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Possible illegal behavior to resign. right now, the only thing that matters is, we stand up and say yes for kevin mccarthy or not? >> next congress would, quote unquote, do the right thing this person, could the department of justice, could the investigations that george santos is facing, could they do the trick? charlie? >> they certainly could. we have learned the dangers of speculation about this. but there's some pretty interesting questions about that 700,000 that he loaned his campaign. this is somebody that just a couple years ago reported on federal forms that he made about 50,000 doll...

Complete silence from republican leaders on capitol hill. >> sunland, thank you. so for more on this, let's bring in elie honig. it seems the main question is, you know, where did he get this money to fund his campaign. right. because what i understand he loaned his campaign more than $700,000. what exactly will they be looking into? >> well, i think the first question is going to be where and how did he get this money. he went from somebody who essentially had no assets, to somebody who was reported that had a substantial assets very quickly and the basis that he's offered up, his company has...

Biggest problems moving forward, not just with an ethics investigation, but potentially law enforcement. because when you're lying on those disclosure forms, that's not just the ones with the intent to run for office, but once he does get sworn in, if he decides to go all that way, he's going to get looked at under a microscope >> right and you know, i think that's one of the reasons why incoming congressman lalota said, ethics committee needs to look into it, and there might maybe even law enforcement. dean, you have not a theory, but you have an explanation for why we're just finding this ou...

Rather than paying attention to these reports. so there are still large questions of whether he's even going to be assigned and what house republican leadership will do to just set the tone on whether this is acceptable or not. but when it comes to the legality of this issue and the legal consequences he may face in the upcoming weeks, that is still unclear. as everyone knows, when you are running for office, you are required to submit financial disclosures as accurate as possible to the clerk of the house and when you don't do that or falsify the information that you put on those disclosure f...

But then what? january is what, two weeks away? >> right. there is a real reason for someone to look at these things, when you are looking at donald trump -- the first thing you realize is that our process -- -- whether they are getting cash in places that ought to do business with our process does not capture that and the tax returns don't capture that the disclosure forms won't capture that looking, at donald trump situation you could figure out reasons why it they would fix that situation in some serious way, but like you said there is a clock ticking and the republicans will stop this acti...