welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. happening now, we re counting down to cnn s town hall with former president donald trump. new hampshire republicans as well as undeclared primary voters are standing by with questions for the gop frontrunner and it all comes as trump stares down growing legal troubles. multiple criminal investigations. an indictment in new york and a $5 million sex abuse verdict. all of that, wolf, as we are also following another story tonight. congressman george santos speaking out today. he pled not guilty to 13 federal charges. pulling a page out of of the trump playbook calling it a witch hunt. if convicted santos could face up to 20 years in prison for the top counts he faces. the republican from new york is facing calls to resign from many in his own caucus. speaker mccarthy is holding fire, saying santos deserves his day in court. also the sout
or did you not, you said you did, how do you explain it, those move quickly and they are fairly easy to prosecute. he could face 20 years. as you read through these charges, ryan, how solid is this case? is it as the ambassador is indicating a black and white paper case? super solid. it s all based on documentation. they didn t really need testimony from witnesses or things like that. for example, he either he did or did not receive over $100,000 in salary while claiming unemployment insurance. did or didn t. he did or did not tell the house in his disclosure forms that he received the unemployment insurance checks and he apparently didn t. either he did or did not communicate with donors and say you give me $25,000, i put in political advertising, instead he funnels it and pays for luxury goods. mccarthy in a sense doesn t really have a choice. if the ethics committee comes out and says guilty, he was going to have to probably call for resignation anyway. he comes out and says t
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you said at that time that strategy by the republicans they came off poorly by using that strategy. we didn t know then whether they would keep using that strategy and they really have. so a year later do they still come off poorly for using that strategy or has it been smart? has it made you have to be very adept strategically in order to get around them? all i know is what we do. the poster child for the republican strategy is jim bunning. it proves 99 senators are not enough. even one senator can hold up unemployment insurance checks. can have people be put out of work or working on highway system and the rest of that because one senator has decided to stand in the way. i don t think that has served the senators, the congress well or the american people. i don t think the american people are served well by obstructionist strategy tactics of the republican senators. 60 senators on every possible
republicans, they came off poorly using that strategy. we didn t know then whether they would keep using that strategy and they really have. so a year later do they still come off poorly for using that strategy or has it been smart? has it made you be adept strategically in order to get around them? all i know is what we do. the poster child for the republican strategy is jim bunning. it proves 99 senators are not enough. one senator can hold up unemployment insurance checks. can have people be put out of work or working on highway system and the rest of that because one senator has decided to stand in the way. i don t think that has served the senators, the congress well or the american people. i don t think the american people are served well by obstructionist strategy tactics of the republican senators. 60 senators on every possible initiative, senator reid ends up