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What a message. a new congress gavels in at noon. set to neuter the ethics office that watches over it. you heard that right. republicans usher in a new era of power with congress and the white house and after president-elect trump promised to drain the swamp, last night behind closed doors, republicans voted to end the independence of the independent office of ethics office. they require the office to refer complaints to law enforcement or house ethics committee. the mets you a measure would allow to stop the ethics investigation and bar the committee of public statements. in english, that me...

Thought that this office was unfair and allowed anonymous complaints to go forward, started investigations on flimsy evidence. but it was stronger than having the members police themselves. >> eric: that's a great point, under the old rules, or what could be the old rules, they could basically investigate anything, they had to make the findings public, they had to report within 90 days, and they could take anonymous tips. now this new complaint office apparel he doesn't do any of that. >> usually sunlight is the best disinfectant here, and we have now this entity being underneath the house eth...

Created in the wake of some very serious congressional investigations leading up to its creation. now some problems came with it. the investigations weren't made public. they came often through anonymous tips. this riled up lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. some concerns about whether this was being done as political payback or digging dirt off before elections. this has existed -- this consternation about this committees has existed for awhile. this is the first time we've seen a major move not just to cut back or reform it but go the nuclear option of this and take away its independence ...

The house republicans did? >> no. i haven't discussed this with him. >> you don't know his -- you sound like you're favorable toward it. >> i didn't say that. joe asked me the question is it inconsistent with draining the swamp. i'm trying to explain based on what i know and read and reporting to reporters around the table why this happened. of course the leadership opposed it as well. >> leadership opposed it because it does weaken that sort of scrutiny that frankly congress ought to have to me, and paul ryan opposed it and kevin mccarthy opposed it. it would be great to know what the preside...

>> a lot of people. >> of course. anyone that we knew who had a relationship with her. >> maybe leah's p.r. campaign helped because -- >> we had some anonymous tips, people saying that they saw her at this location. >> but not a single one of them led to nailah. by now the detectives believed they were dealing with a serious crime, and yet -- >> she's missing. technically there hasn't been a crime committed. >> that makes it somewhat awkward when you're looking into it. >> but anyone that we knew she had contact with, the boyfriend she was in wisconsin with the weekend before she went missing,...