Gallego reacts to misconduct allegations

That would be Ruben Gallego. Correct? Correct.

Now, in a statement from a spokesperson for Senator Gallego, they tell us those are right-wing conspiracy theories being parroted by a fringe far-right member of Congress. Senator Gallego has not received notification or been contacted by the Ethics Committee. In her interview with Major last night, the congresswoman alleged that these allegations may have been sexual in nature. She also alleged that there were potential campaign finance violations. But I would note, earlier this week, when Senator Gallego gave a pretty lengthy press conference to several of us here on Capitol Hill, he did deny any wrongdoing, specifically any potential sexual misconduct. When he was asked whether he had been engaged in that with either any female staffers or other women outside of his marriage, he flatly said no.

So many details and twists and turns. You guys are being kept quite busy there on Capitol Hill. But I want to tack over to another issue. The House also voted to extend expiring law on warrantless surveillance for 10 days. What exactly does that mean? Yeah, that's right. We're talking about FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. And this measure requires reauthorization. Otherwise, it could lapse come Monday. And so in the House, there has been a very robust and at times a very contentious debate primarily between congressional Republicans and the White House over this. The White House had been pushing just for a straight 18-month clean extension. But last night, actually, the House was in quite late, overnight, wrangling over different versions of this, everything from a 5-year extension that got blocked to an 18-month extension that got blocked. So because they couldn't really agree on how to proceed, they just did this short-term patch for the next 10 days. So we are now waiting to see if the Senate tries to take that up. Most senators at this point are out of town, so they will have to do a procedural mechanism to try to approve this before, again, this law lapses on Monday. But the key issue here is that because this is a warrantless surveillance program, there are many here in Congress who believe that there should be warrants required in some instances or reforms with respect to warrants and also that privacy concerns are properly addressed. So that's why some lawmakers are pushing for changes here rather than just a clean blanket extension. All right, Nikole Killion, thank you. Nikole Killion on the Hill for us, thank you.