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Indictment of the policies. people always believe that men and women are different with respect to their views towards the role of government. that women want a more activist, involved government. that safety net is there, but its really been women showing up at these health care town halls in large part at the anti-tax rallies, pushing babies in strollers and elderly women in wheelchairs just to be part of the process and say wait a second, im concerned about microeconomics at the kitchen table...

In terms of head winds, because youve got the charlie rangel/maxine waters problem, where youve got two very high-ranking veteran democrats facing ethics charges and the potential of trials, public trials in the house ethics committee in september. how do you deal with that? >> im glad you asked that. its another example of how weve actually strengthened the ethics process. the reason people are hearing about the case of charlie rangel and maxine waters is because weve put in place accountabilit...

Interest. and there are going to be times when republican members get in trouble, there will be times when democratic members get in trouble. and from the public interest perspective, i think the important question is, do you have in place a system to police yourselves? and the facts are clear. we have strengthened the ethics process and our republican colleagues, tom delay, when you had the ab ab ram hof scandals, they protected members who got in trouble. in fact, when their ethics committee c...

Obamas comments about rangel certainly, backers of charlie rangel did not like the comments and saw that as the president pushing hill out and democrats are divided on the issue and comes at the worst time and in some ways they are stuck because the ethics process, as it plays out, they have a right to a trial, we have breaking news, thanks for joining us, important developments in the mosque story. bill will tell us about that. bill: the vote is in by the committee of new york city and voting u...

Peoples estimation is anti-business, except, apparently, if it pertains top her own husband. is the suggestion, by some. is that getting any traction. >> i think her case will be i was going to help the bank anyway and a minority owned bank should get a piece of the pie of the bailout passed by congress and the administration and shell make the case she would have done it anyway but there is an appearance of impropriety and for politics you have to watch out for that and now the fact that waters...

Maxine waters deciding she would rather go through this process of an ethics trial rather than just accept a judgment against her by the ethics committee, a judgment that says she violated house rules. so she wants her day in court. this is what were hearing from a source familiar with the ethics process. we know waters has been under investigation since last fall having to do with allegations that she set up a meeting between a bank called one united and the treasury department. this all happen...

The waters investigation? >> we know maxine waters has told authorities he was born in been under investigation for several months now, since last yemen, not here in the united states. years later, that lie almost got fall. and she has been under him arrested. investigation by an ethics he was investigated for passport subcommittee for setting up a ming between treasury department fraud following 9/11 but the officials and one united bank. arrest warrant was rescinded, the thing here that raises...

While rangel has admitted to making mistakes, water admits shes done nothing wrong. these potential trials show that the ethics process is working. really? theyre both still there. in 2006, the republicans ran into a series of scandals, including then senate majority leader tom delay and duke kung ham who i think is still in jail. in 1994, it was the democrats who lost the house amid allegations that top democrats including a guy from illinois were misusing funds from the house post office. anyw...

Important development. were following it closely. but we also think its important that weve seen now politics break out in the country there. the vice president has said. so we think these disagreements and so forth are being worked out in a political, democratic process and we think thats all to the good. >> how worried are you that a shiite led government in iraq will further enhance its relationship with the shiite led regime in iran? >> you know, wolf, of the many things i worry about thats ...

Disregard for the rules. in addition to him, kilroy, minick mick, sutton and kirkpatrick say he should step down. other democrats say they want to let it play out. >> if he did wrong, he will own up to it. if he didnt do wrong, he will defend it. but he loves this institution more than anything else besides his family. and i have a lot of confidence in him. >> house democratic leaders though have not publicly called for rangle to step down. they say only that the ethics process is working. jon? ...