appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
little bit of sort of tripping in from the republican side of the aisle that an ethics investigation is called for. do you think a real ethics investigation will be done into george santos? look, i m cautiously optimistic. the good news is the house ethics committee is evenly bipartisan regardless of who is in charge so there is a fighting chance that the house ethics committee can conduct an investigation into george santos and these allegations are too serious to ignore. he s clearly a sick and social sociopathic man who preaccidented to be the victim of an assassination, to pretend to have a mother who died in 9/11 and have employees who died in the nightclub shooting. every word he utters should be presumed to be a lie until proven otherwise. he s been glyphen two committee assignments. i know they re not considered
people that could be charged. this were a number of people we know publicly weren t informed that they were targets of this investigation. so it s something that started with a phone call from former donald trump. they made it clear that it expanded widely beyond. that i think it will be interesting to see, you know, one, if that report does become public, what parts of it are public and redacted. and then, yes, there are certainly enough things to watch in terms who have could see charges coming from this entire thing. and i guess, andrew, we forget how much wrongdoing went on. the fake electors plot has had it one of the beating hearts georgia. and there were fake electors solicited. judy giuliani said to them. they were solicited in public. you are the final arbitor for who the electors should be and whether the process is fair or not and the other way to look at it, it s your responsibility if
so andrew, obviously i m posing a theoretical. but wasn t this the slippery slope, the standard created by lumping together the one that isn t like any of the others, the trump criminal investigation by having the same person called the same thing investigate both? you just can t have a special counsel every single time a issue comes up. you have to remember, it is not a crime to have classified documents in your possession if you don t know it. it can be a mistake. it can be something that raises the national security issues. but it s not always worthy of a criminal investigation. so there is one thing that merrick garland could do here. and that is he could go the
investigations open into him. any watcher of american politics over the last six years know they take a very long time. what kind of damage can someone like santos do in the body beyond just being on those important committees if an investigation into him, if that is the only mechanism for removing him from the body is going to take a long time? look, he is a fraud who keeps on defrauding and no reason to think he will stop. the only hope for dropping him out i would argue is the u.s. attorney and it could be that mr. santos only reason to remain in office so he can maintain leverage in the event of air criminal prosecution and it s worth noting that george santos just admitted that the $500,000 leapt to his campaign did not come from himself. it was not a personal loan so he has all but admitted to breaking campaign finance law so my prediction is that his indictment, his criminal prosecution is not a question of