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Republicans dont have their own ethics problems. can republicans make this stake in the same way that democrats seem to make the quote culture of corruption work against republicans in 2006? >> i think republicans would be followish. they should just shut up. a bipartisan ethics committee. let the process go forward. there are plenty of congressmen in both parties empirical and arrogant. mark foley. everybody says, i went back and looked at the polls. they were exactly as bad for republicans the...

They start to become for people symbolic in their mind of what the democratic majority is because its on the tv screen every day and thats what theyre looking at. >> see what happens especially if there are puppet trials in september. thanks for joining us this afternoon. >> thanks. >> if there were ethics problems, they wouldnt be on your tv screen every day. simple solution, right? should he stay or should he go? house speaker nancy pelosi saying she is out of the loop. thats a quote. when it ...

He got to congress by beating adam clayton powell in a democratic primary, congressman who had ethics problems. and the voters ultimately should decide this issue and if it goes to a full trial, its not helpful for democrats and i believe the election will still turn on the economy and that will be the major issue this fall. >> you know, i think you agree on that. the voters will be the ultimate people who decide whats going on with the ethics violation and lets go to a bigger question what were...

Your policies just do the opposite. with a fiercely anti-business tone. >> the senator reports that several provisions in the health care law that could hurt small businesses, like the employer mandates and the new medicare tax. and those are your headlines, are you all bonged up there. >> david with the chapstick. >> hes applying. >> i cant live without chapstick. im addicted. >> i understand that. >> all right, lets talk about whats going on in congress had morning, congress is waking up with ...

>> others disagree. there could be more ethics problems for democrats. sources indicate that the ethics committee could be close to issuing the report on a congresswoman who possibly helped a bank which she had family ties illegally. lawmakers on capitol hill are preparing now for their august recess. the chief political correspondent reports that voters are so angry about federal spending in washington, that members of congress may in the get much relief when they go home. this week, house memb...

Not exactly fit in with the narrative that the democratic party would like to have leading into the midterm elections. >> no. especially since they have a speaker who said she came to washington to, quote, clean out the swamp after a number of republican ethics problems. having said that, there are a lot of other things the democrats have to worry about, this election. but virtually charlie rangel is a high-profile democrat. hes not, as far as we can tell, have much of a problem in his district ...

Difference in the fall. >> others disagree. there could be more ethics problems for democrats. sources indicate that the ethics committee could be close to issuing the report on a congresswoman who possibly helped a bank which she had family ties illegally. lawmakers on capitol hill are preparing now for their august recess. the chief political correspondent reports that voters are so angry about federal spending in washington, that members of congress may in the get much relief when they go hom...

Great deal about this long-term congressman, and hes been on capitol hill for 40 years, lets go over some of the basics of the charges against him, that he what, four rent stabilized apartments in new york city, he was keeping them apparently for his offices. that he was not -- that he failed to pay taxes on avila that he rent -- a villa that he rented out in the dominican republic, that kind of thing. >> reporter: that kind of thing. as former chairman of the house, ways and means committee tha...

All right, molly is there going to be any kind of last-minute deal. >> reporter: hi shannon, you can tell from that comment right there that congressman rangel really does want to talk about this and give his side. lobbyers for congressman rangel and the ethics committee are still at it trying to see if a plea deal is possible before the ethics committees public hearing tomorrow. an investigative panel will release its findings on rangel. the 20-term u.s. congressman spoke this afternoon at the ...

Ethics committee in the house. for a long list of charges. you may remember the house speaker nancy pelosi in september of 2008 said these charges and all the investigation will be finished by the end of this congress. that was 2008. she was talking about january of 2009. were july 2010. back with the panel. bill? >> i have a soft spot for charles rangel. he is a little corrupt but he doesnt do as much damage for other big-spending democrats that wasted money. >> bret: you had them at the tea pa...