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Friend george santos. the house ethics committee has opened their own investigation into the congressman, his finances are already the subject of several law enforcement probes. the committee said they would try to determine whether santos violated conflict of interest laws, failed to properly fill out his financial disclosure forms, or engage in any other unlawful activity during his 2022 campaign. they will also look into a sexual misconduct allegation by perspective congressional aide. his of...

Their own investigation into the congressman, his finances are already the subject of several law enforcement probes. the committee said they would try to determine whether santos violated conflict of interest laws, failed to properly fill out his financial disclosure forms, or engage in any other unlawful activity during his 2022 campaign. they will also look into a sexual misconduct allegation by perspective congressional aide. his office tweeted that he is fully cooperating with the investiga...

Not being held accountable. all of this ties together. everybody should have known because the reporting was actually there. but the stories were suppressed. and still to this day we dont understand about hunter bidens art dealings or understand how much money he still may have coming out of china. how is it the bidens -- joe biden is a united states senator on $174,000 a year salary. how is it that he has beach houses and multi-million dollar mansions and you start to look at hunter biden. he c...

Is facing a federal investigation into his finances, local investigation in new york, latest disclosure forms have raised questions and the house leadership says it is not for them to tell him to resign. >> i already commented on this numerous times and it will play itself out. ultimately voters are going to make that decision, whether it is in the primary or the general election. >> well, that would be two years from now. that is the fourth ranking republican in the house who is under fire for ...

Would it just be a slap on the wrist or worse? >> well, you know, he personally faces gravest legal jeopardy i think from his personal financial disclosure forms. because those are signed by him. theyre verified by him. its about how much money he really made, what was his and wasnt. some elected public officials have gone to jail for false filings in those complaints. in terms of his ethics, he reports hes also got some jeopardy, although the treasurer of his campaign is the person legally liab...

Possibly some answers. thanks for coming on. how are these people getting so rich? nobody ever asks that question. jeff zients has gotten richer than anybody. how dough that that happened? >> its interesting. i think through the covid thing, it was a story that we saw all over the country where i know its cliche but the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. zients used much of his career -- recall, he used to be the obamacare czar. he oversaw the obamacare implementation, the government means...

Topic. you have the nassau district attorney opening an investigation into santos. talk us through the potential legal problems he could be facing. and even then, would those problems, depending on how they play out, be enough to remove him from the house? >> probably, i think if nothing else, they were just spring on too much political pressure to stick around. but the feds are also there. in brief, i mean, it is funny. its one of the most, you know, fragrant lies in political history. but all ...

He is hiding the source of this income. his campaign finance filings look really dodgy, with money coming in, money going out. at the same time, hes creating this, i dont want to -- i dont know if we can call it grifting, but this other source of revenue using his political connections to raise money in other campaigns. >> right. >> it is a definition of a tangled web here. >> absolutely, and why is florida always involved in everything? >> im sorry about that. >> i knew florida would come up ev...

Michel schnell. >> you have that exactly right, the opposition to santos and the calls for him to resign. by my count, were up to seven republican lawmakers who have called on him to resign, the majority of whom are from the new york delegation. its entirely possible that that number will continue to grow, particularly if we see more revelations about discrepancy in his background or more issues with his financial disclosure forms. we saw that speaker mccarthy has no plans to remove him from con...

Mccarthy today, saying he wont ask santos to resign at this point. it was ethics and scrutiny with the party in the house? >>, the house ethics committee, usually, quite tightlipped about investigations, or even the envy existence of an investigation. but, two democrats did formally file an ethics complaint, walking it over to santoss office. they want the house ethics committee to look into his financial disclosure forms, which was raised a lot of questions. several other republicans, have also...