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Mubarak in and the question is, can he meet these standards. >> stay with us. we have congressman crowley here. i saw you responding to what david was saying. do you agree with him? do you think obama is edging away from mubarak. >> i do. if you take him to task, once referring to the people to say we want you to act peacefully in your protest, every other admonishment was towards the government. at the end, he said when i was in cairo, i reminded the edipgs people and the government that democracy needs to be retained not by coercion, meaning that maybe that's how it has been in the past. so ...

Say? >> i would like him to move on from attacking bp. obviously it's not in their into the have that going on. but more -- it's not helpful to very their share surprise driven down and impossible sums of money run from them. it don't help their shareholders in europe. i would like some admonishment of -- acknowledgment of what our two countries acleared collectively in defending freedom around the world. people in britain are very conscious of what your fathers did twice coming to the rescue of democracy. our countries have fought side by side. i think we would like some sense that the presid...

That went on about the former congressman's activities with interns and staffers and people that were concerned about him. but the larger picture of this is that he resigned from congress. so he's not really subject to any punishment from the ethics committee. it doesn't mean they are not going to do a formal investigation and do some sort of admonishment after the fact but really he's not subject to any punishment from them. if he did something wrong criminally, that's a different story. >> when you read through allegations, you've got staffers complaining of inappropriate behavior, touching,...

A lot of this is us trying to piece together his potential answers to the questions and what they would entail in terms of his criminal or ethics liability, if any. i don't want to go beyond what we know from reporting on the subject, but wouldn't it -- in terms of looking to this as an ethical matter would it help you in terms of figuring out liability to have answers to those questions from him? >> of course it would be helpful to have answers from him, but without that crew will bring toyota the house ethics committee and ask them to investigate the matter and mr. stupak can answer to the h...

There was some rebukes in there of public admonishments and that kind of thing. when you look back, do you think i should not have done this? >> no, i think they abused their -- no, i don't don't agree with the admonishment. i think they abuse their power. the ethics committee started this admonishment thing, and it destroys your due process. it's not a sanction of the house and it's not in the rules of the house and not even in the rules of the ethics committee. it's a warning letter. it used to be sent to you privately saying you ought to look out for what you are doing here and there, but n...