bardt, this is not the first time he s accused of having his hand in selective editing of tape. and we ll show you examples. but there s another point. what s going on over at fox news? it s very legitimate question. given what s gone on in the last 48 to 72 hours in this country. are they ll really a news organization? and if so, which part? we re going to ask those questions and we ll look at it in-depth. that s where we ll begin doing tonight with this debut show of rick s list primetime. john, back to you my colleague. in washington, this question s all the time about your money and how it s spent and everybody says if we re going to balance the budget or bring down the deficit something has to be cut. so pete on the street, he s not in new york, he s here in d.c. and pete went out to find out what we got? i thought coming to washington, d.c., everybody would have an idea of what they
here comes the play by play. great tape to break down tonight in the play by play. here comes mark penn and republican mark. let s talk about henry wrangell. he was forced to step aside because of rangel. one of the most powerful men in washington and he was forced to step aside because of ethic s allegations. today he learned the house ethic s committee will have a big eight-member panel meaning a full investigation. as charlie rangel was walking on capitol hill, a question was asked by the producer at nbc news, the son of the late great tim russert and he asked a good question. are you worried you ll lose your job? you think i got my job? how do you think i would lose it. there s two ways. your colleagues vote you out because of ethic s violations or because your constituents what station are you from?
what looks to be politically necessary at that the very moment. the president seems to think this is their problem. he hit the right problem. they criticize the 24-hour news seekle and the reporters are driving the story instead of the white house. they re so reactive to this. they immediately fire this person because of what was on the news instead of ignoring it. they fell into their own trap again. it s hard to avoid, honestly, because you re always in campaign mode now. there is no time when you just govern and get out of the campaign mode. something like this happens, and you feel like you react to it quickly. there s always incoming into the white house, every single day. there has to be somebody who says, take a deep breath. in this particular case the question is, was there somebody at the white house that said
items and my radar over. would you relish the spotlight, mark, of having being the judge handling this immigration case or would you wish your colleagues got it? that puts the judge in a tough position. any ruling in which that judge will receive a lot of mail. it will take a tough judge to make a decision on that case. no question about it. it s a tough position no whaert what the judge comes down with, a lot of hate mail. i don t envy that person. the president is watching. that s a good one right there. and the tea party. during the conversation earlier today with shirley sherrod, we asked her about her opinion of president obama. i voted for president obama, and i will vote for him again. you know, there s some things i hope he would do differently, but, you know, i think he s getting there.
you re from msnbc. you re young, you know you need to make a name form yourself. basically, that s a dumb question. i ll go first. it s not a dumb question, it s a good question. it shows, the apple doesn t fall far from the free. that s the height of arrogance. someone that s a public servant, not only to dismiss a member of the press but not even answering a legitimate question. this is a person who s been in the house for 40 plus years who has some serious ethic s charges around him and i might add, this is a bipartisan commission that came to this conclusion. for mr. rangel to conduct himself that way is very disrespectful towards the house. if we ve learned nothing the last couple of days, let s not judge allegations until the report is out. but it is out. this is an investigation that s been going on for quite some time. it s a perfectly fair question to say are you worried about losing your job? i guess we ll move on. one of the battleground senate