distorting the truth. it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contempt youts yous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sight seers. that spectacle using cherry picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves
it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contemptuous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sightseers. that spectacle using cherry-picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing, quote, good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves lies told by jenna el
fabrications about his biography and resume. local and federal prosecutors are also investigating his finances. the house ethics committee is also looking into whether santos may have engaged in unlawful activity during his successful 2022 campaign. i m very confident i can fight this one. it s very easy. reporter: randi kaye, cnn. a group of new york republican congressmen recently introduced a bill that would ban house members like santos from profiting off book, movie, or tv deals if indicted or convicted of certain crimes like financial and campaign finance fraud. just before air time, i spoke to one of those members, congressman brandon williams who has also called for mr. santos to step down. congressman williams, i appreciate you joining us. i m wondering what your reaction was to these allegations that congressman santos was involved in this credit card scheme? well, i tell you, you know, i guess it was an atm scheme. atm. yeah, he s been using the you know, it lo
2022 campaign. i m very confident i can fight this one. it s very easy. reporter: randi kaye, cnn. a group of new york republican congressman recently introduced a bill that would ban house members like santos from profiting off book, movie, or tv deals if indicted or convicted of certain crimes like financial and campaign finance fraud. just before air time i spoke to congressman brandon williams who has also called for mr. santos to step down. congressman williams, i appreciate you joining us. i m wondering what your reaction was to these allegations that congressman santos was involved in this credit card scheme? well, i tell you, you know, i guess it was an atm scheme. atm. yeah, he s been using the you know, it looks like he s been using nassau county donors as atms and he just upped his game. i think it s a continuation of, frankly, of a confidence scheme very much like bernie madoff,
and it s all being exposed. so the fact that his deception goes much farther back doesn t surprise me at all. if the allegations were true, they were made in a sworn statement by the person who was actually prosecuted for involvement in this atm scheme. it s a pretty complex operation. i mean, it involved, according to again to this person who was convicted, you know, a warehouse in florida, being taught by santos how to use the equipment, sending him to seattle where they would split the proceeds 50/50. can you imagine how excited, you know, mr. santos must be or must have been to realize that he could, you know, do something on a larger scale even running for congress not once, but twice. you know, remember that bernie madoff cheated a lot of very sophisticated people out of their money, and i think that george santos has cheated a whole lot of sophisticated voters out of their vote. do do you have much confidence in the ethics process