remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he can't seem to keep his records straight, the kind everybody has to, whether we're in congress or not. joining me now, joe johns and melanie sloan, currently executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. next year she'll go into private practice with lanny davis. melanie, is congressman rangel corrupt? he says it's not corruption because he wasn't personally benefiting financially but is there an argument to be made? >> i think there is. i think if you ask most americans, they'd think that if you're getting a bunch of apartment that's other people couldn't have access to, that if you're trading on your influence in congress in order to raise money for basically a big monument to me, people would have problems with those kind of things, as well as a tax violations, for example, failing to disclose income, those are things that directly benefited mr. rangel. >> you were at the house today, what was his mood like? >> humiliated, no. contrite, no. apologetic, yes.
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