Nassau County GOP calls for Rep. George Santos to resign

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party is calling for Rep. George Santos’ “immediate resignation” over the lies he’s told about his personal life and resume. The congressman represents New York’s 3rd Congressional District and says he “will not” step down. Santos is already under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York over his personal finances and two Democratic representatives filed a formal complaint with the House Ethics Committee requesting an investigation relating to his financial disclosure reports. Republican Bruce Blakeman is the Nassau County Executive. He tells Anderson Cooper why he thinks Santos should resign. Plus, court documents show that Brian Walshe, the husband of the missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe, was described as a “sociopath” and “physically violent” in a battle over his father’s will. The mother of three has been missing since around New Year’s and investigators have accused her husband of misleading the police about his actions around the time of her disappearance. Retired FBI Special Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole joins AC360 to discuss the description of Walshe. 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	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight.
0:02.0	Keep it up on us with the congressmen who cannot do the same for himself and the house leadership
0:06.6	who so far won't do it for him, though leaders now in his own district and his own party
0:10.6	are trying to.
0:11.6	They want him out.
0:12.6	So does the New York State Party chairman.
0:14.0	We're talking of course about George Santos, the freshman Republican congressman from New
0:17.7	York who lied about nearly all aspects of his life to help get himself elected.
0:22.6	Late today, yet another freshman New York House Republican Brandon Williams joined the
0:26.0	call for him to quit.
0:27.6	As for Santos, he says he's not going anywhere.
0:34.6	Now, of course, who knows if that's true.
0:44.2	I was nothing he has said about his life and career has been so far.
0:47.9	This is the same George Santos who said he worked at Goldman Sachs, which was alive.
0:51.6	Said he worked at Citigroup, which he didn't, meaning that too was alive.
0:55.1	The same George Santos who lied about the high school he went to in New York and the
0:58.1	college he said he graduated from.
0:59.8	He said it was Brook College and he got a degree in economics and finance.
1:03.2	He didn't.
1:04.4	He even told a Republican leader in his district he'd been a star athlete at Brook.
1:09.9	Told me I remember specifically, I'm into sports a little bit, that he was a star on the
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