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The longest serving lawmaker in the house skipped tuesdays vote only to be snapped by a twitter user who wrote "no first-class upgrade for john conyers tonight." cedric richmond explained. >> hes at home with his family. they are discussing the allegations and we are respecting his privacy. >> richmond leads the congressional black caucus with met yesterday and decided to withhold judgment until the ethics committee investigates. >> we are not urging john to resign. >> one of the democrats was c...

And 16. now theyre calling on conyers to step down. following reports that he paid a woman to settle a separate sexual harassment claim with taxpayer funds. >> the newspaper says conyers resignation would send a clear warning to other members of congress. its a betrayal that breaches the most fundamental trust that exists between a public servant and the people that person represents. even if conyers could prove that he did not make inappropriate advances toward his former staffer theres no defe...

Congressman conyers conduct. he is the longest serving lawmaker in the house of representatives serving more than 50 years. lets bring in our digital director, zach wolf. hes live for us in washington this morning. well get to conyers in just a moment but first i wanted to discuss the white houses changing tune on roy moore. i think we have a montage of how theyve shifted over the past two weeks. listen to this. >> is this senate seat that important? >> theres no senate seat more important than ...

>> very flexible, i suppose. we will talk gaen and see where the story line goes next. coming up next, the mystery illness sitting students and symptoms that are similar to polio. the longest serving lawmaker. its first elected way back in 1955. we will tell you who is looking to replace john dingle. ♪ feet...splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if youre trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz ...

Other similar programs in cities all over the nation. >> im glad you said. that that was my one question whether or not we would see this replicated across the nation. >>reporter: already getting phone calls and only open for a month. so they are phones ringing off the hook. >> interesting story. thanks very much. our national christmas tree. the one permanent my planted near the white house has died. here it is during the holiday season. you may remember. beautiful site here. workers remove t...

Contention between republicans and democrats. what to do about the 11 -- at least 11 million, 12 million or more people in this country. many people argued that you just cant deport them all. if you clamp down on the employment of illegal immigrants they will go home by themselves. >> we will be following the presidents speech. live pictures of the senate chamber where the coffin of senator robert byrd is set to lie in repose. longest serving lawmaker died monday at 92. in an honor of byrds pu...

Sitting inside. rite now going on inside actually near the capitol building at the senate judiciary committee are the hearings for elena kagan. she hasnt said a word yet because the members of the judiciary committee get to talk first and sort of frame their arguments, both pro and con, about this nomination. so much going on in washington today. not only do we have those confirmation hearings, we have the senate, indeed the house and all of washington mourning the death of senator robert byrd, ...