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Black powder. none powerful enough for fatalities. one package sent to the national defense at ft. mcnair had explosive material. scanning the packages are examined in quantico, virginia. the ethics inquiry targeting jared kushner. this stems from the meetings at the white house where the kushner companies were loaned more than $500 million. the head of the government office disclosed that in letters to democratic lawmakers. two companies confirmed they made the loans to the business, but deny...

From the russia investigation? do the rules apply here at all? >> he did remove himself. he was facing an ethics inquiry. he was cleared of that and clearly he is -- >> close to the speaker. >> he has injected himself back into this. >> that leads to the question where is the speaker? >> you hear the speaker saying in a way -- hes trying to make a distinction. i wonder if its lost on some people. hes trying to say when youre dealing with all of this memo stuff, keep it separate from the investig...

Bring discredit on the investigation. what you see here is you have nunez who went running to the president with information got caught up in an ethics inquiry. we understand he has been delaying subpoena requests and wants to raise things just to knock down the end result. i think it is interesting that the president has kept himself removed just like any good god father would. im not surprised by it. it is nothing really new in this thing. everybody who has been investigated as a leader of a c...

Aside high pressure i think the republican party should have disowned opheim they havent. when roy moore gets to washington which is not a foregone conclusion is going to face a ethics inquiry. the difference is franken succumbed to political pressure. if a thousand people asked roy to resign would ever do that. the only way to get mor moore out of the senate is to go through the ethics committee process and move to expulsion. >> but there is truth so what he says. most people agree to that whet...

Mitch mcconnell has suggested that the ethics inquiry will begin immediately. he was stronger in talking about this on tuesday after he seemed to back away a little bit, but i think its going to be something that if moore wins, its going to be something were talking about for some months to come. >> kasie, kristen, thanks very much. catch up with you both later on. as we said, president trump is meeting with democratic and republican leaders at the white house about a key spending bill to avoi...

Representatives-- >> i would want friends. neil: and this all happens the same week that al franken came back and spoke on the floor of the senate last night to protest the tax cut so hes trying to rebuild himself there, so far so good on that front. john conyers, maybe not so much and the house thought eventually hell be forced out or at least force today resign. s saying no to that, but you get the gist here, there are a lot of controversies and scandals, a couple of other congressmen who sent...

Want to see the results. >> but you dont think he needs to step down? >> as of now i think its appropriate that there be an ethics inquiry. hes made it clear again today that he is, to quote him, ashamed. its appropriate to have the ethics inquiry. and thats how i think he ought to go forward. >> all right. senator ron wyden, ranking member on the senate finance committee. thank you so much. be sure to tune in tomorrow night for a special cnn debate on the current state of the tax bill. the vo...

Its tilted in favor of the multi national corporations and to some extent its just a con job. its a con job on the middle class, its a con job on young people, its a con job on seniors because medicare would take a hit. what we want is a bipartisan bill. ive written two of them. democrats are going to making it clear in the next two days thats our preference. we think its doable and the route we ought to take. >> i have to ask you about your fellow democratic senator al franken. he had a press c...

Election, in a free and fair democratic election, that she should at least give a bullet point of the crimes that she alleges he has committed? she hasnt. >> i think that she has alleged the same things that parties on both -- people on both parties have said. we need to have a free and openn and fair inquiry into a number of things that rise to the level of being objectivelyd questionable. the back channels of pressure, the continued ongoing meetings with russia that were not on the record -- >...

Visited with the young man who did what he did that led to reginald dennys death years later. we know that she did visit with his family. im not defending that action by congresswoman waters because it is indefensible. but for those who participate in the public sphere, like you and i do, over a substantial amount of time, we all have things that we probably wish we wouldnt have said, and im sure she would like to have a get back. but she does have it -- >> tucker: is there any evidence of that?...