i ve always identified as jewish. i was raised a practicing catholic. i ve gone through, this even not being raised a practicing, jew i ve always joked with friends in circles, even in the campaign, i would say i m jew-ish, remember, i was raised catholic. i m even more confused. back with us is astead herndon, scott jennings, ron brownstein, norm eisen. but astead, where does this go? where what happens when he gets to congress? will he be able to serve his full term, even though he lied to voters? it seems as if it this way because this is an unprecedented situation. from parties to media, i want to shout out my time s colleagues that have led on the story. everything about his history, his identity, his biography seems to be a lie. it stretches from the kind of funny small lies, something that would seem kind of just like normal political embellishment, to think that his campaign promise, his
[daughter] slurping don t pay for water. pay for clean. it s got to be tide. we re back now. this remains a big talker. the latest on the embattled congressman-elect george santos. the new york state republican is facing new backlash after admitting in interviews that he lied about his background. the republican jewish coalition says santos would not be welcome at the group s future events after misleading its members about his faith. he s not jewish. he says he s catholic, although he said he was jewish in the past. last night on fox news, santos responded to questions about his jewish heritage. my heritage is jewish. i ve always identified as jewish. i was raised a practicing catholic. i think i ve gone through this. even i ve not not being raised a practicing jew i ve joked with friends in circles
were a proud american jew . how do you explain that? my heritage a jewish, always identified as jewish, raised a practicing catholic. i think i ve gone through this mop not being raise add practicing jew always joked with friends in circle jew-ish. he did not do well with tulsi gabbard. santos apologized in another interview admitted to embellishing, you know, all of his resume. nbc news reached out to santos for a statement. nothing there. if republicans forced him to resign it would prompt a special election in the swing district he flipped which would be risky for the gop s very thin house majority. santos also pledged to vote for republican leader kevin mccarthy, house speaker.
on january 3rd kevin mccarthy is going to go to the floor and try to become the next speaker of the house. he needs every vote he can get. right now he has five conservatives who are standing up saying they will not support him. he can only lose four members so it gives you some kind of sense into why he may not be speaking up about george santos, someone who said he would support kevin mccarthy for speaker. mccarthy needs every vote he can get right now, amara. and, margaret, i want you to listen to the answer he gave to explain claiming he was jewish. my heritage is jewish. i ve always identified as jewish. i was raised a practicing catholic. i think i ve gone through this even not not being raised a practicing jew i ve always joked with friends in circles even in the campaign i d say guys, i m jew-ish, guy, i was raised catholic. the most prominent group of
ni nick lalota said there needs to be law enforcement necessary and called it a distraction and another one said the lies are hurtful and hearing from constituents concerned about them and called on santos to pursue a path of honesty, however, abby, santos continues to lie. he went on fox news last night. there was a very contend shoes interview with tulsi gabbard filling in and said he never claimed to be jewish on the campaign trail even though at cnn we obtained documents that did claim he was a proud american jew when he was on the campaign trail. listen to how he s trying to explain it. my heritage is jewish. i ve always identified as jewish. i was raised a practicing catholic. i think i ve gone through this even i ve not not being raised a practicing jew i always said i m jew-ish, remember, i