work that the president has done. let me say this about president obama, were it not for his leadership we would not be right now on the verge of passing something very historic. house speaker nancy pelosi there pivoting away from a discussion about the controversy swirling around eric massa s resignation to bring the discussion back to health care. the speaker making clear she thinks republicans are harping on the massa issue as a way of trying to distract from the end game in health reform. when i pressed the speaker about what she had been told about the allegations she insisted before her office and house majority leader steny hoyer s office heard about the most recent allegations which went to the ethics committee and blew the whole story open and resulted in mr. massa resigning, the only thing her office heard about mr. massa did not in her words come close to any kind of allegation. she said that the issue that had been referred to her office back
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on afghanistan. if anybody wants to know where cynicism is, cynicism is there s one, two press people in this gallery. we re talking about eric massa 24/7 on the tv, we re talking about war and peace, $3 billion, 1,000 lives and no press! no press! you want to know why the american public is fit? they re fit because they re not seeing congress do the work they re set to do. it s because the press of the united states is not covering the most significant issue of national importance, and that s the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. it s despicable in the national press corps right now. that had to do with a resolution about afghanistan and a withdrawal issue. what patrick kennedy was supporting went down to dramatic defeat. over 300 votes to his position on that. by the way, it was an empty
so they re kind of grabbing onto it now saying, let s do it better. we owe the american people that. that s a true view of policy, but it s also expedient because nancy pelosi herself had said this congress under her leadership would be the most ethical. she sort of put this out there as a standard that might have even been higher than people s normal expectations, and if there is something there for them to go after, they re certainly doing it aggressively, keeping that alive and trying to connect her to these eric massa allegations and saying she should have known. go to 30,000 feet here, because it does seem as if each time a political party in the last 20 years has lost control of congress, it s been the ethical issues that put it over the top, right? you have the check bouncing scandal of 92 which led to some shenaniga shenaniga shenanigans. are democrats extra sensitive to this?
birthday, things changed a bit. then he said to larry king there was no groping at all, just tickling. who the heck knows really. now we re hearing there were more reports of concerns about massa s behavior. we know from his own mouth that text messages are coming. steve centanni has more tonight from our newsroom in washington. what exactly prompted massa s chief of staff to report his boss to the speaker in the first place. well, shep, fox confirmed that pelosi s office was informed about massa s odd behavior in october of last year. here is why. according to published reports, the congressman s chief of staff was concerned because massa was living with five of his young male staffers and that he had a lunch date with a young man in his 20 s who worked for congressman barney frank. allegations were also reported last month to majority leader steny hoyer who says he referred them to the ethics committee within two days of receiving them. shep? shepard: steve, what are republicans
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