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Stay Tuned with Preet

Lies, Damn Lies, and George Santos (with Mark Chiusano)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chiusano is the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos. He joins Preet to discuss Santos’s lifetime of lies, and what his ascension to power says about our political system.  Stay Tuned in Brief is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters@cafe.com, or leave a voicemail at 669-247-7338. For analysis of recent legal news, join the CAFE Insider community. Head to cafe.com/insider to join for just $1 for the first month.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment,

0:26.4

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.9

Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about Joy and Justice produced with Vox Creative.

0:38.0

21 years ago, when Chrissy Isaacs watched yet another logging truck enter her community in the Grassy Narrow's First Nation, she decided enough was enough.

0:47.0

So she, along with her sister and friend, created a blockade on the only road to the reserve and kicked off decades of change.

0:55.5

Here how one woman took a stand against logging and changed her community forever

1:00.1

on the From CAFE and the VOCS Media Podcast Network, this is stay tuned in brief.

1:17.0

I'm Preet Barara.

1:19.2

George Santos' time in Congress came to an end on December 1st, after he was expelled over ethics violations.

1:25.9

Santo still faces 23 charges in federal court, including for wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.

1:33.5

As we all now know, he has lied over and over and over again about, well, everything.

1:40.4

In a new book called The Fabulist, The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, stealing, and very American legend of George

1:45.9

Santos, Arthur Mark Chiosano does a deep dive on Santos and the life he built on lies. This didn't just start when he eyed a bid for the U.S. Congress.

1:55.1

It's been a lifelong habit. So why does he lie? And what does Santos' election to such a powerful

2:01.9

position say about our political system?

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