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from voters. candice said, look, it's time for a change for my generation. she's 30. she said, rangel's a fool, he doesn't help us get affordable housing, but he has three apartments. that's a grassroots kind of ground-level view of the ethics issues. i talked to another gentleman, charles, 80 years old, who told me, rangel's been around so long, i think this is his last hurrah, i trust him. two views from the ground there. your thoughts on that race, whether rangel holds on, and the nature of the opposition to him, someone who msnbc viewers will recognize who's a long-time leader of the congressional black caucus, has his fans, but also has many detractors. >> well, i think it's interesting that the governor of the state, andrew cuomo, and former president bill clinton are sticking with him. i think that's interesting and not insignificant. i'm amazed at the conventional wisdom as of this minute is rangel is going to hold on. i'm not amazed because i think
trying to get african-americans, mostly democrats, to come vote for him. another race with a tea party edge to it is in oklahoma. tom coburn is retiring a bit early because he's battling cancer. james langford is a republican, t.w. shannon on the right. these are both conservatives. but the tea party forces have gone with speaker shannon. if he were to win this nomination, then win in november, that would make two african-american republicans in the senate. close to where you are out in harlem tonight, charlie rangel has been in the congress for 44 years. a longtime democrat. he's had ethics questions in recent years. he said either way this would be his class campaign. you see the gentleman on the left, adriano espaillat. whether rangel can hang on this time. most americans think of harlem
he needs to overcome a 9-1 vote over the ethics committee which is recommending censure for his financial and fundraising violations including failure to pay taxes. now, a censure, if you don't know would require one of the most senior members of the house to appear at the front of the chamber, the house chamber you saw in that last story called the well and have the resolution read by the speaker of the house. he also faces a loss of some of his perks as a member of congress if and when that happens today, rangel is expected to argue for a lesser reprimand and some of his colleagues will support him including democratic whip james clyburn. >> the violations that he admitted to or that he reaches that censure would be in order. republic reprimand i thought was more appropriate. >> here's another interesting thing. rangel had others ready to defend him, if needed, during his ethics trial last month, the one he walked out if you remember. according to documents released
by the house ethics committee yesterday, donald trump was prepared to testify on rangel's behalf. today, the full house is close to deciding whether rangel will face a censure for ethical misconduct. >> all right, julie. thanks. we'll be watching and carrying it live. all right, the wikileaks revelations, tens of thousands of pages are out there. how do you break it down? here's a topic i think we should focus on. how different certain regimes and dare i say dictatorships have a public face and a private face. what they say to us behind closed doors and what they say to the world totally different when you look at yemen, saudi arabia, egypt, their view, for example, of iran is very much like ours. but you never believe it by what they say publicly. that was pointed out by the former secretary -- assistant secretary of state on that show the steven colbert report. >> like in the case of yemen and you probably will agree with this one, if we're going to -- >> don't count on it. >> we're going to be able to
>> reporter: just last week the house ethics committeed a mon niched wrang -- admonished rangel travelling to caribbean twice in violation of corporate rules. that's when they began turning their backs on him. even a member of the congressional black caucus, davis of alabama, called for his resignation. rangel's troubles are speaker pelosi's embarrassment, since she promised three years ago to clean house. >> we keep the promise to drain the swamp that is washington, d.c., to let sunshinedy infect the congress. >> rangel met with pelosi for 40 minutes last night. and when asked afterwards if he would stay on as chairman, he said, "you bet your life." republicans who planned wednesday to introduce a resolution removing the chairman questioned whether rangel is stepping aside temporarily. >> as i understand the rules of the house, you are either the chairman or you are not. >> reporter: mr. boehner appears to be right. even though rangel requested
leave of absence. >> reporter: just last week the house ethics committeed a mon niched wrang -- admonished rangel travelling to caribbean twice in violation of corporate rules. that's when they began turning their backs on him. even a member of the congressional black caucus, davis of alabama, called for his resignation. rangel's troubles are speaker pelosi's embarrassment, since she promised three years ago to clean house. >> we keep the promise to drain the swamp that is washington, d.c., to let sunshinedy infect the congress. >> rangel met with pelosi for 40 minutes last night. and when asked afterwards if he would stay on as chairman, he said, "you bet your life." republicans who planned wednesday to introduce a resolution removing the chairman questioned whether rangel is stepping aside temporarily. >> as i understand the rules of the house, you are either the chairman or you are not. >> reporter: mr. boehner appears to be right.
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