the committee on ethics is unique. the committee rules recognize the importance of unique ways this committee functions. i would like to read a quote from the committee rulebook. on page one. the committee on ethics is unique in the house of representatives. consistent with the duty to carry out its advisory and enforcement response abilities in an impartial matter. the committee is the only standing committee with the membership of which it was divided evenly by parties. these rules are intended to provide a fair procedural framework for the conduct of the committee's activity to help ensure the committee serves the people of the u.s., the house of representatives, and the members and employees of the house of representatives. the committee works best in a collegial and bipartisan manner. during the 113th and 114th and 115th and 116th congresses, all votes are unanimous in the subcommittees. the republicans and democrats serving on these subcommittees were in agreement. all of the work of the committee completed by its

i yield back. >> and now the ranking member of the ethics committee. >> thank, you mr. chairman ranking member and the music committee. this is the first time since my appointment this is my secondrm term on the ethics committee i was looking forward to working with the chairman in a collegial and bipartisan manner but here we are. managing a contentious politically driven resolution and was assigned to our committee now on the house floor without consideration by the ethics committee. what are we doing? mr. chairman? republicans have denounced statement made by representative green before she became a member of congress and i do the same as i appear in front of you today republican house leadership said months ago the comments are appalling and there was no tolerance for them on the record as well i know many of my colleagues do as well. i'm not here to defend representative green. i am here to defend the process and the functions of the minority parties the committee on ethics is unique to recognize the importance of this committee function i would like to read directl

we expect them to be approved to the ethics committee. we expect them to be approved today so the committee could function immediately. but, again, my friend would have no way of knowing that. with that, madam speaker, i'd like to yield 10 minutes to the gentlelady from georgia, mrs. greene. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for 10 minutes. mrs. greene: thank you. madam speaker, my democrat colleagues, republican colleague, my district back home in georgia 14, to the american people, to my mom and dad and my husband and my husband and children. i've been here for one month and a day and i've gotten to know part of my conference, my republican colleagues, but not even all of them yet. i haven't got ton know any of my democrat colleagues and i haven't had to have any conversations with any of you to tell you who i am and what i'm about. you only know me by how media matters, cnn, msnbc, and the rest of the mainstream media is portraying me. what you don't know about me is that i'm a very proud wife

this is my second term working on the ethics committee. i was looking forward to working with chairman deutch. it's unique. it's the only standing house committee with equal number of house members. five democrats and five republicans. there is a reason that neither party holds a majority on this committee. and that reason is to avoid one party or the other weaponizing the committee's purpose for reviews in a political and partisan fashion. the committee has publicly warned of this risk before. in 2012, following a particularly contentious investigation, the committee publicly expressed the necessity of bipartisanship. bipartisan cooperation within the committee leadership. the committee stated, quote, unlike any other committee, this committee avoids partisan legislative concerns and policies and must have bipartisan cooperation for the committee to fulfill its constitutional mandate to police the members, officers, and employees of this house. that mission calls upon members to step out of their partisan framework and approach the work of

we expect them to be approved to the ethics committee. we expect them to be approved today so the committee could function immediately. but, again, my friend would have no way of knowing that. with that, madam speaker, i'd like to yield 10 minutes to the gentlelady from georgia, mrs. greene. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for 10 minutes. mrs. greene: thank you. madam speaker, my democrat colleagues, republican colleague, my district back home in georgia 14, to the american people, to my mom and dad and my husband and my husband and children. i've been here for one month and a day and i've gotten to know part of my conference, my republican colleagues, but not even all of them yet. i haven't got ton know any of my democrat colleagues and i haven't had to have any conversations with any of you to tell you who i am and what i'm about. you only know me by how media matters, cnn, msnbc, and the rest of the mainstream media is portraying me. what you don't know about me is that i'm a very proud wife

this is my second term working on the ethics committee. i was looking forward to working with chairman deutch. it's unique. it's the only standing house committee with equal number of house members. five democrats and five republicans. there is a reason that neither party holds a majority on this committee. and that reason is to avoid one party or the other weaponizing the committee's purpose for reviews in a political and partisan fashion. the committee has publicly warned of this risk before. in 2012, following a particularly contentious investigation, the committee publicly expressed the necessity of bipartisanship. bipartisan cooperation within the committee leadership. the committee stated, quote, unlike any other committee, this committee avoids partisan legislative concerns and policies and must have bipartisan cooperation for the committee to fulfill its constitutional mandate to police the members, officers, and employees of this house. that mission calls upon members to step out of their partisan framework and approach the work of

