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President trump says a health care deal is coming soon. sources tell cnn the white house hopes to revive it before the hyundai mark. that means next week. by the way, congress is still in a recess. can a deal get done? let's ask a congressman from florida, a ranking member of the committee on ethics. great to have you on the show, first-time appearance. so going to get a deal done? >> it is hard to see how there is going to be a deal. if you look at -- chris, look at the way the last deal fell apart. you took a program that's added coverage for tens of millions of americans and has finally pro...

Any investigation by the oce. do they have to do that in order to ensure due process? >> of course not. look, you know they said they were going to drain the swamp. they've just -- they're distributing free swimming passes in the swamp by this change in the regulations. and i'll tell you one thing, my friends over at the democratic congressional campaign committee have already started to write the scripts for the ads in the 2018 mid-term election because this issue is going to haunt republicans. as asubstance, here's what's important. let's remember why we had this office in 2008. three member...

They have worked. at times that i have been overzealous? yes. at the end of the day the ethics committee had the responsibility of moving on those referrals. now you have the people who are being investigated controlling the gate investigators. they through the office of congressional ethics under a bus. they didn't drain the swamp, they made it more murky. >> steve israel, appreciate your service. look forward to have you as a voice on "new day." so that closed door republican vote to gut congress' own ethics watchdog as we were just talking about, this is the first move of the new gop-led ...

Not to tweet quick and easy sound bites, not to go on camera and criticize without constructive alternatives but to look at the long term implications and consequences of their policy making and make sure at the end of the day where obamacare can be improved it can, but don't repeal it and let's be careful about how we're going to replace it. >> steve, the ethics reform vote that they had last night, a reform using the term loosely. marsha blackburn was just on. she's obviously working with the trump transition, obviously in congress. she said this is about increasing transparency, allowing fo...

Ethics always has been. >> that was an independent group. that was an independent group. >> this is an independent group. >> operated independently. >> that is right. >> that's gone now. >> and anybody -- no, not at all. not at all. it is still there. it will be the office of complaint review, individuals can file a complaint but the difference is individuals are going to have -- those that are accused will have the opportunity to know who is accusing them. this is a move that is supported by individuals in each conference, democrat and republican. if someone is being accuse of something, let ...