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Office of congressional ethics. it was put on to the whole rules package. and it was agreed to late last night. and then the next 12 hours, we saw it all fall apart. at love house numbers tell me they got calls from constituents, angry about this move. wondering if this was the right thing to be doing. if congress should really be policing itself house leaders met. i was outside of speaker ryans office at 11:00 a.m. this morning at the president-elect began tweeting. then they and conference mee...

Remember, it was about an hour, hour and a half ago house majority leader kevin mccarthy told reporters that there would be no changes to this rules package even though he opposed this change in the ethics body investigatory powers because is he worried about the optics. he made that case along with house speaker paul ryan privately in that closed door meeting last night, so this morning he said, look, the vote happened. its going to happen this afternoon. i dont like this. i agree with what don...

Leadership want to repeal obamacare, replacing obamacare, overhauling the tax code. trying to get rid of major regulations. and of course confirming donald trump cabinet and the supreme court justice. that doesnt mean there wasnt controversy yesterday. yesterday there was a significant amount of controversy after house republicans set to move forward with a rules package that would have gutted a key ethics watchdog, that actually polices members of congress. a lot of members do not like the way ...

Get rid of that proposal is part of a broader rules package. and the members agreed. relenting, agreeing on a rules reform bill. that also angered democrats because democratic members who staged protests without permission. so, a lot of controversy on the first day of the new congress. its a sign of things to come as they deal with things like obamacare and tax reform. >> thanks, manu. chuck schumer, the newly minted democratic leader saying hes ready to take on his republican colleagues. over...

Were not taking it in our k-12 schools right now. >> wasnt the republicans sending a message were not doing the ethically right thing? thats the way it was portrayed in the media. but you will re-visit? >> yeah, we pulled the amendment and well study it. well get it right. work with the other party. were on to do a lot of great stuff. the energy level is just so huge right now, thats just a little blip right now. >> yeah. you know what? one of the things that donald trump tweeted afterwards is m...

We thought that hr-1 was their new rules package for the house. turns out its not that. hr-1 is still to be determined. hr 2 of course was repeal obamacare. hr 3, the next thing they proposed, abortion. the no taxpayer funding for abortion act. who remembers john boehner campaigning by saying the first thing house republicans would do if they got control of the house would be to repeal health reform and the second thing theyd do would be abortion? that is not what they campaigned on. that is not...

They think theyre just talking to their base. when the republicans took control of the house this month, we thought that hr-1 was their new rules package for the house. turns out its not that. hr-1 is still to be determined. hr 2 of course was repeal obamacare. hr 3, the next thing they proposed, abortion. the no taxpayer funding for abortion act. who remembers john boehner campaigning by saying the first thing house republicans would do if they got control of the house would be to repeal health...

They think theyre just talking to their base. when the republicans took control of the house this month, we thought that hr-1 was their new rules package for the house. turns out its not that. hr-2 of course was repeal obamacare. hr-3, the next thing they proposed, abortion. the no taxpayer funding for abortion act. who remembers john boehner campaigning by saying the first thing house republicans would do if they got control of the house would be to repeal health reform and the second thing the...