prominent democrat in new york or otherwise speaking out for him including his former boss, chuck shuk chumer. >> if i was still there i would do what steve israel and nancy pelosi have done, an immediate ethics investigation. now, what will happen, you don't -- a member never gets expelled for something like this. the only reason you have congress ever expels anyone is if you committed a felony or pled guilty to a felony. that's not the case here. the ethics could very well seriously reprimand him. if they're going to do that, they need to do it quickly so the party can get it behind him. i imagine there will be other conversations going on. >> martin, the speaker of the house took action within 24 hours against two members, two republican members. doesn't that create a new standard, a new threshold? it makes nancy pelosi and the democrats already look as though they're falling behind. >> not necessarily. remember that senator vitter, a republican member of the senate, continued to serve, was not asked to leave by his leadership when he was involved in a sexual scandal. larry craig, republic