there are new questions tonight about the source of substantial loans the congressman george santos s campaign. the embattled republican, who s been caught in a web of lies as you know, previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign, totaling more than $700,000. a new filings with the election commission, he is indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds, those were left on marked. i want to turn out right away to cnn political commentator, jonah goldberg, and ashley allison. national politics reporter, eva mckend. eva, let me begin with you here about the new questions around these loans. what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign? laura, the blood broad outlines of the story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $700,000. that was in the filing. he also has reiterated, he went on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too lo
new questions about the source of substantial loans congressman george santos campaign. the embattled republican caught in a web of lies as you know previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign totaling more than $700,000. but a new filings with the federal election commission boxes indicate that loans of 500,000 dollars and $125,000 come from personal funds well, those were left unmarked. i want you to turn to cnn commentator joan goldberg and ashley, and i have a mcken, let s begin about these questions around the loans, what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign. the broad outlines of this story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $5 hundred,000 that was in the filing, he also i iterated this, went on the podcast with congressman matt gates not too long ago and suggested that this academy from his personal wealth. in these amended filings, he s now changin
intermediary between christian and george, i regret that 1000 percent. thankfully, it didn t go further. essentially, i knew george from junior high school. he went to junior high school with me. we attended i.s. 1:25 in sunnyside, queens. after junior high school, we kind of lost touch. we reacquainted ourselves are at around 2019. this case, christian s case, occurred in 2018, but by the time it came to settlement, it was 2020. as it got closer to settlement, i mean, this was my first large case out of law school on my own. i was excited about it. i was telling everybody, you know, i worked in the past with different annuity companies. so, that s what george represented. as far as horror capital, which i find so ironic,
set off alarm bells for you. unfortunately i was the intermediate year between christian and george, i regret that 1,000 percent but thankfully it didn t go further than it did. but essentially i knew george from junior high school r he went to junior high school with me, is 125 in sunny side queens, after junior high school we kind of lost touch and reacquainted ourselves in our about 2019. this case christian s case occurred in 2018 but by the time of settlement, it was 2020 and as it got closer to settlement, i mean, this was you know, my first large case out of law school on my own. and i was excited about it and i was telling everybody you know, i worked in the past with different knewty companies.