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Republicans don't have their own ethics problems. can republicans make this stake in the same way that democrats seem to make the quote culture of corruption work against republicans in 2006? >> i think republicans would be followish. they should just shut up. a bipartisan ethics committee. let the process go forward. there are plenty of congressmen in both parties empirical and arrogant. mark foley. everybody says, i went back and looked at the polls. they were exactly as bad for republicans the day before the foley scandal hit on september 28th as they were the next week and as the final vot...

They start to become for people symbolic in their mind of what the democratic majority is because it's on the tv screen every day and that's what they're looking at. >> see what happens especially if there are puppet trials in september. thanks for joining us this afternoon. >> thanks. >> if there were ethics problems, they wouldn't be on your tv screen every day. simple solution, right? should he stay or should he go? house speaker nancy pelosi saying she is out of the loop. that's a quote. when it comes to the house ethics committee's investigation into democratic congressman charlie rangel ...

He got to congress by beating adam clayton powell in a democratic primary, congressman who had ethics problems. and the voters ultimately should decide this issue and if it goes to a full trial, it's not helpful for democrats and i believe the election will still turn on the economy and that will be the major issue this fall. >> you know, i think you agree on that. the voters will be the ultimate people who decide what's going on with the ethics violation and let's go to a bigger question what we're seeing here in congress just with these two situations, with rangel and now congress woman maxi...

Your policies just do the opposite. with a fiercely anti-business tone. >> the senator reports that several provisions in the health care law that could hurt small businesses, like the employer mandates and the new medicare tax. and those are your headlines, are you all bonged up there. >> david with the chapstick. >> he's applying. >> i can't live without chapstick. i'm addicted. >> i understand that. >> all right, let's talk about what's going on in congress had morning, congress is waking up with an unbelievable approval rating. through the roof. 11% approval rating this morning for congres...

>> others disagree. there could be more ethics problems for democrats. sources indicate that the ethics committee could be close to issuing the report on a congresswoman who possibly helped a bank which she had family ties illegally. lawmakers on capitol hill are preparing now for their august recess. the chief political correspondent reports that voters are so angry about federal spending in washington, that members of congress may in the get much relief when they go home. this week, house members, next week senators, start the august break with voters ahead of the final campaign sprint to el...