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City issue. this is about land use and zoning and municipal laws. quite frankly, the president of the borough of manhattan should be helping to navigate this with the community and rebuff efforts by national republicans to create a wedge issue here. i thought the president was right on target. i got to tell you, some of the national republicans are starting to sound like joe mccarthy back in the 1950s. this is becoming something thats way out of control. >> its not just national republicans. per...

Public figures get jam up in the way they handle a situation? its very watergate-ish. >> you just nailed a very good point here. i hope people appreciate it. >> by the way, the judge is declaring a mistrial on all other 23 counts. just trying to keep everybody in the loop. >> well t there we go. so rod has a good day today. we wont know for a while, but maybe well know if they want to go after him again. heres a point i want to make on the false statement he made, he did not have to. the irony o...

How did you read the saturday morning comments? >> i thought first of all his first comments were very appropriate. he reminded us this is america. this is also new york city. religious freedom is being able to worship where you choose. the second comment on saturday was more nuance. the point he was making was, look, this is a local new york city issue. this is about land use and zoning and municipal laws. the president of the bureau of manhattan should be helping to navigate this with the comm...

Working its will. if thats what they do, im totally out of the loop. it is independent. it is confidential, classified, secret, whatever. we dont know what it is. but we do respect the work that the members of the committee do. >> im totally out of the loop, she said. do you buy that? >> well, its a poor choice or phrase for her because what she -- well talk about what she meant in a moment. what it sounded like is she was playing dumb and shes so smart, nobody believes she doesnt know about thi...

You do if you are an astronaut and the cooling system suddenly stops working in well talk to bill nye "the science guy" in 15 minutes. >> serious stuff! martha: you may remember, promising to drain the swamp in washington, but nancy pelosi giving no answer on charlie rangel facing 13 ethics charges now and this is sneak of the house yesterday. >> it is an elementary discussion, we have to wait and see what the committee decides, i am totally out of the loop. it is independent, it is confidential...

The scenes on -- unbeknownst to a lot of people negotiating a plea deal and just like charlie rangel, she effectively said theres no deal here. bring on the trial which would be interesting because its been a long time since the house has had two trials going on at the same time. and apparently, because there is just -- theres limited window of opportunity timewise to have trials on capitol hill. >> theyre going to do his and shes going to have to wait until after the election. >> maybe nancy pe...

Said, you know what? we did drain the swamp. charlie rangel is proof of it. and then kind of pin down, whats going on behind the scenes with the ethics investigation? she doesnt know whats going on. nothing. listen. >> the ethics committee is working its will. respect what they do. im totally out of the loop. it is independent. it is confidential, classified, secret, whatever. we dont know what it is. but we do respect the work that the members of the committee do. >> is that possible? is that p...

>> good morning, everyone. its monday, august 2nd. heres whats happening at this hour. house speaker nancy pelosi says she was draining the swamp but now she says she doesnt know whats going on. >> the ethics committee is working its will. thats what they do. im totally out of the loop, its independent. it is confidential, classified, secret, whatever. >> former white house press secretary dana perino gives us her take on that. >> and president obama just over a year and a half into his term, so...

Dignity. my hope is that happens. >> i said well drain the swamp. we did. we passed the most sweeping ethics reform in history of the congress. personal respect you may have for people makes us sad about the course of events we will wait to see what the committee decides. im totally out of the loop. its independent and confidential. classified, secret, whatever. we dont know what it is. but we do respect the work that the members of the committee do. >> congressman rangel was the first african-a...

Election. this is not a moral stand theyre taking. the ones in power are saying dont worry about it. this is no big deal. it happens all the time. the american people are sick of hearing it happens all the time, while the deficits have been quadrupled in the past year. they have had it with the arrogance of government. theyll speak and the ethics committee can do what it wants but the ultimate ethic committee are the american people. >> this morning, speaker pelosi said she was out of the loop o...