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That's something paul ryan has also said he doesn't want to do but his caucus is pressuring him for. >> julie pace, what does all this say, if anything, what does it portend for leer possibilities of keb mccarthy and paul ryan going forward given the fact they can't get membership to go along with ethics thing. >> is fascinating republican leaders say we oppose this and voted for it anyway. if you're donald trump you're saying, okay, maybe paul ryan and kevin mccarthy won't always have the pull they claim they do. i actually think this could be an interesting moment for trump. you have such pu...

Why was it needed? >> they are trying to claim this congressional eics mo.office of find what elements of this rule would aually make that happen. maybe we'll ar some surprises today on it. part of the problem is this happened bind closed doors and republicans for eight years have railed against obama and democrats doing health care and other measures behind closed doors. part of the problem is that when you do that, you don't have have a full accounting of what the decision making was. who was standing up in favor, who was standing up against. so republicans are running into the same trap tha...

Responded. senator elizabeth warren tweeting, quote, tell us, gop, who exactly thinks the problem with washington is that we have too many rules requiring the government to act ethically. mirity leader chuck schumer tweeted, house votes to turn independent ethics office into unread complaint box. why won't gop keep their party promise to drain the swamp. that, of course, is the slogan from the trump campaign. >> i'm sorry, go on, kasie. >> i was going to say essentially they are saying we're going to officially be able to have the ethics committee but we're going to bury everything underneath ...

Or barack obama might have gone there. or somebody else might have gone there. but we just -- we've never been able to do that because obviously we're in china's backyard. but they have got to do something. >> two factors there. yes, they are in china's backyard. china does not want the north korean regime to fall apart catastrophically for a number of reasons. influx of refugees, don't want this, don't want that. the other reason is north korea has nukes, you know. so when you talk about going in to a country that we know has nuclear weapons, it may not work well but they work well enough. so...

House of representatives. claiming credit. >> right. >> i can tell you this, newt gingrich had many failings as a leader. he was disorganized. as one of his close friends said to him before he was run out of town, newt, you can tell us what's going to happen in the year 2125, you just have no idea what's going on in your house for next week. this is the sort of thing, though, that newt gingrich would never allow to happen. he would stand up and say, you're being stupid. you really want your first headline of the new congress to be that you are stripping ethics laws? i will say this again, agai...