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Deadline: White House

“Peeling an onion of deceit and corruption”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the house of cards of lies spinning around new Congressman George Santos and what his rise says about today’s Republican Party, what evidence from the January 6th Select Committee is the most prosecutable for the Justice Department, why a county in a key battleground state recounted its 2020 election results again and more. Joined by: Luke Broadwater, Charlie Sykes, Claire McCaskill, Denver Riggleman, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Jason Johnson, David Jolly, Pete Strzok, Harry Litman, Katie Phang and Michael McFaul.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone.

0:05.0

It's Borgark in the East and on this day when our country celebrates the life and legacy

0:09.6

of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

0:12.3

The human bodymen do the very best of what our country stands for when it is at its

0:17.1

best.

0:18.1

On this day of all days, it is impossible to ignore what is fast becoming arguably the

0:22.6

worst of what the disgraced twice impeached ex-presidents party now stands for today.

0:28.8

We are talking, of course, about George Santos, the newly minted Republican Congressman

0:33.1

from New York whose professional resume, his education, even teeny tiny little details

0:38.8

of his personal life have turned out to be either little white lies or outright pathological

0:44.9

falsehoods.

0:46.2

In the last 72 hours, there has been a breathtaking avalanche of new reporting on the House of

0:52.2

Cards that is George Santos' public life, where to begin.

0:56.6

Well, there is his secret resume on Earth by reporters at the New York Times that, quote,

1:02.0

reads like a detailed row map of his lies, including claims he attended Baruch College earned

1:07.4

an MBA from NYU and was a whiz kid at Goldman Sachs.

1:11.9

Then there's this bombshell reporting in today's Washington Post that Santos, quote,

1:16.2

has deeper ties and previously known to a businessman who is the cousin of a sanctioned

1:21.5

Russian oligarch.

1:23.2

According to the Post, the Russian oligarch's cousin contributed to Santos' campaign

1:27.8

and gave tens of thousands of dollars to committees linked to Santos.

1:32.1

George Santos declined to comment to the Washington Post and NBC News as not independently verified

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