Rep.-Elect George Santos Admits To Lying About Past Work Experience, Education — Transcript

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1. 0:00turning now to new details and the
2. 0:02controversy surrounding newly elected
3. 0:04New York Congressman George Santos in a
4. 0:06recent interview Santos admitted that he
5. 0:09misrepresented several parts of his
6. 0:11resume while on the campaign Trail NBC
7. 0:13News correspondent Emily Ikea has more
8. 0:16on the Fallout
9. 0:17Gage in an Iran nuclear Long Island
10. 0:19representative elect George Santos a
11. 0:21republican Under Fire for lying about
12. 0:23his past now coming clean in an
13. 0:25interview with WABC radio a lot of
14. 0:28people overstayed in their resumes or
15. 0:30um twist a little bit or ingrangeate
16. 0:33themselves I'm not saying I'm not guilty
17. 0:35of that and telling the New York Post my
18. 0:37sins here are embellishing my resume I'm
19. 0:40sorry the embellishments a confirmation
20. 0:42of reporting from The New York Times
21. 0:44that Santos had not graduated from
22. 0:46college or worked directly at two major
23. 0:48Wall Street firms Citigroup and Goldman
24. 0:50Sachs but Santos maintained his
25. 0:52innocence on other fronts I'm not a
26. 0:55criminal who defrauded the entire
27. 0:57country and made up this fictitional
28. 0:59character and ran for congress Santos
29. 1:02denied reporting from The New York Times
30. 1:03that he is unresolved criminal charges
31. 1:05in Brazil questions were also raised
32. 1:08about a tax-exempt animal rescue group
33. 1:10Santa's claims to run according to the
34. 1:12times the IRS has no record of a charity
35. 1:14by its name and how he managed to lend
36. 1:16700 000 dollars to his Congressional
37. 1:18Campaign to which he responded that is
38. 1:21the money of that paid myself through my
39. 1:24company Santos also addressed claims
40. 1:26about his personal life telling New York
41. 1:28Post I never claimed to be Jewish while
42. 1:30his campaign website said that his
43. 1:32maternal family was Jewish and his
44. 1:33grandparents escaped Jewish persecution
45. 1:35this campaign was never about me it was
46. 1:39always about the people these questions
47. 1:41and Revelations coming just weeks after
48. 1:43pulling off an upset victory in the
49. 1:45midterms I've been around a long time I
50. 1:48mean a lot of people know me they know
51. 1:49who I am Santos shows no signs of
52. 1:52offering his resignation amid
53. 1:53increasingly louder calls to resign he
54. 1:56has spat in the face of every resident
55. 1:58in the third congressional district and
56. 2:01said that facts do not matter he's
57. 2:03expected to be sworn in before Congress
58. 2:04next month at the end of the day I
59. 2:07campaigned on issues and I campaigned to
60. 2:09deliver results those promises still
61. 2:12stand
62. 2:15our thanks to Emily akeda for that
63. 2:17report we should note that NBC News has
64. 2:19attempted to reach out to George Santos
65. 2:20but we've not yet received a response
66. 2:23Nassau County GOP spokesperson Mike
67. 2:25Deary says the party will not have a
68. 2:27statement until later today
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