citigroup and goldman sachs, no record. graduated from universities, no record of that. blatant lies and calls into question how your constituents and the american people can believe anything you may say when you are standing on the floor of the house of representatives supposedly fighting for them? that s the real issue here. well, look, and i agree with what you re saying, and as i stated and i continue, we can debate my resume and how i worked with firms such as goldman is it debatable or just false? is it debatable or just false? it s not false at all. it s debatable. congressman-elect santos given you a lot of time. i think the time owed is to the people of new york. it 3rd. it s hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you re not even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them. thank you so much for being here and joining us. thank you, tulsi. congressman-elect george santos confronted for lying about his resume by tulsi
saying it was political differences. i don t know whether or not encouraging americans to go march on the capitol is criminal. he was aware of 59 of the 60 lawsuits he brought have failed, including in front of trump judges. i think he d been advised by his own white house lawyers that the vice president did not have any such authority to overturn the election, and i have yet to hear any republican say kamala harris should have that authority in 2024. i think it s more than that but whether it crosses a threshold of prosecuting a former president of the united states is a very serious thing. so i do think that is a significant threshold. shouldn t he be held to the same standards as any other u.s. citizen? absolutely. i think nobody is against the
law and he should be but the department of justice has d discretion about whether they bring cases or they don t. i don t know what other evidence they have. i testified under subpoena a long time ago and i m sure the investigation has advanced since then. and mike pence testified as well. have you or anyone else you know actually also received what s called this target letter? i certainly have not and no one that i know. i think it s important to remember that even though we had significant differences with the president about the vice president s role on january 6th, the vice president was busy leading the coronavirus task force and traveling the country to advocate for reopening our country. he was busy as well helping to try and work in the georgia special election. so much of this activity was happening inside the white house. i think there are people that have probably testified like mark meadows and others recently that probably have a lot more significant testimony to give
i don t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january. and so i want to focus on looking forward. i don t want to look back. i do not want to see him. i hope he doesn t get charged. i don t think it will be good for the country but at the same time i ve got to focus on looking forward and that s what we re going to do. governor ron desantis speaking exclusively with cnn. let s get more reaction right now, republican reaction. joining us here in the situation room, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence mark short who testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. mark, thanks very much for joining us. your former boss, then vice president pence, has said, and i m quoting, history will hold donald trump accountable for january 6th. would an indictment be a step toward holding trump legally accountable? well, wolf, i think there s a lot in that question, whether or not ther
a sense of gross negligence and reckless behavior. to what extent it crosses the threshold of criminality, i m not qualified to answer that question. you have to ask lawyers that. but i think the vice president s point is a broader one, that the american people should hold donald trump accountable for those actions. i think for a lot of conservatives there is a real concerned about a two-tiered system of justice. there has been a sense of whether or not it was the russia hoax investigation or manhattan investigation, there is a different standard for republicans and democrats. having said that, i think it s also fair to ask an american people if you want to elect a president who is willing to violate his oath to the constitution and basically ask his vice president to ask his oath to the constitution. that s a perfectly legitimate question to put before the american people. you heard governor desantis