two-year investigation by four members of the ethics committee. the next step as we mentioned would be a trial before the full committee because they couldn t reach a deal. after the trial, if he is found to have committed these violations, he could get anything from just a reprimand to being expelled. he came out there and defied them, go ahead, expel me if you want. what do you think really will happen if he is found guilty of these charges? it s hard to say. i think there is a possibility with the private negotiations to have him settle for something less than expulsion. right now in the glare of a campaign, with ten democrats having called for his removal from congress, $650,000 in rangel-related contributions having been returned by moderate democrats, it s hard to predict what would happen. but my guess is, it s more likely that a public trial will cause a harsher rather than a less harsh penalty. patti ann: interesting to see what will happen. meanwhile, today, his big 80th bi
comes to colorado. we ll join ken and his cabinet. was michael bennett. michael bennett had his hands full with andrew romanov. bill clinton said andrew romanoff is my guy and i ll do whatever it takes to get him the nomination. on the republican side, the fellow who had the backing of the tea party, a guy by the name of ken buck, wounds up with 52% of the vote versus jane norton at 48. keep in mind colorado is one of those states where everything was mailed in. people didn t really show up for the polls yesterday because they had, done it by mail. very interesting. let s take a listen to ken buck after he found out he won. republicans have been sending their elected officials back to washington d.c. to change congress. and instead those republicans have been changed by congress. it is time republicans started acting like republicans.
going to come back at you. have a nice day! bill: see you at 9:20, fbn. patti ann: charlie rangel taking to the house floor, unleash ago flame thrower. the ethics committee won t even tell me when i m going to have a hearing! and heck, people are concerned me, i m 80 years old, i don t want to die before the hearing, you know? and i think my electorate are entitled to finding out who their congressman for 40 years is, who am i, am i corrupt. patti ann: some folks in congress, not too happy with the congressman s big speech. we ll tell you about it. bill: what a speech that was! crews trying to rescue nine people stuck on a glacier. how in the world do you pull this off? we ll find out. patti ann: the flight attendant who flipped out on his passengers is certainly getting his 15 minutes of fame.
media day to celebrate the revolution of media becoming social. you can see it all around. take a look right here. twitter, linked in. they get billions of page views a month. just look at that right there. 260 billion on facebook. twitter and myspace in between. you can take a look at the kagan hearings. during the 18 1/2 hours she took questions, people in the hearing room weren t just listening, they were typing away on blackberries, i-phones and laptops. some 236 members of congress tweet. for that matter, so do we. drop us a line on twitter and facebook. a couple others who tweet, joe johns and dana bash. let s start with that. you re just in the kagan hearings. how many people are listening and how many are doing their banging away? a lot of banging away. it has made a huge difference on how we do our jobs as reporters and the impact we have especially up on capitol hill. everybody is watching their twitter feed. if i m in the hallway talking to a senator and i get a little nug
the big question is how he ll vote on kagan. he s still not definite on the financial reform bill. he said thanks for make the change but i m going to study it. there s a little bit of false humility going on here, saying, don t pay attention to me, oh, wait is everybody waiting for my vote? he ll play that out for a while. he is the flavor of the month. there will be a new one after november. we ve seen interesting ads in this year s campaigns. some have involved we ed weapon. here s one now. pamela goreman, running for the third disflitrict in arizona. this year, a lot of folks think this is our best shot at change congress. of course that all depends on the caliber of our candidates. [ gunfire ] meet pamela gorman, candidate for congress in arizona 3, conservative christian and a pretty fair shot. [ gunfire ] who wants to criticize pamela gorman, anybody?