US News | Republic Rep George Santos Quits US House Panel Following Charges Of Lying | English News — Transcript

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1. 0:05no I'm not
2. 0:09you gotta work with everybody
3. 0:11legislation to restore our
4. 0:13constitutional rights and freedoms after
5. 0:15two long years of Democrats covid-19
6. 0:18power grab policies all of my colleagues
7. 0:21particularly in New York state I
8. 0:24supported George Santos as the nominee
9. 0:26and the people of his district voted to
10. 0:29elect him now we just got out of
11. 0:31conference and George has voluntarily
12. 0:33removed himself from committees as he
13. 0:36goes through this process but ultimately
14. 0:37voters decide and I'm very proud that in
15. 0:40New York state we flipped five districts
16. 0:42to help deliver us the majority and
17. 0:45ultimately voters make this decision
18. 0:46about who they elect to Congress
19. 0:49again this process is going to play
20. 0:51itself out I've already commented on
21. 0:53this numerous times and again it's going
22. 0:55to play itself out but ultimately voters
23. 0:56are going to make that decision whether
24. 0:58it's in the primary election or in the
25. 1:00general election thank you
26. 1:01[Music]
27. 1:06yeah I'm pretty sure okay sir
28. 1:10okay you had the first question
29. 1:13um yeah I bet with uh George Santos
30. 1:16yesterday and I think it was an
31. 1:18appropriate decision that until he could
32. 1:20clear everything up he's awesome
33. 1:22committees right now was that something
34. 1:23that you asked him in the meeting we had
35. 1:25a discussion and he had
36. 1:30what would need to be what would being
37. 1:33his name being cleared to me going
38. 1:36through ethics uh on some of these
39. 1:38concerns and we'll make sure will allow
40. 1:41the voters have elected him he'll have a
41. 1:44voice here in Congress until he answers
42. 1:47all those questions then he'll at that
43. 1:49time he'll be as be seated would you
44. 1:51want to hear from point him to the
45. 1:53Committees if you then wanted him to
46. 1:54step down from the Committees he's not
47. 1:56appointed to committees he's going to
48. 1:58answer all the questions before