Rep. Ron DeSantis speaks with FBN's Maria Bartiromo and FOX News analyst Jason Chaffetz about Imran Awan, a Pakistani IT technician who worked for more than 40 House Democrats. He is accused of committing severe cyber breaches and drawing unusually high salaries for his relatives.



About the accusations, DeSantis said: "As you know, Jason, guys like me and even you as the chairman, we don't just investigate what we want to. I mean, this goes through the leadership. It needs to be approved. And I think the House leadership has not wanted any of us to get involved with investigating this. But the number of issues that are outstanding from this are really, really troubling."



"Some of the Awan family were getting paid a six-figure salary and not even showing up. One of the guys was working at McDonald's," he said.











"They had this kind of fake car rental outfit. They're going back and forth to Pakistan. Imran Awan had associations with a Hezbollah-linked figure in Iraq. They're sending money overseas," he added.



"And yet this is all just going on, and no one was asking questions."



He concluded: "You also have to look at the conduct of these Democratic members of the Congress. Why did they let this happen? Was there some underlying reason why the Awans were basically given free rein to run a scheme inside the Congress where they're getting paid for no-show jobs and they have basically, unadulterated access to these members' servers?"





CHAFFETZ: Hey, it's Jason Chaffetz. Ron Desantis and I served on two committees together. And it's good to see you and chat with you.



Earlier we spoke with a "Daily Caller" reporter about the scandal on the IT side there in the house of 44 Democrats bypassing a background check, and consequently a major breach of data. Is the oversight committee, is anything happening in Congress to hold Debbie Wasserman Schultz accountable on this?



DESANTIS: Oh, I wish the oversight committee were looking at it. This is something that I think needs to be dealt with. I've requested the ability to do that.



As you know, Jason, guys like me and even you as the chairman, we don't just investigate what we want to. I mean, this goes through the leadership. It needs to be approved. And I think the House leadership has not wanted any of us to get involved with investigating this.



But the number of issues that are outstanding from this are really, really troubling. I mean the background checks -- these guys had huge red flags. You had some of the Awan family were getting paid six-figure salary and not even showing up. One of the guys was working at McDonald's.



They had this kind of fake car rental outfit. They're going back and forth to Pakistan. Imran Awan had associations with a Hezbollah-linked figure in Iraq. They're sending money overseas.



And yet this is all just going on, and no one was asking questions. And so, yes, I think that you obviously need to figure out what damage was done by the Awans. We know there was a massive data breach. What extent did that happen? Was it tied in with any nefarious influences overseas?



You also have to look at the conduct of these Democratic members of the Congress. Why did they let this happen? Was there some underlying reason why the Awans were basically given free rein to run a scheme inside the Congress where they're getting paid for no-show jobs and they have basically, unadulterated access to these members' servers?



BARTIROMO: Right. One of the guys was 20 years old, and his starting salary was $165,000. Who makes that? I mean -- and now it happened, the "Daily Caller" investigative reporter Luke Rosiak was just with us and he said maybe these guys have something on the congressional Democrats.



Here's what he said about these new developments this morning. Watch this.



LUKE ROSIAK, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, "THE DAILY CALLER": Why are the members ignoring this? I mean this is the biggest story that you never hear about. It's a hack on the Congress by foreigners, and the Democrats didn't care about it, they didn't stop it.



These are the same people who are talking constantly about cyber breaches in Russia, and if you care about one, you've got to care about the other. Are members concerned are they being blackmailed? Are members concerned that if they speak out about this guy they testify against these guys and then lock them up.



These guys have something on them.



BARTIROMO: what do you think about this -- Congressman? Why? Do you have any idea why these guys are given all this leeway?



DESANTIS: There is no good explanation or at least no obviously innocent explanation for this. This just should not have happened, and the amount of information that was accessed is really, really troubling. Incidentally too, I mean, you know, we talk about some of the issues that Congress is dealing with about, you know, sexual harassment, treatment of women. Well, Imran Awan, he was involved with all kinds of stuff that was really, really bad in his personal life. These are things that would have been discovered had they done the proper background investigation.



And so this thing really, really stinks. There is an ongoing criminal probe, and Awan's been indicted. We've gotten a couple of briefings from the Justice Department, but we haven't gotten enough information to really know whether they're really significantly following through on all the different angles.



I mean you could just hit Awan on some minor charge and then move on. Or you can say how does this play in to this broader issue in the Congress, which members may have been culpable, and are you really going to do a serious investigation?



I can't tell you that that investigation is going on. I think it should, I wish it were. But I don't know for a fact that it is.