next on behind the series. let me tell you about the greatest roster ever assembled. the monster, the outlaw. and you can t forget about the boss. it wasn t just a roster. it was a menu. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time. house republican leaders giving freshman new york congressman george santos not one, but two committee assignments, despite the countless lies he told during his campaign. he joins other controversial colleagues as well who also have new committee assignments tonight. we ll talk about all that and what it tells us about speaker mccarthy s hold on the gop, or maybe their hold on him. but i want to bring in democratic congressman ritchie torres of new york. he is one who has been calling on the federal election commission to launch an investigation into santos over allegations that he broke campaign finance laws. congressman, thank you for being here this evening. this is certainly a congressman, a colleague who has a lot of questions surroundin
i wonder, you have questions about in particular the more than $700,000 that he seems to have spent on his campaign. why do you ask the s.e.c. to investigate this in particular? well, of all the 535 members of congress, both in the senate and the house, there is no one who pose as greater threat to the integrity of congress than george santos. we know he has lied about every aspect of his life, but even worse than his lying is his possible law-breaking. and for me, the $700,000 question is where did all the money come from? a decade ago, george santos was a wage earner at a call center accumulating thousands of dollars in debt and facing repeat evictions. as late as 2020 he reported a salary as much as $55,000. miraculously in 2021 and 2022, he became a multimillionaire. he claims to have earned millions of dollars from clients, yet he disclosed the