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Indictment of the policies. people always believe that men and women are different with respect to their views towards the role of government. that women want a more activist, involved government. that safety net is there, but it's really been women showing up at these health care town halls in large part at the anti-tax rallies, pushing babies in strollers and elderly women in wheelchairs just to be part of the process and say wait a second, i'm concerned about microeconomics at the kitchen table level, but i'm also concerned about macromick kmiks. and there's a point here. this whole movemen...

In terms of head winds, because you've got the charlie rangel/maxine waters problem, where you've got two very high-ranking veteran democrats facing ethics charges and the potential of trials, public trials in the house ethics committee in september. how do you deal with that? >> i'm glad you asked that. it's another example of how we've actually strengthened the ethics process. the reason people are hearing about the case of charlie rangel and maxine waters is because we've put in place accountability measures to make sure that we have high standards and that people are held accountable to th...

Interest. and there are going to be times when republican members get in trouble, there will be times when democratic members get in trouble. and from the public interest perspective, i think the important question is, do you have in place a system to police yourselves? and the facts are clear. we have strengthened the ethics process and our republican colleagues, tom delay, when you had the ab ab ram hof scandals, they protected members who got in trouble. in fact, when their ethics committee chairman actually got serious about bringing some charges against tom delay, they removed their chair...

Obama's comments about rangel certainly, backers of charlie rangel did not like the comments and saw that as the president pushing hill out and democrats are divided on the issue and comes at the worst time and in some ways they are stuck because the ethics process, as it plays out, they have a right to a trial, we have breaking news, thanks for joining us, important developments in the mosque story. bill will tell us about that. bill: the vote is in by the committee of new york city and voting unanimously, 9-0, against keeping the landmark status of the building you see on the screen, 152-yea...

People's estimation is anti-business, except, apparently, if it pertains top her own husband. is the suggestion, by some. is that getting any traction. >> i think her case will be i was going to help the bank anyway and a minority owned bank should get a piece of the pie of the bailout passed by congress and the administration and she'll make the case she would have done it anyway but there is an appearance of impropriety and for politics you have to watch out for that and now the fact that waters is going to be on trial, along with charlie rangel, is going to actually put the ethics process i...