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Youre going to gut the committee, the independent body that governs the ethics of the congress. what signal does that send? it says youre not serious. it says within your own ranks theres rot and problems. i give you george santos, just the tip of that iceberg. so theres a lot going on here. this is all about retribution politics. theres nothing substantive thats going to come out of this. poor garrett, thats all i can say. poor garrett. >> yeah, you got an eyebrow raise from him there, michael....

>> that meeting, that imagine meeting you essentially had the leadership stand up there and say did you run on repealing obamacare or the tax code or run on gutting this thissics office giving you trouble the last years that youve been here? and the room kind of went quiet and that led to them ultimately changing this. i think one of the things we learned about -- a little bit was the relationship between donald trump, paul ryan and house caucus. one thing that was being discussed as donald trum...

Government instead of focussing on that. they kind of cant get out of their own way sometimes. >> they need to stop and think before they act. lets go back to capitol hill for breaking news and whether you are a democrat, republican, or independent, it sounds like, manu, that we should all say thank you, mr. president-elect. >> well, a major about-face, republicans have just dropped that ethics change, that change to the ethics rules -- the ethics committee would investigate members going forwar...

Substantive that youre trying to promulgate into a rule or law, you need to give more time. so the public can participate in elected office holder can understand what they are voting on. the problem with the office of ethics change is that it was strung at the last second. a lot of members did not havant opportunity to find out what was in it. im glad it was postpone to be improved or done better. >> why did that happen is that there was why would anyone think it was already to have there behind...

Paul ryan and majority leader kevin mccarthy. >> yes, it is true i opposed moving forward on this at this time. i thought it was something that both parties should take up at thsame time. >> mr. trump leading a national movement to drain the swamp on his campaign here in washington responded on twitter this morning, writing "with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priorit...