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Needed to get something done, you could use an earmark and get certain members to come over to your side on a vote and move legislation. >> yeah. and casey hunt, just remember any conversation that you ever have with donald trump, if you got him in a room and you sort of tried to nail him down on issues, you would ask discover that he's a democrat. >> on this earmark issue, the president is right. it was easier to get things done when earmarks were around. you can see the business guy who wants to be able to shut the door behind two people and offer things. you want this, you want that? i'll m...

The olympics. that's become a bit awkward now that he's on the campaign trail bashing santorum as an earmark guy. >> how much is that hurting him, him standing up saying those things that the earmarks are hurting romney and he's making a big deal that he's not from inside washington, the culture of earmarks? >> i don't know how much it's hurting him at this point, but it's given santorum an opening. part of this is because romney in the last few weeks has been increasingly aggressive going after santorum. they looked for vulnerabilities and they seized on the earmark issue because it's true as...

Because it was actually put in a highway bill and not the spending bill. >> this wasn't the only announcement republicans made today. they also hit democrats on recent ethic woes. >> reporter: that's right. you know former democratic congressman eric mass sa whose resignation was effective monday amid ethics issues possibly surrounding misconduct with male members of his staff. what you had here was a one-two punch between the earmark thing and they're also pressing -- republicans also pressing democrats on mass sa say ia the know how much democratic members knew, what they knew. they actually...

Welcome back to the "newsroom." a lot of big goings on today in washington. stick with me. i have information you need to know. first, to the house of representatives. i want to tell you what they are not working on right now, at least not there on the house floor. they're not working on the deal that we've been talking so much about to stop taxes from going up the first of next year. the bill passed in the senate. the house was working on that. then the democratic leadership pulled the bill from the floor. and actually let's go now to harry reid. >> separation of powers. and one of the issues...