Cameras caught Mitt Romney confronting George Santos at State of the Union.

WASHINGTON. Sen. Mitt Romney told a worried New York Rep. George Santos that he doesn’t belong in Congress during a tense exchange before addressing Congress on Tuesday.

The brief interaction was caught on C-SPAN cameras, and Romney later confirmed to reporters that he told Santos, “You don’t belong here.”

“I didn’t expect him to be standing there trying to shake hands with every senator and president of the United States,” Romney told reporters about Santos in an interview after Biden’s speech. “Given the fact that he’s under ethics investigation, he should sit in the back row and be quiet instead of flaunting in front of the President and people entering the room.”

Santos, 34, has lied about almost every aspect of his past, including college education, ethnicity and work experience.

“Look, he says he has embellished his record,” Romney continued. “The embellished one says you got an A when you have an A minus. The lie says you graduated from a college you didn’t even go to. He doesn’t have to be in Congress, they’ll go through the process and hopefully get him out. But he shouldn’t be there, and if he had any shame, he wouldn’t be there.

Romney said that if Santos answered him, he “didn’t hear.”

After the exchange, Santos returned to social media.

“Hey @MittRomney, just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT!” Santos tweeted on Tuesday evening.

Santos resigned from his positions on the committee due to a variety of ethical issues. He has faced multiple calls to resign and is facing multiple investigations by prosecutors regarding his personal and campaign finances, as well as lies about his personal life.