Congressman George Santas's Alster marks an end to 11 turbulent months in the House of Representatives.

On that and the race for President heating up, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and

Cape Heart.

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan

Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post. Good to see you both.

You do on that. So let's begin where Lisa's reporting left off there on Congressman Santos.

David, what do you make of how this process played out

and the fact that he was eventually ousted from his job?

He richly deserved it, and yet I'm sad.

Why is that? Somehow he's such a character, like he's such a ridiculous character.

Somehow only 19th century names come to me, like he's a mountebank, a bounder, like all these words

that you get from Trollope novels novels he's like one of those

characters and so he's a unique star that swept across our sky and the only thing I like

what was he thinking that has never been answered the only thing, what was he thinking?

That has never been answered.

The only explanation I've ever heard was he assumed he'd lose,

so nobody would check into the way

he spent the campaign money, and nobody,

but and he ended up winning and now his life is intermoral and he's left us with a little stain

Jonathan will you miss him?

No, no I'm not going to miss him primarily because he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

This is a guy who ran for office whose life story was literally unbelievable as we discovered after he was elected and after he was elected we

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