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I want to bring in representative jim hines. he is a congressman from connecticut joining us now. he is not a republican. lo at the look on his race face when i said republican. he is a democrat, in fact. any thoughts of changing parties of a that speech you just heard from paul ryan? >> i don't think so. they are going through here today with their, you know, opening day gambit to gut at the timics committee. i think i'll stay on my side of the aisle. >> what do you make of that? i think the issue has passed us by, but the concept that something almost happened that the speaker, who -- the re...

Tweet saying hey guys this may not be the wisest time or the wisest way to do this. then the republicans back off. it calls into question -- this is a dynamic we will be revisiting because there are a lot of issues where donald trump and paul ryan as they head into the trump presidency this month there are a few number of issues where they are not aligned. if there is a clash does raise the question of -- >> who's the boss. >> trump or ryan. >> we have a separation of powers, who is actually running the show here. you can see the bottom right of your screen, the senators who are being sworn in...

Congressional ethics was overzealous. overaggressive in looking for possible wrongdoing, and that people's names in their view were getting dragged into the mud when they necessarily didn't need to be. that accusations were being made but not backed up. the point made by some republicans was, hey, there is smil going to be oversight. i think the concern from a lot of people and why you saw the flip back, were people simply not buying that necessarily. as one ethics lawyer put it, it was like the sort of fox guarding the hen house at that point. the lawmakers whore supposed to be sort of watch ...