conservative excuse hypocrisy by saying we re electing a president, not a sunday schoolteacher. that s true. but having taught sunday school maybe we could get both. reporter: now, the reception in the room was lukewarm but it did get a little ugly afterwards when nikki haley was outside of the speech hall taking photos with some attendees and started hearing people around her chanting trump, trump, trump. a smaller group of people starting chanting her name as well. again, this is just a small group. a small part of the republican party but it does go to show you what exactly this primary, which is e expected to be ugly and get dirty will go. that is the divide you re looking at in the video. thank you. stand by. we ll see you in a moment again. as governor desantis moves closer to an expected presidential bid, cnn s k file discovered disturbing comments
on him to apologize and said this whole episode has really become a distraction. eva mckend, thank you for all of that. outfront now, former rnc communications director, and former national coalitions director for biden/harris 2020. doug, i m going to start with you. sure, i figured. i mean, we must. cnn s k-file uncovering even more lies that congressman-elect george santos is spreading about himself as the nassau county d.a. is looking into all this. are you concerned, and is anybody in the republican party concerned not just about the ones that we know about, the lies that is, but that this might just be the tip of the iceberg? yeah, absolutely. every conversation that i ve had, and i ll say when people respond, i ve had a few folks on capitol hill who are always great in responding who haven t done so today or yesterday. but everything i ve heard overwhelmingly is that we re reaching a hall of fame level of
he lied about graduating from college. he lied about who he worked for. he lied about being jewish. cnn s k file just dug up new lies we ll bring you if a moment. now federal prosecutors are looking into his dubious finances. a source tells cnn they re investigating the congressman-elect s financial situation that seems to rapidly swing from being too broke to pay rent to being a multi-millionaire. the district attorney of nassau county new york also says she has santos on her radar. but, wait, there s more. cnn has confirmed that santos was charged with embezzlement in brazil. let s go to cnn s evan mccann with more. let s narrow it down and start with the federal investigation now into george santos. who are prosecutors looking at there and is that different than with the nassau county da is looking at? reporter: federal prosecutors in new york are investigating santos finances. that is what a source familiar with the matter is telling us
0 laughing and i mean it and it s joyful. and i hope we all have that. america, if i have one wish for us, it s that one bag of groceries doesn t cost $3,000. i know it s kind of pie in the sky but if we work together as a nation we could truly, truly achieve great things. great things that we never thought were possible. we ve done it before. on behalf of everyone at anderson cooper 360 and the entire cnn team worldwide, thank you for watching and being with us through it all. i m tom foreman and my wish for you and yours, how about all of the best and none of the worst in 2023. good evening everyone. this is cnn tonight. we have news tonight on the congressman-elect who keeps getting caught in flagrant lies. he may be in more hot water. you ll recall george santos admitted to lying about key parts of his biography from his wealth to his education to his resume to his family to his religion. now the u.s. attorney s office in the eastern district of new york is looking into s
our own cnn k file, the investigations finding santos claims his grandparents survived the holocaust by escaping the nazis are contradicted by multiple sources and records reviewed by genealogists. jessica dean has the latest. tonight incoming congressman george santos finally aktweetin i have my story to tell and it will be told next week. one part of the new york republican s background now in question? his family history. my grandparents survived the holocaust i am very proud of my jewish heritage and my grandparents story my grandfather fleeing ukraine, stalin s persecution, going to belgium finding refuge there, marrying my grandmother, fleeing hitler and going to brazil. reporter: but those claims are contradicted by sources reviewed by cnn s k file