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So instead of standing up for people, the republican party stood in their way w i hope we will do better on job creation legislation next week. a loft breaking news the last 24 hours, talked about the economy. as ways and means chairman, you have gotten the gavel because of charlie rangels ethics problems and pressure to turn it over to you, even temporarily at the time they said. what should charlie rangel do now hes faces a public session next week that many democrats feel will give the republ...

Bill shultz, you disgust me. great job as always. that does it for me. im greg gutfeld. i am going out to get drunk. cay closed captioning services, inc >> bret: good evening. im bret baier. this is a fox news alert. the house ethics committee has taken another step in its pursuit of the potential violations by former ways and means committee chairman democrat charles rangel. correspondent molly henneberg joins me live now with details. good evening, molly. >> reporter: hi, bret. the investigati...

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 party thing. i think you lost them there. >> he is a revered member of congress. he has ...

Frankly. >> of course, you will feel intilted he is 80. he is like some young whipper snapper, i dont have to answer to you and obviously, that is ridiculous but thats the reality. it makes sense if you think about it but its wrong. it almost makes sense. >> he it before with another journalist so this is not new to him and it actually worked the last time because it blew everybody away. >> its a classic washington game of playing the messenger. >> i dont think classic washington, if we look at ...

Apparently signing up for the very support that he, you know, tortured his opponent in the primary for going after the support of mitch mcconnell. i think the hypocrisy is the topic here. these ethics charges, again, every candidate wants to say youve knot ethics problems and weve got ethics problems far bigger than what he can recertify his ophthalmology degree. >> we all have ethics problems on the left and the right. he was frustrated with the ox original board and they told people they could...

It. congressman mollohans middle name was ethics problems, hes been in trouble before. this -- i think he was going to lose either in the primary or the general election. martha: interesting. >> so he was in for 28 years. his father was in for a long, long time prior to that. so if ever antiincumbency was going to show up, it was going to show up no allan mollohan. martha: lets talk about what this may indicate for others out there. the arlen sex -- specter case is looked at as well. >> thats si...

>> i was. >> was it important youd learned about financial r financial planning? >> theres an argument for it and for all of these. >> the moratorium on earmarks, i suppose the numbers will go down in the house. is that prit? >> its possible. certainly in the house. republicans are calling for a total moratorium on earmarks. there are a few of them who are still going to go forward with earmarks. democrats are calling for a moratorium on all earmarks that are for-profit entities. in the senate, ...

Or tom -- im sorry. mark foli sending inappropriate texts to pages the sex stuff lingers. what kind of operation are you running? the problem for the democrats is something like charlie rangels ethics problems, those are hard to sell. this is easy to sell. >> the interesting point is corrupt and steal billions of dollars but do it in a way few people can understand it, grope somebody and send a text message you are out. >> david, what do you think? >> i agree with my republican friends who say t...

Congressman charles rangel, new york governor paterson and now eric massa all making headlines in the last week. all democrats, all facing ethics questions and in some cases more, all prompting the republican national committee to launch a new ad. it seems to cast democrats as hypocrites after promising to drain the swamp of ethics problems when they took control of the house in 2006. >> eric massa resigned after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced. pelosi called it rumor. >> most ethical ...

Numbers? >> well, they are correct and reflect the sentiment here in new york. and i dont think that there will be an opportunity for another 100 years as good as today to throw the bums out. >> is there something in the water up there, governor spitzer and now governor paterson, charlie rangel with ethics problems or congressman massa with his sexual harassment problems. whats going on up there? >> i believe the sentiment against legislators is around the country not limited to simply new york ...