-Sir, do you plan to resign due to your comments, the backlash?
-George Santos has become, arguably,
one of the most interesting members of the 118th Congress --
but for less than desirable reasons.
-So, a few weeks ago, it came to light
that this Republican candidate
who ran in the 3rd District of New York, George Santos,
that he told voters for several months
that he went to a certain college,
that he used to work at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
These institutions have no record of him even attending --
even the college he went to or the charity he founded.
-Santos' claims are numerous and wide-ranging.
His accounts of being wealthy, biracial,
and a Ukrainian descendant of Holocaust survivors
have all been debunked.
He's admitted to giving false information
on his education and career background,
and he's gone as far as giving conflicting accounts
of his mother's death.
-When you are on the campaign trail,
you are saying things about yourself or your work history
that will make voters think that you're a really great candidate.
And so he has really heavily pushed the fact
that he was really big into finance,
that he came from nothing,
that he created this whole life for himself.
Since the story came to light and even The Washington Post
also started digging into his past and also started finding
that he started calling himself by different names
and a lot of other things about his past
that people just really didn't know
and more things to come to light,
he has since come out and just addressed
one of the first, initial reports about him.
-I'm not going to make excuses for this,
but a lot of people overstate in their résumés
or twist a little bit or ingratiate themselves.
I'm not saying I'm not guilty of that.
-Among the revelations about Santos,
a $700,000 loan he made to his campaign
is raising more questions
and may lead to more trouble for the incoming Congressman.
-There are still questions that remain
about where exactly that money came from
if he didn't work at the places he said he worked.
When you running for Congress,
you have to fill out these financial disclosure forms.
And you have to answer as accurately
and honestly as possible.
But if he knowingly fabricated and lied
on these financial disclosure forms you submit to Congress,
then he could have possibly broken a number of laws.
-While there are no roadblocks
in the way of Santos being sworn in,
he is already facing challenges upon entering Congress.
Representative Ritchie Torres of New York
has introduced legislation
requiring candidates who seek federal office
to provide details of their education and employment history
while under oath.
The bill is called
the Stop Another Non-Truthful Office Seeker Act --
or the SANTOS Act.
Most notable in their silence on the matter
is Representative Kevin McCarthy,
who Santos supports as the next House speaker.
-Santos.
McCarthy.
-You had other Republicans asking him
to seriously consider resigning,
and then you had other Republicans asking him
to stay in Congress and defending him.
And so what you saw his first day in Congress,
he was very silent.
You saw photos of him sitting by himself.
He ignored reporters' questions.
But he did state time and time again
that he's going to support Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.
And as everyone knows, Kevin McCarthy needs
all the votes he can get in order to secure that role.
-Santos is currently under investigation
by the U.S. Attorney's Office
in the Eastern District of New York
along with the Nassau County New York District Attorney's Office.
Santos also faces investigation
by the Rio de Janeiro prosecutor's office
for a 2008 incident regarding a stolen checkbook,
a case that was archived because they couldn't find him.
Santos, in the meantime,
has made no indication that he plans to resign.
-He most likely will be sworn in,
but that doesn't mean there's not going to be
that pressure campaign
for people to still try to urge him to resign.
The whole issue of the legal problems that he might face --
That is something that we are still going to look after
in terms of the consequences that he's going to face.
This has been a case like no other,
and now you have federal prosecutors
that are looking into him.
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