is amended to read as follows, c, upon receipt of an appeal pursuant to subdivision b, the committee on ethics shall have a period of 30 calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is later, to consider the appeal. the fine will be upheld unless the appeal is agreed to by a majority of the committee. upon a determination regarding the appeal or if no appeal has been filed at the expiration of the period specified in subdivision b, the chair of the committee on ethics shall promptly notify the member, delegate, or the resident commissioner, the speaker, the sergeant-at-arms, and the chief administrative officer, and shall make such notification publicly available. the speaker shall promptly lay such notification before the house. b, section 4-a-2 of house resolution 38 is amended to read as follows, two, a fine imposed pursuant to this section shall be treated as though imposed under clause 3-g of rule 2, and shall be administered as though pursuant to clause 4-d of rule 2, except that if a member, delegate, or resident commissioner files an appeal under clause 3-g-3-b of rule 2 prior to

>> that is what the senate ethics committee needs to look at. look at the conduct of senators because senators are protected by the speech and debate clause from a lot of investigations. so it's on us as the senate to make sure we fully understand what our colleagues were up to. but when the president is calling a senator and asking him to delay further the legitimate process of certification, so that the mob can interrupt that processing that's a pretty compelling statement by the president of the united states. and it opens a very important line of inquiry for the ethics committee. >> you are talking about that phone call from senator tur byville? >> correct. >> is the ethics committee, senator, launching an investigation into this or is this something you think should happen? >> they have been asked to. the letter has been received. seven senators signed that letter. and the best i can tell, they're in the initial process of reviewing whether to open the matter and go forward with a full and formal investigation. >> well, the ethics committee

the ethics committee will have its look. but when you look at the evidence today about the president's call to senator tubberville, asking him to delay the proceedings, to add objections, to spread it out, you could see that it's like a pinscher move. on one hand you're getting your mob up to the capitol, to do this damage and disrupt the counting of the electoral votes, but at the same time you've got to open the window of time during which those electoral votes are counted in order to allow the mob to have its effect, to actually do the damage, to perhaps catch someone. but at a minimum to be able to disrupt. if this thing had gone smoothly and orderly, without objection, we might have been done by the time the mob had reached the capitol. so there's a possibility of there having been some connivance between those who tried to create the delay and that being used to open a window long enough that the mob could fight its way in and disrupt the count. so, all of that remains to be seen, but it struck me that when the preside

when senator rob portman, then a congressman, was a member of the house ethics committee. >> sure. my mentor. >> i think your colleagues would joke with you that you speak republican. >> right. >> you know how to appeal -- the presentation especially for these very sharp elbowed partisan democrats was fairly republican friendly, very republican friendly talking about president trump, extolling the patriotism of vice president pence. >> i think we were trying to speak to 100 senators. >> yeah and did you kind of vet their language, did they run it by you, hey, you speak republican, how does this go? >> i think what we tried to do was really be a very inclusive team. we talked among each other every day hours at a time having discussions, reviewing each other's works and so, yes, i think that, you know, that discussions generally went around with all of us. >> you were also the only black female lawmaker present not only in the house impeachment manager team but in the entire senate chamber for the trial. at one point you emphatically criticized the defense team's use of video from t

health officials have gotten the green light from the ethics committee to conduct the first covid-19al 90 people from 18 to 90 years old will be exposed to the virus, but in a controlled environment. scientists hope to gain insight on how the virus is spread. >>> the pentagon delayed the promotions of two top female generals last year over fears that the trump administration would derail the process "the new york times" reports that air force jgeneral the two were held back because they thought they would have an'sier selection process during the biden administration. >>> why some say biden's plan for student debt relief doesn't go far enough. a grand slam deal for one of baseball's hottest players stillh unstopables in-wash scent booster downy unstopables at bears his name is raised with no antibiotics ever. every nugget, strip and drumstick. keep it real. keep it tyson. take a piece of chocolate if you're the tallest. (ava and olivia laugh) take a piece of chocolate if you're better at eating your vegetables. (ava and olivia laugh) take a piece of chocolate if you love sharing. ♪♪

