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Pelosi's staff for two reasons, one that massa was living with several male staffers and he had lunch with an aide to congressman barney frank of massachusetts and congressman frank himself is openly gay. bill: a lot of this is relative to the whole debate on health care and eric massa gave a whole lot of reasons why he was removed from congress, one was he was a no vote for health care reform. if pelosi did not know about the allegations when reported in october, should she should been told or known? >> that's the question now. maybe the allegations as reported in october weren't particularly...

Surfaced. pelosi called it rumor. >> most open and most ethical congress in history. >> pelosi's wrong. it's time to change washington. >> communications director for the republican national committee, are you concerned at all that an ad like this could have backlash? this is clearly playing politics with somebody who is a mess. >> well, you know, if you look at the ad, it's not about eric massa or charlie rangel, whose also mentioned in the ad. it's about the house democratic leadership. what did nancy pelosi know and when did she know it? she pledged to have the most ethical and open congres...

To report its findings and recommendations no later than june 30th, 2010. what this resolution is really looking for is when did these democratic leaders know about these allegations, what did they do about it afterwards? very interesting to see how this will fly today on the floor of the house, contessa. >> luke, thank you for staying on top of it. i know i've heard from some of you who have had enough of the eric massa scandal and you're not alone. rhode island congressman, patrick kennedy, also has. kennedy blasted the media for coverage of the massa mess. >> if anybody wants to know wher...

To pull $500 billion out of medicare, he has to get that money somewhere, and if you can imagine doubling taxes in ten years? that will bring our economy to a standstill. bill: i want to shift our focus to a story that's still bubbling out there today regarding a former member of the house, eric massa. i don't know what's been reported, i don't know when it was reported, i don't know what nancy pelosi knew or her staff knew or did not know. what is your view based on what you're hearing and how that was handled? >> i think the view that we have seen all along is that all of these deals are bei...

Doors, backroom deals and all the other things associated with the bill. >> that people care about, that often goes -- >> i think that this whole politics has become so performive look agent the state of the union or something like an outburst like this people are performing i want the business of doing government to be really boring. i want it to be painfully boring. that's what lets me know something is getting done. this does not give me confidence stuff is getting done. >> so you want george bush back right? >> i want no theatrics. i don't want the president stoning members of the supreme ...