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Was talking about santos and i said, misleading statement that he apologized for -- i'm going to put this reinstatement in the biggest air quotes ever. because we are talking about really substantive lies here, some of which, this new york times article is showing -- an unregistered fund that raised money for santos, and the efforts to elect santos may have skirted campaign financials. you tweeted that there are about a dozen federal campaign finance violations described in that article. tell me more. >> when you run for congress and you do it successfully, you become aware of all of the prohi...

It was not even registered through the f e c. and maybe, by the way, that is the source of where he got some of the income that he ultimately reported, maybe the money that he was directing people to donate to this fake entity was money that was actually going to himself. and so i wouldn't be surprised if we ended up learning about that. >> i want to be clear to our viewers. you and i both sort of laughed as you said that. because it is so flagrant, and it is so unimaginable -- i mean, there are entire teams of people who are hired not just to raise the money on a campaign like this, but also ...

It was not even registered through the f e c. and maybe, by the way, that is the source of where he got some of the income that he ultimately reported, maybe the money that he was directing people to donate to this fake entity was money that was actually going to himself. and so i wouldn't be surprised if we ended up learning about that. >> i want to be clear to our viewers. you and i both sort of laughed as you said that. because it is so flagrant, and it is so unimaginable -- i mean, there are entire teams of people who are hired not just to raise the money on a campaign like this, but also ...

What i think is notable about the letter is it talks about this february 3, 2009 e-mail from the fec to lois learn, then at the irs. it references back to the preceding july, 2008. some communication that the irs and fec are having. this predates president obama's november 2008 election. does that signal to you that at least it doesn't go as high as the white house? he wasn't even president then. >> it may. what we do know is there is communication going on that's not appropriate. it's about a question that should be totally dealt with in the internal re new service. that's what most concerns ...

S.e.c., may also be targeting conservative groups. the house oversight committee demanding document thes from the s.e.c., too. ron desantos joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> i have seen the july 22 letter where you make a demand of the s.e.c., the honorable mary jo white, chairperson, to comply with documents by july 29. i take it that didn't happen. right? >> no. it hasn't happened yet. we do anticipate getting those documents because we are entitled to those documents. you had all these career people in the s.e.c. being asked to push this political speech angle. they were like...