good to be with you. i m katy tur. george santos is once again a free man. at least for now. after being arrested this morning, the gop congressman from long island was arraigned in a suffolk county courtroom and released on a $500,000 bond. santos pleaded not guilty, and he says he ll hold a news conference to address the charges we re watching and waiting for that, and we ll go there once it begins. federal prosecutors argue he is guilty. they say santos is a liar and a cheat and that they ve got the goods to prove it. in the 13 count indictment unsealed today, the feds charged him with wire fraud and money laundering, stealing public funds and lying to the house of representatives. all told, george santos could be facing many years in prison, not to mention the loss of his congressional seat eventually. the gop speaker of the house with his four-vote margin over the democrats needs santos on
intrigueingly, where the money he donated to his campaign, he says it came from his bank account, prosecutors say these assertions are false, he didn t have $750,000 salary from the divulger organization, which, by the way, is his last name, and he did not have between 1 and $25 million in dividends. these assertions were false. he did not have that money. we are left asking, what else might prosecutors have on george santos, that they haven t revealed to us. let s listen. i need to address and defend myself. we have an indictment. we have the information that the government wants to come after me on. and i m going to comply. i have been complying throughout this entire process. i have no desire not to comply at this point. they have been gracious, now i m
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organizations for transparency. here we are pushing to have this indictment unsealed today. usually indictments unsealed during an initial appearance during the arraignment, so that would be tomorrow. but right now we don t know what the actual charges are. in this case, there is also a push to get cameras inside the courtroom. historically this judge has not been in favor of that. but we have argued along with other media organizations, there is no greater public interest than having transparency in a case like this. one thing i thought was interesting, though, is i reached out to the former president s legal team last night to say, hey, you guys want cameras in the courtroom, right? i didn t hear back so i m really curious to watch they have until one pm today, prosecutors or defense to launch any objections with the judge that they have two cameras in the courtroom, so i m really curious to see if anybody has any objections, said moments ago on the air here. he thought it would cut