itself on charges that proved groundless. let's take this campaign weapon away from democratic interest groups filing these charge. they could still file charges, but they wouldn't have the same level of power they did today. so, they did it in one fell swoop. better that than let it stand out and have a public debate. you're never going to win a public ethics debate. they want to pursue something more ethical. >> they backed down. look, no faulting anybody on this once it's out there. it's a loser politically. everybody understands it, but you get rid of it now, it's forgotten about. you may dredge it up in an election, but by and large you're going to be a lot harder issues republicans will have to take than this. now this is a weapon that is in the hand of interest groups that oppose republicans. you're going to see charges filed and no due process, et cetera. >> i have to ask you, president-elect trump said this doesn't fit with his drain the swamp mantra. of course, are you seeing house republicans in effect falling in