brent: the ethics committee of a football's world governing body, fifa, drop the bible -- dropped a biburyase. -- dropped a bribery case. the time to pursue the case has run out. the fief investigation found back in -- the investigation found broken rules and the 2006 world cup. all three have denied any wrongdoing. he won a world cup with west germany as a player and another as head coach. in los angeles today, lady gaga's dog walker was shot at, and her two prized french bulldogs have been kidnapped. police say the man, the dog walker, was walking near los angeles, near sunset boulevard, is expected to survive his gunshot wounds. lady gaga, known to be externally protective of her little pooches, is offering half $1 million to anyone who can return the dogs. the sinker is currently in rome shooting a film and understandably distressed. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the european union leaders have agreed on the need for digital vaccination certificates, enabling people to travel in europe despite the coronavirus pandemic. the documents could be available be

now the ethics committee of football's governing body fifa has closed a bribery bribery case against a german great back in power because a statute of limitations expired a statute that was put in place after the investigation was launched 2016 feet a probe found that back in barrett long with 2 other top german officials broke rules and bribery and corruption joining germany's successful bid to host the 2006 world cup all 3 have denied wrongdoing back in barrel won a world cup with west germany as a player and another as head coach. former one team red bull racing debuted their new car on the track on wednesday as they prepared for the season opener in bahrain next month britons at silverstone circuit the team's drivers were the 1st to try out the you car red bull or ending for their 1st title since 2013 and hope the new car will take max for stopping his 1st title after 4 straight championships one by luiz hamilton mercedes. now violence near sunset boulevard in los angeles where a pop star's dog walker has been shot and the dog stolen the prized french bulldogs belong to singer an

you know we have human subjects and ethics committees that review our our proposed research and so we we are probably not going to be able to plant. a deliberate false memory that your father raped you for 10 years in a satanic cult. we wouldn't be given permission to do something quite that drastic and so what researchers have done is tried to think of an analog something you can plant that if it actually happened it would have been at least mildly traumatic and so we have succeeded what will we are other investigators in my field in planning a false memory that you were attacked by a vicious animal or you were bullied or you nearly drowned and had to be rescued by a lifeguard or you witnessed someone being demonically possessed. so. these experimental studies have been successful in planting these pretty dramatic memories and then we have a lot of studies of you know actual real world cases in this country there are now hundreds and hundreds of people who have been through highly suggestive therapy there are be that is what led them to believe that they had memories that were extrem

and the ethics committee of football's world governing body has dropped a broader reach against france beckon by were into other german football officials the committee said the statute of limitations time to pursue the case has run out if investigation found that beck and bauer along with tailed spawn's ago and horst smith broke rules on bribery and corruption during germany's successful bid to host the 2006 world cup all 3 have denied. anyone doing that can buy our won a world cup with west germany as a player and another as head coach. in los angeles today lady gaga has a dog walker was shot at and her 2 prized french bulldogs have been kidnapped police say the man the dog walker who was walking near los angeles is they met at sunset boulevard is expected to survive his gunshot wounds lady ga ga he was known to be extremely protective of her little pooches is offering half a $1000000.00 to anyone who can return the dogs the singer is currently in rome shooting a film and understandably distressed. here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you european union leaders

insurrectionists time to arrive at that capitol building and that that is being investigated by the senate ethics committee with regard to senators cruz and hallie so it would be critically important for witnesses to be call on that question because it may start to show that a ringback lot of this intentional landing behavior that we saw on the part of insurrectionists that in fact. trump's lawyers have been stressing here included a wider a rarity of individuals as part of that planning then the defense would like to acknowledge right now or right now an interest in not being able to put on any terms let me jump in because of course there is going to be there is another narrative from the defense of donald trump where they say a lot of this is taken out of context videos were care carefully edited to emit the word peaceful in donald trump's speech on january the 6th didn't we get a look at perhaps how the strategy is going to shape our when michael vanderveen spoke about will call people like nancy pelosi will the strategy turn towards trying to put some of the responsibility for any at allegation of a fa

