George Santos in hot water with NY Republicans over lies

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

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George Santos is being called to resign by two state Republican party lawmakers over lies the congressman has made, we speak to Republican State Senator Jack Martins and State Assemblyman Ed Ra on the matter. Plus, President Joe Bidens legal team have found another batch of classified documents in another of his private offices in Washington DC, we ask what this means for the President and the DOJ going forward. And, Matt Schlapp the chairman of the American Conservative Union has been accused of sexual assault by a GOP strategist. Also tonight: New details about the massive flight disruptions and what caused the FAA to issue its 90 minute nationwide ground stop of flights, Prince Harry’s new book is flying of the shelves selling 1.4 million copies on its first day, gas stoves become a political flashpoint after consumer product safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. tells Bloomberg gas stoves are a “hidden hazard”, Buffalo Bills Player Damar Hamlin safely home after 10 days in 2 hospitals, the Supreme Court allows a New York State gun law allowing restrictions on concealed weapons while a legal challenge plays out in the appeals court, and First lady Jill Biden is home after having 2 cancerous lesions removed. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Coates, and this is CNN Tonight. So the real question
0:12.7	is, and if you are a sound of music fan out there, it's, how do you solve a problem like
0:17.7	George Santos? He's only sworn in a few days ago, but they're a public in congressmen
0:22.3	who lied about, well, we reworked, we went to school about being Jewish. Remember we
0:29.1	said what he meant was Jew-ish. Well, now he's in hot water with members of his own party
0:35.4	back in New York state. I'll talk to two New York Republicans who are now calling for
0:39.8	him to resign. But as the chorus for calls from the step down get much, much louder, well,
0:46.0	the congressman is trying to shut it down by saying this.
0:56.0	He will not. Well, there's also another batch of classified government records found
1:01.6	by President Joe Biden's legal team that's after the initial discovery of those classified
1:06.3	documents. And it's one time office in Washington back in November. So where were these new documents
1:13.4	found and what's in them? And frankly, how long have they known about this set of documents
1:19.8	as well? Plus, Republican tragic alleges, powerful conservative Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted
1:26.5	him while he was driving him back to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November
1:30.6	midterm election. Now Schlapp, through his attorney, denies this claim. Well, the very
1:35.9	latest on this developing story this evening. A lot to talk about tonight. So I want to
1:40.8	bring in and begin with the calls for George Santos to resign his seat in congress. And
1:47.0	those calls are coming from inside the proverbial house, including from my next two guests
1:53.4	who were both New York State Republican lawmakers, state senator Jack Martins and state assembly
1:59.6	man Ed Raw.
2:01.2	So I'm going to welcome to the program this evening. Listen, everyone has been talking
2:05.9	about congressmen now, George Santos. He of course has been sworn in. He is a member
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