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Lot of noise to reach out to minoritys. this seems poisonous to that effort, not to mention the workings of democracy in general. >> thank you. >> a pleasure. thanks for having me. this afternoon house republican leadership finally weighed in on the scalise situation with a full defense of their colleague. speaker boehner with this to say. the show of support for scalise came after the speaker spoke to new york congressman grim. grim then resigned his seat days after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion.

Allegations con concerning his campaign finances. >> that was congressman michael grim threatening to throw a reporter off the balcony in the u.s. press gallery like a boy. i quote, like a boy." what is that? even after that, staten island did not have the decency to vote

Be a member of congress. but, at the same time, the etices committee investigation could very well happen p. it's been expected to happen since the justice department is investigating congressman grim. once they doo start to return to that investigation, if there is this kind of ground swell of feeling that congressman grim should probably go, they could send that motion to expel him from congress to the house floor. and that would take two-thirds majority to those members who are actually voting to pass it. >> and they could move that fastz, if they wanted to, particularly given his guilty pl...

Conversations might have happened already between michael grim and other republican leadership that might be trying to get him out? boehner's office has said that they've not spoken to grim. they're waiting to speak to boehner before they make any decisions. i any they're waiting to see what members are saying. i think that they also probably are waiting until after the holiday. they don't want to go, as you noted, they don't want to go into the new year with this bigger, stronger, republican majority and have to deal with democrats going on every press conference every week saying you have a ...

Against congressman michael gram. he was up for re-election, by that point, with a 20 count federal indictment hanging over his head. the prosecutor who brought those charges is loretta lynch who is president obama's nominee to be the next attorney general of the yietsds. when she first indicted michael grim on those 20 felony counts, he said he would fight the charges. said there was no way he was gmt of anyone. he was definitely, definitely nent. >> they're going to fight tooth and nail. we''re going to fight tooth and nail until i am fully kpon rated. we will fight these charges and congres...