the ethics committee, something like this is not -- a lot of members on that board and the chair so thisgation, the time we should be working on the budget but the distraction from the governor causing a lot of chaos. the obligation to move forward. todd: previously outspoken liberals on the same topic seem pretty quiet on that. kamala harris, and maisie hirono. it is final they come together like you two are doing if we were to find the truth. >> this is the case it is so serious, new york state, this governor, the cover-up of the nursing home deaths, trying to get numbers, huge cover-up, what is being covered up is worse than the cover-up. an individual says i'm a proponent of me too. if he's not a proponent of me too on this issue, he has his minions out there attacking lindsay and that is not what democrats or republicans should do on an issue like that. when we talk about standing up 2 women, listening to women, finding others an investigation, i want to see those words coming out of his mouth but they have in the past. talking about being a proponent of me too, he's talking about d

the ethics committee of football's governing body fifa has closed a bribery case against a german great fans back and bar because a statute of limitations expired statute that was put in place after the investigation was launched the 2016 feet for a probe found that back in by are along with 2 other top german officials broke rules on bribery and corruption during germany's successful bid to host the 2006 world cup all 3 have the 9th and tonight wrongdoing back in barrel won a world cup with west germany as a player and another as coach. and masses perseverance rover has sent its 1st high definition panorama photo from the surface of mars giving us this stunning image of the spot where the rover landed last week perseverance will spend another week at this location before moving on to explore other terrain on the red planet. a dusty landscape extending into the far distance the river's job is to survey in an ancient lake bed 45 kilometers wide the scale gives an indication of the size of the boulders these panorama images were stitched together from high resolution close ups of film ast

democrats referred the duo to the ethics committee. >> there is a possibility there were those who tried to create the delay and might have been used to open a window long enough the crowd could fight its way in. >> president trump's defense team begins its presentation tomorrow. >> everyone in that room will look bad. no reason for us to be out there a long time. >> the reason? the math. the president attorneys knows there are not 67 votes to convict. >> bret: chad, thanks. >> put a target on their backs and his mob broke into the capitol to hunt them down. >> bret: a house manager making the case. let's bring in frank to hear what voters are saying about the impeachment trial. you had a focus group tuesday. you asked them what should happen to the former president. let's take a listen to just one clip. >> [silence]. >> a convicted barred from office and tried and imprisoned. >> the person who held the pistol is responsible. donald trump has nothing to do. >> bin laden was innocent. >> bret: what did you get? >> the intensity is on donald trump's side. we found this every day since elec

caller: ethics committee?hen swalwell, one pelosi, when adam schiff says something, no one says anything but when a republican says something, everyone explodes. am i right or wrong? liz cheney? [no audio] host: what are your thoughts? caller: liz cheney. no halliburton. no money. no war. liz cheney's frightened. that's it. host: james, lancaster, virginia, democrat. caller: republican. host: go ahead. caller: yes yes yes. [indiscernible] i have to agree with what the last caller said. swalwell, maxine waters, pelosi. you never hear no apology. the interview with greene in december. you read something, talk about it, discuss it. [indiscernible] just because it is on facebook and other people see it -- that is one of the reasons i am not on facebook anymore -- i don't see how it affects the republican party trump supporters at all. this is being made something of nothing at all. as usual. host: liz cheney, not a trump supporter. are you glad she is still the number three republican in the house? caller: i am. i

that's the role of the senate ethics committee. so i feel fine, i feel i am standing up to the fact itself and the truth and for the integrity of the senate and i feel like i am standing up for accountability. in this moment, we need more accountably. i think that's how we are going to be able move forward as we fight our way to people have a chance in this country and democracy is being defended. >> senator smith from minnesota, thank you for being with us. please travel safely for the workweek. appreciate it. >> i will. thank you. >>> we are seeing dramatic drops in the number of hospitalizations and the number of cases of coronavirus in the united states, yet leading scientists say, we may be at the very beginning of what could be the worst wave yet in this pandemic. what you need to know next. >>> the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next six-to-14 weeks. if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we will see something like we have not seen

house ethics committee chair ted deutch of florida, whose district includes parkland, responded on wednesday. >> the families are still grieving, as are the communities of sandy hook and las vegas and anymore tuning. there are not wordsnd it english language to properly describe how the remarks of ms. greene makes these communities feel. they are still suffering and they will suffer forever. amy: marjorie greene has covered execution of democratic leaders like nancy pelosi and president obama. nearly 400 congressional aides have signed a public letter calling on the senate to convict donald trump for inciting the violent mob that attacked the capitol on january 6. it's a rare case of congressional staffers publicly airing their own views. in the letter, the aides describe hiding under chairs and desks, barricading themselves in their offices, and fleeing for their lives. they're calling on senators to bar trump from ever running for office again, writing -- "our constitution only works when we believe in it and defend it. it's a shared commitment to equal justice, the rule of law, and the pe

