Who really is George Santos?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's US correspondent James Matthews to unpick a series of alleged lies by Mr Santos including about his heritage and jobs he never held. Plus, he asks Republican strategist, Rina Shah, what could happen next to the controversial politician.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editors: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Neil Patterson and on this episode, |
| 1:06.0 | I'll be telling you about a rather intriguing story of American politics. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, on this side of the Atlantic, |
| 1:12.0 | we are somewhat used to politicians telling just a few porkies. But let me introduce you to George |
| 1:18.8 | Santos. Oh, good morning. Shabbat, shalom to everybody. Thank you for being here. Thank you for |
| 1:24.4 | having me. My name is George Santos. My parents came to this country |
| 1:28.0 | in search of the American dream. Today, I live that American dream. Or better yet, let's in fact |
| 1:34.7 | ask our US correspondent James Matthews. James, good to see you. Thanks very much, Neil. |
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