(Reuters) - Missouri’s attorney general called on Governor Eric Greitens, a fellow Republican, to resign on Wednesday, saying the findings of a newly released state legislative report on the sex scandal embroiling Greitens are grounds for his impeachment. Shortly before the report’s release, the governor shot back that the committee’s findings were “full of more false, outlandish and salacious accusations.”

“Over three years ago, I made a personal mistake,” the governor said at a news conference. In a statement issued after Hawley’s call for him to step down, Greitens repeated his assertion that his relationship with the woman, identified in the indictment only as K.S., was “entirely consensual,” adding that “any allegation of violence or sexual assault is false.”

He also has denied trying to blackmail the woman or engaging in any other criminal behavior to keep their months-long affair confidential. The comments came less than an hour before a special committee of the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives was set to release a report on its own investigation of the scandal.
A special investigatory committee from the Missouri House of Representatives releases a report on Governor Eric Greitens's alleged invasion of privacy and sexual misconduct.