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George Santos says he’s “innocent” of allegation he orchestrated credit card skimming scheme

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Republican Rep. George Santos claims he’s “innocent” and “never did anything of criminal activity” after being accused of organizing a credit card skimming scheme back in 2017. Federal prosecutors are investigating Santos’ finances while he faces calls to resigns over the lies about his education, career, heritage and religion. Republican Rep. Brandon Williams tells Anderson Cooper why he’s “confident” the country will see Santos in “handcuffs in front of a judge” soon.

Plus, CNN Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans joins AC360 to break down the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank after it failed to raise capital. It’s the second-largest failure of a financial institution in U.S. history.

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0:00.0

Good evening. This was a good week for people who lie being revealed as people who lie, who

0:05.6

then go on lying or distorting the truth. It began with court documents revealing

0:09.8

Fox's Tucker Carlson was privately skeptical election lies, contemptuous of the former

0:14.5

president texting someone even saying, quote, I hate him passionately talking about the

0:18.5

former president, even as he indicated the viewer to viewers the opposite. And as that

0:22.9

news was hitting, a Dominion voting system's lawsuit alleging Fox broadcast election

0:26.8

lies, Carlson was on the air lying about January 6. The crowd was enormous. A small percentage

0:35.5

of them were hooligans. They committed vandalism. You've seen their pictures again and

0:39.9

again. But the overwhelming majority weren't. They were peaceful. They were orderly and

0:45.6

meek. These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers. That spectacle using cherry

0:52.1

picked footage, how Speaker McCarthy released only to him was just the beginning. The former

0:56.5

president went on a social network without any evidence at all, claimed that city, state

0:59.8

and federal prosecutors are practicing, quote, good ol election interference, all caps.

1:04.5

And then there was something else that happened that didn't get as much attention, but is important.

1:08.5

And it involves lies told by Jenna Ellis, one of the former presidents, 2020 election lawyers.

1:13.8

She's the one next to Sydney Powell in this video behind Rudy Giuliani, the press conference

1:17.9

you may remember where his head seemed to be leaking motor oil. What follows is a sampling

1:22.9

of the lies she told about the 2020 election that she is now admitting were lies.

1:26.9

We have affidavits from witnesses. We have voter intimidation. We have the ballots that

1:37.8

were manipulated. We have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort

1:42.9

in all of these states to transfer votes, either from Trump to Biden to manipulate the

1:48.1

ballots to count them in secret. The election was stolen in President Trump, one by

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