santos could appear as soon as tomorrow in a new york courtroom. charges are currently under seal but the fbi and doj were investigating allegations of false statements in santos s campaign by finance filings. cnn s harry you are now just terry. here to fill us in on the developments. all right, so he is charged. for what? i think what i want to take a look at is sort of just how bad his numbers are. this to me is just so incredible. i ve never seen numbers quite like this. this is george santos s quarter one, 2023 fundraising in his main account. take a look at these contributions. he took in only about $5,000 which is pathetically low for a sitting congressman. even more amazing, the refunds he had to give back from his campaign account were a little more than $8,000. so he had to give back more
presidents, former presidents if they are facing issues like this, that they can move that case to federal court and not have it being a local court, and that s one of the key things that republicans and jim jordans are arguing against alvin bragg is that you re a state and local prosecutor. this is a federal case, and this shouldn t be your territory that this should be a federal prosecution that we re seeing, and so that s one of the things that the committee is going to be proposing. you know , as early as this week. definitely i think by the time they get back into session next week, that s the other thing. i mean, this lawsuit came congress is out there out this week. we haven t we didn t see them last week, either. when all of the trump indictment stuff was playing out. i mean, i think a lot of republicans were relieved by that that they weren t facing questions from me and other reporters on this, but i do think it s gonna be right back into the center of everything. once they r
malpractice that mccarthy feels like he has to do this in order the stay speaker. the insurrection, the umpteen votes for speaker. marjorie taylor greene being on the homeland security committee. the only reason any of this is happening is so mccarthy to hold on to power, needs to give in to the most ultra maga pro insurrection wing of the party. that s what he did to stay in power. perry on the other hand, he s, this story is about him acting to save his own hyde. just to put a fine point on it, perry orchestrated the efforts to overthrow the government. you can t get more traitorous. a sitting congressman. there s no accountability within the republican party for this. all evidence shows it was perry
florida. i will be headed that this week wednesday out of the national network to protest governor ron desantis and his decision to band and advanced placement course on african american studies, faith leaders and activists have been reaching out to me and others on this issue for the last month. my good friend attorney ben crump has signaled he may sue the state. and tomorrow, on this show, we will talk with columbia university professor kimberly crenshaw, one of the scholars cited in the initial crossword that defrauded the department of education objected to. now, the times reported yesterday that the desantis administration had been complaining to the college board about the ap class four months before the ban. you, as former president of the naacp, and a sitting congressman, for the, from one of the black states, what s
brought, he s prosecuted, which seems like he just keeps lying so much he ll get caught on something at some point that that night club the out but unfortunately, lying is not enough anymore for a sitting congressman. on that point you did have a comment from kevin mccarthy reporting this is cnn that mccarthy talked about santos in a closed conference meeting today and he said there s a difference between lying and committing a crime. then says the latter cause you say to lose a committee spot. is that it? that s the only bar. that has been his central argument all along, he pretty much has been saying variations of this for past few weeks, that it takes a really high bar to call for someone s removal, that ultimately you should listen to the voters in his district. who elected him. he certainly speaker mccarthy not listening to them now many voters are saying had they known about the real george santos, if