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Now weve got the issue of charlie rangel, cold cash jefferson. in trying to defend charlie rangel this weekend, who was found guilty of ethics violations, said, well he didnt jeopardize our country in any way. do the democrats now politically have it chicks as an issue going -- have ethics as an issue going into the midterm? >> not only charlie rangel, there were five other democrat members who participated in the same corporate junket that rangel did who were examine excused because -- excused ...

Charlie rangel, cold cash jefferson. in trying to defend charlie rangel this weekend, who was found guilty of ethics violations, said, well he didnt jeopardize our country in any way. do the democrats now politically have it chicks as an issue going -- have ethics as an issue going into the midterm? >> not only charlie rangel, there were five other democrat members who participated in the same corporate junket that rangel did who were examine excused because -- excused because they said their st...

Only way democrats can win midterm and if you remember, the reason that rahm had trouble in the clinton administration was, that he leaves a lot of dead bodies behind him and doesnt make friends, he makes enemies an delights in it and at some point, that is going to come back to bite you. >> chris: let me ask you, just to sum it up, bill, we always heard about the president, no drama obama team. is that beginning to fray. >> yes, great to have drama in the white house and rahm emanuel didnt get ...

From across the pond. what is your sense of the obama presidency one year in? >> i think, first of all, he has to realize that he took probably too many people from the campaign into the white house, that hes reliant on those people. he needs to have some people who are, if you like more experience in government as opposed to campaigning. secondly, he probably needs to outsource less to congress. hes been too deferential to congress. he needs to spill a little blood, flex a bit of muscle, be ang...

Presidency one year in? >> i think, first of all, he has to realize that he took probably too many people from the campaign into the white house, that hes reliant on those people. he needs to have some people who are, if you like more experience in government as opposed to campaigning. secondly, he probably needs to out source less to congress. hes been too deferential to congress. he needs to spill a little blood, flex a bit of muscle, be angry a little bit. im sure he believes, and he is a for...

Only way democrats can win midterm and if you remember, the reason that rahm had trouble in the clinton administration was, that he leaves a lot of dead bodies behind him and doesnt make friends, he makes enemies an delights in it and at some point, that is going to come back to bite you. >> chris: let me ask you, just team. is that beginning to fray. >> yes, great to have drama in the white house and rahm emanuel didnt get along with the white house lawyer, the democratic lawyer got him fired a...

His chairmanship? >> i think he will be forced out eventually. what we are looking at here is a replay of 16 years ago, the first midterm of a young promising democratic president in which you had the failure of health care and culture of corruption. the democrats were swept out of the house for the first time in a generation. >> bret: the olympics ends this weekend, u.s.a. hockey is riding high, just with another victory today. charles, wrap up the olympics for us? >> well, i dont know about yo...

>> bret: does he step down from his chairmanship? >> i think he will be forced out eventually. what we are looking at here is a replay of 16 years ago, the first midterm of a young promising democratic president in which you had the failure of health care and culture of corruption. the democrats were swept out of the house for the first time in a generation. >> bret: the olympics ends this weekend, u.s.a. hockey is riding high, just with another victory today. charles, wrap up the olympics for u...

Exuberance being exhibited at the conservative political action committee here in washington. we have never seen such large crowds and so much, really, passion from the floor. i mean, people shouting and screaming, you know, when scott brown showed up, unbelievable. waves of applause, enthusiasm. when dick cheney, the former vice president showed up, again, people encouraging him to run for president there is a sense right now, this is the conservative moment, that passions that were once for pr...

The irs. he had this rant saying i had enough. im finally ready to stop this insanity and one of the last ones, well, mr. big brother, irs man, lets try something different. take my pound of flesh and sleep well. two f-16s were scrambled by the pentagon because in a post- 9/11 world there has to be more precautionary measures when this happens. there will be a lot of dicki di and profiling into mr. stack today. an emerging conservative movement is setting its sights on the midterm election a c...