>> well, look, the determination about senator hawley and senator cruz is now before the ethics committee a minimum there should be censure. in the history of the united states senate there's been just a handful of times when there's been censure. and if you read the most recent ones from the last couple of decades, the censure, frankly, in those instances was for offenses or infractions that were a lot less severe than i think both senators engaged in. at a bare minimum there should be a censure of both of those senators. >> i'm not sure if you heard what i said at the beginning of the show, but the entire reason that the people showed up at the capitol was because the president invited him and his enablers invited them. not only that, it wasn't just because of that, but because he lied to them and his enablers lied. had there been no big lie and no invitation, they wouldn't have shown up. so what gives here? what are people -- what are republicans not seeing? they're not there because nancy pelosi invited them. they're not there because senator bob casey invited them. they're there beca

. >>> joining me now, a member of the education and labor judiciary and ethics committee, and he presided over the house of representatives, the first time in american history that an openly black gay member of congress has done that, so congratulations on that, representative jones. we have a relief bill coming and there are some republicans that don't want to go as far as the democrats and the president want to go, but from an economic perspective, there's no danger in that, the only danger is in doing too little. >> that's right. any danger that would result in something that has been proposed by the ten republican senators that wrote to the president of the united states, maybe one-third of the $1.9 trillion package that i and others voted to pass as a resolution on friday would not serve the american people well. they need to meet the moment where we face overlapping crisis, and where the american people expect their government to finally provide the relief that could have been provided last year if the prior president of the united states would not have been obstructive. >> let's ta

the ethics committee of football's world governing body fever has dropped a bribery case against france by can by were into other german football officials the committee said the statute of limitations meant that time to pursue the case has run out a fee for investigation found that back in bauer along with sons ego and horst schmidt broke rules on bribery and corruption during germany's successful bid to host the 2006 world cup all 3 have denied any wrongdoing i can buy one a world cup with west germany as a player and another as head coach of the team. here's a reminder that top story we're following for you european union leaders have agreed on the need for digital vaccinations for chickens enabling people to travel in europe despite the coronavirus pandemic german chancellor angela says the documents could be available before the summer. you're watching the news next up to business news with my colleague should be right that. what people have to say. to us. that's right still a. reporter every weekend on.

this hearing is premature and should be adjudicated by the ethics committee. >> republican florida senate eric scott says green suggesting that the 2018 parkland shooting is a hoax is disgusting. other republicans question green, too. >> anti-semitism, school shootings weren't real. she runs the gamut. the idea that forest fires are started by jewish lasers. it's so far out there. makes me wonder how she got elected. >> the house will vote to oust green tomorrow. republicans are returning the favor. they have an amendment to remove democratic minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar from her committee assignments. republicans will be on the record today voting to support green or throw her overboard. neil? >> neil: seems like it takes awhile to penetrate my school. but liz cheney could be punished for voting her conscious on this impeachment thing. but margie taylor green could not on the crazy stuff that she said. something unside down about this. >> that's the problem that some republicans when you talk to them privately express. that very scenario will come to play here. this is why steny ho

i am going to become the chair of the ethics committee. i am not yet. there are many other committees where it would surprise your average viewer to hear that ey graham remains the chairman of the judiciary committee and thus was able to block a hearing on judge merrick garland, nominated by president biden to be our next attorney general. this is ridiculous. we were in the middle of a lot of challenging issues -- criminal justice reform, national security -- where we need an attorney general, the top law enforcement official in the united states government. so i'm going to be pressing senator graham, senator mcconnell today on this, but frankly, we need to move forward by whatever means necessary. hopefully there will be a finally concluded bipartisan organizing resolution today or tomorrow, but if not, i will support our moving forward using 50 votes and a tiebreaking vote by the vice president. >> senator chris coons on all fronts, thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you, andrea. >>> the terrifying account of congresswoman alexandria o

