tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority and the very real prospect of an open fight over the gavel. it s a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york who again tried to explain away lies about
for white house officials and biden s attorneys and it will also show that in the end, this was in their words, a mistake, an inadvertent one at that. however the attorney general made a supplement today so that white house officials were not aware of any events and he detailed timelines that none of us were aware of and underscore the fact that when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he committed a second set of documents we discovered last night. they knew about them, take a listen. the review was underway when you guys made a statement about the documents. there are views underway when the president book about these documents. i don t understand. it does not make sense. the reviews underway the entire time, dealing differences that the headquarters had information on the documents, and he chose to exclude it. until reporters get information on the second set. let me confuse you, for a second, phil. we are trying to do this by t
him out of congress because he wants to avoid the financial cost of the investigation. i mean, it seems to me that mr. santos is intent on clinging on. this is the myth that he would only resign in the context of a plea bargain with the u.s. attorney, but more dangerous than his lying is his probable lawmaking. for me, the million dollar question is where did all the money come from, how did he manage to land his campaign over $700, 000, as recently as 2020. he reportedly earned a salary of $55, 000, and then he subsequently reported earning more than 3. 5 and 11 point $5 million, and he claims that the money comes from multiple organizations, which is shrouded in secrecy, has no pop-up site, no linkedin page. he claims to have run millions of dollars from all these clients but he never disclosed the names of the clients, as required by federal law, and that s why congressman goldman and i filed an ethics complaint
then in 2021 and 2022 he reported earning somewhere between 3.5 and $11.5 million. that is an astronomical growth in his personal wealth that he s not sufficiently explained. he claims the money comes from the organization which has been shrouded in secrecy. there s no public website, no linkedin page. it s been dissolved previously and where there s smoke there s fire. and there needs to be both a civil and criminal investigation. i m going to end with you. let s say george santos for one reason or another isn t seated or a new election is held, would you run again? well, i ve already issued i already issued a declaration of george santos assuming his name is george santos he should in fact because of his lies and admissions of criminality he should resign from his seat and i would face him head off there and the republicans can decide