A lying congressman and a 2024 Senate race already underway
1 big thing
Axios
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday the 13th. Yep, I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's |
| 0:09.9 | what you need to know today. Why pediatricians are struggling to treat patients? Plus, what |
| 0:15.2 | do MLK's words mean to you? But first, classify documents, align congressmen and a 2024 |
| 0:22.0 | senate race already underway. The Week in Politics is our one big thing. |
| 0:30.1 | Lots of news in Washington this week. California's 2024 senate race is heating up before Senator |
| 0:35.1 | Diane Feinstein even announces if she's going to be stepping down. Attorney General Merrick Garland |
| 0:40.8 | appointed a special counsel yesterday to investigate President Biden's handling of classified |
| 0:46.0 | documents and New York representative George Santos is being called upon to resign. |
| 0:51.2 | I will not resign. I will be continuing to hold my office elected by the people. |
| 0:55.3 | Here to discuss all of this for our Friday politics state of play is Axios's Eugene Scott. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi, Eugene. Welcome to Axios and welcome to the pod. Glad to be here. Eugene, George Santos is |
| 1:06.8 | under fire right now. Now it's not County Republican Party chairman said he's quote, |
| 1:10.8 | disgraced the House of Representatives. Can you remind us what we know about George Santos and |
| 1:16.8 | will he be forced to resign? Well, George Santos is a Republican who was elected to Congress to |
| 1:22.8 | represent a district outside of New York City this past fall. And it's become clear that he's been |
| 1:29.2 | dishonest by a growing number of topics ranging from how his mother died to where he went to high school. |
| 1:36.8 | And so Republicans are really frustrated with who he has presented himself to be. |
| 1:42.0 | So people on both sides of the hour incredibly frustrated with Santos who he is and who he |
| 1:47.6 | presented himself to be and the conversation about whether or not he can represent his constituents. |
| 1:52.3 | It's one that is not dying down anytime soon. I guess the question is, can he be forced to resign? |
| 1:58.0 | It's just pressure right now. There are a couple of investigations he's found himself in. And |
| 2:02.7 | depending on whether or not he has proven to have done anything illegal, that part will perhaps |
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