George Santos tells House GOP he wants off his committees until issues are resolved

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

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Republican Rep. George Santos has told the House GOP conference that he wants to be off the Science, Space and Technology Committee, along with the Committee on Small Business until his issues are resolved. Federal prosecutors are investigating Santos’ finances while he faces calls to resigns over the lies about his education, career, heritage and religion. Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh joins AC360 to discuss Santos stepping down from his committees and if he thinks House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had anything to do with it.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight keeping a monies with the person who is hard to keep on us.
0:04.6	Congressman George Santos, who said today he's stepping away from his committee assignments
0:08.6	and the House Republican leadership seem inclined right now at least to just leave it at
0:12.5	that.
0:13.5	Quoting from the Congressman's statement, with the ongoing intentions surrounding both my
0:16.8	personal and campaign financial investigations, I have submitted a request to Speaker McCarthy
0:21.7	that I'd be temporarily recused from my committee assignments until I'm cleared.
0:26.4	The New York Republican has been disowned by his own local Republican leadership for
0:30.2	lying to them and who's facing calls to resign from other members of his New York Republican
0:34.8	House delegation says he expects to be fully cleared.
0:38.6	Why you might ask does he think that?
0:41.0	Because, and these are his own words today, quote, I have nothing to hide.
0:45.6	Which wasn't even true when he said it because when asked which network he just done an interview
0:49.6	with, he refused to say it was OAN.
0:52.6	So yeah, he did have at least one thing to hide today.
0:55.6	He also promised the interview would be quote, fun and quote comprehensive.
1:00.0	Fun will leave that up to you.
1:01.9	But you can certainly say that in the 12 minute clip, the network posted late today, the
1:05.5	Congressman who's lied about his religion, his education, his ancestors, and his career,
1:11.0	criminal charges, his athletic accomplishments and more was far from comprehensive.
1:16.4	In those 12 minutes that were released, he wasn't asked about specific lies and mentioned
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