strip greene of committee assignments is premature because they think this needs to go to the ethics committee first. >> so interesting. thanks for breaking it all down for us, tracie. >>> nearly a mon a seattle area proud boys member is being charged with four counts tied to the capitol breach. eth proud boys hawaii founder is conspiracy charges. this comes asboys a terrorist g >>> developing this morning, san jose police are questioning a man they say made social media threats to shoot up a mall. it happened yesterday at valley fair mall. authorities say he live streamed his threats on snapchat. within an hour, officers located the man, they pinged his phone fitting the description and they arrested him. they say he was armed with a handgun. >> he was an adult male with dark clothing and was wearing shoulder-length hair, purple in color. i would say a very distinctive description. >> the mall never fully closed, but police did shut down one area as they quietly moved in. a bomb squad was later seen in the parking lot checking a car believed to be the suspect's. >>> in a follow-up, talk about

republicans are arguing that today's vote is premature, that this needs to go through the ethics committee first. >> so much going on. well, before you go, i want to talk a little bit about president biden as well today. he's heading to the state department later. >> reporter: he is. he's doing his first big foreign policy speech trying to make good on that inauguration day promise to restore our relationship with our allies and get america more engaged in the world. a.p. is also reporting that he wants to scale up the number of refugees that are allowed in the united states. that number, that cap was dropped significantly under the trump administration. >> all right, certainly a busy first few weeks in office. tracie potts live from washington, thank you. >>> governor newsom has announced the state of california is expected to receive another million doses of the covid vaccine this week. this as many californians receive or are preparing to receive their second shot. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live. bob, you sifted through a lot of data this morning. how are those numbers looking?

. >> reporter: they actually want to see the ethics committee deal with this first, dom >> tracie potts with the latest out of washington. so much to keep an eye on. thank you very much for staying on top of all of that for us, tracie. >>> when we come back, the exclusive social platform clubhouse seeing a big boom as the invite only app makes its way into china eunice yoon takes us inside the craze over clubhouse over there. plus, american airlines once again warning employees of potential furloughs amid that fight over covid aid. >>> and rbc capital's he helima croft, how it can shore up reports on big shifts we have more straight ahead when "worldwide exchange" returns after this break eah you. i opened a sofi money account and it was the first time that i realized i could be earning interest back on my money. i just discovered sofi, and i'm an investor with a diversified portfolio. who am i?! i refinanced my student loans with sofi because of their low interest rates. thanks sofi for helping us get our money right. ♪♪ when you switch to xfinity mobile, than you're choosing to us get

and you know, i was chairman of the ethics committee and i was responsible for enforcing standards of conduct. when members brought discredit upon the house, they could be sanctioned. in this case, when a member becomes such an embarrassment and such a distraction, and we've had many of these cases. i can remember about 11 resignations. usually a member feels shame and they end up resigning on their own or the leadership forces them to resign. that's how these are usually dealt with. republicans should have never allowed themselves to be put in this predicament. you know, they should not have -- they should not have allowed the democrats to do to them -- do to marjorie taylor greene what they should have done themselves. they should have simply taken on this challenge and just removed her from the committees, kicked her out of the conference, and we wouldn't have set a precedent, and by the way, good luck arguing process and precedent if you're a member of congress defending your vote to allow her to stay on her committees. it's not going to work. democrats are going to tag republican

joining us is senator chris coons of delaware, chairman of the senate ethics committee.his argument today, both of the arguments, and i'm not even a lawyer. and those lawyers, mr. castor and mr. schoen sounded like they didn't prepare, like they woke up this morning and said, we have to go and do an impeachment defense and just talked off the top of their heads. and you even had a lot of republicans say that. we had garrett haake on earlier, who has been talking to them, and they were like, they stunk up the place. here is texas senator john cornyn. he said, the president's lawyer just rambled on and on. i've seen a lot of lawyers and a lot of arguments, and that was not one of the finest i've seen. you know, cnn's reporting ted cruz also was like, oh, bad. cassidy did flip his vote. but most of these senators who are telling reporters that they thought trump's defense team was terrible still voted for the terrible defense team. i don't understand it. have you talked to any of these guys? have they explained that to new. >> joy, i have. i've talked to a couple of republi

