not think about poor Seamus?
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, poor, poor dog.