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Counfident they can win at the appellate level, the 9th circuit in san francisco and then ultimately goes to the u.s. supreme court. are you as confident that they can succeed. >> im confident they will ultimately prevail. but, the 9th circuit court of appeal, interestingly, the most liberal court in the entire country, most liberal appellate court in the country has supported arizonas position on every anti-illegal immigration measure that has been brought before it. and that is important to re...

Big way after 40 years in congress, is his reign about to end? charlie rangel made a comment moments ago to reporters on the hill, with the house ethics committee, at some point this morning and said 60 years ago he survived an attack by the chinese and north korea and wrote a book about it and said that was the worst day of his life. and now he says, today i will have to reassess that statement. were waiting for the charges to be made public and charges that could be quite serious for charlie r...

Have to worry at this point if they cant get him to step down, if they cant get him to remove himself from the public eye, this really starts to hurt the rest of the democratic party because people are going to be saying when they hear these charges aired publicly, look, this is a bad guy, with substantive charges, why wasnt he gone earlier. bill: stephen, thank you, thats the lead story this morning. were waiting on news and when we get it, well bring it to you here. for more on this, capitol h...

Found some evidence of wrongdoing. then, the public hearing will begin at 1:00 eastern time, this afternoon. representative jane green, a democrat from texas and jo bonner, a republican from alabama headed the investigative panel and will present their reports to the 8 members you talkeded about of the ajudicatory committee and that committee ultimately will recommend a punishment, perhaps, once they get a report and do the public trial theyll send to the full ethics committee and this is all ba...

Waiting to see which way this is going to go. doug stern, good morning to you, you worked in washington n. new york, you asked a good question during the commercial, you said why not cut a deal. >> i know. first of all, with the caveat that its hard to handicap whats going on behind closed doors, in other words, the discussions between rangels lawyers and the house lawyers -- >> bill: maybe hes cut ago deal. >> its very possible but frankly im surprised its going so close to the deadline, 1:00 t...

Important story, but you are in new orleans, so when you get off today, go to dom louises and tell them i september you! >> will do, arthel! bill: one of the crazy stories about that yesterday was where has all the ail gone. >> exactly. exactly. bill: did the dispersants work that well, where did it go? >> lots of questions. bill: maybe the skimmers have worked that well. >> all i care about at this point, i want to clear up the gulf but i want to make sure the people are taken care of in terms ...

-- >> but the point is its going to be unbelievably interesting to see how politicians reek. if this starts going south, do they abandon him, do they stick around with him. bill: were waiting to see and hear about that. some of his colleagues told him to get out. were getting a lot of e-mail. >> are you? >> bill: yeah, bya, linda writes will new york city file criminal charges against those who coal youd with rangel in reference to the apartment necessary new york city. none of this has been pro...

President. and saying heres what we have been doing on the jobs issue, coming back to jobs. >> this is message clear at this point? before that was something that was a problem for the dems, they didnt have a clear message selling exactly what they would consider successes. >> i think that is right. and i think again a matter now, people are distancing themselves and it doesnt help the president but nancy pelosi and the like are challenging the president, when the press secretary robert gibbs ca...

Tonight, or expect to meet with -- if they want to meet. >> do you want to meet with them? >> the are your indications are that there is one tonight? have you heard any of -- have you heard of any reason? >> bill: thats about as much as youre going to get out of him these days. steven hayes, rarely do charges like these reach this point because a lot of times a member of congress simply resigns and walk away and saves the party and saves him or herself. why has it gotten to this point? >> i thin...