is there, you know, obviously if this weren't in congress it might go to the ethics committee.thing like that. what would -- what would an investigation look like in albany of this? >> well, quite frankly it would like like a mess because the joint commission on public ethics in new york state is -- many people believe that it's controlled by the governor's appointees. it has not done -- >> are these the folks he fired? did he fire this -- unceremoniously about a year ago. >> that was the moreland commission, that commission set the framework for what -- top political figures. but the jco is the joint commission on ethics. many lawmakers would not have any faith to get to the bottom of this and it doesn't handle sexual harassment. the governor's office of employee relations does some of the sexual harassment investigations for the state. it couldn't go there because it would be, you know, the political connections are too strong. the legislature also would not be a good place. so the next question is, would the state attorney general, or possibly the local district attorney in

i don't know, i guess the ethics committee would have to decide that. these are members of congress using their official position to coerce and control the information americans can watch and access in their own homes. they are demanding for censorship, more deplatforming, and more control of what americans can watch. in their letter, congresswoman eshoo and mcamericany suggest that censorship is necessary because conservative views are not only different but they are dangerous. this is not only false, it is the same script used in countries like china to cleanse speech they disagree with. democrats would bring those same socialist standards to america. yet those standards are dangerous, vague, and easily abused. they have no place here. democrats' action this week make it clear that the greatest threat to free speech today is not a law from congress, which is bound by the first amendment, the greatest threat is politicians who bully private companies to silence dissenting views. the sad part is, this isn't the on democrats who have done this. they sent

it was fully approved in advance by the house ethics committee and in my view is about illustration about what carnegie should do which is to provide congressional staff members with an opportunity to engage directly with chinese counter parts and to express their concerns about chinese actions and malign behavior. it was a good illustration of what a nongovernmental institution like carnige can do. i have tried to demonstrate our appreciation of that threat. >> my second and final question is the policy institute has been highly scrutinized. you worked there to set up the center in beijing, a center that featured seven individuals that work at the university as it's guiding scholars who have ties to the communist party. two of the fellows serve, and the center partner, a beijing think tank, and a link to the parties, via the -- he plays a prominent role with the front. i'm curious what conditions, restrictions, did the chinese impose in order for this center to be set up. >> well senator rubio you're right. the center they operate in bay sink has has more more than a decade is a partners

some of your more moderate members on process grounds, that this did not fully go through the ethics committeeink where nancy pelosi should really lean in, not just with kind of the casery community but the body politic at large nationally is the question around national security. and you and i have talked about it before and it's why i think what we may see happen today will be one of the groet moments for the house no modern political history. and i say that as a student of the house. i think today will be a great moment for the house and the reason why is this. we are living in an era where the warnings from our security agencies, from the fbi, repeatedly, over the past couple of years, has been the threat that has emerged from the rise of these conspiracy groups. it is a national security threat when a community elevates conspiracy theories. it is the fuel of white nationalism. the conspiracy theories are the fuel for what we saw on january 6th, the lies about a rigged election. that is the fuel. and what we have seen in marjorie taylor greene is now a member of congress who has been eleva

democrats both from the house and the senate braided was fully approved in advance by the house ethics committee. in my view is an illustration of what institution like carnegie should do which is to provide congressional staff members with an opportunity to engage directly with chinese counterparts into express their concerns about chinese actions and maligned behavior quite directly. so that since i think that it was a good illustration of what the nongovernment or institution like carnegie working at that institute can do. but i share your concerns of the foreign influence operations and as i said we tried to demonstrate in our work at carnegie, over the time that i was president, our appreciation of that threat. warner: my second and final question. it's and very high risk for glol defense research and alleged involvement in cyber attacks rated at carnegie why you were there working to set up the carnegie center in beijing printed features seven individuals work at the university invited scholars who have ties to the communist party intuniv the senior fellows #entered chinese communist party

disclosing this requirement is overseen by the congressional ethics committee. cs offices of government agencies and the u.s. office of government ethics. these forms record earned and unearned income, assets and related transactions, liabilities, contributions made, gifts received, nongovernmental positions held, travel, and various agreements into which the filer has entered. information relating to the spouse, and dependent children of the filer, is also reported in many cases. janice in colorado springs, democratic collar. we lost her. we will go to don in new mexico, independent. your turn. caller: good morning. i would just like underline a comment made earlier. al capone did not go to jail for his nefarious acts. he went to jail for tax fraud. one of the things that trump did come although he did not take a salary, he also had all of the secret service and everyone use his facilities, golf courses, and the estimate is that the federal taxpayer spent over $148 million. we also have to keep in mind that we got testimony under oath from cohen when he was appe